**Commissioned First Lieutenant and Adjutant, September 10, 1862, with rank from July 21, 1862,
Abraham Ashley, Jr. was a son of Abraham and Delilah Beeman Ashley of Chatham, New York. He married 1st: Lydia Ann Young May 15, 1838, and they had 6 children. He seems to have been very active in the town of Chatham: he served as a Justice of the Peace in 1871; he was secretary of the Masonic and Ministerial Relief Association of Columbia County and had an active part in administering the Chatham Rural Cemetery, the location of this monument. He enlisted on July 14, 1862 as a 1st Lt. in the 128th Regiment, was promoted to Adj., and discharged due to disability March, 1863. His date of death is not recorded on this Ashley monument.
**Commissioned First Lieutenant and Adjutant, September 10, 1862, with rank from July 21, 1862,
Abraham Ashley, Jr. was a son of Abraham and Delilah Beeman Ashley of Chatham, New York. He married 1st: Lydia Ann Young May 15, 1838, and they had 6 children. He seems to have been very active in the town of Chatham: he served as a Justice of the Peace in 1871; he was secretary of the Masonic and Ministerial Relief Association of Columbia County and had an active part in administering the Chatham Rural Cemetery, the location of this monument. He enlisted on July 14, 1862 as a 1st Lt. in the 128th Regiment, was promoted to Adj., and discharged due to disability March, 1863. His date of death is not recorded on this Ashley monument.
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