Letitia VAN METER Ashby (Aka: Lettice or Lettie)
MARRIED: Thompson Ashby on February 8, 1791.
CHILDREN of Thompson and Letitia "Lettie" Ashby: Mary "Polly", Nancy, Abraham, Silas, Milton, Thompson, Bladen, Elizabeth, Letitia "Lettie", James
PARENTS of Letitia VAN METER Ashby:
FATHER: Abraham Van Meter b. June 13, 1744
MOTHER: Elizabeth Rebecca KLINE Van Meter (Alternate spelling: CLINE)
SISTERS of Letitia: Catherine, Sarah & Elizabeth
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In 1772 a girl was born in Virginia who through her descendants wields a larger influence on the life of Ladoga than any other one person who ever lived in Clark Township. When ten years old she came to Kentucky while bloody conflicts were going on between the whites and Indians, of which she narrates some thrilling incidents through which she passed. Here she married Thompson Ashby, by whom she had ten children. He was killed by a horse and she was left a widow with a house full of children. As they grew up she determined to migrate to a new country, where they all might obtain land. When she was fifty-six years old she came in 1828 with all her children and grandchildren to Clark Township, then an unbroken wilderness. She gave each child enough to buy one hundred and sixty acres, and soon the family owned about fifteen hundred acres. She died in 1845 when she was seventy-six. From her sprang the large Ashby family of Ladoga.
Source: Early History of Ladoga written by W. L. Anderson for the Ladoga Historical Society
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MARRIED: Thompson Ashby on February 8, 1791.
CHILDREN of Thompson and Letitia "Lettie" Ashby: Mary "Polly", Nancy, Abraham, Silas, Milton, Thompson, Bladen, Elizabeth, Letitia "Lettie", James
PARENTS of Letitia VAN METER Ashby:
FATHER: Abraham Van Meter b. June 13, 1744
MOTHER: Elizabeth Rebecca KLINE Van Meter (Alternate spelling: CLINE)
SISTERS of Letitia: Catherine, Sarah & Elizabeth
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In 1772 a girl was born in Virginia who through her descendants wields a larger influence on the life of Ladoga than any other one person who ever lived in Clark Township. When ten years old she came to Kentucky while bloody conflicts were going on between the whites and Indians, of which she narrates some thrilling incidents through which she passed. Here she married Thompson Ashby, by whom she had ten children. He was killed by a horse and she was left a widow with a house full of children. As they grew up she determined to migrate to a new country, where they all might obtain land. When she was fifty-six years old she came in 1828 with all her children and grandchildren to Clark Township, then an unbroken wilderness. She gave each child enough to buy one hundred and sixty acres, and soon the family owned about fifteen hundred acres. She died in 1845 when she was seventy-six. From her sprang the large Ashby family of Ladoga.
Source: Early History of Ladoga written by W. L. Anderson for the Ladoga Historical Society
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Letitia VAN METER Ashby (Aka: Lettice or Lettie)
MARRIED: Thompson Ashby on February 8, 1791.
CHILDREN of Thompson and Letitia "Lettie" Ashby: Mary "Polly", Nancy, Abraham, Silas, Milton, Thompson, Bladen, Elizabeth, Letitia "Lettie", James
PARENTS of Letitia VAN METER Ashby:
FATHER: Abraham Van Meter b. June 13, 1744
MOTHER: Elizabeth Rebecca KLINE Van Meter (Alternate spelling: CLINE)
SISTERS of Letitia: Catherine, Sarah & Elizabeth
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In 1772 a girl was born in Virginia who through her descendants wields a larger influence on the life of Ladoga than any other one person who ever lived in Clark Township. When ten years old she came to Kentucky while bloody conflicts were going on between the whites and Indians, of which she narrates some thrilling incidents through which she passed. Here she married Thompson Ashby, by whom she had ten children. He was killed by a horse and she was left a widow with a house full of children. As they grew up she determined to migrate to a new country, where they all might obtain land. When she was fifty-six years old she came in 1828 with all her children and grandchildren to Clark Township, then an unbroken wilderness. She gave each child enough to buy one hundred and sixty acres, and soon the family owned about fifteen hundred acres. She died in 1845 when she was seventy-six. From her sprang the large Ashby family of Ladoga.
Source: Early History of Ladoga written by W. L. Anderson for the Ladoga Historical Society
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MARRIED: Thompson Ashby on February 8, 1791.
CHILDREN of Thompson and Letitia "Lettie" Ashby: Mary "Polly", Nancy, Abraham, Silas, Milton, Thompson, Bladen, Elizabeth, Letitia "Lettie", James
PARENTS of Letitia VAN METER Ashby:
FATHER: Abraham Van Meter b. June 13, 1744
MOTHER: Elizabeth Rebecca KLINE Van Meter (Alternate spelling: CLINE)
SISTERS of Letitia: Catherine, Sarah & Elizabeth
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In 1772 a girl was born in Virginia who through her descendants wields a larger influence on the life of Ladoga than any other one person who ever lived in Clark Township. When ten years old she came to Kentucky while bloody conflicts were going on between the whites and Indians, of which she narrates some thrilling incidents through which she passed. Here she married Thompson Ashby, by whom she had ten children. He was killed by a horse and she was left a widow with a house full of children. As they grew up she determined to migrate to a new country, where they all might obtain land. When she was fifty-six years old she came in 1828 with all her children and grandchildren to Clark Township, then an unbroken wilderness. She gave each child enough to buy one hundred and sixty acres, and soon the family owned about fifteen hundred acres. She died in 1845 when she was seventy-six. From her sprang the large Ashby family of Ladoga.
Source: Early History of Ladoga written by W. L. Anderson for the Ladoga Historical Society
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