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Ashby ancestry : something of the origin of the name and family : family pedigree : story of Nathaniel and Susan Hammond Ashby : autobiography of Benjamin Ashby

Nathaniel Ashby was born in 1805 at Salem, Massachusetts, the son of Benjamin Ashby (1776-1841) and a descendant of Anthony Ashby (b. ca. 1630). He married Susan Hammond (1808-1851), daughter of Edward and Rebecca Flack Hammond. They had twelve children, ca. 1824-1845. The family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints in 1841 and migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1843. He died on the plains near Bonaparte, Iowa, in 1846, after the Mormons were driven from Nauvoo. The family continued to Utah, arriving in 1848. His widow married 2) Joseph B. Noble and had one daughter, born in 1849. Record includes a list of some descendants of Nathaniel and Susan Ashby and sections from an autobiography written by their son, Benjamin Ashby (1828-1907).

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