Ashton Wray Sinclair

Brief Life History of Ashton Wray

When Ashton Wray Sinclair was born on 6 May 1916, in Naxera, Gloucester, Virginia, United States, his father, Ashton Wray Sinclair, was 58 and his mother, Mary Courtenay Selden, was 39. He married Mabel Annette Culbertson on 2 September 1944, in Nash, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in United States in 1949 and Abingdon, Washington, Virginia, United States in 1950. He died on 20 April 2005, in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ashton Wray Sinclair
1916–2005
Mabel Annette Culbertson
1920–2010
Marriage: 2 September 1944
Randy Wray Sinclair
1945–2013

Sources (19)

  • Ashton W Sinclair, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Ashton Wray Sinclair, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
  • Ashton Wray Sinclair, "Virginia, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"

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World Events (8)

1917

U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.

1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility

Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War  the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

Scottish and English: of Norman origin, a habitational name from Saint-Clair-sur-Elle (Manche), so called from the dedication of its church to Saint Clarus (see Clare 3).

Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.

History: The Scottish family Sinclair (see 1 above) came to southern Scotland in the twelfth century from Huntingdonshire with the de Morvilles. Descendants of these Sinclairs became earls of Caithness in the 15th century. The frequency of the surname in Caithness and Orkney is largely due to the adoption by tenants of the name of their overlord.

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

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Our Version of the Sinclair Reunion, August 20, 1978 at Bay Cottage, Gloucester Co. Virginia by Lila Sinclair

Our Version of the Sinclair Reunion August 20, 1978 at Bay Cottage, Gloucester County, Virginia by Lola Sinclair Everything must have a beginning and an end. I suppose the real beginning of th …

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