ASBURY, Julia Garrison - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Funeral services for Mrs. Julia E. Asbury, age 65, who resided three miles south of Marshfield in the Chesapeake community, were held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, March 27, at the Hamilton Funeral Home in West Lebanon. The Rev. William D. Stephenson officiated and burial was in the West Lebanon cemetery. Mrs. Asbury died at 3:15 a. m. Thursday, March 25, at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lafayette, of injuries and burns suffered at 6:30 a. m. Wednesday when an explosion hurled her and her son, Clause, out of the brooder house in which they were working. The building housed 300 young chickens and it was decided that the gas stove used for heating exploded. Mrs. Asbury and her son were both burned. He put his mother into their car and took her to Community Hospital in Williamsport and from there she was taken to the Lafayette Hospital. The West Lebanon fire department was called but the fire had gained too much headway to save the building or the chickens. Mrs. Asbury was born Oct. 6, 1888, in Warren County, the daughter of Nigh and Anna Wagner Garrison. She was married to Charles Asbury in 1904 and he died Dec. 30, 1934. Surviving are three sons, Ralph, Clause and Lloyd of Talbot Route 1, two sisters, Mrs. Mary Ann Dixon of Danville Route 5, and Mrs. Cora Ping of Danville; two brothers, John Garrison of Covington Route 1 and Andrew Garrison of Rossville, Ill.; nine grandchildren, and eight great-great-grandchildren.