Carroll-Clinton County IN Archives Biographies.....Ashba, Hezekiah 1838 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

HEZEKIAH ASHBA.

   Hezekiah Ashba, a pioneer citizen and farmer of Democrat township. Carroll
county, Indiana, who received his education in the old-fashioned log school,
contaming the old-fashioned fireplace with the mud chimney, where the seats
consisted of wooden slabs laid on pins driven in the wall, remembers distinctly
of the times when deer were plentiful in the Carroll county woods, when there
were no roads anywhere and only the faintest trail through the wilderness. In
fact, it was in this environment that he grew to manhood more than
three-quarters of a century ago. He now owns one hundred and twenty acres of
land three-quarters of a mile southwest of Cutler.

   Mr. Ashba was born in Ross township, Clinton county, Indiana, on the Carroll
county line, June 8, 1838. He is the son of William and Martha (Bowen) Ashba.
the lormer of whom was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, and who immigrated to
Ohio with his parents and there grew to manhood. He later accompanied his
parents to Indiana and settled with them in Clinton county, still later going
with them to Carroll county. The father of William Ashba was Benjamin Ashba, who
also immigrated with the family from. Virginia to Ohio and later to Indiana.
Martha Bowen was a native of Ohio, who accompanied her parents to Indiana when a
small girl. They settled near Rossville in Clinton county and it was near
Rossville that William Ashba and Martha Bowen were married. Being renters, this
young couple moved from place to place, but later in life, purchased land in
Carroll county and died on the farm they owned. William and Martha (Bowen) Ashba
were the parents of eight children, three of whom died in infancy, Hezekiah, the
subject of this sketch; Margaret, the wife of Jonas Clark, of Kansas;; Benjamin,
who died during his service in the Union army; Shedrick, who lives in Kansas;
Ephraim, who resides near Marion in Grant county, Indiana.

   Having lived at home with his parents until twenty-six years old, Hezekiah
Ashba was married in 1864 to Nancy Jane Black, the daughter of Samuel Black, one
of the early residents of Carroll county. After Mr. and Mrs. Ashba were married,
they lived with her parents for about one year and then moved to the farm which
the husband had bought previously in 1860, a tract of sixty acres covered with
timber. During the early years of their married life, they lived in a log house
but Mr. Ashba now occupies a commodious brick house. He has lived on this farm
since his marriage and is now one of the oldest residents of Democrat township.

   Mr. and Mrs. Ashba were the parents of four children, one of whom died in
infancy, Mary, the wife of John Lowery, of Democrat township; Ella, the wife of
Albert Akens, who lives one mile west of her father, and Joseph, who operates
the home farm of eighty acres.

   At one time, Mr. Ashba was a member of the Grange. He is a member of the
Presbyterian church at Cutler and a Prohibitionist and Democrat in politics. Mr.
Ashba cast his first vote for James Buchanan for President.

   Not only does Mr. Ashba own a good farm of one hundred and twenty acres, but
the farm is well improved and he has on it substantial buildings, including a
good barn and house and attractive outbuildings. He is one of the best known and
also one of the most highly-respected citizens of Democrat township.


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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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