Benjamin & Polly Wages Homestead and Headstone located off County Road #3343 Artville Road, Korea, Kentucky

 

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I spoke to Roy Sexton this afternoon and he told me that he would gladly take anyone to see the Wages headstone and homestead (chimney if still standing), just give him a call beforehand.

Roy Sexton

1199 Prater Ridge Rd

Wellington, KY 40387

His telephone: (606) 725-5455

The map that I have enclosed is the region where Roy stated that Benjamin and Polly Wages homestead and Benjamin’s grave marker are located. He stated that you would need his assistance since their homestead and grave marker is located off County Road #3343 Artville Road in Korea, KY and deep in the woods.

Benjamin and Mary Wages are buried on a farm cemetery belonging to Roy Sexton and his brother. Roy, his brother, and Daisy Patrick Sexton are wonderful people who are welcoming and kind enough to allow descendants of Benjamin Wages, Rev War veteran, to visit their home and see the remaining chimney from the Wages' cabin. If you visit, please do not remove the stones from the chimney as other Wages descendants have done when visiting in June 2005, or no evidence of the Wages' home will remain for other descendants in the future to witness. The only directions to this farm cemetery that I have were prepared by Pam Wages, another Benjamin Wages' descendant who lives in KY. Her directions begin from the Comfort Inn off I-64 near Morehead, KY as that was where we were staying when we last visited the Sextons and the Benjamin Wages gravesite in June 2005. I am not familiar with all of the back roads from any other county near the Sexton farm, but these are the directions from the Salt Lick, Bath Co., KY Comfort INN: Take exit #121 (Owingsville/Frenchburg Exit) on Interstate 64. Travel East on Rt. 36 at this Exit. Continue East on Rt. 36 until you reach the city of Frenchburg. Once in Frenchburg, Rt. 36 becomes Rt. 460. (Do not make any turns in Frenchburg.) Continue until you reach rt. # 1693 North (Camp Judy Lane). Take left turn onto Rt. #1693, travel approximately 5.2 miles until you reach Rt. #1950. Note:  Rt #1693 is a very curvy and narrow road. You will be in Korea, KY area at this point. Take a right turn (This may be a left turn, but just read the sign for Rt. #1950) onto Rt. # 1950 (very curvy and narrow road also). Travel approximately 1.1 miles to Roy and Daisy Patrick Sexton's home on a lovely hillside. Roy and Daisy's house is just past the 1 mile marker (near Wellington, KY) and is a beautiful white house with a red roof and shutters. Mr. Sexton can take you to the Benjamin Wages Cemetery on Rt. #3343 (off Rt. #1693 North) if you make arrangements with him. Roy and Daisy Patrick Sexton are exceptionally kind and gracious to descendants of Benjamin and Mary Wages. They maintain a list of names, addresses, and phone numbers of visitors to the Benjamin Wages gravesite. If it were not for Roy Sexton and his brother being kind enough to pick up the government stone marker from Robby Powell of the Powell Funeral Home in Salt Lick, KY and to set the headstone in the Benjamin Wages' Cemetery, I do not know if the marked gravesite memorial would have ever been standing. It is only through the kindness of Robby Powell and the Sexton family that my dream of having Benjamin Wages' Rev War service marked actually happened after Benjamin Wages d. in 1844. Benjamin lived to be over 100 years old, but even the local DAR Chapter refused to mark his gravesite, even after several years of my attempts to have them "adopt" this marking of a Rev War veteran's service. I do want to commend these Sexton and other eastern KY families for their kindness and extra effort to help me maintain the marking of my ancestor's lives. Kentucky people have always gone literally and figuratively the "extra mile" to welcome Wages' descendants to their homes and cemeteries to honor the lives of past Kentucky residents. I certainly admire and respect this true Southern kindness and generosity.