When Elizabeth M. Ashworth was born on 7 September 1785, in Randolph, North Carolina, United States, her father, John Ashworth Sr., was 50 and her mother, Nancy Ann Wood, was 39. She married William M. Merrill about 1803, in Randolph, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Hendersonville, Henderson, North Carolina, United States in 1850. She died in May 1853, in Little River, Transylvania, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Orr Cemetery, Little River, Transylvania, North Carolina, United States.
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English (mainly Lancashire): habitational name from Ashworth in Lancashire, from Old English æsc ‘ash tree’ + worth ‘enclosure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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