Margaret Alice (HARDISTY) (EDINGTON) ASHCRAFT, daughter of Thomas and NANCY Ann (CHENEY) HARDISTY, was born September 20, 1800 in Maryland and died August 26, 1890 in Jackson Township, Greene County, Indiana. Margaret was married first to Robert EDINGTON; second to Elijah ASHCRAFT, the widower of Elizabeth Hardisty Ashcraft (Margaret's sister).

Margaret Hardisty married 1st Robert Edington on April 13, 1815 in Coshocton Co., OH. Robert Edington was born 1796 in Huntington Co., PA and died April 5, 1844 in Coshocton Co., OH. It is said he died of Milk fever after a return trip from Greene Co., IN where he assisted in building homes for his father-in-law, Thomas Hardisty, and probably some of his married sons in which to get his family and bring them to their new home in Indiana.

Children of Robert Edington and Margaret Alice Hardisty Edington all born in Coshocton Co., OH:
Nancy, b. Jan. 3, 1816 m. Mansfield;
Matilda, b. Dec. 11, 1818, m. David Reed, Fishers Cem., Champaign Co., IL;
Thomas, b. July 21, 1820, Walnut Grove Cem., Greene, IN;
George Washington, b. Dec. 16, 1821, Walnut Grove,Greene,IN;
Elizabeth, b. 1824
Aquilla, b. April 14, 1826, Ross Cem., Greene Co., IN;
Jonathan, b. April 2, 1829 - d. Aug. 21, 1831
Edmund, b. 1829, Walnut Grove Cem., Greene Co., IN;
Elijah, b. Feb. 21, 1831, Kentucky Ridge, Greene, IN;
Margaret Jane, b. March 12, 1835 m. Wall, m. 2nd Fordyce, Owensburg Cem., Greene Co.,IN.


Margaret Hardisty Edington was married 2nd on January 31, 1861 in Greene Co., IN to Elijah Ashcraft, widower of her sister Elizabeth Hardisty Ashcraft.

In an 1880 Champaign Co., IL census Margaret is listed with her daughter Matilda Reed and family.

Margaret died August 26, 1890 in Dresden, Greene Co., IN and is buried in Ashcraft Chapel Cemetery, Jackson Township, Greene Co., IN.


Taken from family records, and research done by Judith Elaine (McKee) Burns, and Fern Martindale Holtsclaw.