Compiled
by Teresa Martin Klaiber
Jasper
Newton Sexton was born 15 January 1869 in Boyd County, Kentucky, the son of
Henry Powell Sexton and wife Julina McCormack.
Jasper
married 20 January 1898 Miriam Roberts Lambert.
She was the daughter of James Calvin Lambert and wife Marietta Davis. Their reception was a big event on Garner and
Luella Banfield carefully entered it in her day book[i]. Daughter Willa said her mother described the
day of the wedding with a carpet from the road all the way to the house and
butter molds in the shape of something special.
The marriage is recorded in the East Fork Methodist church records. The marriage took place at Miriam’s father,
Cal’s house on Garner. John Childers and
Thursy Davis[ii]
were witness.
Jasper
was a farmer all his life. He and Miriam
had ten children. Harold Lee (b.1912) ,
Hopie (born 1910) and Wirt (b. 1918) were born in what today is the Klaiber
Hood Cabin on our farm[iii]. Their first son Everett born in 1905 was
their first child, to die and be buried in the cemetery. Everett died 17 June
1905. He was followed by Jasper II born 24 February 1916, died the same
day. Jasper was buried in Sexton
Cemetery on Pigeon Roost. The next year they had another stillborn girl they named
Maymie Lynd Sexton.
The
family buried son Royal Norman on the 10th of November 1921 He had
gone to Sullivan County, Indiana to work in the coal mines and died from the
falling of slate in a mine
accident. He was brought back for burial
in Klaiber Cemetery.
Miriam’s
nickname was “Toad.” She died 17 March 1930, from pneumonia, and was laid to
rest in Klaiber Cemetery. Three months
later the family buried Hopie who I wrote about in our last blog post.
Jasper
continued to live on Garner for the rest of his life. He died 10 November 1967. His funeral service
was held at East Fork United Methodist Church.
I
love the inscription on their stone “We shall never grow old or be separated
Again.”
