Jan­u­ary 20, 1881, War­ring­ton, Lan­ca­shire, Eng­land.

Ap­ril 29, 1988, Dul­wich, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Elizabeth’s fa­ther was Sal­va­tion Ar­my (SA) Bri­ga­dier Frank As­pin­all. Due to her fa­ther’s work, she moved around ex­ten­sive­ly: To Amer­i­ca in 1883, then back to Eng­land in Maid­stone, Ply­mouth, Hull, Ip­swich and else­where. She left school and be­gan work­ing for her fa­ther around 1895, the same time the Mu­sic­al Sal­va­tion­ist pub­lished one of her songs. She mar­ried SA Cap­tain Will­iam S. Ash­by in El­gin, Scot­land, in 1903, and they served to­ge­ther in north­ern Scot­land.

• Taylor, p. 237

1. Beautiful Je­sus, Bright Star of the Earth