Marvin Owen Ashton

Brief Life History of Marvin Owen

When Marvin Owen Ashton was born on 8 April 1883, his father, Edward Treharne Ashton, was 27 and his mother, Effie Walker Morris, was 24. He married Rachel Grace Jeremy on 3 January 1906, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Vermont, United States in 1895 and lived in Salt Lake City Ward 6, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940 and Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1946. He died on 7 October 1946, at the age of 63, and was buried in Larkin Sunset Lawn Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Marvin Owen Ashton
1883–1946
Rachel Grace Jeremy
1882–1963
Marriage: 3 January 1906
John Jeremy Ashton
1906–1906
Afton Grace Ashton
1910–1994
Wendell Jeremy Ashton
1912–1995
Marvin Jeremy Ashton
1915–1994
Eleanor Jeremy Ashton
1918–2016
Phyllis Ashton
1921–1978
Edward Jeremy Ashton
1924–1941

Sources (51)

  • Marvin O Ashton in household of Edward J. Ashton, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Marvin O. Ashton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
  • Marvin Owen Ashton, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

World Events (8)

1884

Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

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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