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Arthur Stone Ashley was born 7 October 1872 in Auburn, Worcester County, Massachusetts to Silas Ashley and Delia M. Wayland/Whalen.1 The family soon moved to New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, and, in 1880, Arthur, his parents, and his brother, Edward, were living at 602 Purchase Street.2 Arthur attended Parker Street Grammar School, then New Bedford High School, graduating in 1890.3
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On 20 September 1894, Arthur married Nettie J. Fisher in New Bedford.4
The couple had four known children, May, Edward, Milton, and Vivian.5
1916 was a busy year for the Ashley family. Arthur purchased the clothing store where he was a manager, The MacLeod Credit Company, at 866 Purchase Street, and Arthur and Nettie’s daughter, May, married Richard Knowles on the 27th of September.6
Arthur’s mother, Delia M. Wayland/Whalen Ashley, died in 1920, and his father, Silas Edmund Ashley, died in 1927. Both are buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in New Bedford.7
United States Passport Application, no. 211469, Vivian N, Ashley, 10 Aug 1922, passport photo.
Arthur and Nettie remained in New Bedford for the remainder of their lives.8
Their sons, Edward Stone Ashley, died in 1947 at the age of 51, and Milton Earl Ashley, died in 1965 at the age of 67.9
Their daughter, Vivian Norma Ashley Olean died in 1984 at the age of 82.10 It is unknown when and where May Fisher Ashley Knowles died.11
Arthur Stone Ashley died at the age of 58 in 1930 in New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts.12 Nettie Josephine Fisher Ashley died at the age of 74 on 9 April 1948 in Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island.13 Arthur and Nettie are buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in New Bedford.14
Endnotes
1. Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Births Register, 1872 p. 364, no. 880, Arthur S. Ashley, 7 Oct 1872. Birthplace: Auburn. Parents: S. A. [Ashley], born in Massachusetts, and D. M. Whaley, born in NB. Father’s occupation: Carpenter.
Full name fo Arthur Stone Ashley listed in Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of New Bedford, with the Superintendent’s Annual Report, for the Year 1890, (New Bedford : Mercury Publishing Company, 1891, p. 23, New Bedford High School Graduating Class of 1890, Arthur Stone Ashley.
Also, full name listed on photo and draft registration. United States World War I Draft Registration Card, Arthur Stone Ashley, serial no. 1891, Local Draft Board no. 2, New Bedford, Massachusetts.
2. 1880 U.S. census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 1117, page 61, dwelling 390, family 513, Silas E. Ashley household.
Address: 602 Purchase Street
– Silas E. Ashley, age 39, born in Massachusetts
– Delia M. Ashley, wife, age 34, born in Massachusetts
– Edward Ashley, son, age 9, born in Massachusetts
– Arthur Ashley, son, age 7, born in Massachusetts
– Mary Stine, age 28, boarder
Also, “Edmund Ashley,” obituary, Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 6 July 1936, p. 15, col. 3.
Also, “Admission to the High School,” newspaper article, The Evening Standard (New Bedford, Massachusetts), 10 July 1886, p. 5, col. 3.
3. Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of New Bedford, with the Superintendent’s Annual Report, for the Year 1890, (New Bedford : Mercury Publishing Company, 1891), p. 21-23, New Bedford High School Graduating Exercise, 27 June 1890, Arthur Stone Ashley.
Also, “Admission to the High School,” newspaper article, The Evening Standard (New Bedford, Massachusetts), 10 July 1886, p. 5, col. 3.
Also, “New Bedford High School Class of 1890”; photograph held by the New Bedford Free Public Library photograph collection, New Bedford, Massachusetts; published online at Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collection Online.
4. New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, Marriages Register 1894, p. 91, no. 445, Arthur S. Ashley–Nettie J. Fisher, 20 Sept 1894.
Groom: Arthur S. Ashley, age 21, first marriage, clerk, born Auburn, Massachusetts. Parents: Silas E. [Ashley] and Delia M. Wayland.
Bride: Nettie J. Fisher, age 19, first marriage, born New Bedford. Parents: Richard [Fisher] and Aurilla M. Nickerson.
5. 1900 U.S. census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 183, page 12A, dwelling 213, family 278, Arthur Ashley household.
Address: 567 Cottage Street
– Arthur Ashley, age 27, born Oct 1872 in Massachusetts, bookkeeper
– Netty J., wife, age 26, born May 1874 in Massachusetts, 3 children born, 3 living
– May F. Ashley, daughter, age 5, born Nov 1894 in Massachusetts
– Edward S., son, age 4, born April 1896 in Massachusetts
– Milton E, son, age 2, born April 1898 in Massachusetts
Also, 1910 U.S. census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 188, ward 2, page 4B, dwelling 213, family 278, Arthur S. Ashley household.
Address: 290 Summer Street
– Arthur S. Ashley, age 37, married 17 years, born in Massachusetts, manager at clothing store
– Nettie J., wife, age 35, born in Massachusetts, 4 children born, 4 living
– May F., daughter, age 15, born in Massachusetts
– Edward S., son, age 14, born in Massachusetts
– Milton E, son, age 12, born in Massachusetts
– Vivian N., daughter, age 8, born in Massachusetts
6. Zephaniah W. Pease, editor, History of New Bedford, vol. 3 (New York : The Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1918), p. 363, Everett B. McLeod profile.
“He continued active in business until his death in 1916, the clothing business he had built up then passing by purchase to Arthur S. Ashley, an old employee, who yet continues it as the MacLeod Credit Company.”
Also, W. A Greenough, complier, 1917 New Bedford and Fairhaven Directory, (Boston, Massachusetts : W. A Greenough, 1917), p. 277, Arthur S. Ashley.
– Ashely, Arthur S (MacLeod Credit Co) 866 Purchase h 290 Summer
Also, “Knowles–Ashley,” marriage announcement, Fall River Daily Evening News (Fall River, Massachusetts), 28 Sept 1916, p. 7, col. 4.
7. Headstone reads: Ashley / Silas E. Ashley / 1841 – 1927 / His Wife / Delia M. / 1846 – 1920.
Find A Grave, memorial 152565898, Silas E. Ashley (1841–1927), Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts with headstone photo.
Also, Find A Grave, memorial 152565898, Delia M. Wayland Ashley (1846–1920), Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts with headstone photo.
Also, Boston, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Death Index, 1926-1930, New Bedford, Bristol County, Silas E. Ashley, 1927, vol. 52, p. 251.
Also, New Bedford, Bristol County, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Standard Certificate of Death, no. 318, Delia M. Ashley, 17 May 1920. Married. Spouse: Silas E. Ashley. Birth: 2 May 1846, Richibucto, New Brunswick, Canada. Age; 74 years, 0 months, 15 days. Father: James Wayland. Burial: 20 May 1920, Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford.
8. 1920 U.S. census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 130, ward 3, page 9A, dwelling 108, family 158, Arthur S. Ashley household.
Address: 290 Summer Street
– Arthur S. Ashley, age 46, married, born in Massachusetts, proprietor of clothing store
– Nettie J., wife, age 44, married, born in Massachusetts
– Edward S., son, age 23, single, born in Massachusetts, paymaster at copper company
– Milton E, son, age 21, single, born in Massachusetts
– Vivian N., daughter, age 17, single, born in Massachusetts
Also, 1930 U.S. census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 111, page 5A, dwelling 86, family 100, Nettie Ashley household.
Address: 469 Hillman Street. Census sheet dated 5 April 1930.
– Nettie Ashley, age 55, widowed, born in Massachusetts
Also, 1940 U.S. census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 20-59, sheet 7B, dwelling 172, Mary E. Tripp household, Nettie J Ashley, lodger.
Address: 68 Parker
– Nettie J. Ashley, lodger, age 65, widow, born in Massachusetts
9. For Edward, U.S. Veterans Bureau form 7202, claim number 1 014 765, Edward Stone Ashley index card; St. Louis, Missouri, National Archives and Records Administration, Veterans Affairs master index 1917-1940, NARA microfilm publication 76193916.
– Edward Stone Ashley, birth 2 Apr 1896, death 28 July 1947.
Also, Headstone reads: Edward S. Ashley / Massachusetts / PFC 42 Engrs / World War I / April 2 1896 July 27 1947. Find A Grave, memorial 112827013, Edward S. Ashley (1896–1947), South Dartmouth Cemetery, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts with headstone photo.
For Milton, U.S. Veterans Bureau form 7202, claim number 3038144, Milton Earl Ashley index card; St. Louis, Missouri, National Archives and Records Administration, Veterans Affairs master index 1917-1940, NARA microfilm publication 76193916.
Also, Headstone reads: Milton Earl Ashley / Massachusetts / PFC CO A 42 Engineers / World War I / April 12 1898 May 8 1965. Find A Grave, memorial 60058444, Milton Earl Ashley (1898–1965), Pine Grove Cemetery, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts with headstone photo.
10. Vivian, United States Passport Application, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C, Passport Applications, no. 211469, Vivian N, Ashley, 10 Aug 1922, wit photo.
Also, Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2012, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, Vivian A. Olean, 25 Sept 1984. Birth: 1 Feb 1902, Massachusetts. Age: 82. Married. Spouse: Juliu. Father: Ashley.
No burial record was located for Vivian.
11. For May, no death or burial record was located.
Note: The May Knowles that died in 1975 in New Bedford was May Ella Horten Barnes who married Henry Swift Knowles on 2 Sep 1909 in New Bedford.
Also, United States Passport Application, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 – March 31, 1925, roll 2066, no. 206274, May A. Knowles, 20 July 1922.
12. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, Death Index, 1926-1930, New Bedford, Bristol County, Arthur S. Ashley, 1930, vol. 67, p. 483.
13. Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, State Department of Health, Certificate of Death, no. 1165, Nettie J. Ashley, 9 Apr 1948. Widowed. Spouse: Arthur S. Ashley. Birth: 10 May 1873, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Age: 74 years, 10 months, 29 days. Parents: Richard Fisher and Aurelia Handy. Informant: Mrs. Richard Knowles. Burial: Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford, Massachusetts.
14. Headstone reads: Ashley / Arthur S / 1872 – 1930 / Nettie J His Wife / 1874 – 1948
Find A Grave, memorial 152565794, Arthur S. Ashley (1872–1930), Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts with headstone photo.
Also, Find A Grave, memorial 1525655809, Nettie J. Ashley (1874–1948), Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts with headstone photo.
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