America Lane1,2

F, #3679, b. 24 April 1831, d. 1 July 1920

Relationship=2nd great-grandmother of Robert Lynn Adams.
Relationship=Great-grandmother of Ida Ione Ashby.
Last Edited=11 Dec 2006
America Lane Ashby
     America Lane was born on 24 April 1831 at Bartholomew Co., Indiana.3,4

America Lane married Richard Washington Ashby on 9 July 1848 at Columbus, Bartholomew Co., Indiana, when she was 17.5,6

America Lane lived at Terre Haute, Vigo Co., Indiana, between 1850 and 1862 Living there when first child, Lucinda Ashby, was born in 1850.4

America Ashby was enumerated with Richard Washington Ashby as America Ashby. on the Census of 9 October 1850. She is shown as age 19 and born in Ind..7

America Ashby was enumerated with Richard Washington Ashby as America Ashby on the Census of 16 July 1860. She was listed as age 28 and born in Indiana.8

America Lane lived at Bloomfield, Davis Co., Iowa, in 1862.4

America Ashby was enumerated with Richard Washington Ashby on the Census of 1 June 1870. She was shown as age 39 and born in IN.9

America Ashby and Richard Washington Ashby appeared on the 1880 Federal Census of Davis Co., Iowa, at Wyacondah Township, enumerated 7 June 1880. Their children Elizabeth A., Abraham, Amanda, Dennis, Richard L., Emma, Mary and Martha Elmira were listed as living with them. America Ashby is listed as age 49 and keeping house. She was born in IN. Her father was born in NY; her mother in KY.10

America Ashby was enumerated with Richard Washington Ashby as America Ashby on the Census of 9 June 1900. She is listed as wife; she is a white female, age 69 and born in April 1831. She was born in Indiana. Both her parents were born in New York..11

America Ashby was named as Richard Washington Ashby's widow in probate of the estate of Richard Washington Ashby on 2 April 1904 at Fredonia, Wilson Co., Kansas; His will was made at Fredonia, KS 1 Apr. 1903. The will was witnessesd by William York, age 37 and E. L. Johnson, age 44.12

America Ashby was enumerated with Dennis Ashby as America Ashby, mother on the Census of 4 May 1910 at Fredonia, Wilson Co., Kansas. She is shown as a white female, age 70 and born in Indiana. She is widowed. She is the mother of 13 children, 7 are still living. She can read and write..13

America Ashby was enumerated with Daniel Francis Fortner as America Ashby, mother-in-law, on the Census of 27 January 1920 at Duck Creek Township, Wilson Co., Kansas. She is 88 years old and a widow. She was born in Indiana as were her mother and father.14

America Ashby died on 1 July 1920 at probably Wilson Co., Kansas, at age 89.15 She was buried at Fredonia Cemetery, Fredonia, Wilson Co., Kansas.16

Children of America Lane and Richard Washington Ashby

Citations

  1. [S37] 1880 US Census Population Schedule, Davis Co., IA, Vol. 2; ED 52; Steet 10; line 46.
  2. [S176] Marriage Certificate of Richard and America Ashby: Book 4; page 190.
  3. [S191] Letter, Hazel Leota Dannels York to Ruty Doty, Lists State of birth.
  4. [S318] Diane Anderson, 15 Nov 2002.
  5. [S37] 1880 US Census Population Schedule, Davis Co., IA, Vol. 9; ED 52; Sheet 10; Line 46.
  6. [S176] Marriage Certificate of Richard and America Ashby: Book 4; page 190. Married by a Justice of the Peace. Recorded 29 Jul 1848.
  7. [S216] Ancestry, Online electronic image of 1850 US Census, District 14, Page 686, Beginning Line 15, Dwelling 704, Family No. 704.
  8. [S39] 1860 US Census Population Schedule, Davis Co., IA, Dwelling No. 924, Family No. 858 Troy Post Office.
  9. [S40] 1870 US Census Population Schedule, Davis Co., IA, Page 188.
  10. [S37] 1880 US Census Population Schedule, Davis Co., IA, Pages 10 and 11; entry 99.
  11. [S225] 1900 US Census Population Schedule, Wilson Co., Kansas, Supervisor's District No. 3; Enumeration District No. 162; Sheet 9 (stamped 27A);; East Mound St.; Dwelling No. 197; Family No. 202..
  12. [S182] The Heritage Genealogical Society, Wilson Co. Estate Records, pages 4 and 5.
  13. [S241] 1910 US Census Population Schedule, Wilson Co., Kansas, Fredonia City, Enumeration District 212(?), Supervisor's District 3, Sheet 30A, Family No. 717.
  14. [S272] 1920 US Census Population Schedule, Wilson Co., Kansas, Supervisor's District 3, Enumeration District 228, Sheet No. 5A, beginning on line 31.
  15. [S236] Gene P. Ewert, "Ashby burial plots," e-mail to Robert L. Adams, 1 Jul 2002.
  16. [S227] Dee, "Richard Ashby email," e-mail to Salley Bertine, December 10, 2000, "They are buried in Fredonia Cemetery in Fredonia, Wilson County, Kansas. Richard was first buried in Koger Cemetery, which is a little further south, down by where they lived in Duck Creek." "... but he is also listed as being buried by America in Fredonia." "If it is indeed Richard Washington who is buried with America there, and not Richard L. her son, then that means, they either move him afterward, or the records are wrong.".
  17. [S2] Interview, Ida Ione Ashby Adams, 1996.
  18. [S39] 1860 US Census Population Schedule, Davis Co., IA.
  19. [S37] 1880 US Census Population Schedule, Davis Co., IA.
  20. [S40] 1870 US Census Population Schedule, Davis Co., IA, Age 3.