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History of Carroll County, Indiana; Its People, Industries, and Institutions
By; John C. Odell
circa 1916
pgs. 671-672
HEZEKIAH ASHBA
Hezekiah Ashba, a pioneer citizen and farmer of Democrat Township, Carroll County, Indiana, who received his education in
the old-fashioned log school, containing the old-fashioned fireplace with the mud chimney, where the seat consisted of wooden slabs laid on pins driven in the wall, remembers distinctly of the times when deer were plentiful in the Carroll County woods, when there were no roads anywhere and only the faintest trail through the wilderness. In fact, it was in this environment that he grew to manhood more than three-quarters of a century ago. He now owns one hundred and twenty acres of land three-quarters of a mile southwest of Cutler.
Mr. Ashba was born in Ross Township, Clinton County, Indiana, on the Carroll county line, June 8, 1838. He is the son of William and Martha (Bowen) Ashba, the former whom was born in Hampshire County, Virginia, and who immigrated to Ohio with his parents and there grew to manhood. He later accompanied his parents to Indiana and settled with them in Clinton county, still later going with them to Carroll County. The father of William Ashba was Benjamin Ashba, who also immigrated with the family from Virginia to Ohio and later to Indiana. Martha Bowen, was a native of Ohio, who accompanied her parents to Indiana when a small girl. They settled near Ross ville in Clinton county and it was near Ross ville that William Ashba and Martha Bowen were married. Being renters, this young couple moved from place to place but later in life, purchased land in Carroll county and died on the farm they owned. William and Martha (Bowen) Ashba were the parents of eight children, three of whom died in infancy, Hezekiah, the subject of this sketch; Margaret, the wife of Jonas Clark, of Kansas;;Benjamin, who died during his service in the Union army; Shedrick, who lives in Kansas; Ephraim, who resides near Marion in Grant county, Indiana.
Having lived at home with his parents until twenty-six years old, Hezekiah Ashba was married in 1864 to Nancy Jane Black, the daughter of Samuel Black, one of the early residents of Carroll County. After Mr. and Mrs. Ashba were married, they lived with her parents for about one year and then moved to the farm which the husband had bought previously in 1860, a tract of sixty acres covered with timber. During the early years of their married life, they lived in a log house but Mr. Ashba now occupies a commodius brick house. He has lived on this farm since his marriage and is now one of the oldest residents of Democrat township.
Mr. and Mrs. Ashba were the parents of four children, one of whom died in infancy, Mary, the wife of John Lowery, of Democrat twonship; Ella, the wife of Albert Akens, who lives one mile west of her father, and Joseph, who operates the home farm of eighty acres.
At one time, Mr. Ashba was a member of the Grange. He is a member of the Presbyterian church at Cutler and a Prohibitionist and Democrat in politics. Mr. Ashba cast his first vote for James Buchanan for President.
Not only does Mr. Ashba own a good farm of one hundred and twenty acres, but the farm is well improved and he has on it substantial buildings, including a good barn and house and attractive outbuildings. He is one of the best known and also one of the most highly-respected citizens of Democrat township.
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