Like most people, many of my ancestors had great tragedies in their lives. For some reason, my 2d great-grandmother, Emma Shave Ashmore, is the one whose life most moves me, and makes me want to memorialize her. Here’s what I know, and suppose, about Emma’s life. She was born around 1835 to William Richard Shave […]
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On September 22, 1843, Daniel Ashmore was the eighth person admitted to the new Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, commonly known as the state insane asylum. Daniel was my 3d great-uncle, the son of John Ashmore (1767-1849), who had already lost three of four children in an 1804 hurricane that wrecked the Georgia coast. The
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My father’s name was George Hudson Ashmore, Jr. His father’s name was…wait for it…George Hudson Ashmore, Sr. Where did the Ashmores come from? For most of my life, I thought we were from Brunswick, Georgia, because I knew my grandparents were from there, and my parents grew up there. Here are my great-grandparents Arthur and
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In 1804, two of my ancestors, John and Sarah (Farrar) Ashmore, were farming on a small island called Moss Island in the South Newport River, just inland from the Georgia coast, near what is now the Harris Neck Wildlife Refuge. They had four children: Joseph (13), John (10), Sarah (3), and Elizabeth, an infant. Two
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