Belmont County, Ohio

History and Genealogy


Belmont County Obituaries


James Madison Ashton


Ashton Services To Be Conducted Monday Afternoon

Funeral services for the late James Ashton, 76, retired farmer who passed away in the Martins Ferry Hospital at 7 o'clock Friday evening, following an illness of four weeks and an operation, will be conducted in the family home on the Colerain pike Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. A. D. Mink, pastor of the First Methodist church, and Rev. C. T. Hewitt, pastor of the First Baptist church, will officiate. Interment will be in Weeks cemetery.

The deceased has been a resident of this county practically all of his life. Recently infirmities incident to advanced age caused his retirement from active farming. He had been an active member of the First Methodist church until recently.

He leaves one sister, Miss Mary E. Ashton, of Brookside; a daughter-in- law, Mary B. Ashton, of the Colerain pike, and the following grandchildren: Marion, Robert and Lester Ashton, Mrs Robert Hodge, of this city, and Mrs. Robert Balzer of Wheeling.

The body was taken to the Noble company funeral home and today was removed to the family residence west of town.


From the Bellaire Daily Leader, 26 Jan 1926



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