Ashenhurst, Catherine Austin - 80 - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Mrs. Henry Lalley, Mrs. William Sidener and J. W. Ashenhust gave a company in honor of their mother’s 80th birthday Thursday, Aug. 29 at her home, 411 South Walnut Street. Some forty of her relatives and a few of the older friends spent the evening with her.

She came with her father, the late Rev. J. B. Austin, from Cynthiana, Kentucky, in 1828, to this city, of course making the trip overland, and has watched and taken part in the growth of this city and county from its log cabins and forests to its present degree of prosperity and culture. Refreshments were served by the Misses Grace Talbot, Dora Sidener, Lottie Jones and Emma Lalley. Punch was served by Miss Lelia McFarland and Walter Sidener. Altogether the reunion of the family was a fairly successful one. -s