Anna Catherine Elizabeth Fast ^{3 4}

   Other names for Anna were Catherine Elizabeth Fast ⁶ and Elizabeth Fast.¹

  General Notes:

[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 12, Ed. 1, Tree #1194]
Married 1st Cousin, son of Christian & Anna Barbara (Mason) Fast.
According to the obituary for her son, Jonas, she apparently used the name of Elizabeth during the majority of her adult life.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1850 US Census in Orange Township, Ashland, OH on 19 October 1850. ⁶

1850 US Census
Page 490B, Roll 658, Dwelling 224, Family 227
Orange Township, Ashland County, Ohio
Catherine E. Fast..55..PA
(Living with 6 children.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 15 Jul 1795, then her age should have been 54 instead of 55.
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• She appeared on the 1860 US Census in Orange Township, Ashland, OH on 13 July 1860. ³

1860 US Census
Page 86, Roll 930, Dwelling 701, Family 676
Orange Township, Ashland County, Ohio
Anne K. E. Fast..--..PA
(Living with husband, 3 children, and 2 orphaned grandchildren.)
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• She was buried after 10 July 1869 in the Fast Cemetery in Bailey Lakes, OH.

William and his wife, Anna, share one common gravestone in the Fast Cemetery which is a vaulted top short obelisk of white sandstone. The inscription on her side reads "Anna C. E. Fast, Died July 10, 1869, Aged 73y 11m 27d". The actual cemetery as it stands today is a "consolidation" of gravestones and sits in the middle of a farmer's field on a small area surrounded by a rope or chain link fence, updated to a more solid white painted wood fence after 2001. The gravestones are not in their original locations. The exact location of the cemetery is now in Ashland County, Ohio only a few hundred feet away from the Richland County border. Originally the area was all within Richland County. My conversations with the current landowner (as of 2001) somewhat skirted the issue as to whether there were still any actual graves under the gravestones but I am led to believe that any graves may have long been plowed over and the current gravestones are merely a memorialization. (Brian L. Lightfoot)

Find A Grave Memorial #22508657
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Anna married William Fast, son of Christian Fast and Anna Barbara Mason, in 1817 in , Fayette County, PA.^{1 2} (William Fast was born on 24 March 1794 in , Greene County, PA,^{1 3 6 7 8 9} died on 31 May 1882 in Orange Township, Richland, OH ⁹ and was buried after 31 May 1882 in Fast Cemetery, Bailey Lakes, Ashland, Ohio, United States ⁹.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1850 US Census in Orange Township, Ashland, OH on 19 October 1850. ⁶

1850 US Census
Page 490B, Roll 658, Dwelling 224, Family 227
Orange Township, Ashland County, Ohio
William Fast..56..PA..Farmer
Catherine E. Fast..55..PA
Sarah Fast..25..OH
Jesse Fast..20..OH..Farmer
Nicholas Fast..17..OH..Farmer
William Fast..15..OH
James Fast..12..OH
Joshua Fast..9..OH

NOTE - Where was the son, Jonas Fast, who would have been about 14 years old at the time of this census?
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• They appeared on the 1860 US Census in Orange Township, Ashland, OH on 13 July 1860. ³

1860 US Census
Page 86, Roll 930, Dwelling 701, Family 676
Orange Township, Ashland County, Ohio
Wm. Fast..66..PA..Farmer
Anne K. E. Fast..--..PA
Sarah Fast..33..OH..Domestic
Jonas Fast..23..OH..Farm Laborer
Joshua Fast..19..OH
Anne K. Silence..19..OH (Granddaughter)..Works by week
Seth J. Silence..8..OH (Grandson)

NOTE - Anna and Seth Silance were children of daughter Anna C. E. Fast who married William Nicholas Silance. It is believed that both of the Silance parents died between 1850-1860 thus Anna and Seth Silance were orphaned and living with their maternal grandparents.
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  Marriage Notes:

Anna Fast and William Fast were 1st cousins.
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