When Mary Poston was born on 9 September 1840, in Livingston, Overton, Tennessee, United States, her father, Hiram Poston, was 28 and her mother, Mahala Hailey Lee, was 27. She married William Jackson Stewart on 29 January 1859, in Livingston, Overton, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Civil District 2, Overton, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years. She died on 12 June 1929, in Overton, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Roaring River Cemetery, Livingston, Overton, Tennessee, United States.
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English:
topographic name for someone who lived by a postern gate, from Middle English postern(e) ‘side door or gate, secret door or passage’; in some cases it would have been a metonymic occupational name for a gatekeeper, and in some may be a habitational name from a place such as Postern in Kent or Derbyshire.
habitational name from Poston in Herefordshire or Poston in Shropshire, which is named with an Old English personal name Possa + thorn ‘thorn tree’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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