Cemetery List: Lucy A. Cheney, wife of Dr. Jonathan Cheney 1868 -
Bio by BL Hughes: Lucy was the daughter of Barnet and Esther J. (Baker) Hughes of Ashland, N.H.
Lucy Ashland Hughes and Dr. Jonathan Morrison Cheney were married December 25, 1887 in Ashland. Dr. Cheney is buried in the Cheney lot and Lucy is buried in the Hughes lot. Their baby daughter, Lucy is buried in the Cheney lot.
Lucy was the first child born in the new town, which was incorporated July 1, 1868. Morrison's History of Windham, p599.
Prior to 1868, a citizens group of the village section of Holderness met and formulated plans to request a division from Holderness. Colonel Thomas Cheney had the foresight to have acquired, many valuable parcels of land in the section later to be called Ashland. Colonel Cheney is credited as being the originator in the founding of Ashland. After permission was sought from the state government, a royal fight ensued and lasted some four weeks before members of the General Court would grant the necessary permission for the incorporation of the new town of Ashland.
Holderness always benefited from the village part of now Ashland. There was a debt of some thirty or forty thousand dollars, so it, was decided that in order for the village section, later to be called Ashland, to secure its freedom, had to assume two thirds to three fourths of the debt for its freedom.
The name of Ashland had been proposed, along with a sug gested name of Oakland, because of the predominating oak trees in the area, along with other proposed names which were placed in a hat and fate decried it to be Ashland, supposedly after the home of Henry Clay's old home in Ashland, Kentucky.
The first girl born in Ashland was Lucy Ashland Cheney. Ashland is located nearly in the geographical center of New Hampshire, and is the smallest township in the county having only 3,853 acres of land. Surrounded by hills, and lying at the foothills of the Pemigewasset Valley, Ashland lies at the southwest bounds of Holderness and is bounded by Plymouth, Bridgewater, West Center Harbor and New Hampton. Ashland is the lowest part of the Pemigewasset River which is about 456 feet above the sea. Located on Routes 3 and 25, Exit 24, Interstate 93 Highway.
Bio by BL Hughes: Lucy was the daughter of Barnet and Esther J. (Baker) Hughes of Ashland, N.H.
Lucy Ashland Hughes and Dr. Jonathan Morrison Cheney were married December 25, 1887 in Ashland. Dr. Cheney is buried in the Cheney lot and Lucy is buried in the Hughes lot. Their baby daughter, Lucy is buried in the Cheney lot.
Lucy was the first child born in the new town, which was incorporated July 1, 1868. Morrison's History of Windham, p599.
Prior to 1868, a citizens group of the village section of Holderness met and formulated plans to request a division from Holderness. Colonel Thomas Cheney had the foresight to have acquired, many valuable parcels of land in the section later to be called Ashland. Colonel Cheney is credited as being the originator in the founding of Ashland. After permission was sought from the state government, a royal fight ensued and lasted some four weeks before members of the General Court would grant the necessary permission for the incorporation of the new town of Ashland.
Holderness always benefited from the village part of now Ashland. There was a debt of some thirty or forty thousand dollars, so it, was decided that in order for the village section, later to be called Ashland, to secure its freedom, had to assume two thirds to three fourths of the debt for its freedom.
The name of Ashland had been proposed, along with a sug gested name of Oakland, because of the predominating oak trees in the area, along with other proposed names which were placed in a hat and fate decried it to be Ashland, supposedly after the home of Henry Clay's old home in Ashland, Kentucky.
The first girl born in Ashland was Lucy Ashland Cheney. Ashland is located nearly in the geographical center of New Hampshire, and is the smallest township in the county having only 3,853 acres of land. Surrounded by hills, and lying at the foothills of the Pemigewasset Valley, Ashland lies at the southwest bounds of Holderness and is bounded by Plymouth, Bridgewater, West Center Harbor and New Hampton. Ashland is the lowest part of the Pemigewasset River which is about 456 feet above the sea. Located on Routes 3 and 25, Exit 24, Interstate 93 Highway.
Cemetery List: Lucy A. Cheney, wife of Dr. Jonathan Cheney 1868 -
Bio by BL Hughes: Lucy was the daughter of Barnet and Esther J. (Baker) Hughes of Ashland, N.H.
Lucy Ashland Hughes and Dr. Jonathan Morrison Cheney were married December 25, 1887 in Ashland. Dr. Cheney is buried in the Cheney lot and Lucy is buried in the Hughes lot. Their baby daughter, Lucy is buried in the Cheney lot.
Lucy was the first child born in the new town, which was incorporated July 1, 1868. Morrison's History of Windham, p599.
Prior to 1868, a citizens group of the village section of Holderness met and formulated plans to request a division from Holderness. Colonel Thomas Cheney had the foresight to have acquired, many valuable parcels of land in the section later to be called Ashland. Colonel Cheney is credited as being the originator in the founding of Ashland. After permission was sought from the state government, a royal fight ensued and lasted some four weeks before members of the General Court would grant the necessary permission for the incorporation of the new town of Ashland.
Holderness always benefited from the village part of now Ashland. There was a debt of some thirty or forty thousand dollars, so it, was decided that in order for the village section, later to be called Ashland, to secure its freedom, had to assume two thirds to three fourths of the debt for its freedom.
The name of Ashland had been proposed, along with a sug gested name of Oakland, because of the predominating oak trees in the area, along with other proposed names which were placed in a hat and fate decried it to be Ashland, supposedly after the home of Henry Clay's old home in Ashland, Kentucky.
The first girl born in Ashland was Lucy Ashland Cheney. Ashland is located nearly in the geographical center of New Hampshire, and is the smallest township in the county having only 3,853 acres of land. Surrounded by hills, and lying at the foothills of the Pemigewasset Valley, Ashland lies at the southwest bounds of Holderness and is bounded by Plymouth, Bridgewater, West Center Harbor and New Hampton. Ashland is the lowest part of the Pemigewasset River which is about 456 feet above the sea. Located on Routes 3 and 25, Exit 24, Interstate 93 Highway.
Bio by BL Hughes: Lucy was the daughter of Barnet and Esther J. (Baker) Hughes of Ashland, N.H.
Lucy Ashland Hughes and Dr. Jonathan Morrison Cheney were married December 25, 1887 in Ashland. Dr. Cheney is buried in the Cheney lot and Lucy is buried in the Hughes lot. Their baby daughter, Lucy is buried in the Cheney lot.
Lucy was the first child born in the new town, which was incorporated July 1, 1868. Morrison's History of Windham, p599.
Prior to 1868, a citizens group of the village section of Holderness met and formulated plans to request a division from Holderness. Colonel Thomas Cheney had the foresight to have acquired, many valuable parcels of land in the section later to be called Ashland. Colonel Cheney is credited as being the originator in the founding of Ashland. After permission was sought from the state government, a royal fight ensued and lasted some four weeks before members of the General Court would grant the necessary permission for the incorporation of the new town of Ashland.
Holderness always benefited from the village part of now Ashland. There was a debt of some thirty or forty thousand dollars, so it, was decided that in order for the village section, later to be called Ashland, to secure its freedom, had to assume two thirds to three fourths of the debt for its freedom.
The name of Ashland had been proposed, along with a sug gested name of Oakland, because of the predominating oak trees in the area, along with other proposed names which were placed in a hat and fate decried it to be Ashland, supposedly after the home of Henry Clay's old home in Ashland, Kentucky.
The first girl born in Ashland was Lucy Ashland Cheney. Ashland is located nearly in the geographical center of New Hampshire, and is the smallest township in the county having only 3,853 acres of land. Surrounded by hills, and lying at the foothills of the Pemigewasset Valley, Ashland lies at the southwest bounds of Holderness and is bounded by Plymouth, Bridgewater, West Center Harbor and New Hampton. Ashland is the lowest part of the Pemigewasset River which is about 456 feet above the sea. Located on Routes 3 and 25, Exit 24, Interstate 93 Highway.
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Cheney Stone: Lucy A. His wife | Oct 17, 1866--
Hughes Stone: 1866 Lucy Ashland Hughes Cheney 1946
Footstone: L. A. H. C.
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