The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-12-16

prominent character in the early history
Of America lie came 10 this country
early in the last century. holding in his
poxse=sson a grant OF land taking In the
Mississippi valley for I'VE miles on each
side OF the stream from the CUR OF Mex
leo To ALASKA Lake" When the terri
tory was cedei 10 tho United states In
isup. the marquis. who was then quite old,
abandoned his grant because. he said.
sit would cost more than IL would come
20 10 keep st." He died In Somerset coun-
", New Jersey. leaving nine children
The descendants of these children now
number many hundreds. and some OF them
have been making efforts to gather the
heirs together aud make united de-
mand upon the government for at least
n part of the value OF the grant which
their ancestor let go 30 easily. The name
Cozot has long since been changed by
popular usage To casad
Mira sexton was the daughter OF Rev.
Thomas casad. a Baptist clergyman.
Lydia found herself an orphan when she
was . years old. and four years later she
left her home for tho 'far West" the
.srfloss as Ohio was then called The
trip was a perilous one OF 500 miles over
tho 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 wornanhood In Ohio. and learned
the glove making and tailoring trades
When quite a young woman she mar
ried Isaac Cox. who accidentiy met his
death soon after the wedding day. In
April. 1884. she married Joseph Moore.
but he also died within a short time. On
September l.. 1879. she married Joseph
Hexton. az Jacksonborough. Ohio, and
with him she lived for over fifty years.
until his death.
In 1854. after a life OF doubt upon re-
ngious matters she Joined the United
Brethren church and Was baptized In the
Great Miami river at Dayton. Ohio. A
few days after Joining the church she
went to a dance. being very fond OF the
amusement when she entered the hall
she was suddenly stricken with deep
sense of disapproval or her own past
conduct and then felt a call to teach the
Word She left the hall deeply moved.
wath the determination 10 become min
lister. The opposition OF her family. how
ever. deferred her from carrying out her
plans for several years. and II was not
commenced 20 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 n license
to preach Her forte was in revival
work, ana her converts during the TWEEN
~ or thirty years following her regular
iniatlon into the ministry numbered many
thousands.
In 1870 Mrs sexton. with her husband,
moved 70 Kansas she was no sooner
there than shs was inportnned 20 preach.
II seemed as n half the people OF the
state knew good cid Mother sexton. for
many % the citizens Of the new state had
snaixrasea from Ohio. Indiana and Illinois
Before she had fairly gotten 10 work.
however, Governor Harvey appointed her
chaplain az the state penitentiary. She
took the position with scgne reluctance.
for she was afrala she would not be able
20 successfully carry on the allacult sil-
tea she was over 70 years odd. ard her
Kind. neotherly ana sympathetic tender
ness awoke in many poor mans breast
the hove he had borne for his own mother
years before. When her laboTs there
were finished she counted - converts
among the 3a1hiras. who had embraced
IN. Christian faith She went rs a dele
gate ia 1870 % the national prison con
sress at Cincinnati. ard was the only
Woman who addressed that distinguished
body.
year or two later. when the people 81
Kansas were In distress owing to several
successive erop failures she Startei out
- solicit aid Her appeals through the
Eastern states we're r~NAry5a by board-
sul Sits 81 feed ard eleshing. ausa az one
time SRA sent hack . whole carload %
rour Her gcci work VAS cut short by
ths receipt. ~hkte IN Washington CITY.
e a Dispatch from Governor -. John.
telling her net % send any further sup
plies. as Tire distress bad been relieved
About FIVE years ago Mrs Sexton
moves to Seattle from Kansas. ard she
sta frequently preached ani mate trips
where she hcla revival services VI -
fsze About that time her eyestEht began
60 faN ana deferred her from doing more
sestxe work sn the way % prcachIng. 4
sasr aKa - fs3iel completely, ard SIRE
So - physical darkness uatu called
aNta fFs Gnsesn w-ogAA
Mfs Ssafnn remembered the war %
asa s3sssuet5Y Her brother Annsr WAS
- fhss saf. Ana her grandfather On her
s.asaers sfss Iosera Tlnrssy sra hts
so sak= M@Fs soldiers under Washing
- 50 "a EssoSssea SIZE remembered