When Sarah A. Marston was born on 23 September 1841, in Parsonsfield, York, Maine, United States, her father, Caleb Marston Jr., was 28 and her mother, Dorcas Durgin, was 28. She married Marshall Warren Piper on 24 December 1868, in Tuftonboro, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Tuftonboro, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States in 1880 and Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States in 1900. She died on 26 October 1915, in Wolfeboro, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Melvin Village Community Church Cemetery, Melvin Village, Tuftonboro, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States.
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English: habitational name from one or other of the numerous places called Marston or Merston, in counties including Bedfordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Sussex, and Worcestershire. Most of the placenames derive from Old English mersc ‘marsh’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
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