When Sarah Ellen Ashton was born on 8 July 1846, in Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Ashton, was 24 and her mother, Sarah Ann Barlow, was 23. She married Thomas Wesley Beckstead on 30 January 1864, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She immigrated to Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States in 1856 and lived in South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880 and Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1910. In 1870, at the age of 24, her occupation is listed as 1870 us census, keep house in West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She died on 18 January 1912, in Whitney, Franklin, Idaho, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Whitney Cemetery, Franklin, Idaho, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Davis, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Davis, Utah, United States
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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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