Birth: Sep. 30, 1870 Jasper County, Missouri, USA
Death: Jan. 21, 1953 Aurora, Lawrence County, Missouri, USA
s/o Frank Ashens & not listed; H/O Tina Belle (Harvill) Askins(married Dec 7, 1892) Additional children of Tina Bell & Ransom: Della Kuderman Nichols 1893-1978; Ray Franklin 1895-1959; Ransom Joseph 1897-1959; Ernest Henry 1901-1953; Robert James 1907-1951; Burt Alva 1910-1987; Oscar Thomas 1915-1999; Frank Gerald 1920-2006.------------- Info from Hazel Ashens Frances Ashens (1844- 1919)
Margaret Chrisman Ashens (1850 - 1888) Spouse: Tina Bell Harvill Ashens (1874 - 1934)
Children: Della M Ashens Nichols (1893 - 1978) Ray Franklin Ashens (1895 - 1959) Ransom J Ashens (1897 - 1959) Ethel R. Ashens Wilks (1900 - 1949) Ernest H Ashens (1901 - 1953) Daisy Ashens Kaufman (1904 - 1994) Robert J Ashens (1907 - 1951) Burt Alva Ashens (1910 - 1987) Marguerite Ashens (1912 - 1914) Oscar T Ashens (1915 - 1999) Frank Gerald Ashens (1920 - 2006) Burial: Maple Park Cemetery, Aurora, Lawrence County, Missouri, USA Plot: Block 27 lot 15
Maintained by: Hazel Ashens Originally Created by: Connie Stockton Schmidt Record added: Apr 13, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 35818054
Birth: Oct. 2, 1844 Salem, Washington County, Indiana, USA
Death: May 11, 1919 Galena, Cherokee County, Kansas, USA
Francis Ashens was born near Salem, Washington Co. Indiana.He was a Civil War veteran. Married 1st Margaret Creasman in Carthage, Mo. d. 11 May 1919. Was buried in Galena, Ks. Cemetery by Hurlburt Mortuary of Joplin, Mo. He had 7 children, Jennie, Robert, Ransom, Wm., Bert, Francis Jr. and Earl. s/o Henry Ashens/Ashing and Eliza Seals Ashens The following article was taken from The History of Jasper County, Missouri, Published in 1883. "At the age of fourteen Francis immigrated with his parents, Henry and Eliza (Seals) Ashens, to Southwest Missouri, settling on Haskins Prairie, Jasper County, where he led an uneventful life up to the Civil War, when the family was obliged to leave the county for safety on account of their Union sentiments. They went to Kansas, where our subject enlisted in Company M of the Fifteenth regiment, Kansas Cavalry Volunteers, U. S. Army, serving in Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, and New Mexico. He was at the battles of Lexington, Little Blue, Independence, Big Blue, Round Mound, Mine Creek, and Newtonia. They were ordered into the Western Department to suppress the hostile Comanches, Kickapoo, and Ute Indians, where they had several brushes with the red men: in one important fight over 300 Indians were killed. They were ordered back to the states and mustered out in October, 1865. After a three months' stay in Kansas he returned to Jasper County, since which time he has been a permanent resident, He was married here March 30, 1867, to Miss Margaret Chrisman, a native of Jasper County, only daughter of Robert and Melvina (Sanders) Chrisman. old residents of the county. From this union there are five children:Robert, Ransom, Albert, William and Jennie Ashens Carr. His farm is well situated, four and one-half miles northeast of Carthage, skirted on the south by Spring River timber. Mineral is supposed to exist in paying quantities." Family links: Parents: Eliza Seals Ogden (1821 - 1893) Spouses: Margaret Chrisman Ashens (1850 - 1888) Ivy A Keys Ashens (1867 - 1912) Mary Ellen Whitehouse Elliott (1861 - 1935) Children: Jennie Ashens Carr (1866 - 1940) Ransom H Ashens (1870 - 1953) William Ashen (1876 - 1932) Albert Ashens (1878 - 1969) Earl Ashens (1893 - 1913)
Burial: Galena Cemetery, Galena, Cherokee County, Kansas, USA
Created by: Hazel Ashens Record added: Mar 22, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 67299028
Birth: 1850 Tennessee, USA
Death: Sep. 19, 1888 Jasper County, Missouri, USA
Margaret Chrisman married Francis Ashens, Sr. on March 31, 1867 in Jasper County, MO. Family links: Parents: Robert Chrisman (1829 - 1899) Melvina Sanders Chrisman (1820 - 1892) Spouse: Francis Ashens (1844 - 1919) Children: Jennie Ashens Carr (1866 - 1940) Ransom H Ashens (1870 - 1953) William Ashen (1876 - 1932) Albert Ashens (1878 - 1969) Burial: Gray Cemetery, Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri, USA
Created by: ENS Record added: Sep 23, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 76978299