Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 
1887, Woodford Co.

WILLIAM EDWARD ASHMORE, only son of Walter Ewell Ashmore and Beheteland
Ford, was born in Prince William County, Va., April 13, 1804.  His
father was of English descent, born in Fairfax County, Va.  In 1810 he
moved to Bourbon County, Ky., and six years later to Woodford County. 
He served as a volunteer in the war of 1812.  His mother was the 
granddaughter of Mary Isham Randolph and William Keith, of "Raven's 
Crag", Scotland, a minister of the Church of England, and grandfather 
of Chief Justice Marshall. In his youth, William E. Ashmore served as 
department clerk, under John McKinney, and was afterward an extensive 
hemp manufacturer and land-holder.  At the beginning of the war between 
the States, his son having entered the Confederate Army, he removed to 
Louisiana, and at its close, returning to Kentucky, was master 
commissioner of Woodford County for several years.  His first wife was 
Alice, daughter of John Jackson and Alice Young.  His second wife was 
Letitia, daughter of Nicholas Lafoon and Maria Upshur, of Virginia.  His
living children are: Alice Jackson, wife of Mortimer J. Newman; Letitia 
Lafon, wife of Leroy M. Nutt; James Keith; Florence, wife of William J. 
Cowles; Mary and Lucy.  Though over eighty-three, Mr. Ashmore still 
retains his great mental and physical vigor in an extraordinary degree, 
remaining for hours in his saddle, and when asked his age, a short time 
ago, replied in the following impromptu: 

	I've passed by three score years and ten,
        In much unknowing and unknown;
	I would not live them o'er again,
	To fill the proudest earthly throne.
	Yes, I am eighty years and more,
	Yet still I linger by the shore
	Of dread Eternity!
	Waiting the funerals service just,
	Ashes to ashes! dust to dust!

Ashmore Ford McKinney Randolph Keith Young Lafon Upshur Newman Nutt Cowles
Marshall Jackson
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Prince_William-VA Fairfax-VA Bourbon-KY LA Scotland 

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