Asa Barclay Thomas

Asa fought in the Civil War for the Union. At one point he was stricken with blindness from sun exposure, captured by Confederate soldeirs, and kept prisoner for a time. After the war he married Mary E knox in Limestone County, Texas. She was a former resident of Iroquois County.

Asa served for many years as constable of the county.

I (Elton Kenneth Thomas) remember Uncle Ase, or everyone called him, very well. He told me(I was just a boy then) about his experiences in the Civil War and other things in his life. he was a lean, ferocious looking man with white moustache and hair, and peircing eyes, and the kindest and gentlest of dispositions.

~from Journal of Elton Kenneth Thomas