When Mary Elizabeth Kuykendall was born on 4 December 1926, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, her father, Herman Haynes Kuykendall, was 27 and her mother, Cosette Evelyn Ricker, was 23. She lived in Conroe, Montgomery, Texas, United States in 1930 and Justice Precinct 7, Montgomery, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 4 November 1985, in Bryan, Brazos, Texas, United States, at the age of 58.
Americanized form of Dutch Koekendaal or Koekendal: habitational name from a farmhouse so named near Doetinchem in Gelderland province, from daal, dal ‘valley’ and kuiken, kieken ‘chicken’. Both original Dutch forms are quite rare in the Netherlands. Compare Coykendall , Kirkendall and Kuykendoll .
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