When Esther Ann Busby was born on 15 May 1842, in Pleasant Gardens, Washington Township, Putnam, Indiana, United States, her father, Joseph E. Busby, was 31 and her mother, Ann Cady Eldredge, was 29. She married Richard Hammond Ashby on 20 December 1862, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Leeds, Washington, Utah, United States in 1880 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 17 December 1914, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
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English: habitational name from Busby in North Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Buschebi, from Old Norse buskr ‘bush, shrub’ or an Old Norse personal name Buski + bȳ ‘homestead, village’. Alternatively, a habitational name from Bushby in Leicestershire.
Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Busby in Carmunnock (Renfrewshire).
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