Asa Etheridge (1811 - 1885)

Born 17 Feb 1811 in Tyrrell County, North Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Director (Kemp) Etheridge — married about 2 Jun 1834 in Tyrrell County, North Carolina

Husband of Mary (Owens) Etheridge — married Aug 1865 in Tyrrell County, North Carolina

Descendants

Died 14 Oct 1885 at age 74 in Tyrrell County, North Carolina

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Biography

1850 Tyrrell,NC p61 30 August #473/473 Asa Etheridge 37 farmer 2000 NC Director 38 Sarah A. 12 Mary F. 9 Dorcas 7 Joseph 4 Samuel 11/12 Eliz. Alexander 22

1860 Tyrrell,NC p324 #352/320 July (all b. NC) Asa Etheridge 52 owner of swamps? 1000 3789 Director 52 illiterate Mary 20 Joseph 13 school Samuel 11 school Elizabeth 5

1870 Tyrrell,NC p8? #67/58 Asa Ethridge 59 farmer 1000 464 Mary 45 illiterate Joseph 22 farm laborer illiterate Sarah Roughton 8

1880 Columbia twp.,Tyrrell,NC ed 132 p9 #77/81 Asa Ethridge 69 farmer Mary 55 wife can't write Sarah Roughton 18 niece illiterate Mary E. White 3 adopted home

Asa Etheridge and 2nd wife Mary Owens are buried in an old Etheridge graveyard at Riverneck, Columbia, NC Route #2 on land owned in 1971 by Bill (W.E.) Bateman. There are only 3 graves in the cemetery, which Carol Lawrence Vidales visited with Bill Etheridge of Arlington,VA. The Tyrrell Cemeteries book by Camille Everton gives these directions: South side of State Hwy #1211, at junction with hwy #1212, some distance in a field back of William Bateman's house.

NC State Archives, Tyrrell Co. NC Estate ASA ETHERIDGE 28 Oct 1885 Application for letters of administration. J. W. ETHERIDGE says that his father Asa ETHERIDGE, late of said county, is dead without leaving any will, and that he is the proper person entitled to letters of administration. Further, the value of said estate, so far as can be ascertained, is about twenty-five dollars, and he left heirs surviving him: your petitioner J. W. ETHERIDGE, Dorcas DOZIER, wife of John A. DOZIER, Sarah LIVERMAN, wife of W. B. LIVERMAN and Mary HARRISON, wife of Whitmael HARRISON.

Asa farmed most of the acreage left by his father, Silas. He became a Baptist elder. (from The Heritage of Currituck Co. North Carolina, published 1985 by the Albemarle Gen. Soc., article written by William R. Etheridge)

• Fact: Burial Asa Etheridge Cemetery, Columbia, Tyrrell County, North Carolina, USA

Sources

• Asa Etheridge (1811-1885) on Find A Grave: Memorial #105208281 retrieved 20 February 2018
• Tyrrell County, North Carolina USGENWEB, Tyrrell County, North Carolina marriage bonds (http://www.ncgenweb.us/tyrrell/TYRMARBJ.HTM), Derector Kemp - Asa Etheridge, bond 2 Jun 1834. Bondsman: Zebulon Kemp. Witness: Jos Halsey, clerk

tombstone in the Asa Etheridge cemetery, Tyrrell County, North Carolina