The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-04

| "Hios," as Ohio was then called. The
| trip was perilous one of 500 miles over
the Allegheny mountains and through an
| unsettled wilderness without roads or
bridges and infested with bears and wolves
and rowing bands of Indians. She grew
to womanhood in Ohio, and learned the
glovemaking and tailoring trades. When
quite young woman she married Isaac
Cox, who accidentally met his death soon
after the wedding day. In April, 1924, she
married Moses Moore, but he also died
within short time. On September u,
1929, she married Joseph Sexton at Jack
scarborough, O., and with him she lived
for over fifty years, until his death.
In 1884, after a life of doubt upon religi-
Gus matters, she joined the United Breth-
rem church and was baptized in the Great
Miami river at Dayton, .. A few days
after joining the church she went to
dance, being very fond of the amusement.
When she entered the hall she was sud
denly stricken with deep sense of disap-
proval of her own past conduct, and then
felt call to teach the Word. She left the
hall, deeply moved, with the determination
to become minister. The opposition of
her family. however, deferred her from
carrying out her plans for several years,
later that she commenced to exhort in
| public. From the first her success was
notable.
| In 1851, Josiah Turrell, presiding elder
| at the quarterly Illinois conference of the
| United Brethren, gave her license to
| preach, which license she still proudly
exhibits. Her forte was in revival work.
and her converts during the twenty or
| thirty years following her regular initia-
| ton into the ministry numbered many
| thousands
| In 1870 Mrs. Sexton, with her husband.
moved to Kansas. She was no sooner
| there than she was importuned to preach,
IL seemed as il half the people of the
| state knew good old Mother Sexton. for
| many of the citizens of the new state had
| emigrated from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
| Before she had fairly gotten to work how
ever, Governor Harvey appointed her
| prison chaplin at the state penitentiary.
| She took the position with some reluct-
ance, tor she was afraid she would not be
| able to successfully carry on the difficult
| duties. She was over 20 years old. and
| her kind, motherly and sympathetic ten
| derness awoke in many a poor mans
| breast the'love he had borne for his own
mother years before. When her labors
| there were finished she counted ninetv-
| five converts among the jaibirds who had
| embraced the Christian faith. She went
as delegate i'll 1870 to the national prison
congress at Cincinnati, and was the only
woman vino addressed that distinguished
| body.
A year or two later, when the people of
| Kansas were in distress, owing to several
successive crop failures, she started out to
solicit aid. Her appeals through the East
ern states were rewarded by bountiful
| gifts of food and clothing, and at one time
| she sent back whole train load Of flour.
Her good work was cut short by the re-
celpt, while in Washington City of dis
patch from Governor ST. John, telling her
not to send any further supplies, as the
| distress had been relieved
About three years ago Mrs. SEXTON
moved TO Seattle from Kansas, and she
still frequently breaches and makes trims
to surrounding towns and holds reyivais.
| During the past few weeks her eyesicht
| has gradually failed, and this will prob
ably deter her from doing much more
| active work in the way of preaching.
She remembers the war o f 1872 distinctly
| Her brother Abner was in that war ana
| her grandfather on her mothers side
| Joseph Iingley. and his two sons. were
| soldiers under Washington in the RevoIu-
| ton. She still remembers of hearing her
| grandfather tell of his first meeting with
| General Washington, The cd man, with
his two sons, approached the general with
some tFepidation. Taking of his hat and
putting II under his arm, he said
i believe have the honor of being in
the presence OF General Washington ?''
My name is George Washington" re-
| pied the great man. Put on YOUR hat
daddy"
i came to offer you my services" said
the old man, and that of my sons, such
as It Is to help in this struggle"
Noble Offering" said Washington.
"fau IN ranks there and at roll call report
your names"
Mrs. Sexton says that she Is going to