The Hadwen Family of Lancashire

Elsie Henry(Ashby Morrill) was born to Abbie Viola Goodrich and Albert (Bert) Monroe Henry.

Elsie first married Rulon Ashby. They both loved adventure and nature and would go rock collecting, etc.. Elsie loved gardening and always raised beautiful gardens. She also loved animals. She raised chinchillas, button quail and any hurt animal like baby birds, etc.. Rulon and Elsie had three children: Lila Ashby, Gary Ashby and Kenny Ashby. Elsie was a tough lady as teachers and leaders did not want to deal with her and would usually do about anything to get her off their backs. She was a natural doctor/nurse. She had old time remedies that really worked. Granddaughter Rhonda had a big firm wart that Elsie would put a baking soda paste on every so often and the wart eventually went away. Elsie was a great cook and was always prepared for unexpected company to show for dinner. Rulon sold real estate and often brought unannounced dinner quests. Elsie had a gift (or curse) of sometimes seeing the future. She was told that if her husband Rulon went on a certain trip he would have an accident that would cause his death. She begged him not to take the trip, but he went anyway. He got in a bad accident and the injury caused his death.

Elsie next married Charles "Ellis" Morrill. They lived in Ft. Duchesne, Utah for a while and then moved to Mesa, Arizona, where they lived behind her daughter Lila and son-in-law Ted's house. They had a gate which adjoined their backyards. Elsie was always there for her grandkids (through the back gate or by phone). Elsie always had stories to tell. She would tell us of flying saucers flying overhead in Utah. She even had some evidence of a flying saucer landing and she loaned it to a college for testing and it "disappeared". Consequently, it was never returned to her.

-by granddaughter, Rhonda Thacker Holton