Aden Ashburn

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ADEN ASHBURN
1783-1815
My 4th Great Grand Uncle

Dabney Anderson Ashburn SR (1750 - ) My 5th Great Grandfather
father of Corporal Aden Ashburn
Jesse Ashburn (1787 - 1860)- My 4th Great Grandfather
son of Dabney Anderson Ashburn SR
Robert Wesley Sr Ashburn (1812 - 1897) - My 3rd Great Grandfather
son of Jesse Ashburn
son of Robert Wesley Sr Ashburn
son of Emanuel Alexander Ashburn
son of John Calvin Asburn SR
daughter of William Esker Asburn


WAR OF 1812
Aden (Eden, Oden, Edin) was born around 1783 in 
North Carolina. His parents were Dabney A. Ashburn SR.  (1770-?  ) and Frances Evans Ashburn (1766-1816).  
Dabney was 33 and Frances was 17.


Aden served in the War of 1812.
 He enlisted on December 20, 1813 
Private in Captain Thomas Eldridge's Company of Mounted Men
7th Regiment (Perkins' Batallion) Of Mississippi Militia
Madison County, Alabama.  
He was mustered out on February 8, 1814.

The United States Geneaology Project (Alabama) shows the following: 
Ashborn, Aden, private (d. in war) - disabled?
I also found one source listing him as a 'corporal'

 Aden has at least 'one' other brother who served in the War of 1812.  Records show that his brother Lewis was in the same Company and Regiment of the Mississippi Militia.
Aden received 200 acres of land from John Sevier.  
It was located on the south-side of the Obed River in Overton County, Tennessee - I continue to search for confirming records of proof. (Many Ashburns lived/settled in the Overton County, Tennessee, area.)
  Cited in the family tree "Tale of Talley/Mayo"  created by "pmorrison5882"


Aden married Mary Glaves Rhea (Rhead) in October of 1814 in Cedar Point, Madison County, Alabama.  
He died shortly after the two were married.  The inventory of his estate in Madison County was dated 1815. 
He had no children.  


I am unable to find a burial record/site for Aden.  
Find A Grave says 'Body lost or destroyed' - I just do not like the sound of that.  Someone… somewhere… must know something handed down from … well … someone… somewhere.  




Mary remarried Thomas Henry Nesmith.  
Mary and Thomas had one son - John Rhea Nesmith. 
John was born in 1828 and died in 1911.  
He was a PVT in Company A of the Alabama Calvary - Confederate States Army.  Mary is buried in the Masterson Cemetery in Lawrence County, Alabama,  beside John.



QUICK FACTS ABOUT 
THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER FLAG

  • Made in Baltimore, Maryland, in July-August 1813 by flagmaker Mary Pickersgill
  • Commissioned by Major George Armistead, commander of Fort McHenry
  • Original size: 30 feet by 42 feet
  • Current size: 30 feet by 34 feet
  • Fifteen stars and fifteen stripes (one star has been cut out)
  • Raised over Fort McHenry on the morning of September 14, 1814, to signal American victory over the British in the Battle of Baltimore; the sight inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner”
  • Preserved by the Armistead family as a memento of the battle
  • First loaned to the Smithsonian Institution in 1907; converted to permanent gift in 1912
  • On exhibit at the National Museum of American History since 1964
  • Major, multi-year conservation effort launched in 1998

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