When Mary Jane Sexton was born on 6 October 1856, in Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States, her father, Paul Sexton, was 38 and her mother, Mary J Gilmore, was 31. She married Lewis Henry Textor on 27 November 1879, in Viola Township, Audubon, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Viola Township, Audubon, Iowa, United States for about 25 years and Coon Rapids, Carroll, Iowa, United States in 1920. She died on 29 October 1937, in Carroll, Iowa, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Coon Rapids, Carroll, Iowa, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1861: Carroll, Iowa, United States [Spreads across Carroll and Guthrie counties]
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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.
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