Genira Ashcraft

• Residence: Age: 44, Greene County, Indiana, USA - Sep 6 1850
• Residence: Age in 1860: 12, Jackson, Greene, Indiana, USA - 1860
• Residence: Age in 1870: 23, Jackson, Greene, Indiana, USA - 1870
• Residence: Age: 32Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife, Owensburg, Greene, Indiana, USA - June 8 1880
• Residence: Age: 52Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife, Jackson, Greene, Indiana, USA - 1900
• Residence: Age in 1910: 62Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife, Jackson, Greene, Indiana, USA - 1910
• Residence: Age: 72Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife, Jackson, Greene, Indiana, USA - Jan 13 1920
  • Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via brother Francis Marion 'frank' Hatfield by SmartCopy: Dec 19 2015, 23:24:28 UTC
• Residence: Age: 44, Greene County, Indiana, USA - Sep 6 1850
• Residence: Age in 1860: 12, Jackson, Greene, Indiana, USA - 1860
• Residence: Age in 1870: 23, Jackson, Greene, Indiana, USA - 1870
• Residence: Age: 32Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife, Owensburg, Greene, Indiana, USA - June 8 1880
• Residence: Age: 52Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife, Jackson, Greene, Indiana, USA - 1900
• Residence: Age in 1910: 62Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife, Jackson, Greene, Indiana, USA - 1910
• Residence: Age: 72Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife, Jackson, Greene, Indiana, USA - Jan 13 1920
  • Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via brother Francis Marion 'frank' Hatfield by SmartCopy: Dec 19 2015, 23:25:52 UTC

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• Census: 1850 - District # 40, Greene County, IN
• Census: 1860 - Jackson Twp, Greene County, IN
• Census: 1870 - Owensburg, Jackson Township, Greene County, IN, age 23
• Census: June 8 1880 - Owensburg, Greene County, Indiana, USA
• Residence: Owensburg, Greene County, Indiana, USA - 1918
  • Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via brother Ale Hatfield by SmartCopy: Dec 20 2015, 3:36:22 UTC

Genira (HATFIELD) ASHCRAFT was born July 12, 1847 in Jackson Township, Greene County, Indiana, and died at her late home in Owensburg, July 4, 1923, aged seventy-five years, eleven months and twenty-two days.

She was the daughter of Emanuel and Nancy {ANDERSON} HATFIELD, pioneer settlers of the township, and was also the youngest of a family of twelve children, all of whom have preceded her except Jasper N. HATFIELD, of Lyons, Indiana.

She was married to Martin ASHCRAFT on October 9, 1867. To this union were born eight children, three of which are dead. The surviving are Mrs. Ora SARGENT and E. Kirby ASHCRAFT, of Bloomfield, Indiana; Mrs. Anna CORBIN, of Jasonville, Indiana; Mrs. Clyde BRINEGAR, of Oolitic, Indiana and Forney ASHCRAFT, of Owensburg, Indiana. These with the husband are left to mourn the loss of a faithful wife and a good mother.

She united with the Baptist church at the age of seventeen and remained a member of the same church until the old church burned, then she affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church at Owensburg until the reorganization of the Baptists, in which church she returned and remained until her death.

The deeds people do live after them, the body dies and disappears but the thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon the minds of loved ones. As a wife and a mother, a woman is seen in her most sacred and dignified character, the place appointed her by the One who created her with a love so nearly like His own. A good mother is worth a hundred school masters, this maternal love, although it cannot be described in the most visible providence of our race, the pure and good thoughts implanted in the minds of children by their mother will continue to grow up into good acts long after she is dead, and when there is nothing left but a memory of her, her children will rise up and call her blessed. Thus a mother lives again in the lives of her children.

The writer was personally acquainted with the deceased having been sheltered and cared for in her home the greater part of one summer while attending school and just at a time when I needed the counsel and guidance of a true and good friend and such she was to me, in fact a friendship was formed that survive for years, and I feel that her going is but the throwing of another cable across the chasm that will strengthen the bridge over which we must pass.

She was a devoted wife, an affectionate mother, a true friend and neighbor, she was of an unusually cheerful disposition, and a cheerful disposition is worth more that vast estates. She was congenial and pleasant, industrious, energetic, never eating the bread of idleness but always looking well to the ways of her household, truly her husband can praise her. She was an invalid for seven and one-half years, but in spite of her weakness and frailties of the body, she remained cheerful abiding in the hope of immortality, trusting in the promise, and leaning on the Everlasting Arm, she slipped away from us as Tennyson says: “On such a tide as moving seems asleep.” The family and friends have the sympathy of their wide circle of acquaintances. Buried Old Owensburg/Emanuel Hatfield Cemetery.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 20 2018, 5:30:24 UTC