Brief Life History of Alsop Stowe
When Alsop Stowe Sexton was born in 1840, in Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Benjamin Sexton IV, was 27 and his mother, Betsey Williams, was 23. He married Alice E. Greenwood on 15 October 1874, in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years.
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- Alsop Sexton, "United States Census, 1870"
- Alsop S. Sexton, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Alsop Sexton, "Find a Grave Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a sexton or churchwarden, from Middle English sextein(e) ‘sexton’ (Old French secrestein, medieval Latin sacristanus). The sexton was originally the officer of a church in charge of the sacred vessels and vestments, but later came to denote one who looked after the churchyard and dug graves.
English: in northern England a variant of Saxton .
English: possibly a habitational name from Sexton in Ermington (Devon), recorded as Shecoteston in 1329. The placename derives from the family of Richard Sheccoc, recorded at Sexton in 1199, + Middle English toun ‘farmstead, village, settlement’. The origin of Richard Sheccoc's name is uncertain due to confusion between c and t, as seen in the name of one of his descendants, Richard Scheccote, recorded at Sexton in 1333.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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