LAINE Ashton Calhoun

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• Reference Number: 1355

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The census taken in April of 1930 indicates that the Mathew Laine family lived in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Mathew Laine's occupation was listed as a sawman in the logging business. Ashton Laine who was 22 years old at that time was living at home and was a bookkeeper for a general store (W. J. Joyner's).

After the Surry Lumber Company failed Mattew Laine (his father) was out of work. Ashton Laine had a job working at Nachman's Department Store on Washington Avenue in Newport News, Virginia. Since Ashton was the only one working the family, including Matthew, Susie, Ashton, Catherine, and Evelyn moved to Newport News, Virginia to a house at 1144 Hampton Avenue. Evelyn enrolled in Walter Reed School into the forth grade. Macgruder school was first to third grades only. Shortly after moving to 1144 Hampton Avenue, they moved to the twelve hundred block to a house with a lower rent. This house was also of a lesser quality, poorly insulated making it rather cold in the winter.
Later Ashton, Matthew and Evelyn moved to rent an upstairs apartment with the Gray's on 22nd Street. Mr. Gray had died and Mrs. Gray rented the apartment. Shortly after this, Evelyn went to live with Pearl Dunn and her family in Emporia, Virginia. Evelyn was supposed to go into the seventh grade high (the grades used to be designated as low and high, i.e., seventh low or seventh high, indicating whether one was in the first or second half). Evelyn was instead place in high school - the eight grade. After about a year she returned to Newport News. Catherine and Charles were married and moved to a house at 222 Cherry Avenue.

Ashton married Louise and moved into the Shipyard apartments. Evelyn move in with them. Matthew moved into the apartment above the Waterfront Lumber Company Office in the twelve hundred block of Jefferson Avenue. Ashton and Louise moved to Durham, North Carolina.

Ashton was born in Homeville, Virginia. Homeville still exists and is located at the intersection of Virginia State Routes 35 and 40. Ashton retired from the U. S. Air Force at Langley Air Force Base in 1956. He was a veteran of World War II and the Korean Conflict.

Ashton and Louise re-married in the fifties and remained married until her death sometime during the night, Monday, February 26, 1968. Ashton and Louise were residing at 116 North Sixth Street in Hampton, next door to Catherine (Ashton's sister) and Charles Clemens. Ashton was in the Hampton Veteran's Hospital. Catherine received a call from the hospital on Tuesday morning notifying her of Ashton's death and requesting her to notify Ashton's wife of same. Catherine went over to the house, knocked on the doors, called, but got no response. Catherine looked in the bedroom window and saw Louise lying on the floor. She called the police and informed them of the situation. The police came and entered the house and determined that Louise had died. The exact time of death was not determined. She died sometime during the night. It could have been Monday or Tuesday ( the morning Ashton died).

They were buried in the same grave (#6750) at 11am Friday, March 1, 1968 in the Hampton Section (D) of the Hampton National Cemetery.

Family/Spouse: BRADSHAW Ester Louise. Ester was born in 1910; died in 1968. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]