Margaret Sexton was born in about 1801 in North Carolina. According to family story her family was a member of a religious sect.
In about 1820 Joshua Adams from Halifax County, Virginia met Margaret and they were married in the 1820s and immigrated to Tennessee before 1830. They stayed there about one generation or at least seven to ten years and four of her eldest children were born there: James, Elizabeth, Samuel Haskel, and Robert Sanford.
In 1833 the Alabama territory had opened up for settlement and Margaret, Joshua and her family migrated from Tennessee down to Pickens County Alabama to settle as farmers not far from Carrollton. Joshua began buying up federal land grants and Margaret bought one grant herself, eventually the both of them having over 600 acres of land. By 1850 Joshua and Margaret had several more children: Martha, Mary, Jane, and Jackson bringing the total to eight. Margaret was a true pioneer woman, surviving two arduous journeys by wagon without roads, having eight children, and setting up a homestead in the wilderness.
In the late 1850s Margaret passes away and it is not known her exact place of burial, but likely it is near her granddaughter, Mary Jane Adams (infant daughter of Sanford), in Big Creek Cemetery near Carrollton.
In about 1820 Joshua Adams from Halifax County, Virginia met Margaret and they were married in the 1820s and immigrated to Tennessee before 1830. They stayed there about one generation or at least seven to ten years and four of her eldest children were born there: James, Elizabeth, Samuel Haskel, and Robert Sanford.
In 1833 the Alabama territory had opened up for settlement and Margaret, Joshua and her family migrated from Tennessee down to Pickens County Alabama to settle as farmers not far from Carrollton. Joshua began buying up federal land grants and Margaret bought one grant herself, eventually the both of them having over 600 acres of land. By 1850 Joshua and Margaret had several more children: Martha, Mary, Jane, and Jackson bringing the total to eight. Margaret was a true pioneer woman, surviving two arduous journeys by wagon without roads, having eight children, and setting up a homestead in the wilderness.
In the late 1850s Margaret passes away and it is not known her exact place of burial, but likely it is near her granddaughter, Mary Jane Adams (infant daughter of Sanford), in Big Creek Cemetery near Carrollton.
Margaret Sexton was born in about 1801 in North Carolina. According to family story her family was a member of a religious sect.
In about 1820 Joshua Adams from Halifax County, Virginia met Margaret and they were married in the 1820s and immigrated to Tennessee before 1830. They stayed there about one generation or at least seven to ten years and four of her eldest children were born there: James, Elizabeth, Samuel Haskel, and Robert Sanford.
In 1833 the Alabama territory had opened up for settlement and Margaret, Joshua and her family migrated from Tennessee down to Pickens County Alabama to settle as farmers not far from Carrollton. Joshua began buying up federal land grants and Margaret bought one grant herself, eventually the both of them having over 600 acres of land. By 1850 Joshua and Margaret had several more children: Martha, Mary, Jane, and Jackson bringing the total to eight. Margaret was a true pioneer woman, surviving two arduous journeys by wagon without roads, having eight children, and setting up a homestead in the wilderness.
In the late 1850s Margaret passes away and it is not known her exact place of burial, but likely it is near her granddaughter, Mary Jane Adams (infant daughter of Sanford), in Big Creek Cemetery near Carrollton.
In about 1820 Joshua Adams from Halifax County, Virginia met Margaret and they were married in the 1820s and immigrated to Tennessee before 1830. They stayed there about one generation or at least seven to ten years and four of her eldest children were born there: James, Elizabeth, Samuel Haskel, and Robert Sanford.
In 1833 the Alabama territory had opened up for settlement and Margaret, Joshua and her family migrated from Tennessee down to Pickens County Alabama to settle as farmers not far from Carrollton. Joshua began buying up federal land grants and Margaret bought one grant herself, eventually the both of them having over 600 acres of land. By 1850 Joshua and Margaret had several more children: Martha, Mary, Jane, and Jackson bringing the total to eight. Margaret was a true pioneer woman, surviving two arduous journeys by wagon without roads, having eight children, and setting up a homestead in the wilderness.
In the late 1850s Margaret passes away and it is not known her exact place of burial, but likely it is near her granddaughter, Mary Jane Adams (infant daughter of Sanford), in Big Creek Cemetery near Carrollton.
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The site is in very poor condition with no markers and only indentations in the ground. The exact location of the grave is unknown, but likely near Mary Jane Adams, her granddaughter.
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