I don't know if this could lead to a link to the Ashbys or not, but the lady who previously owned our farm here on Ashby Station Road was named Mary Stuart Jacobs(her maiden name) and it seems to me that I had heard down thru the years that she was related to Ashbys. There is a gentleman by the last name of Dunn in Clarke County who may have something on this-he would have been her great nephew and he is into genealogy. I usually meet up with him at funerals, but will try to make contact with him to confirm a connection.