Thomas was born between 1785 and 1795 in Tennessee. Some researchers believe his father was Robertson ASHER\u00a0who is listed on the Washington County TN tax list for 1791 & 1793. On his application for Bounty Land Claim, filed in DeWitt\u00a0County Texas on 19 July 1855, Thomas states that he married Mary McGEE\u00a0in Anderson County TN in May 1817. Also on the application Thomas ASHER\u00a0states he served as a\u00a0private and as a\u00a0t\u00a0for Walton\/Walter TAYLOR. He was mustered into service 19 Sept 1814 at Knoxville, TN. in Capt. James TUNNELL’S\u00a0Co., Reg’t\u00a0East Tennessee Militia commanded by Col. Wm. JOHNSON. His term of service expired 4 May 1815. In his application for bounty land he names the following as being members of the same militia unit: RICE-Adjutant General; James C. McGEE-Major; McADOO-1st\u00a0Lieutenant. Other enlisted men: Michael ASHER; David LANDRUM; James BLACKBURN; Andrew EDGEN; George GARNER; John SEXTON; Wm. SEXTON and _____ PATTON. By 1820 Thomas ASHER\u00a0had moved to Bond County, Illinois and he married his second wife, Sally SWANSON\u00a0in Greene Co. Illinois on 5 Dec 1822. In Shelby Co. Texas, Republic of Texas, on 22 Feb 1838, Thomas ASHER\u00a0made an application for bounty land as “an immigrant of the year 1832.” He was granted a league and labor of land in Travis Co. TX in 1841. By 1846 Thomas had moved to DeWitt\u00a0County TX and is listed without a wife on the 1850 DeWitt\u00a0County census. Thomas died 4 July 1885 in Riddleville, Karnes County, Texas. Children (1st marriage):<\/p>\n
1. James ASHER\u00a0, b. 4 Jan 1818 Tennessee m. Emily WOFFORD;<\/p>\n
2. Delaney ASHER b. 1820 Illinois.<\/p>\n
Children (2nd marriage):<\/p>\n
1. Thomas Pleasant ASHER\u00a0b. 1825 Illinois m. Mrs. Annastasia\u00a0BROWN TENNELL;<\/p>\n
2. Mary Ann ASHER\u00a0b. 1826 Illinois m. John J. TOMLINSON;<\/p>\n
3. Robertson ASHER b. 1828 m. Susan DOWDY;<\/p>\n
4. Franklin ASHER\u00a0b. March 1835 Texas m. Sarah Ann KEYES;<\/p>\n
5\u00a0Nancy Caroline ASHER b. Feb 1838 Texas m. John Benjamin HAND in 1855;<\/p>\n
6. John Henry ASHER b. Oct. 1842 Texas m. 1. Rachel BROWN 2. Nellie BARTER; and<\/p>\n
7. Louisa Eliza ASHER\u00a0b. 12 Apr 1843 Texas m. Thomas CAFFALL.<\/p>\n
Note: another ASHER\u00a0researcher has related that his ancestor Charles ASHER\u00a0and a brother of Charles, William, both served in the War of 1812 from Anderson Co. TN. The Michael ASHER\u00a0named in Thomas ASHER’S claim application has been traced to Washington Co. Arkansas.<\/p>\n
Submitted by Glenn & Patsy Hand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
THOMAS\u00a0ASHER Thomas was born between 1785 and 1795 in Tennessee. Some researchers believe his father was Robertson ASHER\u00a0who is listed on the Washington County TN tax list for 1791 & Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-and-individuals","category-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}