Brief Life History of Clarence Davis
When Clarence Davis Ashton was born on 21 July 1904, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, John Thomas Ashton, was 24 and his mother, Elnora Davis, was 19. He married Anna Margaret Spotten on 14 August 1930, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1904. He died on 30 November 2000, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Clarence D Ashton, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ashton, "Utah, Births and Christenings, 1892-1941"
- Clarence Davis Ashton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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World Events (8)
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
1909 · Pioneer Park Opens
A monument honoring the Provo pioneers and Indian war veterans was dedicated on July 24, 1909, as Pioneer Park opened to the public.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
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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History given out at an Ashton Family Reunion (History written while Anna was still living)
Anna Margaret Spotten, daughter of Bertrum Spotten and Ida Otteson Spotten was born July 2, 1909 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her father came from Ireland with his mother to Sanford Colorado when he was j …
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