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of Rev. Richard V. Asbury and his wife, Mary Rogers. His father, born in 1799, died in 1845, was the son of Richard Asbury, who was a participant in three battles of the revolutionary war. His mother was the daughter of Reuben Rogers, a Georgia planter and millwright, of Virginia descent. Mr. Asbury was reared in Georgia, receiving an excellent education under Rev. John W. Reid, of Woodstock. In 1855 he was tendered a commission as government land surveyor through the influence of Alexander H. Stephens; but as this would have necessitated his living in Kansas, he declined it, and in the following year, February 13, 1856, was married to Cassie, daughter of Judge Abner Darden, of Georgia. He engaged in teaching in 1858, and in the following year became an instructor in the school for deaf mutes at Talladega, Ala., his occupation at the time of the formation of the Confederacy. Resigning this position in May, 1862, he enlisted in Company F, Fifty-first Alabama regiment, Col. John T