Obituary - April 12, 1907
Judith Ann Ashby was born near Chillicotbe, Livingston County, Missouri, December 6, 1839. She was the first child born to Samuel and Mary Jane (Peery) Ashby. Her father Samuel Woodson Ashby whose ashes sleep in the Franklin Cemetery, migrated to Missouri with his widowed mother and thirteen brother and sisters in 1818. He grew up on the edge of civilization. When old George Peery drove his wagon into the county north of Livingston and unloaded his sixteen children, Samuel's future bride Mary Jane Peery who became Judith's mother. After Samuel and Mary Jane were married they went out alone and settled on a tract of land where they built their home. The hardships, the self-denial, the pinches of want in that pioneer home were unfelt there by reason of a depth of mutual love and affection between that couple that disarmed hardships and by a deep religious experience which glorified both their lives.
The mother died at the age of thirty-three and then this valiant women, whose memory these lines would commemorate began to show her metal and her linage. A mere child though she was not yet sixteen she was impressed with the fact of her seniority and assumed the duties of the head of the family of five children left orphans. In after years the father seeking the welfare of his children married widow Mary Brown his second wife. The lady whom the people of Franklin knew as his wife as the mother of his children was that amiable and estimable lady.
In 1862 Judith Ann was married to Joseph A. Peery at her fathers home at Edenburg in Grundy County, Missouri, in the midst of the cruelties which marked the Civil War in that state. In 1864 unable to endure conditions they removed to Nebraska City, Nebraska. Through many distressing vicissitudes the family passed until at length in 1870 the father and Joseph took homesteads near the present town of Franklin, where the subject of this sketch has ever since made her home. In 1874 while Judith and her husband were struggling desperately with poverty she had the unspeakable
misfortune to lose her husband of her choice and the father of her helpless children. Those who would recall her situation in that hour of apparently hopeless desolation and who saw her in that dread hour all unaccustomed to business as she had been, rise with the courage and self forgetfulness of a lioness to preserve her children will never forget the spectacle. She was left with her three little children on the farm in an old dugout only habitable from dire necessity and yet she dared to continue there her struggle for her children.
She lived in closer communion with the living God than most and closer Than most suspected. Her life was a long devotion to whatever things infest life. The joy she derived ministering to others is not shared by many. She knew the secret of joy in giving. She saw that the act of giving or doing and its value, that gives delight to both parties of the act.
Her home as she left it in Franklin speaks aloud of her love for all. She struggled to cover her lots all living plants, shrubs and trees. She loved these trees, plants and flowers as she loved her bees all things that manifest life. She for other lives and has gone to meet with universal life. She was usual at noon and then suddenly with little suffering she was a sleep before eight in the evening. Her final wish was fulfilled when the presence of nearly all relatives and friends. Rev W.S. Hampton in yet beautiful and touching words told in her funeral course the story of her useful therefore lovely life. She has her sweet memory and her grand example to her three children Ernest Perry, Margaret Peery and Maude Furry and to two brothers and sisters who survive her.
Judith Ann Ashby was born near Chillicotbe, Livingston County, Missouri, December 6, 1839. She was the first child born to Samuel and Mary Jane (Peery) Ashby. Her father Samuel Woodson Ashby whose ashes sleep in the Franklin Cemetery, migrated to Missouri with his widowed mother and thirteen brother and sisters in 1818. He grew up on the edge of civilization. When old George Peery drove his wagon into the county north of Livingston and unloaded his sixteen children, Samuel's future bride Mary Jane Peery who became Judith's mother. After Samuel and Mary Jane were married they went out alone and settled on a tract of land where they built their home. The hardships, the self-denial, the pinches of want in that pioneer home were unfelt there by reason of a depth of mutual love and affection between that couple that disarmed hardships and by a deep religious experience which glorified both their lives.
The mother died at the age of thirty-three and then this valiant women, whose memory these lines would commemorate began to show her metal and her linage. A mere child though she was not yet sixteen she was impressed with the fact of her seniority and assumed the duties of the head of the family of five children left orphans. In after years the father seeking the welfare of his children married widow Mary Brown his second wife. The lady whom the people of Franklin knew as his wife as the mother of his children was that amiable and estimable lady.
In 1862 Judith Ann was married to Joseph A. Peery at her fathers home at Edenburg in Grundy County, Missouri, in the midst of the cruelties which marked the Civil War in that state. In 1864 unable to endure conditions they removed to Nebraska City, Nebraska. Through many distressing vicissitudes the family passed until at length in 1870 the father and Joseph took homesteads near the present town of Franklin, where the subject of this sketch has ever since made her home. In 1874 while Judith and her husband were struggling desperately with poverty she had the unspeakable
misfortune to lose her husband of her choice and the father of her helpless children. Those who would recall her situation in that hour of apparently hopeless desolation and who saw her in that dread hour all unaccustomed to business as she had been, rise with the courage and self forgetfulness of a lioness to preserve her children will never forget the spectacle. She was left with her three little children on the farm in an old dugout only habitable from dire necessity and yet she dared to continue there her struggle for her children.
She lived in closer communion with the living God than most and closer Than most suspected. Her life was a long devotion to whatever things infest life. The joy she derived ministering to others is not shared by many. She knew the secret of joy in giving. She saw that the act of giving or doing and its value, that gives delight to both parties of the act.
Her home as she left it in Franklin speaks aloud of her love for all. She struggled to cover her lots all living plants, shrubs and trees. She loved these trees, plants and flowers as she loved her bees all things that manifest life. She for other lives and has gone to meet with universal life. She was usual at noon and then suddenly with little suffering she was a sleep before eight in the evening. Her final wish was fulfilled when the presence of nearly all relatives and friends. Rev W.S. Hampton in yet beautiful and touching words told in her funeral course the story of her useful therefore lovely life. She has her sweet memory and her grand example to her three children Ernest Perry, Margaret Peery and Maude Furry and to two brothers and sisters who survive her.
Obituary - April 12, 1907
Judith Ann Ashby was born near Chillicotbe, Livingston County, Missouri, December 6, 1839. She was the first child born to Samuel and Mary Jane (Peery) Ashby. Her father Samuel Woodson Ashby whose ashes sleep in the Franklin Cemetery, migrated to Missouri with his widowed mother and thirteen brother and sisters in 1818. He grew up on the edge of civilization. When old George Peery drove his wagon into the county north of Livingston and unloaded his sixteen children, Samuel's future bride Mary Jane Peery who became Judith's mother. After Samuel and Mary Jane were married they went out alone and settled on a tract of land where they built their home. The hardships, the self-denial, the pinches of want in that pioneer home were unfelt there by reason of a depth of mutual love and affection between that couple that disarmed hardships and by a deep religious experience which glorified both their lives.
The mother died at the age of thirty-three and then this valiant women, whose memory these lines would commemorate began to show her metal and her linage. A mere child though she was not yet sixteen she was impressed with the fact of her seniority and assumed the duties of the head of the family of five children left orphans. In after years the father seeking the welfare of his children married widow Mary Brown his second wife. The lady whom the people of Franklin knew as his wife as the mother of his children was that amiable and estimable lady.
In 1862 Judith Ann was married to Joseph A. Peery at her fathers home at Edenburg in Grundy County, Missouri, in the midst of the cruelties which marked the Civil War in that state. In 1864 unable to endure conditions they removed to Nebraska City, Nebraska. Through many distressing vicissitudes the family passed until at length in 1870 the father and Joseph took homesteads near the present town of Franklin, where the subject of this sketch has ever since made her home. In 1874 while Judith and her husband were struggling desperately with poverty she had the unspeakable
misfortune to lose her husband of her choice and the father of her helpless children. Those who would recall her situation in that hour of apparently hopeless desolation and who saw her in that dread hour all unaccustomed to business as she had been, rise with the courage and self forgetfulness of a lioness to preserve her children will never forget the spectacle. She was left with her three little children on the farm in an old dugout only habitable from dire necessity and yet she dared to continue there her struggle for her children.
She lived in closer communion with the living God than most and closer Than most suspected. Her life was a long devotion to whatever things infest life. The joy she derived ministering to others is not shared by many. She knew the secret of joy in giving. She saw that the act of giving or doing and its value, that gives delight to both parties of the act.
Her home as she left it in Franklin speaks aloud of her love for all. She struggled to cover her lots all living plants, shrubs and trees. She loved these trees, plants and flowers as she loved her bees all things that manifest life. She for other lives and has gone to meet with universal life. She was usual at noon and then suddenly with little suffering she was a sleep before eight in the evening. Her final wish was fulfilled when the presence of nearly all relatives and friends. Rev W.S. Hampton in yet beautiful and touching words told in her funeral course the story of her useful therefore lovely life. She has her sweet memory and her grand example to her three children Ernest Perry, Margaret Peery and Maude Furry and to two brothers and sisters who survive her.
Judith Ann Ashby was born near Chillicotbe, Livingston County, Missouri, December 6, 1839. She was the first child born to Samuel and Mary Jane (Peery) Ashby. Her father Samuel Woodson Ashby whose ashes sleep in the Franklin Cemetery, migrated to Missouri with his widowed mother and thirteen brother and sisters in 1818. He grew up on the edge of civilization. When old George Peery drove his wagon into the county north of Livingston and unloaded his sixteen children, Samuel's future bride Mary Jane Peery who became Judith's mother. After Samuel and Mary Jane were married they went out alone and settled on a tract of land where they built their home. The hardships, the self-denial, the pinches of want in that pioneer home were unfelt there by reason of a depth of mutual love and affection between that couple that disarmed hardships and by a deep religious experience which glorified both their lives.
The mother died at the age of thirty-three and then this valiant women, whose memory these lines would commemorate began to show her metal and her linage. A mere child though she was not yet sixteen she was impressed with the fact of her seniority and assumed the duties of the head of the family of five children left orphans. In after years the father seeking the welfare of his children married widow Mary Brown his second wife. The lady whom the people of Franklin knew as his wife as the mother of his children was that amiable and estimable lady.
In 1862 Judith Ann was married to Joseph A. Peery at her fathers home at Edenburg in Grundy County, Missouri, in the midst of the cruelties which marked the Civil War in that state. In 1864 unable to endure conditions they removed to Nebraska City, Nebraska. Through many distressing vicissitudes the family passed until at length in 1870 the father and Joseph took homesteads near the present town of Franklin, where the subject of this sketch has ever since made her home. In 1874 while Judith and her husband were struggling desperately with poverty she had the unspeakable
misfortune to lose her husband of her choice and the father of her helpless children. Those who would recall her situation in that hour of apparently hopeless desolation and who saw her in that dread hour all unaccustomed to business as she had been, rise with the courage and self forgetfulness of a lioness to preserve her children will never forget the spectacle. She was left with her three little children on the farm in an old dugout only habitable from dire necessity and yet she dared to continue there her struggle for her children.
She lived in closer communion with the living God than most and closer Than most suspected. Her life was a long devotion to whatever things infest life. The joy she derived ministering to others is not shared by many. She knew the secret of joy in giving. She saw that the act of giving or doing and its value, that gives delight to both parties of the act.
Her home as she left it in Franklin speaks aloud of her love for all. She struggled to cover her lots all living plants, shrubs and trees. She loved these trees, plants and flowers as she loved her bees all things that manifest life. She for other lives and has gone to meet with universal life. She was usual at noon and then suddenly with little suffering she was a sleep before eight in the evening. Her final wish was fulfilled when the presence of nearly all relatives and friends. Rev W.S. Hampton in yet beautiful and touching words told in her funeral course the story of her useful therefore lovely life. She has her sweet memory and her grand example to her three children Ernest Perry, Margaret Peery and Maude Furry and to two brothers and sisters who survive her.
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