John Ashley Violett
1853 - 1928 (74 years)
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Name John Ashley Violett Birth 23 May 1853 Croton, OH 
Gender Male Death 22 May 1928 Johnstown, OH Burial Croton, OH Person ID P47283 Violette Family Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
Father Justice Sampson Violett, b. 28 Feb 1818, VA d. 15 Oct 1891, Columbus, OH (Age 73 years) Mother Melissa Frank, b. Abt 1823 d. 24 Nov 1858, Johnstown, OH (Age 35 years) Marriage 1839 Newark, OH Family ID F22500 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Celia Dickerson, b. Zanesville, OH Marriage 15 Jun 1878 Coshocton, OH Children 1. Sherman Edison Violett, b. 25 Jun 1878, OH d. 7 Nov 1958, OH (Age 80 years)2. Bruce Violett, b. 15 Feb 1882, OH d. 6 Jan 1918, Norfolk, VA (Age 35 years)3. Wesley Woodford Violett, b. 2 Sep 1883, OH d. 26 Oct 1962, OH (Age 79 years)Family ID F22504 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Clement West who had never been in Nebraska came to persuade John Ashley to invest his savings in a Pieced Tinware Factory in Ohio, Licking County. This interested John Ashley as Clement West would look after the country peddlers for this product. He went to Ohio and bought this factory. In this venture he became a very successful business man. This Pieced Tinware Factory became the foundation of the fortune he had accumulated when he died in Johnstown, Ohio sometime in 1926 or 27.
Find a Grave has him buried in Bigelow Cemetery, Johnstown, OH, but Mary Catherine (Violett) Corbett states that he was buried in Croton, OH.
While on a visit to Croton Ohio in 1936 I went to this cemetery with the Hoover descendants and saw the three little white marble stones so beautifully carved with Violetts on the tops and a marvelous slab on the mother's grave just as my father had described it all to me. These had been erected in 1858 and the carving was a design given to the marble cutter by Justice. At the end of the long line of Hoover graves was a beautifully designed stone in memory of John Ashley, the seventh son, the only son of Justice and Melissa to be buried with the Mother.
Source: History of the Violett Family in America by Mary Catherine (Violett) Corbett 1947; edited and annotated by Martin Hammond Violette II 2006
- Clement West who had never been in Nebraska came to persuade John Ashley to invest his savings in a Pieced Tinware Factory in Ohio, Licking County. This interested John Ashley as Clement West would look after the country peddlers for this product. He went to Ohio and bought this factory. In this venture he became a very successful business man. This Pieced Tinware Factory became the foundation of the fortune he had accumulated when he died in Johnstown, Ohio sometime in 1926 or 27.