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Source: February 28, 1930, Palladium Item
Veteran of Revolutionary War and One of County's Early Citizens, Lies Buried at Middleboro --- No Action Ever Taken to Keep Resting Place Marked
Veteran of Revolutionary War and One of County's Early Citizens, Lies Buried at Middleboro --- No Action Ever Taken to Keep Resting Place Marked
By E. M. HAAS
In publishing this story the writer has two objects in view. First, in recording some of the interesting facts about this early pioneer of Wayne county; and second, to call attention of citizens to a neglected duty we owe to the memory of this illustrious citizen, the compatriot of George Washington, and General George Rogers Clark in the conquest of Indiana.
He has lain buried in the soil of Wayne county for a century, with the grave all but forgotten and without a marker except a clump of briars. His record as a Revolutionary soldier is authentic, and honor should still be paid him.
There came to this county within the last year or so inquiries from several persons who claim relationship to Bladen Ashby, who settled in Wayne county in 1812. Investigation ....
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Bladen Ashby was born in 1759 at Bladensburg, Maryland. He died in 1828 and is buried on the farm now owned by Mrs. Pearl Beck Clark, near Middleboro. A government marker was placed by the Richmond Chapter of the D. A. R. He was married to Catherine Van Meter. Children were Milton who was married to Poly White; Abraham who was married in 1824 to Mariah Jones; Eleanor who was married in 1813 to Joseph Pemberton; Lavena who was married in 1828 to William Auston; Lettice who was married in 1827 to Andrew Penland; Elizabeth who was married in 1805 to Amos Smith; David; Gideon; Elijah; Hankerson and Thomas.
Source: Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution Buried in Indiana, 1938, page 44-45.
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