Compiled
by Teresa Martin Klaiber
Marcus
Sexton was born 2 January 1812, in Virginia to Elisha and Tabitha “Bitha”
Sexton. His parents were members of
Stoney Creek Church, in Russell County, Virginia when Marcus was born.
Marcus
along with his wife Catherine came thru Pound Gap into Kentucky before 1836. They lived a few years in Perry and Letcher
County, Kentucky before migrating northward to Carter County, Kentucky.
Marcus
is highlighted in a book I wrote several years ago Catherine Heart and Soul. The 1865 Internal
Revenue Records give his occupation as “stallion keeper.[i]” He was involved in several court cases including
one concerning a black horse. Marcus and
Catherine lived on Pigeon Roost, Boyd County, Kentucky and later moved to
Lawrence County, Kentucky, on Bell’s Fork, where he died 22 October 1877. He was buried on Bell’s Fork.
Catherine
came back to Boyd County and by the time she died in June 1893 was living on
Long Branch of Garner with her son Henry Powell Sexton and family. In November 1893 the Big Sandy News reported: “Powell Sexton of Garner passed thru Bolts
Fork yesterday with the remains of his father who died 16 years ago and had
been exhumed and buried in the family graveyard beside his wife who died a
short time ago.”[ii]
