Margaret Jane Ashley

Brief Life History of Margaret Jane

When Margaret Jane Ashley was born in 1851, in Virginia, United States, her father, William Wiley Ashley, was 47 and her mother, Elizabeth Walker, was 39. She married Robert Owen Samples on 10 March 1870, in West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Geary District, Roane, West Virginia, United States in 1880. She died in 1884, in Roane, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 33.

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Family Time Line

Robert Owen Samples
1850–1923
Margaret Jane Ashley
1851–1884
Marriage: 10 March 1870
Mary Estella Samples
1872–1901
Morris Samples
about 1877–
Squire Vincent Samples
1874–1957
Lewis Edward Samples
1875–1959
William Haney Samples
1882–1953

Sources (18)

  • Margaret Ashly in household of Elizabeth Ashly, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Jane Ashley - Government record: Census record: birth: about 1854; Virginia, United States
  • M J Ashley, "West Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1776-1971"

World Events (6)

1861 · The Battle of Manassas

The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run. 

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of numerous places (especially in southern and central England) named Ashley, from Old English æsc ‘ash’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

Americanized form of French Canadian Asselin 2.

In some cases also an Americanized form of German Eschler .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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