Dillion Blevins Asher, Sr.

Dillon Asher (1774-1844). Clay County, KY legend has it that Dillon Asher while married to Nancy Davis also fathered at least 5 children by her sister Sally Davis as well as 12 additional children by sisters Elizabeth and Sally Collett

• 11 children of Dillon and Nancy (Davis) Asher and
• 5 children he had with her sister Sally Davis and
• 12 Asher-Collett children.

There is much information available on this family including: History of Dillon Asher and His Family by Dillion H. Bingham Eastern Cherokee Applications 45427 and 45428 Sizemore in Eastern Kentucky and unpublished manuscript by Jesse D. Wilson Clay County, KY Ancestral News, October 1992 from Richard Carpenter Thousandsticks newspaper article from 1938, story by Judge L. D. Lewis.

You may or may not be aware of the legend surrounding Peggy (Blevins) Asher's son Dillon Asher (1774-1844). Clay County, KY legend has it that Dillon Asher while married to Nancy Davis also fathered at least 5 children by her sister Sally Davis as well as 12 additional children by sisters Elizabeth and Sally Collett. Clay County court files do have a record of Dillon Asher being charged with adultery by William Collett

I have the names of 11 children of Dillon and Nancy (Davis) Asher and of the 5 children he had with her sister Sally Davis. I do not have the names of the 12 Asher-Collett children.

There is much information available on this family including: History of Dillon Asher and His Family by Dillion H. Bingham Eastern Cherokee Applications 45427 and 45428 Sizemore in Eastern Kentucky and unpublished manuscript by Jesse D. Wilson Clay County, KY Ancestral News, October 1992 from Richard Carpenter Thousandsticks newspaper article from 1938, story by Judge L. D. LewisDillion Asher, 18 years, and Uncle Dillion Blevins started to go to Boone's Fort...by the way of Straight Creek and Red Bird, and Dillion Asher stayed back with some peach seeds and was planting them when old Dillion Blevins ran back and said, "Are you going to make your home there?' They started on and a gang of Cherokee Indians got after them and they both got away from them, but returned to Richard Davis ' home, stayed one night. Dillion Asher, ‘sparked' one of Richard Davis' daughters and married Nancy and located there. He stayed a couple of years and after that moved to the mouth of Straight Creek, and cleared bottom land where Pineville sits now....There came a question of title to land between Asher and Hogan....Next Fall he went to Red Bird and when he arrived he found the peach trees were full of fruit. He built a house and settled down there...The house is still standing on Red Bird River on Henry Ford's land...Dillion Asher, second man in Clay Co., John Gilbert, first man in Clay Co., he married Dillion Asher 's cousin who was a Bowling." "Dillion Asher's mother was a Blevins, sister of Old Dillion Blevins. ...Dillion Asher wrestled and had many fights with the Indians at the mouth of Straight Creek, and killed several. Dillion Asher killed the last buffalo that was killed in Kentucky, and he killed it when there were hundreds of buffalo stampeded on Buffalo Hill on the Jackson D. Asher farm of Red Bird. Dillion Asher's sisters consisted of Sallie Lane who married Samuel Lane; Peggy Asher who married a Sizemore...His other sister married a Bowling who lived on Red Bird.

Family links:

Children:

 Robert Sidney Asher (1804 - 1877)*

 Jackson Davis Asher (1816 - 1888)*

 Pleasant Lee Collett (1826 - 1907)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Sizemore Cemetery Manchester Clay County Kentucky, USA

Created by: Lloyd Irvin Taylor Record added: Jul 27, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 74027870

Birth: Oct. 15, 1777 Washington County North Carolina, USA Death: May 9, 1844 Clay County Kentucky, USA

Dillon Asher (1774-1844). Clay County, KY legend has it that Dillon Asher while married to Nancy Davis also fathered at least 5 children by her sister Sally Davis as well as 12 additional children by sisters Elizabeth and Sally Collett

11 children of Dillon and Nancy (Davis) Asher and 5 children he had with her sister Sally Davis and 12 Asher-Collett children.

There is much information available on this family including: History of Dillon Asher and His Family by Dillion H. Bingham Eastern Cherokee Applications 45427 and 45428 Sizemore in Eastern Kentucky and unpublished manuscript by Jesse D. Wilson Clay County, KY Ancestral News, October 1992 from Richard Carpenter Thousandsticks newspaper article from 1938, story by Judge L. D. Lewis.

You may or may not be aware of the legend surrounding Peggy (Blevins) Asher's son Dillon Asher (1774-1844). Clay County, KY legend has it that Dillon Asher while married to Nancy Davis also fathered at least 5 children by her sister Sally Davis as well as 12 additional children by sisters Elizabeth and Sally Collett. Clay County court files do have a record of Dillon Asher being charged with adultery by William Collett

I have the names of 11 children of Dillon and Nancy (Davis) Asher and of the 5 children he had with her sister Sally Davis. I do not have the names of the 12 Asher-Collett children.

There is much information available on this family including: History of Dillon Asher and His Family by Dillion H. Bingham Eastern Cherokee Applications 45427 and 45428 Sizemore in Eastern Kentucky and unpublished manuscript by Jesse D. Wilson Clay County, KY Ancestral News, October 1992 from Richard Carpenter Thousandsticks newspaper article from 1938, story by Judge L. D. LewisDillion Asher, 18 years, and Uncle Dillion Blevins started to go to Boone's Fort...by the way of Straight Creek and Red Bird, and Dillion Asher stayed back with some peach seeds and was planting them when old Dillion Blevins ran back and said, "Are you going to make your home there?' They started on and a gang of Cherokee Indians got after them and they both got away from them, but returned to Richard Davis ' home, stayed one night. Dillion Asher, ‘sparked' one of Richard Davis' daughters and married Nancy and located there. He stayed a couple of years and after that moved to the mouth of Straight Creek, and cleared bottom land where Pineville sits now....There came a question of title to land between Asher and Hogan....Next Fall he went to Red Bird and when he arrived he found the peach trees were full of fruit. He built a house and settled down there...The house is still standing on Red Bird River on Henry Ford's land...Dillion Asher, second man in Clay Co., John Gilbert, first man in Clay Co., he married Dillion Asher 's cousin who was a Bowling." "Dillion Asher's mother was a Blevins, sister of Old Dillion Blevins. ...Dillion Asher wrestled and had many fights with the Indians at the mouth of Straight Creek, and killed several. Dillion Asher killed the last buffalo that was killed in Kentucky, and he killed it when there were hundreds of buffalo stampeded on Buffalo Hill on the Jackson D. Asher farm of Red Bird. Dillion Asher's sisters consisted of Sallie Lane who married Samuel Lane; Peggy Asher who married a Sizemore...His other sister married a Bowling who lived on Red Bird.

Family links:

Spouses:

 Sarah Sally Davis (1784 - 1851)*

 Nancy Davis Asher (1788 - 1815)*

 Sarah Sally Collett (1802 - 1844)*

 Elizabeth Collett (1810 - 1870)*

Children:

 Robert Sidney Asher (1804 - 1877)*

 Jackson Davis Asher (1816 - 1888)*

 Josiah Asher (1817 - 1901)*

 William Billy Collett (1825 - 1889)*

 Pleasant Lee Collett (1826 - 1907)*

 Sam Collett (1827 - 1901)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Sizemore Cemetery Manchester Clay County Kentucky, USA

Created by: Lloyd Irvin Taylor Record added: Jul 27, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 74027870

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15 Oct 1777 Washington County, North Carolina, United States of America
Death
8 May 1844 Clay County, Kentucky, United States of America* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Dec 22 2022, 16:11:49 UTC