Married Thomas W. Ashby on 15 OCT 1868 in Knox County, Missouri.
MO d/c 30075
AGED PIONEER IS GONE
Mrs. Mary E. Ashby of Hurdland, 85, Here Since Child, Dies Saturday Evening.
Mrs. Mary E. Ashby, one of the oldest Knox County persons and a resident since she was 4 years old, died at 7:30 o'clock Saturday evening at her home in Hurdland at the age of 85 years. Death was from the infirmities of age following an illness of four years. Mrs. Ashby was an invalid the last two years.
Funeral services were at the Baptist Church in Hurdland at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, conducted by tha Rev. Lloyd Foley of Hannibal. He was assisted by the Rev. J. W. Harnly of Quincy. Burial was in the I.O.O.F. cemetery at Hurdland by the Mrs. Ashby's late husband, Thomas W. Ashby.
Surviving Mrs. Ashby are four daughters and a son: Ida, Mrs. Elmer Hicks, Bengough, Sask., Canada; Miss Cora May Ashby at home; Mrs. Martha Loughery, North Kansas City, Mo.; Allie, Mrs. Elbert Keller, near Brashear, and E. T. Ashby, Edina.
Also surviving are two brothers, A. J. King of near Hedge City and Carl King of Winfield, Kan., and 7 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
As Mary Elizabeth King, a daughter of George and Elizabeth King, Mrs. Ashby was born in Kentucky July 23, 1848, and came when a child with her parents to Knox County, where she was schooled and lived the remainder of her life. The old home was in the Rock Creek nighborhood southwest of Edina.
She married Mr. Ashby Oct. 15, 1868, and to them were born six children, of whom one died in infancy. The family moved fifty-one years ago to a farm four and a half miles west of Edina, which Mrs Ashby still owned at the time of her death.
Mr. Ashby died in 1907 at the age of 65 years and Mrs. Ashby moved to Hurdland the following year.
She was a member of the old Rock Creek Baptist church and a member of the Hurdland Baptist Church, of which she was an active worker until her infirmities forced her to quit.
Mrs. Ashby's daughter, Miss Cora Ashby, who always remained with her mother, is to move to North Kansas City to make her home with her sister, Mrs. Loughery, who came to the funeral. Their sister in Canada, Mrs. Hicks, was unable to come. Also coming from a distance to the services was John Lemons of Palmyra.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri • Thu, Sep 28, 1933, Page 1, Column 6
MO d/c 30075
AGED PIONEER IS GONE
Mrs. Mary E. Ashby of Hurdland, 85, Here Since Child, Dies Saturday Evening.
Mrs. Mary E. Ashby, one of the oldest Knox County persons and a resident since she was 4 years old, died at 7:30 o'clock Saturday evening at her home in Hurdland at the age of 85 years. Death was from the infirmities of age following an illness of four years. Mrs. Ashby was an invalid the last two years.
Funeral services were at the Baptist Church in Hurdland at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, conducted by tha Rev. Lloyd Foley of Hannibal. He was assisted by the Rev. J. W. Harnly of Quincy. Burial was in the I.O.O.F. cemetery at Hurdland by the Mrs. Ashby's late husband, Thomas W. Ashby.
Surviving Mrs. Ashby are four daughters and a son: Ida, Mrs. Elmer Hicks, Bengough, Sask., Canada; Miss Cora May Ashby at home; Mrs. Martha Loughery, North Kansas City, Mo.; Allie, Mrs. Elbert Keller, near Brashear, and E. T. Ashby, Edina.
Also surviving are two brothers, A. J. King of near Hedge City and Carl King of Winfield, Kan., and 7 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
As Mary Elizabeth King, a daughter of George and Elizabeth King, Mrs. Ashby was born in Kentucky July 23, 1848, and came when a child with her parents to Knox County, where she was schooled and lived the remainder of her life. The old home was in the Rock Creek nighborhood southwest of Edina.
She married Mr. Ashby Oct. 15, 1868, and to them were born six children, of whom one died in infancy. The family moved fifty-one years ago to a farm four and a half miles west of Edina, which Mrs Ashby still owned at the time of her death.
Mr. Ashby died in 1907 at the age of 65 years and Mrs. Ashby moved to Hurdland the following year.
She was a member of the old Rock Creek Baptist church and a member of the Hurdland Baptist Church, of which she was an active worker until her infirmities forced her to quit.
Mrs. Ashby's daughter, Miss Cora Ashby, who always remained with her mother, is to move to North Kansas City to make her home with her sister, Mrs. Loughery, who came to the funeral. Their sister in Canada, Mrs. Hicks, was unable to come. Also coming from a distance to the services was John Lemons of Palmyra.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri • Thu, Sep 28, 1933, Page 1, Column 6
Married Thomas W. Ashby on 15 OCT 1868 in Knox County, Missouri.
MO d/c 30075
AGED PIONEER IS GONE
Mrs. Mary E. Ashby of Hurdland, 85, Here Since Child, Dies Saturday Evening.
Mrs. Mary E. Ashby, one of the oldest Knox County persons and a resident since she was 4 years old, died at 7:30 o'clock Saturday evening at her home in Hurdland at the age of 85 years. Death was from the infirmities of age following an illness of four years. Mrs. Ashby was an invalid the last two years.
Funeral services were at the Baptist Church in Hurdland at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, conducted by tha Rev. Lloyd Foley of Hannibal. He was assisted by the Rev. J. W. Harnly of Quincy. Burial was in the I.O.O.F. cemetery at Hurdland by the Mrs. Ashby's late husband, Thomas W. Ashby.
Surviving Mrs. Ashby are four daughters and a son: Ida, Mrs. Elmer Hicks, Bengough, Sask., Canada; Miss Cora May Ashby at home; Mrs. Martha Loughery, North Kansas City, Mo.; Allie, Mrs. Elbert Keller, near Brashear, and E. T. Ashby, Edina.
Also surviving are two brothers, A. J. King of near Hedge City and Carl King of Winfield, Kan., and 7 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
As Mary Elizabeth King, a daughter of George and Elizabeth King, Mrs. Ashby was born in Kentucky July 23, 1848, and came when a child with her parents to Knox County, where she was schooled and lived the remainder of her life. The old home was in the Rock Creek nighborhood southwest of Edina.
She married Mr. Ashby Oct. 15, 1868, and to them were born six children, of whom one died in infancy. The family moved fifty-one years ago to a farm four and a half miles west of Edina, which Mrs Ashby still owned at the time of her death.
Mr. Ashby died in 1907 at the age of 65 years and Mrs. Ashby moved to Hurdland the following year.
She was a member of the old Rock Creek Baptist church and a member of the Hurdland Baptist Church, of which she was an active worker until her infirmities forced her to quit.
Mrs. Ashby's daughter, Miss Cora Ashby, who always remained with her mother, is to move to North Kansas City to make her home with her sister, Mrs. Loughery, who came to the funeral. Their sister in Canada, Mrs. Hicks, was unable to come. Also coming from a distance to the services was John Lemons of Palmyra.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri • Thu, Sep 28, 1933, Page 1, Column 6
MO d/c 30075
AGED PIONEER IS GONE
Mrs. Mary E. Ashby of Hurdland, 85, Here Since Child, Dies Saturday Evening.
Mrs. Mary E. Ashby, one of the oldest Knox County persons and a resident since she was 4 years old, died at 7:30 o'clock Saturday evening at her home in Hurdland at the age of 85 years. Death was from the infirmities of age following an illness of four years. Mrs. Ashby was an invalid the last two years.
Funeral services were at the Baptist Church in Hurdland at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, conducted by tha Rev. Lloyd Foley of Hannibal. He was assisted by the Rev. J. W. Harnly of Quincy. Burial was in the I.O.O.F. cemetery at Hurdland by the Mrs. Ashby's late husband, Thomas W. Ashby.
Surviving Mrs. Ashby are four daughters and a son: Ida, Mrs. Elmer Hicks, Bengough, Sask., Canada; Miss Cora May Ashby at home; Mrs. Martha Loughery, North Kansas City, Mo.; Allie, Mrs. Elbert Keller, near Brashear, and E. T. Ashby, Edina.
Also surviving are two brothers, A. J. King of near Hedge City and Carl King of Winfield, Kan., and 7 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
As Mary Elizabeth King, a daughter of George and Elizabeth King, Mrs. Ashby was born in Kentucky July 23, 1848, and came when a child with her parents to Knox County, where she was schooled and lived the remainder of her life. The old home was in the Rock Creek nighborhood southwest of Edina.
She married Mr. Ashby Oct. 15, 1868, and to them were born six children, of whom one died in infancy. The family moved fifty-one years ago to a farm four and a half miles west of Edina, which Mrs Ashby still owned at the time of her death.
Mr. Ashby died in 1907 at the age of 65 years and Mrs. Ashby moved to Hurdland the following year.
She was a member of the old Rock Creek Baptist church and a member of the Hurdland Baptist Church, of which she was an active worker until her infirmities forced her to quit.
Mrs. Ashby's daughter, Miss Cora Ashby, who always remained with her mother, is to move to North Kansas City to make her home with her sister, Mrs. Loughery, who came to the funeral. Their sister in Canada, Mrs. Hicks, was unable to come. Also coming from a distance to the services was John Lemons of Palmyra.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri • Thu, Sep 28, 1933, Page 1, Column 6
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