Notes for Nehemiah McAshan

Notes for Nehemiah McAshan

**>5 = 5-10 = 10-15 = 15-20 = 20-30 = 30-40 = 40-50 = 50-60 = 60-70 = etc**
!US Census 1840 Virginia, Buckingham Co., Northern District, Sheet 20, Page 363, Line 23: Nehem. McA'Shan ( males 0200001 - 2 b. 1830-1835 - 5-10; and 1 b. 1780-1790 - 50-60 = females 1112001 - 1 b. 1835-1840 - 0-5; 1 b. 1830-1835 - 5-10; 1 b. 1825-1830 - 10-15; 2 b. 1820-1825 - 15-20; and 1 b. 1790-1800 - 40-50 - NOTE: Also lists 13 Male Slaves and 15 Female Slaves)

**From Web site of Charlie Johnston - McAshan information by Jane McAsahan**
**http://userpages.aug.com/charlie6/index.html - information for McAshan Family**
NEHEMIAH M. McASHAN, Jr., son of Elizabeth/Keziah Chambers and Nehemiah McAshan, born December 15, 1784, Buckingham County, Virginia, died June 23, 1846, Texas. They lived in Cumberland (1810-1813) and Buckingham County, Virginia. His property from 1819 -38 was on the New Canton Road. In the 1840 Buckingham County census, the household numbered 37, including 28 slaves. The household was occupied in agriculture, manufacture and trade, with one person who had been trained as a professional engineer. At that time five of the eight children were in school. Between 1840 and 1845, Nehemiah left Virginia for Texas. He is listed in the Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas as a pioneer and an Indian fighter.
He married on January 18, 1807,
ELIZABETH AGEE, daughter of Sicily Ann Hall and John Agee, born March 5, 1791, Buckingham County, died November 28, 1872, in Houston, at the home of her son-in-law, C.S. Longcope. She is buried in the McAshan family plot at LaGrange. Family legend says that when Elizabeth did not hear from Nehemiah, she packed her things and left with her children and slaves to come to Texas. She arrived to find he had been killed at Quanah, Texas, by the Indians. By 1846 she was in LaGrange, where she paid property tax on 19 slaves, and purchased abut 12 acres on February 14, 1848. Her grandson, Maurice Longcope McAshan, spoke of her as a small, sweet, pious person, who never raised her voice but spoke in a quiet manner of authority against which no one ever thought of saying a word.