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James Alney Asher (Caldwell co., ky, farmer )

b. 1814-03-27 d. 1894-04-26

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah "Sally" P. Stone Asher in Caldwell County, Kentucky, on September 10, 1835. Father of Thomas M. Asher, Martha E. Asher, John J. Asher, James A. Asher, Mary Asher, William B. Asher, America F. Asher, Andrew Asher, Gideon Asher, Lynn Asher, Willis Asher, and Samuel Asher. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1850. Farmer in Farmersville in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Farmersville in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 296A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Farmersville, p. 128.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Farmersville, p. 210B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film #000851644, p. 237.

"James Alney Asher (1814-1894)," Find A Grave, Memorial #16173771, accessed May 20, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16173771.

Citation

Asher, James Alney. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212494 (November 12, 2026).

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