Family stories were that James disappeared and no one in the family had heard from him. Don’t know why he never contacted family but he was living in California and had married again. His first wife was Ethel Adelia Harper.
Sources
Civil War pension record of his father Jesse Madison Ash.
Marriage record Custer County Nebraska.
Photo and information from his son.
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