Bladen Ashby

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Bladen Ashby

Birth
Kentucky, USA
Death
26 Jul 1896 (aged 66)
Baldwin City, Douglas County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Baldwin City, Douglas County, Kansas, USA
Plot
LL-34
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Bladen Ashby was born on Jun. 10, 1830 in Kentucky. He was the son of Silas Ashby and Nancy RADFORD Ashby. Bladen married Elizabeth Margaret FOSTER on Sept. 12, 1854 at the Foster home near Bainbridge, Indiana.

Bladen Ashby and his wife Elizabeth left Indiana in the spring of 1856. They spent several months raising a crop in Iowa, near relatives. Two or three weeks after the birth of their second daughter, they traveled by covered wagon to Missouri before continuing west to Kansas. Several families moved with them to Kansas including Bladen's brother Jim and his wife, Mary, who was the sister of Elizabeth.

Bladen and Elizabeth had ten children: Sarah "Hattie", Mariettie "Ettie" Clay, William "Frank", Nannie "Kate", Eva Jane, Alva Lincoln, Arthur James, Elizabeth "Sue", Orien Foster, & Gertrude "Octava"

(Bladen also had a great uncle named Bladen)
Bladen Ashby was born on Jun. 10, 1830 in Kentucky. He was the son of Silas Ashby and Nancy RADFORD Ashby. Bladen married Elizabeth Margaret FOSTER on Sept. 12, 1854 at the Foster home near Bainbridge, Indiana.

Bladen Ashby and his wife Elizabeth left Indiana in the spring of 1856. They spent several months raising a crop in Iowa, near relatives. Two or three weeks after the birth of their second daughter, they traveled by covered wagon to Missouri before continuing west to Kansas. Several families moved with them to Kansas including Bladen's brother Jim and his wife, Mary, who was the sister of Elizabeth.

Bladen and Elizabeth had ten children: Sarah "Hattie", Mariettie "Ettie" Clay, William "Frank", Nannie "Kate", Eva Jane, Alva Lincoln, Arthur James, Elizabeth "Sue", Orien Foster, & Gertrude "Octava"

(Bladen also had a great uncle named Bladen)

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  • Maintained by: J.L.
  • Originally Created by: A & R
  • Added: Dec 4, 2007
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23248283/bladen-ashby: accessed ), memorial page for Bladen Ashby (10 Jun 1830–26 Jul 1896), Find a Grave Memorial ID 23248283, citing Prairie City Cemetery, Baldwin City, Douglas County, Kansas, USA; Maintained by J.L. (contributor 47713575).