Susan Bonna Ashby

Brief Life History of Susan Bonna

When Susan Bonna Ashby was born on 7 September 1917, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, her father, Robert L. Ashby, was 36 and her mother, Hannah Cropper, was 37. She married Sherman Simons Brinton on 24 September 1943, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1920 and American Fork Election Precinct, Utah, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 25 February 1999, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Sherman Simons Brinton
1917–2003
Susan Bonna Ashby
1917–1999
Marriage: 24 September 1943
James Ashby Brinton
1947–2022

Sources (140)

  • Bonna A Brinton, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Susan Bona Ashby Brinton, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"
  • Ashby, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"

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World Events (8)

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

1918 · Chapman Branch Library

The Chapman Branch Library is a Carnegie library that was built in 1918 and is now is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern and eastern England called Ashby, from Old Norse askr ‘ash’ (or in one instance possibly from the Old Norse personal name Aski) + ‘farm’.

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

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