When Jane Girton was born on 20 July 1910, in Scott Township, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Girton, was 21 and her mother, Olive Crawford, was 21. She died in October 1985, in Carlisle, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Girton or Gretton. Gretton in Northamptonshire, as well as Girton in Nottinghamshire and Cambridgeshire, are named from Old English grēot ‘gravel’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. Gretton in Shropshire is named from Old English grēoten ‘gravelly’ + tūn, while Gretton, Gloucestershire, is ‘farmstead (tūn) near Greet (Old English grēote ‘gravelly place’)’.
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