Ancestry of
Rutherford B. Hayes

19th U.S. President

Mary Ashley

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Rutherford B. Hayes — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 83 
  • Father:
  • Robert Ashley 
  • Mother:
  • Mary -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Apr 1644 
  • Birth Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Mar 1702 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Root
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Oct 1664 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Root (Ahnentafel No:41 )

  Sarah Root

  Abigail Root

  Joshua Root

  • Notes: 
  • Some sources mistakenly list John Root's wife as Dorcas ______.

• Sources for Mary Ashley

  • ¹ Springfield, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 1, p. 21, Marriage record for John Roote and Mary Ashley.
  • ² Springfield, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 2, p. 1681, Marriage record for John Roote and Mary Ashley.
  • ³ Springfield, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 1, p. 10, Birth record for Mary Ashley.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1980, Vol. 56, p. 165.
  • ⁵ Dewey, Adelbert M., et. al., Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N., and Dewey Family History, Westfield, Massachusetts: Dewey Publishing Company (1898), 242.
  • ⁶ Drake, Hazel Esther, A Branch of the Root Family, Hartley, Iowa: Hartley Sentinel (1948), 1, 101.
  • ⁷ Hook, James William, Lieut. Samuel Smith, His Children and One Line of Descendants and Related Families, New Haven, Connecticut: Unknown (1953), 39.
  • ⁸ Kilbourne, Payne Kenyon, The History and Antiquities of the Name and Family of Kilbourn, (in its varied orthography.), New Haven: Durrie and Peck (1856), 42.
  • ⁹ Root, James Pierce, Root Genealogical Records, 1600-1870: Comprising the General History of the Root and Roots Families in America, New York: R.C. Root, Anthony and Co. (1870), 316-317.
  • ¹⁰ Trowbridge, Francis Bacon, The Ashley Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Robert Ashley of Springfield, Massachusetts, New Haven: Press of Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor (1896), 18.