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 1835 - 1923 (88 years)
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| Name |
Nancy Ann Marsh |
| Born |
1835 |
Union County, North Carolina  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
7 Mar 1923 |
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina |
- Obituary:
Death of Mrs. Nancy Ashcraft
Mrs. Nancy Ashcraft died Wednesday afternoon at the home of her son, Mr. Hugh G. Ashcraft, four miles south of Charlotte.
Funeral services were conducted Thursday morning at the home of Mr. Ashcraft by the pastor of the deceased, Rev. W. A. Smith, of Pritchard Memorial Baptist church, and interment was in the Ashcraft cemetery seven miles south of Marshville. A number of friends of the family from Charlotte accompanied the funeral party. Many relatives and friends were present at the interment, where Rev. Mr. Smith concluded the burial service.
Mrs. Ashcraft was 88 years of age, a daughter of the late Thomas L. and Zylphia Watts Marsh, and was born and reared at the Marsh old homestead in Lanes Creek township. Just before the Civil War she was married to Capt. T. E. Ashcraft and for many years they lived on the farm in Lanes Creek township, seven miles south of Marshville, where Mr. J. C. Huggins now lives. About the year 1890 her son, Charlie Ashcraft, then a young man and a school teacher, contracted typhoid fever and died. Two other younger sons, John and Ernest Ashcraft, were also stricken and died the same summer. Capt. Ashcraft died several years later in a hospital.
About twenty years ago Mrs. Ashcraft moved with her only son, Mr. Hugh Ashcraft, to Mecklenburg county, where she resided. Surviving are one brother, Mr. G. A. Marsh, of Charlotte, and sister, Mrs. T. E. Williams, of the Rock Rest community. Also Mrs. Ashcraft is a sister of the late Capt. A. T. Marsh, of Alexander county, Mrs. Sallie L. Ashcraft, of the Rock Rest community and Mrs. Mary Harrell, of Marshville.
The Monroe Journal
Monroe, NC
Friday, March 9, 1923
Page 1
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| Buried |
Ashcraft Cemetery, Marshville, Union County, North Carolina |
| Person ID |
I5935 |
Root Tree |
| Last Modified |
2 Dec 2017 |
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