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Johnson Hindin Genealogy
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Mary apparently never married. According to findagrave.com, her tombstone states that she died in 1919. | Mary Elizabeth ASHCOM
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Mary attended Spencer School in New York and in 1918 was living with her half sister, Irene Ashcom Denny.
According to an article in the August 8, 1935 edition of The Pittsburgh Press, Mary and her husband William lived in the Ligonier estate of Irene's husband Henry S. Denny (Irene and Henry having died prior to 1935). The estate, which had 52 rooms, was built by the O'Hara and Denny families of Pittsburgh. According to the article, Mary and William also had an estate in Deland, Florida. | Mary Elizabeth ASHCOM
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Grace lived in Akron, Ohio before she moved to live with her son in Delaware, where she died. According to Frank Ashcom, Grace's daughter, Sandra Lee Snyder, who may be living in Pittsburgh in 1997, may have Benjamin Ashcom's family Bible.
The following obituary was published in the Ligonier (Pennsylvania) Echo on June 18, 1975:
Mrs. Mary G. Spory
Mrs. Mary Grace Spory, 66, of Newark, Delaware, died Saturday, June 15, 1975, at Capital University Hospital, Philadelphia. She was born November 6, 1908 in New Florence, daughter of the late Ben F. and Margaret VanHorn Ashcom.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Newton. She is survived by the following: Robert B. Spory, Newark, Del., David A. Spory, Newark Del., David A. Spory, Hudson, Mass., and Sandra K. Snyder, Wilmington, Del., and nine grandchildren. Also surviving is a sister, Mrs. Florence Pardoe of Florida.
Services were held on Tuesday, June 17 at 11 a.m., at the Kenneth A. Stuart Funeral Home, New Florence, with the Rev. Harold H. Himes officiating. Interment was in the Fairfield Cemetery. | Mary Grace ASHCOM
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Mary died at age 22. The following death notice was published in the Butler Citizen on March 27, 1916:
MRS. MARY R. HAZLETT
Mrs. Mary Rebecca Hazlett, daughter-in-law of Thomas Hazlett of Penn township, died at her home in New Brighton on Wednesday morning. Deceased was the wife of Frank B. Hazlett, who was born and reared in Penn township.
Services were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home in New Brighton.
| Mary Rebecca ASHCOM
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According to an announcement in the September 15, 1899 edition of the Bedford Gazette, Maude was married to John C. Harper of Pittsburgh on September 7, 1899 at Trinity Church in Pittsburgh. | Maude ASHCOM
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According to the 1920 census, Minnie was living with her sister Nellie in Baltimore, Maryland. Both are single and are shown to be elementary school teachers. | Minnie Emily ASHCOM
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According to Morgan's resume on www.morganashcom.com (2009), Morgan graduated from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia in 2003 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Digital Arts) degree. Morgan is (in 2009) a professional photographer, working out of Washington, D.C. | Morgan Patton ASHCOM
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The following obituary was published in The St. Petersburg (Florida) Independent on July 25, 1977:
Myrtle Watt, Authority on Medical Stamps
Mrs. Myrtle I. Watt, 63, an emergency room supervisor for Metropolitan General Hospital, who was considered an authority on stamps with a medical theme, died Saturday (July 23, 1977) of an apparent heart attack.
Mrs. Watt, who was active in the American Topical Association, was secretary-treasurer of the Medical Subject Unit and was selected Distringuished Topical Philatelist of 1975, reports Scalpel and Tongs (the association's journal of medical philately).
The honor was given to Mrs. Watt in Lincoln, Neb. in June 1975. For more than 20 years she was co-organizer and secretary of the medical subject unity and had been on the jury at several shows covering all groups and types of topical stamp collectors.
An expert in the fields of Red Cross and nursing, she once wrote a research paper for the government on the history of the Red Cross. She was co-chairman of a 1961 stamp convention.
She helped to start the Junior Topicalist Club and Junior Stamp Club of Johnstown, Pa. She also served as exhibition chairman and officer of the Johnstown Stamp Club.
Mrs. Watt, 5293 Jasmine Circle N, was born in Johnstown, and came here 13 years ago from there.
She was former vice president of the Young Democrat Club of Pennsylvania, and a member of the Licensed Practical Nurse Emergency Room Association, St. Petersburg Stamp Club and a former volunteer with the America Red Cross.
She is survived by here husband Samuel P.; and two brothers, Dr. Richard Ashcom of Dayton, Ohio, and Joseph C. Ashcom of Valdosta, Ga.
Services were held this morning at the Thomas A. Cooksey Funderal Home, Pinellas Park, with bural in Memorial Park Cemetery. | Myrtle Ann ASHCOM
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Nancy graduated from Mount Union College in 1969. She was the Corporate Secretary of FirstEnergy Corp. in Akron, Ohio. She lives in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
According to an announcement in the March 31, 1969 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nancy Claire Ashcom, daughter of Dick S. Ashcom Jr., was married on March 29, 1969 to Geoffrey Michael Utterback from Alliance, Ohio.
Nancy is said to be the daugher of Hards Ashcom, suggesting that Nancy Hards was divorced from Dick S. Ashcom at the time. (Dick S. Ashcom's 1985 obituary does not mention his wife.)
The article indicates that Nancy attended Mount Union College. She was a stewardess for Eastern Airlines in New York, and also worked for Union National Bank in Pittsburgh until her marriage.
The article indicates that Mr. Utterback was planning to attend Case Western Reserve Dental School.
Nancy's father's 1985 obituary states that Nancy was "Nancy Brink" in 1985, suggesting that she was no longer married to Mr. Utterback in 1985.
Nancy's mother's obituary in 1986 states that Nancy was married to Fred Pickton, suggesting that she was no longer married to Mr. Brink in 1986.
The information regarding Nancy's marriages is speculation based on information that could be incorrect. This information must be confirmed.
| Nancy Claire ASHCOM
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According to an account dictated by W. T. Martin in 1837, husband of Amelia Ashcom (Nathaniel's daughter), which is in the files of the Historic Society Pioneer Library, Bedford, Pennsylvania, Nathaniel was a planter on the family estate in St. Mary's, Maryland. The estate was called "West Ashcom", which is now Cremona, Maryland. He apparently mismanaged the estate, relying too much on his slaves, and lost it. He and his family then moved to Hagerstown, Maryland where they spent several years before moving to Mercersburg, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania, and then to Bloody Run (now Everett), Pennsylvania. in about 1807 or 1808.
As of May 1. 1997, virtually all of the information in this record regarding the ancestors of Nathaniel Ashcom was supplied by John Dwight Kilbourne, 2828 Connecticut Ave., #507, Washington, D.C., e-mail: jkilbourne@worldnet.att.net, based on, among other things, information that he obtained primarily from a Mrs. Reeder beginning in 1952.
According to Mrs. Reeder, Nathaniel and his brothers (other than Thomas, who moved to Queen Anne County, Maryland in 1804) left St. Mary's County, Maryland for Bedford County, Pennsylvania between 1800 and 1804 because they had converted to Methodism and were compelled to leave Anglican Maryland in search of religious freedom.
According to a transcription of THE OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE FOR ST. MARY'S COUNTY, MARYLAND, 1777, on usgenweb.com, Nathaniel Askum subscribed to the following oath, which was was prescribed by the General Assembly in Section XIII, chapter XX, Laws of Maryland, February Session, 1777:
"I do swear, that I do not hold myself Bound to yield any Alegiance or Obedience to the King of great Britain his heirs or successors, and that I will be true and faithful the the State of Maryland, and will, to the utmost of my Power, support, maintain, and defend the freedom and independence thereof, and the Government as now Established, against all open Enemies, and Secret and traiterous Conspiracies, and will use my utmost Endeavours to disclose and make known to the Governer, and or some one of the binations, against this State or the Government therof, which may come to my knowledge. So help me God."
According to the 1790 Census (STATE: MD; COUNTY: St. Mary's; REEL#: M637-3), Nathaniel Ashcom lived in St. Mary's County, Maryland in 1790 with four males under age 16, three females and five slaves.
| Nathaniel ASHCOM
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According to his marriage record, Nathaniel was living in Baltimore, Maryland in 1866.
According to the 1880 census, Nathaniel went by the name "Nicholas". He was an insurance agent. Emily is shown as his wife, and Charley, Florence, Nellie and Clarence are shown as his children. Nathaniel and Minnie are not listed.
The following obituary was published in the February 23, 1899 edition of The Baltimore Sun:
NATHANIEL ASHCOM
Mr. Nathaniel Ashcom, for many years a widely known live stock broker of this city, died yesterday morning at his home, 1517 West Lexington street, of pneumonia, after an illness of five days.
Had Mr. Ashcom lived until Saturday next he would have been sixty-eight years old. He was born at Centreville, Queen Anne's county, and was a son of the late Thomas Ashcom, a successful farmer. For the past forty years he had lived in this city, conducting until his retirement a few years ago a live stock brokerage business. He was recognized as an authority on sheep especially, and bought largely for farmers on the Eastern Shore, where he was well known.
About thirty-three year ago Mr. Ashcom married Miss Emily Van Fossen, of Duncannon, Perry county, Pa. She survives him with four children, two daughters and two sons. Misses Nellie and Minnie Ashcom are the daughters, and the sons are Messrs. Charles and Clarence Ashcom, the latter being now a resident of Pittsburg, where is secretary to Mr. John Barron, superintendent of the Pittsburgh division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The deceased was member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. | Nathaniel ASHCOM
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Nathaniel wasd born before 1650, inasmuch as he was claimed as a headright by his father upon coming to Maryland. At his father's death, he inherited "Point Patience," but previously, there was patented to him on January 10, 1680, "Ashcombe's Inclosure" (150 acres) and "Ashcombe's Outlet" (100 acres), both in Dorchester County. By these patents, the entirety of the present-day "Aisquith's Island" came into the possession of the Ashcom family.
The "Holme Map" of Pennsylvania, usually date 1681, also show Nathaniel as a landowner in Chester County, Pennsylvania, probably through his brother Charles' agency. On October 25, 1682, with his brother Samuel and brother-in-law Benjamin Lawrence, he was a patentee of "Desart" (1048 acres) in Calvert County, Maryland. (According to Peter Wilson Coldham, "Settlers of Maryland 1679-1700" Baltimore, 1995, p. 5.) According to Mrs. Cary Reeder, this tract was surveyed and taken up in 1682 by Samuel and Nathaniel Ashcom adn their brother-in-law Benjamin Lawrence. In 1769, it was discovered that they had never had the land duly recorded. Young Parran, who was a son of Alexander Parran by his second wife, Mary Young, inherited or bought this tract in 1769. His first wife was Mary Ashcom, daughter of Nathaniel. (According to Charles Francis Stein, "A History of Calvert County Maryland" s.l. 1960, p. 301.)
Nathaniel Ashcom made his will on March 25, 1687, which was probated on May 19, 1687. It provided as follows:
"To wife mary, executrix, 220 acres called "Ashcomb's Purchase" on Hungar River in Dorchester County, 150 acres called "Ashcom's Outler," 50 acres called "Ashcom's Enclosure" and Point Patience" during her widowhood. To son Nathaniel and his heirs, "Point Patience" at the dearh or marriage of the widow, and also part of testator's portion of "Deserts." To son John and his heirs "Ashcom's Purchase" [Dorchester County] at the death of his mother, and the residue of "Deserts." to daughters mary and Elizabeth, personalty. In the event of the death of the sons without issue the two daughters were to inherit their estate, and Nathaniel made his brother Charles joint executix with the widow."
(According to Jane Baldwin, "The Maryland Calendar of Wills" Westminster, Md. 1988, originally pub. 1904, pp. 14-15, citing Prorogative Court Wills 14:464.) Also by this will, Nathaniel's Dorchester County lands, "Ashcomb's Purchase" (200 acres), "Nathaniel Ashcomb's Purchase" (150 acres), "Ashcomb's Intent" (50 acres) and an unamed 25 acres, came into Alexander Parran's possession, and he and his wife Mary sold these tracts to William Chapline of Dorchester County on February 20, 1705. (According to James A. McAllister, Jr., comp., "Abstracts from the Land Records of Dorchester County, Maryland" s.l. 1961, p. 4, citing the Dorchester County records as "fol.6 Old Liber 77.")
By Nathaniel's will, "Point Patience" passed to the Parran family. His wife Mary made her will on August 1, 1701, and it was probated on May 15, 1703. It provided as follows:
"To her son nathaniel and his heirs, personalty, including that which was at "Point Patience;" she was apparently not living there at the time of her death. The plantation to pass to Nathaniel after eight years, during which time it is to be in the possession of daughters Mary and Elizabeth, to whose possession the plantation is to revert in the event of the death of son Nathaniel without heirs, in accordance with her husband's will. She specifically named her daughter Mary Parran, and her grand-daughter Mary Parran, who were to share with daughter Elizabeth in all the residue fo teh estate. The executors were son Nathaniel adn Alexander Parran. (According to Jane Baldwin, "The Maryland Calendar of Wills" Westminster, Md. 1988, originally pub. 1904, pp. 14-15, citing Prerogative Court Wills 11:387.) | Nathaniel ASHCOM
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According to the 1930 census, Nathaniel and Christine were living in New York City. According to the 1940 census, Nathaniel was living in New York City, but he and Christine were divorced. They apparently had no children.
According to the October 22, 1958 edition of The Daily Mail (Hagerstown, Maryland), Nathaniel was the Baltimore representative of the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Division of Penn-Texas Corporation. | Nathaniel Clarence ASHCOM
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According to the 1920 census, Nellie was living with her sister Minnie in Baltimore, Maryland. Both are single and are shown to be elementary school teachers.
Nellie apparently never married. | Nellie Van Fossen ASHCOM
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Palmer went to Urbanna, VA. | Palmer ASHCOM
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According to Dr. Frank Johnson, Ray was Mary's brother, although the 1880 census does not show a Ray in the family. It is likely that either Ray was not Mary's brother or I have the wrong Ashcom family in the 1880 census. Ray was an engineer on the Pennsylvania Railroad. | Ray ASHCOM
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John and his wife Rebecca appear in the 1850 Census in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
According to Rich Goms (richardandann@netzero.com), Rebecca's parents, James and Elizabeth Ashcom, joined the Baptist Church in Valparaiso in 1859. In 1885, after her divorce from John and her remarriage to James Pierce, the Valparaiso newspaper reported that J.D. Morris (of Kirkland, IL), son, and Carrie M. Pelton (of Louisville, KY), her niece, came to visit her in Valparaiso. According to a cousin, Rebecca was very close to her niece, Carrie.
When Rebecca Pierce died in Valparaiso, Indiana in 1897, she was buried in Kirkland, IL and later J.D. Morris and his family were buried in the same plot.
Rebecca Morris is listed in the 1929 Illinois Roll of Honor for her work as a Civil War nurse.
| Rebecca Elizabeth ASHCOM
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According to W. Thomas Hall, P.O. Box395, Kailua Hawaii 96734, pali@hgea.org, Rebecca grew up in Riddlesburg, PA.
According to a family tree on Ancestry.com in 2009, Rebecca lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1900, in Lower Merion, Montgomery, Co., Pennsylvania in 1910, and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1920.
The following profile of Rebecca Sounder Ashcom was written by Jerry Kinkead, 780 Laurel Lane, Wayne, PA 19087, after the husband of her niece, Becky Walsh, died suddenly in 2007. It was posted on the internet at: http://web.me.com/lee_hall/iWeb/BleeckerHall.com/Musings/B4D05744-CF44-493D-8386-583C38DDE54B_files/Rebecca%20Bleecker-loss.doc and available in 2010:
February 26, 2007
Dear Becky,
I had a dream last night about your great grandmother, Becky Bleecker, after whom you were named. She was a lovely woman, actually a step-grandmother to your Mom and me, as I am sure you are aware, though we never knew any other grandmother and she was the real deal as far as we were concerned. No one ever had a more caring Granny.
I awakened, aware of a coincidental event in Granny's life and your life, and I'm sure it is why she appeared in my dream. I can't say that your life will turn out in any way similar to hers, but the coincidence of you and Granny both losing your husbands so early made me think about the loss you both faced, and wanting to tell you that Granny not only survived, but eventually thrived. So I dug out some family history, much of it written by her son Tom Hall, thinking you might be interested in knowing more about your namesake, Rebecca Souder Ashcom Bleecker, born March 8, 1889.
Granny was born to Edward and Becky Ashcomb in 1889 and was called Reba. She was the youngest of six children and lived with her family in Riddlesburg, PA. She had four older sisters and one brother Paul, who died of meningitis at age two. The girls were Blanche, Grace, Maude, and Polly. They all went to school together in a one-room schoolhouse. Granny related that it was a steep walk up a hill to the small wooden school building, with a potbellied stove which had to be restarted each morning to warm up fingers and toes. I know you've heard these “deep snow” stories all your life, but 100 years ago there were no busses or SUVs. We've had it easy.
Riddlesburg was the end of the line for the Juniata Railroad so it was a “company” town, with rail yards and employees living in the area. Granny's paternal grandfather owned Ashcom Cement Works nearby. Riddlesburg was also a mill town and the mill was owned by three families including Granny's grandparents and some cousins. I believe Granny's father worked in or ran the company store.
When Granny's mother died in 1900 (she was eleven), the cousins turned the store over to new owners. The Ashcoms moved to the Germantown district of Philadelphia. Father Edward was in poor health and could not work. Older sisters Polly and Grace (ages 26 and 17) opened a millinery shop and were quite successful, their hats featuring fake fruits and flowers with lots of tulle and ribbons. Reba attended the Academy of Notre Dame on Rittenhouse Square. She eventually received a degree from Miss Hart's Kindergarten School, but that was later when she wanted to start her own business.
Following school, Reba was the governess to the Ely twins, in a wealthy family in Philadelphia. During this time she met Meta and William Taylor who became her very close friends. The Taylors introduced Reba to “Philadelphia society” (quote from Uncle Tom Hall) and to John Handy Hall, a handsome Philadelphia lawyer who worked for Duane, Morris and Heckscher.
John Handy Hall was from Virginia. He lived with his artist sister on Rittenhouse Square and was active in politics, having run unsuccessfully as a Democrat for the State Senate and for Congress.
John and Reba were married in June 1914. They moved to an area of south Philadelphia known as the Girard Estate. Their first son, John Handy Hall, Jr. was born in July 1915. A second son, William Thomas Hall, was born in October 1916.
John Hall was a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard and in 1916 Lieutenant Major Hall joined an Army unit at the Mexican border to stop raids into Texas by the Mexican General Francisco (Pancho) Villa. By 1917, John Hall was sent to Fort Sill Artillery School in Oklahoma and Reba and their two young sons went with him. According to Granny, they lived in a small wooden shack near the base and she always remembered that the accommodations were miserable and the summer heat was unbearable. For Granny, it was survival training.
In September of 1917, John was placed second-in-command of a unit of the Pennsylvania National Guard with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and, early in May of 1918, with the First World War raging in Europe, his unit left for France.
Shortly after John left home, on May 21, 1918, Reba gave birth to a third son, Nathan Bryant. During the war she lived in the Girard Estate with the three young boys. She volunteered at the Red Cross, rolling bandages and packaging supplies.
On May 15, 1919, John returned home to a grand Welcome Home parade in Philadelphia and to renew his family life with Reba and the young boys. Having survived a ghastly year of war in Europe, it seemed as if their lives might be normal again. John Hall returned to his law practice.
One month later, on a rainy night, June 25, 1919, John was returning from a reunion party with his Army buddies. The car in which he was riding went out of control on a road in Devon, PA. It skidded and hit a telephone pole and John was killed instantly.
John Handy Hall was home for just a month and then was gone, and life for his family was changed forever. With only a widow's pension as her income, it was difficult to make ends meet, so Reba decided to open a kindergarten School in her basement. And then, within a few weeks, she realized that she was again pregnant. Feeling that she could not cope with another child, she made plans to give the baby up for adoption to friends, Lucy and Isaac Jeans, who were childless and wanted a son.
That pregnancy must have been incredibly difficult emotionally, but Reba admitted children to her kindergarten program and persevered. When she gave birth to a baby girl on March 9, 1920, the daughter that Reba and John had always wanted, she decided to keep her fourth child and backed out of the adoption agreement.
The Halls continued to live in the Girard Estate until 1924, but Reba grew tired of the dirty, noisy city and wanted a more tranquil environment for her children. Good friends, the Hermans, had moved to Valley Forge and Reba began to look for housing west of the city. She found an attractive house on tree- lined North Church Street in West Chester and moved her family in 1924.
Quite soon, friend Meta Taylor began her matchmaking again, arranging for Granny to meet a widower of her acquaintance, a distinguished gentleman who had recently moved to the area from the south. Each year the West Chester Country Club put on a fancy dress ball, a Bal Masque, and that seemed a good spot for this meeting. Reba wore a black tulle tutu with bells along the hem and, since she had been told that the mystery man was twelve years older than she, the young widow powdered her hair in order to look more mature.
It was love at first sight. Reba and John Bleecker danced together all evening. The next morning, John Bleecker came courting to the house at 532 North Church Street and immediately proposed marriage. Reba was embarrassed to tell him the family information she had not revealed the night before, the fact that she had four young children. That was fine, said John, since he had five!
Reba washed the powder out of her long auburn hair, added five years to her age, and changed her name to Becky, her mother's name and a name she preferred to Reba. Her pending marriage required a courageous new beginning, though much about Becky Bleecker remained the same throughout her life, including her devotion to family, her strong friendships and her determination to persevere in the face of many hardships.
Becky and John Stearns Bleecker married on August 1, 1925. They bought a huge Victorian limestone house with eleven bedrooms on Virginia Avenue in West Chester and named it Bleecker-Hall in recognition of the merger of their two families.
Granny was a devoted mother and later a doting grandmother to a huge brood. She continued to teach kindergarten most of her life, beloved to many, many generations of children at the Friends School on North High Street in West Chester. She baked us Lady Baltimore birthday cakes (with dimes in them) and handwrote skillions of letters to children and grandchildren (without a computer). She moved in for a week to take care of newborn babies. She was devoted to her second husband, John Bleecker, until his death in 1959. She continued to care for Bleecker-Hall for several more years, until she moved to an apartment in Berwyn to be near a train station, in order to commute to the orchestra and the theatre in Philadelphia. Until her death at 84, while walking to town along her familiar Church Street in West Chester, Becky Bleecker remained an interested and interesting lady. In her quiet, gentle way, Becky was an extremely strong woman and a mover and shaker all of her life.
Granny's third son, Nathan, later compiled and published the letters from his father, John Handy Hall, to his wife, Becky during the years he served in the National Guard and fought in the First World War in France. In this publication, Nathan refers to “the happy home life that their mother made possible for [the Hall children] and for the five motherless children of that good, highly talented, kindly and devoted widower she married later in her life.”
Your great grandmother was Rebecca to some, Reba for most of her early life, then Becky, when she decided that that name was her preference. It was the name of an exceptional woman which you can carry with pride and which extends a legacy of strength to lean on. Granny was so thrilled and proud that your parents chose to name you after her, and I know she would be proud of the woman you have become.
With love from Aunt Jerry
The following obituary was published in The News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware) on January 11, 1973:
BLEECKER--Mrs. Rebecca Ashcom, 83, of Barclay Home, West Chester, Pa., died yesterday in Chester County Hospital after a short illness. She was a retired kindergarten teacher at the Friends Community School. She was the widow of John S. Bleecker. She is survived by four sons, Dr. John H. Hall Jr. of Wayne, Pa., Dr. William T. Hall of Wilmington, Nathan B. Hall of Ann Arbor, Mich., and John S. Bleecker Jr. of Naples, Fla.; four daughters, Mrs. Arthur T. Parke and Mrs. John J. Darlington, both of West Chester, Mrs. Kate Parks, Honolulu, and Mrs. John C. Snyder of Darling, Pa.; 35 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. Services will be Saturday afternoon at 2 at the Church of the Holy Trinity, West Chester. Burial will be private. .
| Rebecca Souder ASHCOM
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According to the 1860 and 1870 Censuses, a Reuben Lemon lived next door to the Ashcom household. It is not clear what relationship, if any, that Reuben may have had with the Ashcom's other than neighbor. | Reuben Lemon ASHCOM
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The following obituary was published in the Dayton (Ohio) News on August 20, 1986:
Burial services held for Dr. R.C. Ashcom
Burial services were Sunday in Pensacola, Fla. for Dr. Richard C. Ashcom, former director of medical education at S. Elizabeth Medical Center in Dayton.
Dr. Ashcom, 68, recently retired as director of Family Practice at University Hospital in Pensacola. He served at St. Elizabeth from 1968 to 1980.
James McGarry, director of management services at St. Elizabeth, said of Dr. Ashcom: "He gave great movement and direction to our medical education program--sort of rejuvenated it."
Dr. Ashcom was born in Johnstown, Pa. He came to Dayton from Toledo, where he had been director of obstetrics and gynecology at Maumee Vally Hospital.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Deborah T. Ashcom of Pensacola; a son, Jeffrey Ashcom of Dayton, and a daughter, Julia Ashcom of Pensacola.
| Dr. Richard C. ASHCOM
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Tragically, Gregory shot and killed his estranged wife, Sylvia, in the afternoon on March 7, 1973, as she was getting off work at a restaurant in Armaugh, where she was a waitress. Gregory then committed suicide in his car outside his home in Dilltown.
The following obituary was published in the Indiana Gazette (Indiana, Pennsylvania) on March 9, 1973:
GREGORY "GREG" ASHCOM, 30, Dilltown, died Wednesday, March 7, 1973 at his home.
Born Aug. 18, 1942 in Johnstown, he was a son of Robert I. and Valeria Kluchar Ashcom.
Mr. Ashcom was employed at the Black Lick Portal of the Florence Mining Co. and was a member of UMWA, Local 1287.
Surviving are his mother, Tanneryville; the following children: Wendey [sic], Connie Lynn and Joanna [sic] Jill, all at home; the following brothers and sisters: Delores Ashcom, Tanneryville; Robert E. and John, both of Vintondale; Eugene, Seward; Gary, U.S. Army, Ft. Ord, Calif; and a number of aunts and uncles.
He was preceded in death by his father and his wife, Sylvia.
Friends will be received after 7 p.m. today at the Gray Funeral Home, Seward, where funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, with the Rev. William Karns officiating. Interment will be in Armagh Cemetery.
| Richard Gregory ASHCOM
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Robert never married. | Robert ASHCOM
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On October 31, 1959, Piemont Airlines Flight 349 from Washington, D.C. to Charlottesville, Virginia crashed into the Shenandoah Mountains outside of Charlottesville after straying off course. All but one of the 27 people on board died in the crash. Robert C. Ashcom, an engineering equipment rep who lived in Ivy, had a ticket to get home on that flight, but he was delayed, so one of two standbys would take his place. | Robert Clare ASHCOM
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According to the 1930 census, Robert was raised (adopted) by William and Minerva from the Christian Home, and, thus, was not their natural child. Robert had five children.
That Robert married Valeria is speculative based on the 1940 census, which shows a Robert Ashcom (b. abt. 1916) married to Valeria. This information needs to be confirmed. | Robert I. ASHCOM
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The following obituary appeared on the website of The Stuart Funeral Homes (New Florence, Pennsylvania) and was available in 2015:
Obituary of Robert Ashcom
Ashcom, Robert I., 86, Clyde, passed away May 29, 2015 at home. Born December 17, 1928 on Johnstown the son of late George R. and Florence (Wilhelm) Aschom. Also preceded in death by brother George and sister Shirley. Survived by wife of 67 years Betty Jo (Alberter) Ashcom; son Edward Ashcom and wife Karen Pleasant Mount; daughter Sharon Wilson and husband William, Brush Valley; grandchildren Thomas Ashcom and Liz Edwards; Billy and Robbie Clevenger; and Teddy Wilson; great-grandchildren Tèa and Tommy Ashcom; sister Lois Cox; sister-in-law Shirley Alberter. Robert was a very devoted husband, accomplished wood carver and painter. At Robert's request there will be no public visitation or service. Private Interment Grandview Cemetery. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be given to your local chapter of the Salvation Army. Family assisted by Richard C. Stuart Funeral Home Armagh. | Robert I. ASHCOM
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According to his wife Susie's website, http://www.susieashcom.com/aboutus_bob.php (2008):
Raised in Albemarle county Virginia just west of Charlottesville, Bob went north to college and graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor’s degree in American Lit. After he and Susie were married, he taught at a prep school in Kansas City and whipped in to the Mission Valley Hunt. Four years later he and Susie, now with two children, moved to Providence RI where he received a Masters degree from Brown. While in New England the Ashcoms started a fox hunt called the Bradbury Foxhounds. Susie was the local DC for the pony club.
Returning home to Albemarle County, Bob started a bloodstock agency (horse insurance, pedigree research, and bloodstock brokerage) and Susie began her real estate career. They also operated a stud farm, which stood three Thoroughbred stallions. During this time, Bob was for three years field master for the Farmington Hunt.
The lure of being a huntsman drew Bob to North Carolina and the Tryon Hounds. Bob was huntsman there for eleven years. For nine years he was also Joint Master. Susie was his first whipper-in.
Home beckoned and the Ashcoms returned home to Virginia where they bought a farm between Culpeper and Warrenton. Susie pursued real estate and Bob became an English Professor at the community college in Warrenton. Bob has been a writer all his life and in 1999 a book of his hunting stories and poems was published by the Derrydale Press. Two years later Algonquin Books published a novel-in-stories called Winter Run which won the new writing award for fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Retired from full time teaching and no stranger to the world of country real estate (he was previously licensed in VA and his mother Mary Ashcom was a real estate broker in Albemarle County for more than forty years) Bob now assists Susie in her business by researching and selecting appropriate new listings to send to a list of more than 140 clients and potential clients.
Bob is also hard at work on a novel. The Episcopal church has always been important in the Ashcom’s lives and Bob was recently Senior Warden of St James Church in Warrenton.
The following article was published in Citizenet.com on April 13, 2000:
'The Lost Hound'
LFCC professor, who rubbed elbows with giants, publishes first book
Staff Photo/Karl Pittelkau
Teaching a literature class, Mr. Ashcom calls Faulkner "the greatest author since Shakespeare." By Kristen Knight Staff Writer As a teenager growing up in Ivy, the Lord Fairfax Community College English professor foxhunted with William Faulkner.
Robert Ashcom shared his own poetry with Robert Penn Warren, the nation's first poet laureate.
Mr. Ashcom became friends with Albert Erskine, the venerable Random House editor who worked with the likes of Faulkner, Warren and James Michener.
On this day, the houndstooth-jacket clad professor, who in 1996 became the first full-time instructor at LFCC's Fauquier campus, sits on a table in Room 201 to discuss literature with his 11 a.m. class.
The students open American literature anthologies to page 1919, a short story by Faulkner.
Mr. Ashcom, of course, talks about the piece and its author with a passion that comes from personal experience.
"Faulkner is like the inheritor of (Mark) Twain, particularly in the matter of race," 59-year-old Mr. Ashcom tells the class. "That's one of the reasons I think he moved to Charlottesville and left Mississippi behind. It got very uncomfortable for him."
The Brown University graduate calls Faulkner "the greatest author since Shakespeare."
The class discussion mingles contemplation of characters and meaning with Mr. Ashcom's own anecdotes about his experiences with Faulkner and background on the legendary author from Mississippi.
Not bad for a literature class at a fledgling campus with 600 students.
But Mr. Ashcom has spent his life steeped in American literary tradition.
Recently the avid foxhunter reached a literary landmark of his own, when The Derry Dale Press in 1999 published his first book, "The Lost Hound."
The green hardbound, illustrated book includes poetry and prose, the first volume in Derry Dale's "Fox Hunter's Library."
But the book represents more than an ode to the sport.
"(Mr. Ashcom) does the hard things," explains Norman Fine, editor of the collection. "It's easy to tell what happened, but it's much harder to pull out of your head the 'whys' . . . . He grapples with those.
"It's more than hunting. It's more than foxhounds."
The book depicts a "country way of life and thinking," according to Mr. Fine.
Mr. Ashcom writes "powerfully and eloquently on what's happening to our open space . . . . He's seen that first-hand when he was (joint) master and huntsman in North Carolina," Mr. Fine says.
"There's a thread that runs right through (my life) from the beginning," the bespectacled professor explains in his LFCC campus office. He has had poems published fairly regularly since he studied as an undergraduate in Providence, R.I. "So, you see, I was doing all those other things all those years, but the writing has always been there."
Mr. Ashcom moved to Ivy, west of Charlottesville in Albemarle County, from Pittsburgh at age 5. His dad worked as an executive with an electronics firm in Charlottesville, and his mother would eventually become a Realtor, selling farms and estates.
For most of his childhood, he lived in a house on eight acres in the small Southern town, with a barn and chicken coops.
"I just grew up with the literary arts," recalls Mr. Ashcom, whose parents both graduated from the University of Pittsburgh. "It was a household that talked about literature. We all read. And it just permeated our lives."
In his small office, a framed illustration of mounted foxhunters dominates a wall, hanging near a map of England and Wales. Soft, classical music floats, barely audible, from a radio on the windowsill.
His bachelor's and master's degrees from Brown hang on a far wall.
But he's far from pretentious.
In Ivy, he also learned to love the outdoors.
"I was attracted to hunting with hounds for as many years as I can remember," Mr. Ashcom says.
A family in town kept 'coon hounds, he recalls, and a young Mr. Ashcom would go out hunting with them at night.
As a freshman in college, he started foxhunting seriously -- at times sacrificing his studies.
Mr. Ashcom's brother rode horses with a man who also kept steeds for the Faulkners.
At age 19, the natty professor rode with Faulkner, an author in residence at the University of Virginia, just months before the writer's death in 1962.
"He was the one. He was very . . . " Mr. Ashcom says 40 years later, his speech trailing off almost reverently. "He's the only real genius I've ever come in contact with . . . . (But) we would go foxhunting together and that was all. Warren and Erskine . . . loved intellectual matters. But Faulkner did his thing . . . . And his thing didn't involve those other" discussions.
He remains friends with the literary icon's daughter, Jill Summers.
Around that time, Mr. Ashcom also "began to become a writer," he says. "I discovered English departments . . . were really interested in Southern culture and Southern writing. And I had lived in one."
He began publishing poetry as an undergraduate, "but I was awful interested in going foxhunting."
About a year after earning his bachelor's degree, he married a hometown sweetheart and took a job teaching at Miller School near Charlottesville.
He went back to New England and earned a master's at Brown in 1969.
From 1972 until 1993, Mr. Ashcom remained devoted to horses and hunting. "I didn't want anything to do with education at that time."
After running his own business in Virginia for 10 years, selling horse insurance and dealing in racehorse breeding stock, the family packed up and moved to Tryon, N.C.
There, he served as joint master and huntsman for 11 years.
Then tract houses began infringing on prime hunting territory.
"It was clear in 1994 that one of the problems that the sport was running into everywhere was" home construction. "Subdivisions were taking over."
Now, he lives on a farm in Jeffersonton with his wife Susan, who works as a Realtor.
In 1995, he took a job as an adjunct professor at LFCC's Middletown campus.
He signed on as the Fauquier campus' first full-time instructor in 1996, working for about 2-1/2 years in "The Barn," an old structure renovated to hold classes.
The college's new $9.1 million building opened in January 1999.
And it seems almost every student on campus has had Mr. Ashcom for one class or another.
He has taught 20-year-old Michelle Herder four semesters.
"Since he knows a lot about it, he makes you think about what the author was thinking about," Ms. Herder says after American literature class. "And he wants you to form your own opinion."
She remembers studying a particular Shakespeare poem in one of his classes.
"And he wanted all of us to get up there and just belt that thing out, " she says with a laugh. "He just loves that stuff."
"If he loves something, he'll go on and on about it," adds classmate Travis Byrne. "And he likes people to have opinions. He never says absolutely 'no' to anyone, even though it might be absolutely absurd."
Wrennetta Poles of Hume also has taken several classes with Mr. Ashcom.
"He's very good," Ms. Poles says. "He's not afraid of black history. He's not afraid to expand on subjects of race issues, which I liked. He makes it clear for those who don't understand it."
The professor clearly enjoys his job, the students say.
Mr. Ashcom shows the same enthusiasm when he talks about his literary work.
Last year, Derry Dale published "The Lost Hound." And already he has started work on his next book.
"I've been very fortunate in the literary folks I've known," he says, referring to his relationships with Faulkner, Erskine and Warren. "They were a powerful, powerful group of people in the literary world."
He counts Faulkner and Warren as two of the biggest influences on his own writing.
Mr. Ashcom talks about the two authors' literary similarities.
Perhaps in some way it reflects the drive behind his own work, both in the classroom and in his poetry and prose, as well.
"There's a preoccupation with the past," he says thoughtfully. "And there's a preoccupation with community and family. An intense need to explain one's own history. To understand what's happened in the past."
Robert Ashcom
Age: 59 Home: Jeffersonton Work: English professor at Lord Fairfax Community College's Fauquier campus, 1996-present. Education: Bachelor's degree, English, Brown University, 1962; master's, English, Brown, 1969 Experience: Private school teacher in Virginia, Kansas City and New England, 1963-72; owned and operated thoroughbred horse business, 1972-82; joint master and huntsman in Tryon, N.C., 1982-93; adjunct English professor at Lord Fairfax Community College's Middletown campus, 1995-96. Family: Wife Susan; two grown children; two grandchildren
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The following profile was found on www.elance.com on February 19, 2009:
ROB ASHCOM 14763 Cole Dr. San Jose, CA 95124
EMPLOYMENT
Creative Strategies — Director of Research & Communications Dec 2002 – present
• Advise companies from start-ups to industry leaders on web development projects, business planning (including strategic advice and business plan writing/editing), information architecture, and application usability.
• Manage in-house web-development with off-shore developers (PHP, MySQL). • Edit all company communications (sample at http://www.creativestrategies.com/report1.pdf).
San Jose City College — Writing Instructor September 2002 – present • Night school writing instructor in the higher-level courses.
UpCast — Director of User Experience Jan 2001 – Jun 2002
• Design and write the interface for v2.0 WebQ Portal (DHTML, DTML, Python).
• Build and maintain team of developers (domestic and foreign) using DHTML, Python, C++, DTML, XML, NT, & Linux.
• Conduct usability testing and QA regression tests.
eLance — Creative Department Production Manager Nov 2000 – Jan 2001
• Manage a 7-person team of writers, web developers, and web designers supporting 34,000+ users. Refine department style guide.
• Create & maintain a database of the department’s production schedule for new site content, new features, major releases, bug-fixes, etc.
• Act as project management lead in 2-5 cross-departmental web development projects per month (Perl, Oracle, CVS, Visio, SSI).
WebAgencies.com — Director of Internet Production/Creative Director May 1999 – Oct 2000
• Designed and managed core web applications + all marketing communications.
• Supervised developers (in the US and Russia) using DHTML, ASP, C++, NT, IIS, SQL Server, UNIX, and Perl; and local graphic and web designers.
• Conducted stress-testing on the web servers.
• Designed and programmed the user interface for the applications (Photoshop, Flash, FrontPage, HomeSite, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML).
• Managed a team of writers, programmers, and web designers.
Myers Internet Services (myersinternet.com) — Project Manager -- Sept. 1998 - May 1999
• Coordinated the production of over 65 web site projects as the sole contact between the customer, the design department, and the technical support division (HTML, Photoshop, CuteFTP, Cold Fusion).
• Leader of the Myers Online Tracking System (MOTS) troubleshooting team
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Music Degree from Berklee College of Music, Boston 1994
Concentration in Music Production and Engineering
Master of Arts Degree (English) from Sonoma State University, Cotati, CA 1998
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According to the 1920 Census, Annie (Ashcom) Collison, born 1875, was a widow and head of the house. She lived in Baltimore, Maryland. Living with her in the same house were her son, Thomas, born 1903, her sister Georgia A., born 1866, her brother John A., born 1872, and her sister Roberta Ann, born 1885. Given the ages of Annie's Ashcom siblings, Thomas, Georgia and John, all of whom are shown as being single, it is unlikely that any of them had any children. | Roberta Ann ASHCOM
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According to Find a Grave (findagrave.com), Ross died on April 26, 1996. | Ross Charles ASHCOM
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The following obituary was published in the April 27, 1996 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
ROSS L. (SKIP) ASHCOM
Age 48, or Coraopolis Pa, died April 26, 1996 at his residence, born Nov. 26, 1947 in Johnstown, son of the late Ross C. and June Lehman Ashcom; husband of Sue Park; father of David at home and Diane of Kalamazoo Mi. He was a member of First Baptist Church, & the owner of Ross Engineering. Visitation 2-4 & 7-9 Sun. at JOHN HENERSON CO. FUNERAL HOME, 215 Central Ave. Johnstown where services will be held Mon. at 1:00 the Rev. William C. Thwing [presiding]. Interment Grandview Cemetery.
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The following obituary was published in the Moberly Monitor-Index (Moberly, Missouri) on Friday, April 12, 1946:
Roy Ashcom Dies After Brief Illness; Funeral Saturday
Roy Ashcom of Huntsville died at the McCormick Hospital Wednesday afternoon after an illness of only a few days. He was born at Renwick, January 24, 1874, the son of Benjamin and Susan Elisabeth Ashcom. He came to Huntsville with his parents when his father was elected sheriff in 1883.
He is survived by Mrs. Gertie GoinHulen of Moberly, Herman Heether and Mrs. John B. Hayes and daughters, Frances and Betty Maude of Miami, Fla. and Misses Minnie and Emma Goin of Sedalia, all cousins.
Funeral services will be conducted at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Patton Funeral Home in Huntsville by the Rev. R. H. Polly. Burial will be the Huntsville cemetery. | Roy Princeton ASHCOM
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Assumed to be Benjamin and Elizabeth's child based on age and because he/she is buried with them. According to: ABSTRACTS OF VITAL STATISTICS, Christian Advocate New York Edition, January 1879 - December, 1880, (http://www.gcah.org/umhs/NYCA1879.html), published by the Historical Society of the United Methodist Church, which records Sallie's marriage to H.C. Thatcher (and is the source for some of the details regarding Sallie and H.C., Sallie's father was B.R. Ashcom.
At the time of her marriage in 1879, Sallie was living in Millwood Grange, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania.
The following death notice was published in the Bedford Gazette on November 11, 1910:
Mrs. Sallie Thatcher
Mrs. Sallie Ashcom Thatcher of Everett died suddenly in Philadelphia last Thursday, November 3, to which city she had gone for treatment two weeks ago, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Gibson. : Her death came as a great shock to the many friends of this most estimable woman.
She was a daughter of Benjamin and Eliza (Barndollar) Ashcom, was born at "Millwood," near Everett, and educated in a private school in Philadelphia. She was married in early life to Henry Calvin Thatcher, who was appointed the first Supreme Judge and Chief Justice of the Colorado Court by President Grant. Mr. Thatcher passed away about 25 years ago.
Deceased is survived by one brother and four sisters: B. F. Ashcom, Mrs. Eli Eichelberger, and Mrs. Ella Gibson, of Everett; Mrs. Columbia Griffith and Miss Eliza Ashcom, of Colorado.
The body was brought to her home West Providence in Everett on Saturday, the funeral taking place at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. Rev. Richard Hinkle of York conducted the services, being assisted by Rev. W. J. Shaefer of Everett. Interment at that place. | Sallie Barndollar ASHCOM
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Information regarding Samuel and his wife, Ann Thomas, and their children was obtained from a post by Linda Reno (lreno@erols.com) on rootsweb.com's message boards on August 1, 2001. Linda is a historian and genealogist, specializing in Sourthern Maryland history. This source will not be repeated. | Samuel ASHCOM
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Samuel lived in "West Ashcom." He apparently never married. | Samuel ASHCOM
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Samuel lived on the West Ashcom Estate in St. Mary's County, Maryland.
According to Cary Reeder, he and Sarah Brwon were married between 1738 and
1740. | Samuel ASHCOM
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Irvin was the only survivor of a twin. He never married. He worked for Johnstown Water Company. | Samuel Irvin ASHCOM
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According to the Ligonier Township tax records for 1829, Samuel was the son of John Ashcom. Ligonier Townshoip Tax Records, 1829-1842, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvanis, compiled by William L., Iscrupe, Southwest Pennsylvania Genealogical Services (1977).
Information regarding Samuel and his family is conjectural and needs to be confirmed. According to a database of deaths in Randolph County, Missouri (http://www.yggdrasill.net/mgen/adeath.htm) (2009), Samuel Ashcom, from Pennsylvania died in 1850, leaving five children. HIs wife, Polly Cox had died a year earlier. It is ASSUMED that this is the same Samuel shown here.
Benjamin Hesselridge Ashcom's obituary states that he was orphaned at age 10 (in 1850), at which time Samuel would have been just 32 years old. Note that Benjamin's obituary mentions just one sister alive in 1911--Sue. | Samuel P. ASHCOM
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According to her father, Sandra Lee is seperated from her husband and was
living in Florida in 1997. | Sandra Lee ASHCOM
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According to an article in the November 2, 1928 edition of The Pittsburgh Press, Sarah married Lt. William Paul Johnson on November 1, 1928 at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. Andrew Sumner Braznell on East End Ave. in Pittsburgh.
A profile of Sarah appeared in the October 10, 1958 edition of the Armored Sentinel (Ft. Hood, Texas), as her husband, Maj. General W. Paul Johnson was leaving his post as commander of Ft. Hood and moving to Fort Knox, Kentucky. See: http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth254553/m1/3/zoom/
According to the profile, Sarah attended Miss Simpson Private School, Mary Baldwin Academy in Staunton, Virginia, and then Mary Lyon Finishing School for Girls in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
At the time of the profile, Sarah was an Army wife for 30 years. She and her husband did tours of duty all over the world including Philippines, China, Hawaii and Turkey. | Sarah Adelaide ASHCOM
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The following obituary appeared in the February 13, 1894 edition of The Pittsburgh Press:
MRS. S. ELLA HAYES, wife of Dr. S. J. Hayes, of Penn avenue, died yesterday of a complication of diseases, at the family residence, 335 Pitt street, Wilkinsburg. Funeral services will be held at 9:45 to-morrow morning, and will be conducted by Rev. L. C. Barnes. The interment will be private and take place at Coraopolis. Mrs. Hayes was born in Ligonier, where her father, William Ashcom, has long resided. She came with her husband and family to this city about 15 years ago. She was a member of the Fourth Avenue Baptist church, and in her life adorned her profession. Her acquaintances held her in the highest esteem for her many excellent qualities. A husband and three daughters survive her. | Sarah Ellen ASHCOM
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Information regarding Shirley and her descendants was provided by her son Jonathan Freddes (jgfreddes@gmail.com) in April 2010.
Shirley's name is shown as "Shirley Ann" in the 1940 census. | Shirley Francis ASHCOM
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The following obituary was published in the Moberly Monitor-Index (Moberly, Missouri) on July 17, 1935:
VETERAN TEACHER OF COUNTY DIES
Miss Sue Ashcom, 95 Had Taught at Higbee, Clark and in Rural Schools
Miss Sue Ashcom, 95, for years a prominent Randolph County school teacher, died at 8:40 o'clock this morning at the home of her niece, Mrs. Maude A. Tieman, Huntsville.
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock from the residence by the Rev. F. L. Alexander, pastor the Huntsville Baptist Church. Burial will be in the Huntsville Cemetery.
Miss Ashcom was born at Fayette June 26, 1840. She moved to Randolph County in her infancy and resided here the rest of her life. She taught at Higbee, Clark and in rural schools throughout the county for years. She lived for a number of years in Renick, but had been in Huntsville the past 13 years with Mrs. Tieman.
Miss Ashcom is survived by the niece mentioned, a nephew, Roy Ashcom, who also lives at the Tieman home; another niece, Mrs. Mattie G. Burton, Centralia; another nephew, Ben Williams, of Clarence' and a first cousin, Mrs. Hester Carver, of Moberly, who recently celebrated her one hundredth birthday. | Susan E. ASHCOM
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According to her Facebook profile (2010), Susan graduated from Western Albemarle High School in 1983, the University of North Carolina in 1987 and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1994. She works for The Lansdale Group and lives in Arlington, Virginia (2010). | Susan Rinehart ASHCOM
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In the 1880 census, Susan (age 74) was living with her son-in-law and daughter in Elmwood, Peoria Co., Illinois. | Susanna ASHCOM
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Susanna lived in Providence Township at the time of her marriage in 1845.
The following obituary was published in the Bedford Gazette, Bedford, Pennsylvania on Friday, December 26, 1902:
"Mrs. Susan A. Everhart, of Martinsburg, died Saturday evening. Mrs. Everhart was born near Everett on January 29, 1824, and was a daughter of Dr. Charles Ashcom. On February 27, 1845, she was united in marriage to Col. John C. Everhart, of Allenville. About fifty years ago they moved to Martinsburg. Mr. Everhart died on November 27, 1891. Mrs. Everhart is survived by a son, M. H. Everhart, of Martinsburg, and a sister, Miss Kate Ashcom, of Everett. She was a noble Christian woman."
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According to the 1850 Census of Derry, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania, a Thomas, age 18, and a Hugh, age 15, lived with Laurence Pelton and his family. The Peltons were very interconnected with the James Ashcom family, Thomas and Hugh's sister, Mary, marrying Lorenzo Pelton. | Thomas ASHCOM
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Thomas left St. Mary's Co., Maryland in 1804-06 and moved to Queen Anne's Co., Maryland, where he purchased a large estate near Centerville known as "Walker's Estate." | Thomas ASHCOM
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It appears that Thomas was born in Everett, Pennsylvania shortly before his father's death in 1879.
Thomas enlisted in the Army in 1897, at age 18 (although he claimed in was 21 years old). He was discharged on August 20, 1900.
According to the 1910 Census, Thomas, age 31 (?), was living with his wife Alice, age 31, and their children, Gilbert D. and Frances, in Oakland, California.
The following news story was published in The Seattle Star on September 3, 1913:
OAKLAND--Thomas D. Ashcom, who distinguished himself while a private in the United States army under fire at the seige of Pekin (sic.) in the Boxer rebellion, committed suicide by shooting yesterday.
The following obituary was published in the Oakland Tribune on September 4, 1913:
FUNERAL OF LATE THOMAS ASHCOM
The funeral of Thomas Ashcom, newspaper man, was held today at the undertaking parlors of E. James Finney. Many of his business associates gathered to pay their last respects to the memory of the decease, and also a number of Spanish War veterans who fought with him in Cuba. Interment was private.
The following news account appeared in the Evening Star (Washington, District of Columbia) on September 6, 2013:
Thomas Diven Ashcom Dead
Word has been received here of the death Tuesday of Thomas Diven Ashcom at Oakland, Cal. Mr. Ashcom, who was thirty-four years old, is a son of the late Reeder and Mary Ashcom of 206 A street southeast. | Thomas Diven ASHCOM
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According to a notice in the June 24, 1913 edition of the Daily Independent (Monesssen, Pennsylvania), Thomas and Estelle were married at the home of her parents in Rose Point, Pennsylvania. Estelle was a teacher in the Monessen public schools and Thomas worked for the Pittsburgh Steel Company.
The following obituary was published in the April 7, 1967 edition of the New Castle (Pennsylvania) News:
Thomas L. Ashcom
Thomas Lane Ashcom, 78, of 125 Park St., New Wilmington, died at 7:30 a.m. today in the Jameson Memorial Hospital after an extended illness.
He was born in Ligonier, on April 21, 1888, to the late John and Aledaide Ureich Ashcom. A. former resident of Jeanette, Pa. he had lived in New Wilmington 34 years and was a retired banker. He had served as cashier of the Depositors National Bank and later was with the First National Bank of Lawrence County in New Wilmington until he retired in 1964.
Mr. Ascom [sic] was a graduate of Princeton University in the class of 1911, married to the former Estelle Rhodes.
He was a member of New Wilmington Methodist Church; New Wilmington Rotary Club; New Wilmington Lodge 804, F and AM and Syria Temple of Pittsburgh.
Surviving are his wife and two sons, James D. of Sharon and Thomas L. Jr., of Philadelphia; a sister, Mrs. W. G. Srodes of Orlando, Fla. and three grandchildren.
Private funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, from the family home on Park St., with Rev. Ralph W. Martin Jr. of New Wilmington Methodist Church and Dr. Victor G. Dawe of Neshannock United Presbyterian Church, officiating.
The body will be taken from the Sharp Funeral Home in New Wilmington to the late residence on Park St. where friends will be received at anytime after 1 p.m. tomorrow until the service Sunday.
Interment will be in Fair Oaks Cemetery, New Wilmington. | Thomas Lane ASHCOM
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According to the website of The Kansas Heart Hospital, Dr. Ashcom received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Physiology and a PhD from Pennsylvania State University.
According to the December 20, 2004 edition of the Witchita Business Journal, The Kansas Heart Hospital in Witchita Kansas named Dr. Thomas L. Ashcom as its chief executive. The hospital is a 54-bed hospital. Dr. Ashcom is a practicing cardiologist, who was a member of Cardiovascular Consultants of Kansas PA, since 1993. Besides his cardiology practice, Ashcom served as chair of internal medicine at Via Christi Regional Medical Center and KHH. He also just retired as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, where he served his last tour of duty in fall 2003 in Germany.
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