Mrs. Adella Jane Ashley, 91, of 337 Mason St. died early Thursday morning at the home of her daughter.
She retained a keen memory in her last years, could recite 100 poems learned in early life, and enjoyed increasingly as she grew older the hobby of writing poetry. She was opposed to having any of her verses published.
She came to Ingham County, Mich., when 6 years old. Her father and grandfather hewed logs and built a cabin in the wilderness.
At the age of 17, she was married to Sydney A. Hall, who died Nov. 17, 1903. They had two girls: Estella Arvilla Hall, June 11, 1873 – Sept. 5, 1952;
May Belle Hall, Aug. 17, 1876 – Jan. 19, 1963.
Her second husband was Daniel Peter Ashley, who she married December 22, 1906, and who died August 13, 1935.
She retained a keen memory in her last years, could recite 100 poems learned in early life, and enjoyed increasingly as she grew older the hobby of writing poetry. She was opposed to having any of her verses published.
She came to Ingham County, Mich., when 6 years old. Her father and grandfather hewed logs and built a cabin in the wilderness.
At the age of 17, she was married to Sydney A. Hall, who died Nov. 17, 1903. They had two girls: Estella Arvilla Hall, June 11, 1873 – Sept. 5, 1952;
May Belle Hall, Aug. 17, 1876 – Jan. 19, 1963.
Her second husband was Daniel Peter Ashley, who she married December 22, 1906, and who died August 13, 1935.
Mrs. Adella Jane Ashley, 91, of 337 Mason St. died early Thursday morning at the home of her daughter.
She retained a keen memory in her last years, could recite 100 poems learned in early life, and enjoyed increasingly as she grew older the hobby of writing poetry. She was opposed to having any of her verses published.
She came to Ingham County, Mich., when 6 years old. Her father and grandfather hewed logs and built a cabin in the wilderness.
At the age of 17, she was married to Sydney A. Hall, who died Nov. 17, 1903. They had two girls: Estella Arvilla Hall, June 11, 1873 – Sept. 5, 1952;
May Belle Hall, Aug. 17, 1876 – Jan. 19, 1963.
Her second husband was Daniel Peter Ashley, who she married December 22, 1906, and who died August 13, 1935.
She retained a keen memory in her last years, could recite 100 poems learned in early life, and enjoyed increasingly as she grew older the hobby of writing poetry. She was opposed to having any of her verses published.
She came to Ingham County, Mich., when 6 years old. Her father and grandfather hewed logs and built a cabin in the wilderness.
At the age of 17, she was married to Sydney A. Hall, who died Nov. 17, 1903. They had two girls: Estella Arvilla Hall, June 11, 1873 – Sept. 5, 1952;
May Belle Hall, Aug. 17, 1876 – Jan. 19, 1963.
Her second husband was Daniel Peter Ashley, who she married December 22, 1906, and who died August 13, 1935.
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Other headstones located near Adella J. Hall Ashley are for Nellie May Hall Reese, Estella Hall Fitzgerald, and Sidney A. Hall
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