Biographical Sketch of Samuel Asbridge, Dent County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Samuel Asbridge is a native of North Carolina, born in 1812, and is a
son of Joseph and Sarah (Pounds) Asbridge, who were born in Maryland
and North Carolina, in 1750 and 1752, and died in Kentucky in 1835 and
1826, respectively.  The father was a farmer, and his father was also
an agriculturist, of English birth, and a soldier in the Revolutionary
War.  Samuel Asbridge is the seventh of eight children (six of whom 
grew to maturity), and made the paternal roof his hime until after the
death of his mother.  He received very meager school advantages, and
at an early day began earning hiw own living.  In 1833 he was united
in marriage to Jane Bonner, who was a daughter of William and Anna
Bonner, and was born in Tennessee in 1814, and died in 1871, having
borne seven children, only one, a daughter, now living.  After his
marriage Mr. Asbridge resided in the State of Kentucky two years, and
from that time until 1852 resided in Tennessee, and at the latter date
took up his abode in Dent County, MO., where he has continued to re-
side up to the present time, having spent the time in farming with the
exception of two years, when he was engaged in the livery business in
Salem.  He owned at one time 640 acres, but now owns only 257 1/2 
acres, with 100 acres under cultivation.  In 1885 he deeded one and a
half acres on which to erect a church, which is denominated the Union
Church, and is the largest country place of worship in the county. On
February 14, 1874, he was married to Mrs. Elizabeth Price, widow of
William Price, and daughter of John and Rachel Hagler.  She is of 
German descent, was born in Union County, IL., in 1844, and became the
mother of three children, two of whom are living:  Sidney L., who was
born June 1, 1873, and is the wife of H. Pewett, and Rachel Melvina,
who was born in August, 1875.  In 1865 he enlisted in the Eighty-fourth
Regiment Missouri Infantry, Federal Service, and since the late Civil
War has been a Republican in politics.  He and wife are members of the
Christian Church.
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