Background
Ashford was the son of Daniel F. Ashford (1837–1902), Doctor of Medicine, who attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Ashford was the son of Daniel F. Ashford (1837–1902), Doctor of Medicine, who attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
In 1895, Ashford came to Tensas Parish to manage a plantation for Eli Tullis. He received plantation property thereafter as a wedding gift from his father-in-law, Joseph Moore. Ashford was a stockholder in the Panola Company, an agricultural firm for which Ashford"s House successor, Joseph T. Curry of Saint Joseph, was the secretary-treasurer.
Ashford owned a stable of racing horses and was active in the sportsmen"s group, the Cooter Point Club on the Tensas River.
He is believed to have been the first resident of Tensas Parish to own an automobile and a wristwatch. Mistress Ashford died in Natchez, Mississippi, of acute cardiac arrest on February 27, 1912, at the age of thirty-three, just two months after Margaret"s birth.
The daughter Margaret never married and lived until January 30, 1980. Ashford died at the age of forty-nine.
In a special election, Joseph T. Curry was elected to succeed Ashford in the House.
Curry served from 1930 until 1944.