When Edith Della Sawtell was born on 13 October 1893, in Kansas, United States, her father, Zephaniah Sawtell, was 53 and her mother, Eliza Ann Hays, was 45. She married Emmett Lee Sprague on 22 November 1917, in Oswego, Labette, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Montana, Labette, Kansas, United States for about 10 years and Montana Township, Labette, Kansas, United States in 1950. She died on 13 March 1985, in Oswego, Labette, Kansas, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Montana Cemetery, Montana, Labette, Kansas, United States.
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English (Somerset):
perhaps a nickname from an unrecorded adjective or noun related to the Middle English verb saughtelen ‘to make peace, be reconciled’.
alternatively, perhaps an altered form of French Sautel, from a diminutive of saut ‘leap’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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