This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Spell, Sexton, Copeland, Beach Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ncB.2ACE/1423 Message Board Post: Merle S. Sexton Mount Pleasant - Merle Spell Sexton, 84, died Tuesday in a local nursing home. The funeral will be at 11:00 am Thursday in Bethany Cemetery. Burial will be directed by Stuhr's Downtown Chapel. Mrs. Sexton was born in Cottageville, a daughter of Thomas A. Spell and Julia Copeland Spell. She was a former foster parent. She was a member of Pierpont Baptist Church. She attended Cottageville schools. She was the widow of Thomas J. Sexton. Surviving are a daughter, Patsy S. Beach of Walterboro; a son, former Mount Pleasant Chief of Police Thomas J. "Tommy" Sexton Jr. of Mount Pleasant; three grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Probably from the Charleston paper. Clipping was not dated. NOTE: I am not researching this family. I am only posting a collection of clippings that my father had saved.