Hoping to find others working on this Sexton line: William G. SEXTON, (b. 1808 in Green Co., KY.; d. 1870-1880 prob. in Hart Co., KY.) married Mary Ann YATES (b. 1815 in KY./IN.; d. 8 Sep 1861 in Metcalfe Co., KY.) on 16 Jun 1831 in Adair Co., KY. She was the d/o Michael and Rachael Yates. They were in Adair Co., KY. 1840 census; Barren Co., KY. 1850 census; Metcalfe Co., KY. 1860 census. William is in the 1870 Hart Co., KY. census in the home of Joseph and Susannah PRIDDY. William G. and Mary Ann had the following children: [1] Margaret Ann SEXTON was b. 1830-1832 in Adair Co., KY. and d. 1886 in Sangamon Co., IL. Believe she was the second wife of Noah Jacob (Jacob) BLISSETT and that they married in the early 1860s in either Metcalfe or Hart Co. They are in the 1870 Hart Co. census "next door" to John and Therissa SUDDETH. I think that Therissa was Margaret Ann's sister (below). By 1880, Margaret and Noah Jacob were in Sangamon Co., KY. where quite a few of the Sexton, Yates and related families ended up. Their children were: Henrietta (b. 1868); George William (b. 1869) and James W. (b. 1876). [2] Franklin Graves SEXTON was b. Jun 1833 in Adair Co., KY. and died after 1880, probably in Illinois. He married Nancy PENDLETON(d/o Silas PENDLETON and Nancy ROBERTSON) on 17 Apr 1859 in Hardin Co., KY. They appear in the 1860 Metcalfe Co. census; 1870 Hardin Co. census; 1880 Williamson Co., IL. census. Frank supposedly left KY. after killing a man in some sort of love-triangle, although he was acquitted. He had apparently died by 1900 when his widow is found in Cass Co., IL. Their children were: William S. (b. 1860); Lucetta (b. 1863); Franklin Fillmore (b. 1866); Dolly Anne (b. 1870) and Alvin Thomas (b. 1873). [3] Charles Michael SEXTON was b. 1835 in Adair Co., KY. and died after 1908, probably in Metcalfe Co., KY. He married first Emily P. POINTER, d/o Harrison "Doc" POINTER and his wife Elizabeth CASSADAY, in Jan 1858 in Barren Co., KY. He married second to Birdie WILLIAMS, d/o Moses P. WILLIAMS and his wife Elizabeth CASSADAY (not the same as the Elizabeth above), on 13 Jun 1891 in Metcalfe Co., KY. Charles Michael can be found in the Metcalfe Co., KY. census from 1860-1900. His children, all by his first marriage, were: William H. (b. 1859); Mary J. (b. 1863); John Henry ( b. 1865) and George A. (b. 1870). [4] William H. SEXTON was born about 1837 in Adair Co., KY. He is with his parents in the 1850 and 1860 census, but not found after this. I don't have any further information. [5] George Washington SEXTON was born 10 Jun 1839 in Adair Co., KY. He married Alice E. RANDAL, d/o Amos RANDAL, on 30 Jul 1866 in Hodgenville, Larue, KY. In 1861 he enlisted in company E, Twenty-seventh Kentucky infantry in the union army and served through the war. He was a prisoner for four months at Andersonville. He was in the 1870 census in Priceville District, Hart Co., KY. In the 1880 census, they were in Williamson Co., IL. "next door" to George's brother Frank. George died 11 Sep 1908, at Berlin, Sangamon Co., IL. and is buried in Woodwreath cemetery. They had the following children: Buford Edward (b. 1869); Lily E. (b. 1871); Clara Bell (b. 1873); William Andrew (b. 1876); Clarence Robert (b. 1879); Joseph W. (1882); and Arthur Leroy (b. 1887). [6] John Milton SEXTON was born on 10 Sep 1843 in either Adair or Barren Co., KY. He died 25 Jun 1927 in Glenarm, Sangamon Co., IL. He married Mary Jane CASSADAY (d/o William CASSADAY and Jane LAMBERTH) on 23 Oct 1868 in Metcalfe Co., KY. He is in Metcalfe Co., KY. at the time of the 1870 census, in Hart Co., KY., and in Sangamon Co., IL. for the 1900 census. They had the following children: Robert Lee (b. 1867); Mary Francis "Fanny" (b.1872); Joseph Henry (b.1879); Alfred George (b. 1880); and Alice (b. aft 1880). [7] Therissa SEXTON was born abt 1844 in Adair Co., KY. Believe that she married John SUDDETH, probably a son of Laban SUDDETH, whose family was from Edmonson Co., KY. Have not found a record of this marriage. They are in the 1870 census in Hart Co., KY. and the 1880 census in Edmonson Co., KY. In the 1870 Hart Co. census, they are "next door" to Jacob (Noah Jacob) and Margaret BLISSETT, who I believe to be her sister and brother-in-law. They had the following children: Josephine (b. 1867); Ardelia A. (b. 1868); Mary H. (b. 1869); Ida B. (b. 1873) and Emmet (b. 1877). [8] James F. SEXTON was born abt. 1849 in Barren Co., KY. and d. sometime after George W., his brother, who died in 1908. He was listed as a survivor in George's obituary and apparently stayed in Kentucky. He married Sarah E. WEASE abt. 1872 in Kentucky, but have never found a marriage record. The birth of one of their children in Hart Co., KY. records her name. He is in the 1870 census for Hart Co., KY., in Wallinsford Prect., Hardin Co., KY. in 1880, where he is living "next door" to Frank SALLEE who married Rachael Jane OILER, a cousin of James' and daughter of William OILER and Susan YATES. Susan was his mother's sister. They had the following children: Liccie E. (b. 1872); Margaret A. (b. 1876); and William Harvey L. (b. 1877). [9] Joseph Hartley SEXTON was born in Oct 1855 in Barren or Hart Co., KY. and died after 1920 in Marne, Cass Co., IA. He married first Lydia Ann SHARP, d/o John SHARP and Nancy Ann MANKER on 16 Mar 1892 in Sangamon Co., IL. He married second to Emma ZIEGLER. He is in the 1900 census in Cartwright Twp., Sangamon Co., IL. and the 1910 census in Tallula Prect., Menard Co., IL. He had the following children, all by his first wife: Bert Owen (b. 1892); Edwin B. (b. 1894); Bertha Callie (b. 1899); and Lillie May (b. 1901). Thanks, Steve Loose