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by Mike Flood

Horatio Gates Sexton

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Birth:	21 Jan 1796 in Wilbraham, MS ¹ ² ³ ⁴
Death:	13 Jun 1865 in Rushville, Rush, IN ¹ ³ ⁴
Sex:	M
Father:	Oliver Chapin Sexton b. 1759 in Wilbraham, Hampden, MA
Mother:	Jerushia West

Reference: 29

Changed: 18 Feb 2000

Burial: East Hill Cemetery, Rushville, Rush, IN ³

Anecdote: ⁴ ⁵

Occupation: 04 Sep 1850 Physician, District 97, Rush, IN ²

Residence: 04 Sep 1850 District 97, Rush, IN ²

Immigration: About 1820 Springboro, Warren, OH ⁴

Religion: One of the founders and most liberal supports of the church and
for many years the teacher of the bible class in the Sunday
School. About 1840 Presbyterian Church, Rushville, Rush, IN ⁴ About 1840 Masonic Fraternity, Rushville, Rush, IN ⁴

Immigration: About 1822 Rushville, Rush, IN ⁴ About 1840 President of Rush County Medical Societ, Rushville, Rush, IN ⁴

Spouses & Children

Hannah Pugh (Wife) b. 01 Feb 1803 in Waynesville, OH
¹ ³ ⁴
Marriage:	19 NOV 1820 in Springboro, Warren, OH
Children:
Oliver Sexton Anna Sexton Jerusia West Sexton b. 04 Sep 1821 Marshall Sexton b. 29 Jan 1823 in Rushville, Rush, IN Leah Sexton b. 21 Feb 1825 Leonidas Sexton b. 21 May 1827 in Rushville, Rush, IN Rachel Sexton b. 27 Mar 1829 Horatio G Sexton b. 08 Feb 1831 William Oliver Sexton b. 02 Aug 1834 in IN Hannah M Sexton b. 19 Aug 1835 Sarah Wilson Sexton b. 02 Mar 1842 in Rushville, Rush, IN Alma Elizabeth Sexton b. 05 Nov 1845


Lucretia Cramer (Wife) b. 06 Jan 1825 in NY
⁴ ¹
Marriage:	ABT 1851
Children:
Stella P Sexton b. 16 Sep 1855 Cramer Sexton b. 11 Oct 1863 in Rushville, Rush, IN

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Individual:
Sect 1
Horatio and Lucretia had a 3rd child. Unknown. Sexton, Dr H.G.,

Born at Wilbraham, Mass., Jan. 21, 1796. d. June 13, 1865.
Hannah, wife of H. S. Sexton b. Feb 1, 1803. d. Apr 18, 1850
(Early Cemetery Records Prior to 1886, Richland Twp, Rush Co.,
In., East Hill Cemetery Section 1) Horatio left Vermont in 1816 and went to Springfield,

Massachusetts. was clerk in a bank two years. At the time he
was pursuing his studies. At the expiration of that time he
emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, with a young man by the name of
Spencer, a cousin of his. He there entered college. At the
expiration of his college course he studied medicine. About the
year 1820, he went to Springboro, Warren County, Ohio, and
located for the practice of his profession. During his sojourn
at this place, he courted and married a Quaker girl, Hannah
Pugh by name, who with her husband removed to Rushville,
Indiana. Horatio was a pioneer physician of Rushville, settling
here in 1822, the year in which the county and town were
organized. Dr Sexton was amongst the very first physicians to
locate in this place, which at this early date had but two
years of life; it was all in the mud and brush, no roads, no
houses, but the most primitive sort of cabins, and no heritage
for its settlers but hard work and a scanty living; it took
brave hearts to face such a prospect of life; but Dr. Sexton
had the bravery and the will to pitch his tent under these most
inauspicious circumstances; and the same energy and application
to business which had impelled him to seek a home in the west
and won for him distinction and success in his profession and
good name in his citizenship; forty-five years of professional
toil and self-denial won for him a fortune and a competency
second to no one in the country; his professional career was
almost begun and ended in Rush County; he was devoted to
medicine, always keeping abreast of the times in the
advancements made in his departments of science; he never let
anything swerve him from the path of professional duty. His
religious views and connections were with the Presbyterian
Church, and he was one of the founders and most liberal
supports of the Church of that denomination in Rushville; was
often solicited to become a Ruling Elder in the body and as
often refused to be ordained to the office; he was for a great
many years the teacher of the Bible class in the Sunday School,
and was scarcely ever absent from his post of duty; he was also
a prominent man in the Masonic Fraternity; he was one of the
earliest members of the American Medical Association, also the
Indiana State Medical Society, and was for a long series of
years immediately preceding his death, the President of Rush
County Medical Society, to which he was very closely attached.
He took a very active and useful part in the affairs of both
town and county up till the time of his death. Horatio made his
professional visits on horseback. To them were born twelve
children: member of the American Medical Association, also of the Indiana

State Medical Society

Sources

Title: DAR Application for Membership
Publication: DAR Library, 1776 Constitution Ave., Wash, DC
Page: Number 72630 Sarah Abercrombie
Title: 1850 US Census--IN (Rush) District 97
Page: M432/170 PG 428 Dwelling 788 Family 790
Title: Early Cemetery Records Prior to 1886, Rush County
Author: DAR
Publication: In State Lib
Page: Pg 245
Title: History of Rush County, Indiana 1888
Author: Brant & Fuller
Publication: Brant & Fuller, Chicago, 1888
Page: Pg 742 Sexton
Title: Early Cemetery Records Prior to 1886 Richland Twp Salt Creek
Cemetery
Page: pg 244, Sec 1

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