Asa Sliger

Abt 1832 -

• Name	Asa Sliger  [1]
  Born	Abt 1832
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I2527	My Roots
  Last Modified	25 Jul 2004

  
  

  Father	Adam Sliger,   b. Abt 1800, Washington, Tennessee, USA
  Mother	Mary Sliger,   b. Abt 1800
  Married	Jul 1827
  Family ID	F39	Group Sheet  |  Family chart

  
  

  Family 1	Matilda N. Frank
  Married	06 Nov 1856	Monroe, Tennessee, USA   [2]
  Children	1. Mary Magdalene Sliger,   b. Abt 1858   2. Thomas S. Sliger,   b. Abt 1859   3. Wiley Sliger,   b. Nov 1865, McMinn, Tennessee, USA   4. Love Sliger,   b. Abt 1869
  Family ID	F657	Group Sheet  |  Family chart

  
  

  Family 2	Sallie
  Children	1. Dora Sliger,   b. Jan 1888   2. Ella Sliger,   b. Jan 1888
  Family ID	F658	Group Sheet  |  Family chart

  
  

• Notes

  Served in the 43rd Confederate Infantry during the Civil War. Purchased his father's 660 acres in McMinn County after his fathers death on December 22, 1822. After 1880, Matilda (Martha) died and Asa was married to Sallie, who bore twins in Janua ry 1888. Asa filed for Confederate pension 9/24/1908. He was then a resident of Erie, Loudon County, Tennessee. He enlisted in the Confederacy 11/12/1862, Company F, 43rd Tennessee Gillispie's Regiment. Served under Captain S.T. Turner and was in the Battl e at the seige of Vicksburg. He contracted rheumatism while being exposed and was attended by Dr. Hodge. He was never in prison, but was forced to take the oath of Alliegience and was parolled from Vicksburg on July 4, 1863.

  
  

• Sources

  [S9] 1880 McMinn County Tennessee Census, Family #34. [S10] Sliger and Related Families in North America, Della P. Franklin, (1993), 15.