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Vol 30 No 1:2009-2010
The Ash Family in Collin County, Texas
General Hamilton Ash (General was a given name, not a title) was born in Cherokee County,
Alabama on April 22, 1840, the youngest of five children His father, Hugh Brown Ash, died either before or
shortly after Ham's birth His mother Nancy Jones Ash, married Edwin Pettigrew about 1841 and they had
four more children I have not been able to locate the family in the 1850 census, so I do not know when the
family left Alabama By 1860 Edwin & Nancy Pettigrew and their family were in Dent Co, Missouri and
Hamilton Ash was in Coryell County, Texas living with his brother, Benjamin
When the Civil War broke out G H Ash enlisted at Fort Hebert (later Virginia Point) near Galveston April
1, 1862 to serve the length of the war On August 4, 1862 he received a medical discharge at Camp Daniel
near Tyler Texas Reason for discharge - hemorrhoidall affliction" The discharge papers give his place of
birth as Cherokee Co, Alabama and state that he was 22 years old 5' 10" high, dark complexion, dark eyes,
dark hair and that before enlistment was a farmer The name G H Ash, age 23, appears on a list of Texas
State Troopers, Second Frontier Regiment in Coryell County, Texas in 1864 A search of military records on
Ancestry com shows that a G H Ash served in Co B 15th Texas Infantry This company was formed in
Coryell and neighboring counties
After the war Hamilton Ash apparently went to Dent County, Missouri to see his mother While there he
married Margaret Cates on May 1, 1870
Margaret Cates was born in Perry County, Tennessee in September, 1842 to Isaiah Cates and Nancy
Shelton She was the oldest of seven children, the first three being born in Tennessee and the other four in
Missouri
The first child born to Hamilton and Margaret Ash was Nancy Elizabeth, born in Missouri Soon after
Nancy's birth the family moved to Young County, Texas where they homesteaded 160 acres of land Five
more children were born in Young County
The family next moved to Collin County, Texas The deed books of Collin County show that G H and
Margery Ash sold their Young County homestead on Jan 4, 1889 Three daughters of Hamilton and Margaret
Ash were married in Collin County Isaac James Hart and Nancy Elizabeth Ash were married on April 20,
1887, Joseph H Lee and Martha Ann Ash were married October 3, 1891, Isaiah McAdams and Mary Adeline
Ash were married May 22, 1892 Hamilton Ash died in Collin County on July 21, 1891 I have been unable to
find a record of his place of burial
Several of Margaret's siblings were also in Collin County Joel Cates appears in land records of Collin
County in 1900 Josle Cox (daughter of John Cates) furnished information for a younger sister to get a
delayed birth certificate She stated that at the time of her birth they lived about 12 miles from McKinney,
Collin County, Texas and a neighbor was Hamilton Ash The date of the sister birth was Jan 8, 1891
Elizabeth Cates Finley purchased land in Collin County This places Joel Cates, John Cates, Margaret Cates
Ash and Elizabeth Cates Finley in Collin County
On January 9, 1895 W E and Fannie Rucker sold 44V acres of land on Sister Grove Creek to Margry
Ash On Nov 14, 1893 L A Scott sold 24 acres of land on Sister Grove Creek to Margry Ash 10 acres of this
land had previously belonged to Margaret Ash's sister Elizabeth Finley On October 17, 1898 Margry Ash sold
both pieces of land to W E Rucker
On November 4, 1898 Margaret Ash filed for a homestead in Washita County, Oklahoma She eventually
relinquished the land on November 3, 1901 Margaret Ash was killed in a tornado that stuck Sentinel,
Oklahoma on April 27, 1912Submitted by Jane Webb, Fort Bragg, CA <ejwebb@mcn org>
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