Ann ASHBY

Died/Age:

14/12/1923, 73 Years.

Maiden Name:

QUICKFALL

Grave Section:

Unconsecrated

Grave No.:

19511

Inscription:

In Loving Memory of / PLESENT QUICKFAll / Born April 6th 1824, / Died Dec 25th 1906, / Also our Dear Sister / ANN ASHBY / Daughter of the Above / Who Died Dec. 14th 1923 / Aged 73 Years. / Interred in U.S.A.

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GPS Accuracy (Feet): 3

Description

Notes:

The headstone mentions two people buried in this grave but there are four, Although Ann Ashby is named, she is ‘remembered’ but not buried here, since she emigrated to Chicago and died there.   

Pleasant Quickfall (mother of Susannah Myers) This name was passed down the generations, so quite easy to find.  Died 1906, 82 years, a widow of 22 Grant Avenue, Leeds.

Susannah Myers (nee Quickfall – daughter of James and Pleasant Quickfall) married Enock Myers, Leeds, 1877 they lived at 28 Grant Mount, Leeds, from at least 1891 to 1935 she died 24 July 1933, age 80 yrs

Enock Myers, husband of Susannah Quickfall, he was a Clicker, boot-making.  They had 10 children.

Pleasant Atkinson (nee Quickfall) (daughter of Pleasant Quickfall, sister of Susannah Myers), born 1856, died 1939, widow, 83 years, of 13 Gledhow Place, Leeds.

Ann Quickfall was born in 1850, (daughter of James and Pleasant Quickfell (nee Robinson)).  Ann married Elijah Ashby in Preston, Lancs, in 1874, her husband was a Stationary (sic) Engineer.  They had three children, William Harold, Laura and James Alfred.  They sailed to New York and lived in West Hurow Street, Chicago, Illinois. She died on 14th December 1923, age 73, and was interred at Forest Home Cemetery, Cook County, Illinois.

Researchers Notes

Notes:

Persons in the Grave

• Pleasant QUICKFALL, buried 1906 aged 82 years
• Susannah MYERS, buried 1933 aged 80 years
• Enock MYERS, buried 1935 aged 89 years
• Pleasant ATKINSON, buried 1939 aged 83 years