Asa M. Jackson
Asa M. Jackson - Was born in Clarke County, Georgia, March 17, 1842, and is the son of Hartwell and Sarah Jackson. At the age of ten he left his native county with his parents, and moved to Jackson County, that State, where he received his education at the common schools of that county. At the breaking out of the war in 1860 we find the subject of this sketch a member of Company " L," 3d Regiment, Georgia Infantry, in which he served until July 23, 1863, when he was captured at Gettysburg and taken as prisoner to Fort Delaware, and was there confined for over three months, and then removed to Point Lookout, where he remained for over one year. He was then exchanged, and discharged in Savannah, November 4,1864, and immediately returned to his home in Jackson County, Georgia, and engaged in agricultural pursuits in company with his brother, H. D., until 1870, when he came to California and to Napa County, and first was employed by J. H. Bostwick to work on a ranch, afterwards taking charge of the same, in which capacity we find him now employed. He was married November 16,1873, to Miss Lucy J. Gillaspie, who was born near Soscol, Napa County, December 27,1855. The names and ages of their children are as follows: Henry G., born January 20,1875; Georgia, born February 7, 1877; Robert Cleveland, born December 13,1879, and Hartwell, born August 23,1881. They also have one orphan child, Anna Isabella Moore, born in San Francisco, August 20,1865.
History of Napa and Lake Counties,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, February, 2007 Page 500
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