Anne Ashley

Anne McDowell

• Birth Date: 23 Jul 1794
• Death Date: 13 Oct 1854
• SAR Membership: 71298
• Role: Ancestor
• Application Date: 7 Sep 1949
• Father: Archibald McDowell
• Mother: Jane McLin McDowell
• Spouse: Charles Ashley
• Children: Alexander Ashley

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From 175th Anniversary edition of "Anne Ashley United Methodist Church, 1830 - 2005." Photo from the Ashley family's private album, originally shared by Mr. Alexander Ashley, Anne Ashey's grandson, in the mid 20th century.

References

• “The McDowell Family” (July 11, 2006) (document attached)
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96926623/anne-ashley
• John McDowell in the U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 < AncestryImage >
• “The McDowell Family” (July 11, 2006) (document attached) Archibald McDowell loved hunting and carousing, and his parents had to take care of his wife, Jennet Macklin, and his large family of children whose names are: John, Alexander, Isabel, William, Joseph, James, Margaret, Sarah and Ann.
• “Homestead Cemetery” (established 1886) < link > The earliest burial recorded within the acreage is thought to be that of Hannah Cox, who died January 14, 1849. It was common practice for family plots to be peppered throughout their respective homesteads, and Hannah, along with Anne Ashley (d. 1854), namesake of the Anne Ashley Church on 22nd Avenue, and Rebecca Ashley (d. 1859), join many others with death dates preceding the charter. (5)
• “Ann Ashley United Methodist Church.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Thu, May 19, 2005 . Page 6. < newspapers.com > In 1887, a committee in the congregation decided to replace that church with a new one, which cost $4,000 and was paid off on the day the church was dedicated. Anne Ashley's son, Alexander Ashley, who lived in Washington, D.C., had set aside a sum of money, $350, to be used to rebuild the church. Feeling that Alexander Ashley was "a representative man and an enthusiastic Methodist..." the congregation decided to name the church in honor of his mother, who died in 1854 at age 60 and was buried in the church cemetery. When the cornerstone was laid, it was renamed the Anne Ashley Memorial Methodist Church. "She was an estimable and kind-hearted woman and one of the first members of Franklin. To her memory, the new church was named," according to a book called "Homestead Methodism," published in conjunction with the church's centennial in the 1930s.