Ethel Muriel Mathews (1918 - 1990)

Born 8 Jan 1918 in Hillsboro, Hill, Texas, United States

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Died 23 Feb 1990 at age 72 in Tarrant, Texas, United States

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Biography

Ethel was born in 1918 in Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas, the daughter of Walter Durwood Mathews and Ruth Beaty.^[1][2] In 1930, she lived with her parents and three siblings in Fort Worth, Texas in a house on South Main Street that they rented for $20 a month.^[3] Ethel's father was an electrician at a power plant.

Ethel married Jack Dewees Ashbrook in 1936. Jack and Ethel's first child was born on 18 Apr 1937 and died the same day,^[4] In 1940, the couple lived in Fort Worth, Texas with their young daughter Patricia. Jack was a laborer at a packing plant.^[5]

Ethel and jack had at least five children. She passed away in 1990 in Tarrant County, Texas and is buried in Dido Cemetery, Dido, Tarrant County, Texas.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "Texas Births and Christenings, 1840-1981", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4LXQ-JMN2 : 14 February 2020), Ethel M. Mathews, 1918.
2. ↑ "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X2KZ-JYD : 1 March 2021), Ethel Maud Mathews, 08 Jan 1918; citing Hillsboro, Hill, Texas, United States, certificate 3042, Texas Department of Health, Austin; FHL microfilm 4,501,860.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HVGF-SPZ : accessed 2 April 2022), Muriel Mathews in household of Walter D Mathews, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 30, sheet 7A, line 47, family 55, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2393; FHL microfilm 2,342,127.
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #87845864
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K47F-SNW : 3 February 2020), Jack Ashbrook, Ward 12, Fort Worth, Justice Precinct 1, Tarrant, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 257-88, sheet 8B, line 60, family 174, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4186.
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #87845573