Thompson Ashby, son of Bladen and Catherine Van Meter Ashby, was born 1801 in Ohio. Source: "Blessed with this family! a pictorial genealogy of Schroeder, Ashby, and related families" by Lois M. Sturm (1980), Library of Congress Catalog Number 80-53969.
Thompson is known to have married three times:
1st m. Priscilla Jones 5 June, 1823, Darke County, Ohio
2nd m. Harriet Sanford 1 Feb, 1835, Summerfield, Monroe County, Michigan
3rd m. Barintha Carrington about 1836
The 1850 US Census enumerated 15 Sept, 1850, for Michillimackinac County (now Emmet County) Michigan, shows 9 persons in the Thompson Ashby household:
Thompson Ashby, 49, M, Farmer, born in Ohio
Berintha Ashby, 33, F, born in Ohio
Almira Ashby, 12, F, born in Michigan
Catharine Ashby, 11, F, born in Michigan
Mary Ann Ashby, 9, F, born in Michigan
Sarah Ashby, 5, F, born in Wisconsin
Joel C. Ashby, 4, M, born in Wisconsin
Helen Ashby, 2, F, born in Wisconsin
Catharine Ashby, 8/12, F, born in Michigan
No official death record for Thompson Ashby has been found. The foregoing Census record indicates he was alive on 15 Sept, 1850. A family oral tradition indicates that Thompson was killed by a run-away horse when his son Joel C. Ashby was five or six years old (which would make it about 1851).
Source: "Blessed" page 204.
Thompson is known to have married three times:
1st m. Priscilla Jones 5 June, 1823, Darke County, Ohio
2nd m. Harriet Sanford 1 Feb, 1835, Summerfield, Monroe County, Michigan
3rd m. Barintha Carrington about 1836
The 1850 US Census enumerated 15 Sept, 1850, for Michillimackinac County (now Emmet County) Michigan, shows 9 persons in the Thompson Ashby household:
Thompson Ashby, 49, M, Farmer, born in Ohio
Berintha Ashby, 33, F, born in Ohio
Almira Ashby, 12, F, born in Michigan
Catharine Ashby, 11, F, born in Michigan
Mary Ann Ashby, 9, F, born in Michigan
Sarah Ashby, 5, F, born in Wisconsin
Joel C. Ashby, 4, M, born in Wisconsin
Helen Ashby, 2, F, born in Wisconsin
Catharine Ashby, 8/12, F, born in Michigan
No official death record for Thompson Ashby has been found. The foregoing Census record indicates he was alive on 15 Sept, 1850. A family oral tradition indicates that Thompson was killed by a run-away horse when his son Joel C. Ashby was five or six years old (which would make it about 1851).
Source: "Blessed" page 204.
Thompson Ashby, son of Bladen and Catherine Van Meter Ashby, was born 1801 in Ohio. Source: "Blessed with this family! a pictorial genealogy of Schroeder, Ashby, and related families" by Lois M. Sturm (1980), Library of Congress Catalog Number 80-53969.
Thompson is known to have married three times:
1st m. Priscilla Jones 5 June, 1823, Darke County, Ohio
2nd m. Harriet Sanford 1 Feb, 1835, Summerfield, Monroe County, Michigan
3rd m. Barintha Carrington about 1836
The 1850 US Census enumerated 15 Sept, 1850, for Michillimackinac County (now Emmet County) Michigan, shows 9 persons in the Thompson Ashby household:
Thompson Ashby, 49, M, Farmer, born in Ohio
Berintha Ashby, 33, F, born in Ohio
Almira Ashby, 12, F, born in Michigan
Catharine Ashby, 11, F, born in Michigan
Mary Ann Ashby, 9, F, born in Michigan
Sarah Ashby, 5, F, born in Wisconsin
Joel C. Ashby, 4, M, born in Wisconsin
Helen Ashby, 2, F, born in Wisconsin
Catharine Ashby, 8/12, F, born in Michigan
No official death record for Thompson Ashby has been found. The foregoing Census record indicates he was alive on 15 Sept, 1850. A family oral tradition indicates that Thompson was killed by a run-away horse when his son Joel C. Ashby was five or six years old (which would make it about 1851).
Source: "Blessed" page 204.
Thompson is known to have married three times:
1st m. Priscilla Jones 5 June, 1823, Darke County, Ohio
2nd m. Harriet Sanford 1 Feb, 1835, Summerfield, Monroe County, Michigan
3rd m. Barintha Carrington about 1836
The 1850 US Census enumerated 15 Sept, 1850, for Michillimackinac County (now Emmet County) Michigan, shows 9 persons in the Thompson Ashby household:
Thompson Ashby, 49, M, Farmer, born in Ohio
Berintha Ashby, 33, F, born in Ohio
Almira Ashby, 12, F, born in Michigan
Catharine Ashby, 11, F, born in Michigan
Mary Ann Ashby, 9, F, born in Michigan
Sarah Ashby, 5, F, born in Wisconsin
Joel C. Ashby, 4, M, born in Wisconsin
Helen Ashby, 2, F, born in Wisconsin
Catharine Ashby, 8/12, F, born in Michigan
No official death record for Thompson Ashby has been found. The foregoing Census record indicates he was alive on 15 Sept, 1850. A family oral tradition indicates that Thompson was killed by a run-away horse when his son Joel C. Ashby was five or six years old (which would make it about 1851).
Source: "Blessed" page 204.
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