Asa E. Sparrow was born about 1828 in Pittsylvania, Virginia. On January 2, 1850, he married Lucy Davis in Pittsylvania, Virginia.
Parents Hudson Sparrow and Sarah Posey were married about 1825, and in 1850 in Pittsylvania were shown with their children and Sarah's father, Robert Posey (Asa listed as Aley Sparrow, and Lucy Sparrow is Asa's wife):
Hudson Sparrow M 56 Virginia, Sally Sparrow F 44 Virginia
Robert Pasey (Posey) M 65 Va
By 1860 in Laurel Grove, Pittsylvania, Asa and Lucy had four children: Asa Sparrow M 30 Virginia Lucy Sparrow F 30 Virginia
And additional occupant, relationship to be found: Rebecca Posy Sparrow F 40 Virginia
On May 30, 1861, Asa and his brother Abner enlisted in the CSA, joining the local Company C of the 38th Virginia Infantry. Training camps were breeding grounds for disease, and likely that was fatal to Asa, as he contracted Typhoid Fever, and passed away on September 16, 1861 in Broad Run, Virginia. Brother Abner also became ill, but recovered and returned to duty by 1864. He survived the war.
The 1870 census of the Dan River area of Pittsylvania, would reveal that wife Lucy gave birth to a fifth child, Elizabeth, some time in 1861.
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