Husband: Travis Ashby [I6755] 1 2
                Born: 1796 in NC 3 4
             Married: 30 Sep 1815 in Surry Co., NC 11
                Died: Sep 1876 in Lincoln Co., TN 5
              Buried: in Ashby Cemetery; Gimlet Creek, L. Ashby Family; Lincoln Co., TN 6
              Father: Halifax Ashby
              Mother: Sarah Jane Hudson
             Spouses: 
          Occupation: Farmer
                Wife: Rebecca Groce [I6756] 7 8
                Born: 1798 in NC 9
                Died: 1870-1875 in Lincoln Co., TN 10
              Father: Peter Groce
              Mother: Nancy C. Thompson
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): William Ashby [I1511] 12 13 14
                Born: 1818 in Surry Co., NC 15 16
                Died: 17 Jun 1862 in hospital at Okokona, Chickasaw, MS 18 19 20
             Spouses: 
      Cause of Death: fever while serving in the military in Civil War 17
02               (M): Peter G. Ashby [I1245] 21
                Born: 12 Feb 1821 in Lincoln Co., TN 22 23
                Died: 10 Dec 1857 in Lincoln Co., TN 25 26
             Spouses: Mary Jane George
03               (M): Travis Ashby [I6757]
                Born: 1826 in NC 27
                Died: Unknown
             Spouses: 
          Occupation: Farmer
04               (M): Thomas Newton Ashby [I10424] 28
                Born: 1827 in NC 29
                Died: 1915 30
             Spouses: Elizabeth Tennessee Conaway
05               (F): Minerva Ashby [I6758]
                Born: 1831 in TN 31
                Died: Unknown
             Spouses: 
06               (F): Martha A. Ashby [I6759] 32 33
                Born: 1834 in TN 34
                Died: Unknown
             Spouses: Morgan H. Conoway

Additional Information

Travis Ashby:

Notes:
REF: 383RTH
Household #383, page 51

Rebecca Groce:

Notes:
REF: 383E
Household #383, page 51

(03) Travis Ashby:

Notes:
REF: 383
Household #383, page 51

(05) Minerva Ashby:

Notes:
REF: 383
Household #383, page 51
Noveda A. Metzger email [Apr 25, 2002] nickname was Minnie.

Footnotes

  1. Heritage of Lincoln County Tennessee Book, 2005 [93], article 605.
  2. TNLINCOL Digest, Vol 5, Issue 305 [412].
  3. 1850 US Federal Census Lincoln Co., TN transcription [33].
  4. Researcher: Noveda A. Metzger [nam@consolidated.net] [246] (Denton TX library may have book by her), email [Apr 25, 2002] for birth year & state. Is he father of John P. Ashby in Household 382? & William Household 386?
  5. Ibid., [Apr 25, 2002].
  6. Heritage of Lincoln County Tennessee Book, 2005 [93], page 191.
  7. Researcher: Noveda A. Metzger [nam@consolidated.net] [246] (Denton TX library may have book by her), [Apr 25, 2002] for maiden name.
  8. Heritage of Lincoln County Tennessee Book, 2005 [93], article 605.
  9. 1850 US Federal Census Lincoln Co., TN transcription [33].
  10. Researcher: Noveda A. Metzger [nam@consolidated.net] [246] (Denton TX library may have book by her), [Apr 25, 2002].
  11. Ibid., [Apr 25, 2002].
  12. Ibid., email [Apr 25, 2002] says father is Travis Ashby. (in HH 383)?
  13. Heritage of Lincoln County Tennessee Book, 2005 [93], page 191.
  14. Web Page: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cepatton&id=I303 [554].
  15. 1850 US Federal Census Lincoln Co., TN transcription [33].
  16. Researcher: Noveda A. Metzger [nam@consolidated.net] [246] (Denton TX library may have book by her), [Apr 25, 2002] for birth place.
  17. From annotation to 1850 Lincoln Co., TN Census [65], page 51. Died Occona, Chickasaw, MS, of fever while in Civil War.
  18. Ibid., page 51. Died Occona, Chickasaw, MS, of fever while in Civil War.
  19. Lincoln Co., TN Pioneers Vol. VIII, No. 1 [137], page 2.
  20. Web Page: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cepatton&id=I303 [554].
    William Ashby enlisted as a private in Co. A, 23rd (Newman's) Battalion, Tennessee Infantry. After about three months in service he contracted a fever and died on June 17, 1862, in a hospital at Okokona, Mississippi (Chickasaw County). His obituary.
  21. Researcher: Noveda A. Metzger [nam@consolidated.net] [246] (Denton TX library may have book by her), [Apr 12, 2002] for middle initial.
  22. 1850 US Federal Census Lincoln Co., TN transcription [33], gives year as 1827.
  23. Researcher: Noveda A. Metzger [nam@consolidated.net] [246] (Denton TX library may have book by her), [Apr 12, 2002] for date.
  24. From annotation to 1850 Lincoln Co., TN Census [65], page 46. Died age about 35.
  25. Ibid., page 46. Died age abt 35.
  26. Researcher: Noveda A. Metzger [nam@consolidated.net] [246] (Denton TX library may have book by her), [Apr 12, 2002] for place of death.
  27. 1850 US Federal Census Lincoln Co., TN transcription [33].
  28. Heritage of Lincoln County Tennessee Book, 2005 [93], article 605 first name.
  29. 1850 US Federal Census Lincoln Co., TN transcription [33].
  30. Heritage of Lincoln County Tennessee Book, 2005 [93], article 605.
  31. 1850 US Federal Census Lincoln Co., TN transcription [33].
  32. Heritage of Lincoln County Tennessee Book, 2005 [93], page 191.
  33. Researcher: Noveda A. Metzger [nam@consolidated.net] [246] (Denton TX library may have book by her), [Apr 25, 2002] for middle initial.
  34. 1850 US Federal Census Lincoln Co., TN transcription [33].

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