Asa is descended from a long line of Stratton men: His father, Peleg (1748-1833), was the son of James Stratton (1700-1776) and wife Deborah Rand. James was the son of Thomas Stratton (1670-1732) and Dorcas Maxwell. Thomas was the son of John Stratton of Watertown, Mass (1642-1691) and Mary Smith.

Asa Evans Stratton Sr. was born in Athol, Worcestor County, Massachusetts on the 13th of June, 1798, the son of Peleg Stratton and Elizabeth Kendall(Source#2). Asa Stratton moved to Hillsboro, Jasper County, Georgia at the age of 21, 1819(Source#2), where he resided for 16 years as a merchant, dealing largely in boots and shoes. It is there where he met and subsequently married Mary Graves Alexander on 17 March 1824(Source#3). Mary G. Alexander was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on 28 June 1809(Source#1), the daughter of George Alexander(Source#4), an early inhabitant of Mecklenburg County. Asa and Mary lived in Jasper County and are enumerated there at the time of the 1840 population census(Source#5). They had five children born in Georgia before they removed to Panola County Mississippi in 1836(Source#2). Asa "purchased large and valuable tracts of land and was one of the early settlers of that section of the state. For more than twenty years he was a prosperous planter, identified with the building up and improvement of North Mississippi. He was one of the originators of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad, and one of its first directors"(Source#2). Shortly after their next child was born in 1838, Mary Graves Alexander Stratton passed away. She died on 17 November 1839 at the age of 30 years, 4 months and 13 days(Source#1). She's buried in Dean-Oldham-Stratton Cemetery, 2 miles north of Como(Source#5).

Asa is found in Panola County, Mississippi at the time of the 1840 population census(Source#6). next married Amanda Ann Wood, formerly Gibbons, in Marshall County, Mississippi on 26 February 1843(Source#1). Amanda was born on 15 September 1816. Asa and Amanda had two children, in 1844 and 1847. Amanda died five months after the birth of her second child, on 9 June 1847 in Panola County(Source#1).

Asa next married Caroline Ann Epps Pearson, formerly Steager, in Marshall County, Mississippi on 19 July 1848. Asa and Caroline are enumerated in Panola County, Mississippi on the 1850 population census(Source#7). Asa and Caroline had two children, one in 1849 and another in 1855. Caroline Ann died on 6 January 1856(Source#1) and is buried in Panola County in the Como-Friendship Cemetery(Source#5).

Asa then marries Mary Jane Chisholm in Marshall County, Mississippi on April 30, 1856. Mary Jane was born on 17th April 1835 in Tennessee. Their first two children, born in 1857 and 1858, were born in Panola County, and their last two were born in Texas. Asa moved to Texas in 1859, living for one year in Bastrop County and then bought a plantation in Brazoria County, near Cedar Lake. The house where Asa once lived is preserved to this day. Known as the McCroskey-Stringfellow House, and originally built in 1824 by John McCroskey, one of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300", it is marked by a Texas Historical Marker and is located on County Road 316, via FM521, 10 miles south of Brazoria(Source#8). During Asa's ownership of the property, it was a sugar and cotton plantation(Source#8). "It was operated for a number of years by his heirs after his death".(Source#11)

Asa was a Major in the Confederate Army(Source#2).

"A man of unconquerable energy, he often said he would rather wear out than rust out, and, although in his eightieth year, he still maintained his mental and physical activity to an unusual degree, and up to within a few weeks of his death was actively engaged in the management of his plantation and general business affairs. In early life he made a profession of religion and became a member of the church. Although retaining to the last many of his strong New England characteristics, he became identified with the South, and gave to her, in prosperity and adversity, a uniform support...Mr. Stratton was married four times, and was fortunate and happy in his marital relations, and fortunate in seeing the kindly and fraternal relations existing between the children of his four marriages."(Source#2)

Asa and Mary Jane were enumerated in Brazoria County during the 1870 population census(Source#9). Mary Jane Chisholm Stratton died in Galveston, Texas on the 6th of February 1872(Source#1), at the age of 35 years, 9 months and 6 days. She's buried in the Clear Lake Cemetery in Brazoria County, Texas(Source#10).

None of Asa's four wives lived to the age of 40. His oldest child was born in 1824 and his youngest was born in 1863.

Major Asa Evans Stratton died on Sabbath morning, 22 July 1877, at his home in Luling, Texas(Source#2). He's buried in the Clear Lake Cemetery in Brazoria County, Texas(Source#10)

"Asa Stratton was a man of sterling character, and his children have kept up the record."(Source#11)

Children of Asa Evans and Mary G. Alexander Stratton:

Dorcas Elizabeth Stratton, b. 16 Dec 1824(Source#1), d. 27 Aug 1826(Source#1)
Jane Alexander Stratton, b. 7 Dec 1827(Source#1), m. Thomas Jefferson Hill(Source#2)
Mary Elizabeth Stratton, b. 23 Dec 1830(Source#1), m. James Evans Stratton
George Henry Stratton, b. 6 Oct 1833(Source#1), d. Feb 1861(Source#1)unwed(Source#1)
James Marshall Stratton, b. Sep 1836(Source#1), d. Sep 1837(Source#1)
Dorcas Cassandra Rebecca Victoria Stratton, b. 11 Nov 1838(Source#1), d. 6 Jul 1845(Source#1)

Children of Asa Evans and Amanda (Gibbons) Wood Stratton

Asa Evans Stratton Jr., b. 13 Jan 1844(Source#1), m. (1)Louisa Waldmann(Source#2), (2)Ima Lee Smith(Source#2)
Sarah Emily Stratton, b. 8 Jan 1847(Source#1), m. Samuel Irvin Bryan(Source#2)

Child of Asa Evans and Caroline Ann (Steger) Pearson Stratton

James Thomas Stratton, b. 8 Oct 1849(Source#1), m. (1)Lavinia P. Bryan(Source#2), (2)Minnie C. Dewey(Source#2)
Infant Stratton, b. August 1855(Source#1), d. 6 Nov 1855(Source#1)

Children of Asa Evans and Mary Jane Chisholm Stratton

Jesse David Tait Stratton, b. 30 Apr 1857(Source#1), m. Sarah Ruble Kirkland(Source#1)
Edward Everett Stratton, b. 30 Oct 1858(Source#1), d. 5 Feb 1858(Source#1)
George Henry Stratton, b. 12 Jan 1861(Source#1), d. 15 May 1863(Source#1)
Amanda Ann Stratton, b. 9 Dec 1863(Source#1), m. Dr. W.V. Ezell(Source#2)

Sources:

1. Asa Evans Stratton Family Bible, 1850, bought in 1852 by Asa E. Stratton
2. A Book of Strattons, Harriett R. Stratton, The Grafton Press, 1908, New York, Vol. 1, Page 199
3. Jasper County, Georgia Marriage Records
4. Genealogical research of Terry Jenkins
5. Panola County Cemetery book
6. 1840 Jasper County, Georgia population census, page 10
7. 1850 Panola County, Mississippi population census, 22 Oct 1850, Page 90
8. TSR: Historical Markers Guide: Brazoria County: McCroskey - Stringfellow House
9. 1870 Brazoria County, Texas population census, page 165, dwelling #1480
10.Roberts and Smiths in Texas History by James B. Bailey:Cemeteries of Brazoria County
11.Old Plantations and Their Owners of Brazoria County, Texas, Abner Jackson Strobel, revised edition, 1930, Pages 17-18.