Confederate Biography:  FRANKLIN B. SEXTON, Harrison Co, TX 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p 96

Franklin B. Sexton, of El Paso, was born April 29th 1828.  He was 
graduated from Wesleyan College, San Augustine, Texas, in 1846.  He 
studied law under Gen. J. Pinckney Henderson and Judge Oran M. 
Roberts, and being admitted to the bar in 1843 immediately began 
the active practice.  In 1861 he was elected to the State Senate 
and the folloing year was chosen to the Confederate Congress where 
he attained great distinction as orator and debater, advocating 
every measure that could promise triumph for the cause he loved.  
In 1872 he removed to Marshall, Texas and 1876 was a member of the
National Democratic Convention that nominated Tilden for president.  
He was an active Mason since his twenty-first year and at different
times was grand master, grand high priest and grand commander of 
the Knights Templar.  He was married Aug. 10 1852, in Sabine county 
to Miss Eliza S. Richardson, whose family were prominent in civil 
and military affairs of the young Republic of Texas.  Of this union 
three daughters and two sons survive.  Col. Sexton lived in El Paso 
the last eight years of his life and there as always sustained himself 
as one of the great lawyers of Texas.