Family of Hulda Ellen Mason Ashley
Hulda Ellen Mason
b. 1855, Indiana (1880 census)
m. September 3, 1871, Warrick County, Indiana (Book 4, Pg 410)
See marriage record here.
d. April 1888
Moved to Texas 1876-1877.
Neither she nor William in Soundex for 1900, 1910 or 1920)
See Probate Records here.
William
F. Ashley
b. 1851, Indiana (1880 census)
m. (2) January 16, 1889, to Mrs. Mary B. Adkins, Bastrop
County, (Vol. E, Pg 250)
d. January 28, 1899, Smithville, Bastrop County, Texas,
killed by collision with an MKT passenger train.
See notice of death here.
Possible match, 1850 census, Warrick County, IN, Boon in household #53:
Barton Ashley, 24, foreman, IN
Loretta (Day), 22, IN (marriage date October 14, 1847)
John, age 2
William, age 2/12
1860 census, Warrick County, Boon, includes William F. Ashley, age 10.
The Deed Records of Bastrop County seem to indicate that William Ashley may have
died before January 1900 when second wife M. B. Ashley sells two properties as
“a feme sole”.
CHILDREN
of Hulda Ellen Mason and William F. Ashley:
1.
John T. Ashley
b. 1872, Indiana
(not named in grandfather’s estate distribution 1894 or in guardianship papers)
2.
Thomas Ashley
b. January 9, 1875, Indiana
m. 1895 to Sarah ? (b. June 13, 1875, TX; d. October 15, 1926, buried Milano
Cemetery)
d. March 5, 1962, buried Milano Cemetery, Milam County, Texas
Sec. 3, Row 17, graves #10 & 11
1900 Milam Co., TX, E.D. 70, pg. 133, house 81, sheet 5
1910 Milam Co., TX, E.D. 59, sheet 78
1920 Milam Co., TX, E.D. 121, Sheet 13
3.
William F. Ashley
b. 1876, Indiana
d. (probable match) May 27, 1904, Milano, Milam County, Texas (age 26 years, of
malarial
fever, buried Milano Cemetery)
Possible match on 1900 census, Hill County, TX
, William T. Ashley, age 24
4.
Charles Ashley
b. 1877, Texas
(not named in grandfather’s estate distribution 1894 or in guardianship papers)
5.
Mary Ashley
b. April 1880, Texas
m. 1901 to James Howard Barnhouse
6.
Burrell/Burl N. Ashley
(named in grandfather’s estate distribution 1894)
b. 1882
m. May 12, 1901, Bastrop County, Texas, to Mary Elizabeth
"Lizzie" Smith, Vol.
H, Pg.70
d. 1947, both buried Milano Cemetery, Sec. III, Row 25, grave #7&8
7
Jasper Ashley
(named in grandfather’s estate distribution 1894)
Possible match on 1910 census, Runnels County, E.D. 211, Sheet 22, Jasper
Ashley, age 27
Probable match through 1920 census, Williamson County, Texas “Jasper J.
Ashley”
b. about 1884
m. Sallie b. about 1888
8.
Robert Ashley
b. April 1884, Texas
NOTE:
None of the last 5 children show up in Bastrop County birth index.
