Jane Leone Ashton

25 March 1897–30 March 1966 (Age 69)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

The Life Summary of Jane Leone

When Jane Leone Ashton was born on 25 March 1897, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Edward Treharne Ashton, was 41 and her mother, Effie Walker Morris, was 38. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1897 and Salt Lake City Ward 2, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 30 March 1966, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edward Treharne Ashton
1855–1923
Effie Walker Morris
1859–1929
Edward Morris Ashton
1879–1963
Elias Conway Ashton
1880–1919
Marvin Owen Ashton
1883–1946
Raymond Joy Ashton
1887–1973
Effie Morris Ashton
1889–1949
Lowell Savage Ashton
1891–1891
Jane Leone Ashton
1897–1966

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World Events (8)

1898 · War with the Spanish
Age 1
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1899 · The Salt Palace Convention Center
Age 2
The original Salt Palace was built in 1899 and It stood on 900 South, between State Street and Main Street. The Salt Palace was a frame structure covered in large pieces of rock salt, which gave it its name. The Salt Palace was destroyed by fire on August 29, 1910 and was replaced by the Majestic Hall. This Hall only lasted for a while during the remodel of the Salt Palace. The Salt Palace served as the Olympic Media Center during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Salt Lake Comic Con has been held at the Salt Palace Convention Center since September 2013.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Age 19
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

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.

Possible Related Names

Aspden

Sources (20)

  • Ashton, "Utah, Salt Lake County Birth Records, 1890-1915"
  • Jane Leon Ashton in household of Roseabelle Ashton, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
  • Jane Leone Ashton in household of Rosabel Hall Ashton, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"

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