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Comfort Sexton (Smith)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Augusta County, Province of Virginia
Death: March 09, 1844 (89)
Bath County, Kentucky, United States
Place of Burial: Wolfe County, Kentucky, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Ebenezer Smith and Hannah Smith
Wife of Benjamin Franklin Sexton
Mother of John Sexton; William Sexton; Obediah Sexton; Judith Cox; Benjamin Franklin Sexton, Jr and 4 others
Sister of Mary Smith; Sybil Smith; John Smith; Lemuel Smith, Sr.; Ebenezer Smith and 2 others

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About Comfort Sexton

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8691381/comfort-sexton

* Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via daughter Anne Cox (born Sexton) by SmartCopy: Oct 28 2015, 23:39:39 UTC

concerns

This Comfort's last name is in dispute. No one can prove the Smith name, however, because it appears on her tombstone. The question is when was the tombstone put up and did they know her name?

changes to be made by a curator

  • Place of Burial/Place Name: Coxs Mill Cemetery
  • Place of Burial/City: Toliver
  • Place of Burial/County: Morgan County (now Wolfe County)

brief biography

daughter of Ebenezer Smith and Hannah Gilbert

comments

Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be 1756 in what is now United States (reported in Comfort's Find A Grave memorial - link below).

Date and place of marriage have also been (erroneously?) reported to be 1774 at an unspecified location.

Date and place of death have also been (erroneously?) reported to be:

  • March 31, 1831 at an unspecified location
  • March 9, 1846 in Morgan County (now Wolfe County), Kentucky, United States (reported in Comfort's Find A Grave memorial - link below)
  • circa 1870 in Kentucky, United States
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Comfort Sexton's Timeline

1754
December 1754
Augusta County, Province of Virginia
1775
May 14, 1775
Augusta County, Virginia
May 14, 1775
Wythe County, Province of Virginia
1780
1780
Wythe Co., Va
1782
April 15, 1782
Grayson County, Virginia, United States
April 15, 1782
1785
1785
Wythe County, VA, United States
1787
1787
Virginia, United States
1790
1790
Grayson County, Virginia, United States