Edith Ashford ___ Daniel Fowler Ashford (November 29, 1879 – July 17, 1929)[1] was a cotton planter from St. Joseph in Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana, who served from 1916 until his death in office as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives.
He received plantation property thereafter as a wedding gift from his father-in-law, Joseph Moore.
Ashford owned a stable of racing horses and was active in the sportsmen's group, the Cooter Point Club on the Tensas River.
Known for his immaculate dress and refined manners, Ashford spent lavishly on himself and his daughters.
[6] Mrs. Ashford died in Natchez, Mississippi, of acute cardiac arrest on February 27, 1912, at the age of thirty-three,[7] just two months after Margaret's birth.