OCCGS Civil War Veterans Project Veteran s Information Veteran s Name: Freegrace Levitt SEXTON Birth Date: 22 July 1824 Location: Somers, Tolland County, Connecticut Death Date: 6 February 1921 Location: Anaheim, Orange County, California Buried at (Cemetery): Santa Ana Cemetery Plot Location: I.O.O.F (16, 1, 4) GPS Coordinates: N33 46' 11.38307" W117 50' 21.45305" (DMS) Datum: NAD83. Coordinates are +/- 1.00 feet of the grave location Side Served - Union Rank: Sergeant Company: K Unit: 27 th Infantry Regiment State: Illinois Occupation: Farmer Family Information Parents Father: Freegrace Sexton Birth Date/Location: 1776, Somers, Tolland County, Connecticut Death Date/Location: 17 February 1853, Somers, Tolland County, Connecticut Mother: Anna Cushman Birth Date/Location: 22 May 1780, Connecticut Death Date/Location: 2 May 1859, Connecticut Spouse: Joanna McIntire Birth Date/Location: 20 May 1834, Charlton, Worcester County, Massachusetts Death Date/Location: 12 July 1857, Concord, Morgan County, Illinois Marriage Date/Location: 15 May 1851, Brookfield, Massachusetts Children Name: Joseph B. Sexton Birth Date/Location: September 1854, Connecticut Death Date/Location: 10 March 1917, Alhambra, Los Angeles County, California
Spouse: Sarah Jane Berry (Earl) Birth Date/Location: 14 February 1834, Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois Death Date/Location: 20 November 1890, Orange County, California Marriage Date/Location: 15 November 1857, Morgan County, Illinois Children Name: Frederick Levitt Sexton Birth Date/Location: 22 September 1859, Illinois Death Date/Location: 3 January 1944, Los Angeles County, California Name: Mary J. Sexton Birth Date/Location: abt. 1868, Missouri Death Date/Location: Unknown Name: William Howard Sexton Birth Date/Location: 25 March 1870, Missouri Death Date/Location: 5 December 1942, Maricopa County, Arizona Name: Charles W. Sexton Birth Date/Location: January 1873, Nebraska Death Date/Location: Unknown Spouse: Sarah Ann Chapman (Platt) Birth Date/Location: 14 July 1828, Connecticut Death Date/Location: 15 December 1914, Orange County, California Marriage Date/Location: 25 January 1893, Orange County, California First husband Enoch Platt died in Westminster, Orange County, California 12 April 1891 Member of GAR Sedgwick Post Number 17 Additional Information Illinois Civil War Detail Report Freegrace L Sexton, 36, married and born in Connecticut was a farmer living in Morgan County, Illinois in 1861. He enlisted in Co K, 27 th Illinois US Infantry on 20 August 1851 at Concord Station, Illinois for a period of 3 years. He mustered in 24 August 1861 at Springfield, Illinois. He was wounded at Chickamauga and was promoted to Sergeant. He mustered out 20 September 1864 at Springfield, Illinois. Photograph of tombstone for Sgt Freegrace Sexton, Santa Ana Cemetery, Orange County, California taken by Charles Lewis Beal, 3/04/2007. Used with the permission of Charles Beal. Sources Pioneers in Blue and Gray, Civil War Veterans in Orange County by Gordon Bricken, First Edition, The Bricken Press, Santa Ana, California, Copyright 2009 Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls Searchable Database, Illinois State Archives, An Index Compiled by Fred Delap in cooperation with the Illinois State Archives, http://www.ilsos.gov/isaveterans/civilmustersrch.jsp 27th Illinois Infantry Soldier Roster - Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois, Volume 2, Revised by Brigadier General J.N. Reece, Adjutant General, 1900
Orange County California Genealogy Society Quarterly Journal, XVIII, #2, June 1981 Roll of Honor for the Sedgwick Post No 17 GAR. Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Record for Joan McIntire Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Hale Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Record for Joanna Sexton Illinois State Archives, Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763 1900, Searchable Database, http://www.ilsos.gov/genealogymweb/marrsrch.html Record for Freegrace L Sexton and Sarah Earle Record for Freegrace L Sexton and Joanna McIntire Record for Enoch Platt and Sarah Ann Chapman Ancestry.com. Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. California, Death Index, 1905-1939. California Department of Health and Welfare. California Vital Records Record for Frugrace Sexton Record for Joseph B Sexton Record for Sarah A Sexton State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics. Record for Fred Levitt Sexton, Mother's Maiden Name: Earl Arizona Department of Health Serves, Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates, http://genealogy.az.gov/index.htm Record for William Howard Sexton Findagrave.com, searchable database of cemeteries with tombstone inscriptions, memorials and photographs Memorial 8722122, Created by Shiver, Record for Sgt Freegrace Sexton Memorial 26092149, Created by Pam Gaines, Record for Joanna M. Sexton Memorial 119688355, Created by macso, Record for Sarah Jane Berry Sexton Memorial 85573253, Created by David Woody, Record for Sarah A Sexton Memorial 67144420, Created by George Perry, Record for William H Sexton Memorial 106481129, Created by StephanieSN, Record for Joseph B. Sexton Memorial 119688346, Created by macso, Record for Fred L Sexton Memorial 62001680, Created by John Beckstein, Record for Freegrace Sexton Memorial 33209546, Created by Nate Bramlett, Record for Anna Sexton
Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C. Somers, Tolland County, Connecticut; Roll M432_50, Page 77A, Family 82, Record for Freegrace Sexton 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. Miller, Gentry County, Missouri; Roll M593_776, Page 633A, Family 55, Record for Freegrace L Sexton Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Chelsea, Fillmore County, Nebraska; Roll T9_748, Page 512A, ED: 331; Family 1, Record for Fregrace Sexton United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls Santa Ana, Orange County, California; Roll T623_96, Page 5B, ED: 0149, Family 130, Record for Freegrace L Sexton Geneva, Fillmore County, Nebraska; Roll T623_926, Page 6B, ED: 0025, Family 147, Record for J Brown Sexton Los Angeles Ward 3, Los Angeles County, California; Roll T623_89, Page 1A, ED: 0025, Family 5, Record for Chas W Sexton Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Santa Ana Ward 4, Orange County, California; Roll T624_90, Page 9B, ED: 0058; Family 289, Record for Frugrace L Sexton Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Artesia, Los Angeles County, California; Roll T625_116, Page 13A, ED: 493; Family 332, Record for Freegrace L Sexton A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman, The Puritan, from the Year 1617 to 1855, Henry Wyles Cushman, Little, Brown & Company 1855 County Pioneer Dies in Anaheim, Orange Daily News, Vol XIII, No 253, Orange, California, Wednesday, February 9, 1921 Pg 4, Column 3 Marriage of Freegrace Sexton and Mrs Platt, Los Angeles Herald, Los Angeles, California, Thursday Morning, January 26, 1893, Pg 6, Col 6 Dies in Los Angeles, J. B. Sexton, The San Bernardino County Sun, San Bernardino, California, Friday, March 16, 1917, Pg 12, Col 3