Ina Jane Ashton

Brief Life History of Ina Jane

When Ina Jane Ashton was born on 14 September 1886, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Edward Treharne Ashton, was 31 and her mother, Cora May Lindsay, was 21. She married LeGrand Richards on 19 May 1909, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States in 1935 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 31 December 1977, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

LeGrand Richards
1886–1983
Ina Jane Ashton
1886–1977
Marriage: 19 May 1909
Ina Mercedes Richards
1910–2006
Effie Norinne Richards
1911–2009
Marian Louise Richards
1912–1997
Jane Richards
1914–1917
LeGrand Ashton Richards
1916–1932
George LaMont Richards
1918–2012
Nona Richards
1921–1994
Alden Ross Richards
1922–2008
Infant Richards
1925–1925

Sources (41)

  • Ina A Richards, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Miss Ina J. Ashton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
  • Ina Richards, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called, especially Ashton-under-Lyne near Manchester. Most are named from Old English æsc ‘ash tree’ + tūn ‘settlement’; the one in Northamptonshire is (æt thǣm) æscum ‘(at the) ash trees’. Others have been assimilated to this from different sources. The one in Devon is ‘the settlement (tūn) of Æschere’, while the one in Hertfordshire is ‘the settlement of Ælli’.

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

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