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John Raymond ASHCOM

Male 1893 - 1965


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  • Born  12 Oct 1893  Huff, Indiana County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender  Male 
    Died  14 Jul 1965  Kittanning, Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I1391  Johnson Hindin Tree
    Last Modified  21 Jan 2018 

    Father  Benjamin Franklin ASHCOM,   b. 26 Apr 1866, Indiana Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Aug 1947, Indiana, Indiana Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Margaret Mary VAN HORN,   b. 22 Mar 1868,   d. 30 Nov 1926, New Florence, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  Bef 1890 
    Family ID  F313  Group Sheet

    Family 1  Beulah Vern Shaul,   b. 29 May 1892,   d. Oct 1979 
    Family ID  F2772  Group Sheet

    Family 2  Sylvia M. Seese,   b. Abt 1891, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Children 
     1. Jane Sylvia ASHCOM,   b. Abt 1919,   d. 7 Nov 1968, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. John Raymond ASHCOM, Jr.,   b. 3 May 1924,   d. 8 Feb 2000
    Family ID  F3357  Group Sheet

  • Notes 
    • According to Frank Ashcom, Raymond owned a drugstore on Liberty Ave. in East Liberty, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His WW I Draft Registration Card confirms this.

      The following obituary was published in the Simpson's Leader-Times (Kittanning, Pennsylvania) on July 15, 1965:

      John Raymond Ashcom

      John Raymond Ashcom of Manorville died at 10:10 a.m. Wednesday (July 14, 1965) in Armstrong County Memorial Hospital at Kittanning where he was a patient for 15 days.

      Mr. Ashcom was aged 71 years, having been born Oct. 12, 1893 in Indiana County, the son of B. Frank and Margaret (Van Horn) Ashcom.

      He resided for over 20 years in this community, moving here from Pittsburgh. A druggist by profession, he worked in area drug stores and was employed for nine years at Central Drug Store in Kittanning.

      Mr. Ashcom was a member of the Masonic Lodge in Kittanning. He served several years as choir director of Manorville Methodist Church of which he was a member.

      Surviving are his wife, Beulah (Shaul) Ashcom, one son, John R. Ashcom, Jr. of Spokane, Wash.; one daughter, Mrs. John (Jane) Speakman of Pittsburgh; and two brothers, Eugene W. Ashcom of Johnstown and J. Donald Ashcom of New Florence, two sisters, Mrs. Dr. Edward (Florence) Pardoe of Bryn Mawr and Mrs. Grace Spory of Newark, Del., and two grand-children.

      ASHCOM--Friends of John Raymond Ashcom of Manorville, who died at 10:10 a.m. Wednesday (July 14, 1965) in Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, will be received in the Amberson C. Bauer Funeral Home, Kittanning after 7 p.m. Thursday. Family visitation hours are 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friends may all in the funeral home until noon Saturday when the body will be removed to the Manorville Methodist Church for viewing one hour prior to the service at 2 p.m. Saturday. His pastor, Rev. L.B. Owens, will officiate at the service. Interment will follow at Manor Cemetery. Arrangements by Bauer.

  • Sources 
    1. [S663] WW I Draft Registration Card.