Individual Details

Probably Robert, 1850 Census, Casey Co KY, Hh 7
R. Y. Ashley, age 27, blacksmith, b. KY
Elizabeth 9, Sally 7, Mary 5, and Susanah age 1.
[Robert is at the bottom of one page, the children at the top of the next - I suspect the enumerator skipped Robert's wife Delilah when he was re-copying his work.]

Robert married Delilah Wesley, 19 Aug 1840, Casey Co KY. There is also a marriage in the Kentucky Marriage database on Ancestry for Delila M. Wesley to R. T. Ashley, 25 Nov 1875, Casey Co KY.

1860 Census. Casey Co KY, Hh 254, P.O. Mintinsville [about five houses from brother John]
Robert Ashley, age 38, farmer & Smith, b. Pulaski Co
[this enumerator put the place of birth only for the head of household]
Delilia, age 37
Eliza 18. Sarah 16. Mary 14. Catherine 10.
Note the pages are out of order ....if you follow the household numbers, do a search just on Ashley for Casey Co - you find the rest of Robert & Delilah's children:
Susan age 8. John P. age 6. Thomas age 4. Emeley C. age 2.

1870 Census. Jenkins, Casey Co, KY, Hh 58
Robert Ashley, 47, Farmer
Delila, 46
Mary, 24
Susan, 20
Catherine 18,
John D., 16
Robert T, 14
Emily T, 13
Liddia, 9
William D. 7
Soloman, 5
Ann, 3

1880 Census. Casey Co, KY, Hh 118
Robert S. Ashley, 57
Delila, 56, wife
Soloman, 15,son
Anna, 13, dau

Buried Bethelridge Cemetery, Casey Co, KY

History of Kentucky, Judge Charles Kerr, Editor; By William Elsey Connelly, Author of the "Eastern Kentucky Papers" and E..M. Coulter, Ph.D, Dept of History, University of Georgia; In Five Volumes, Vol V, The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1922, p203. Available in full online archive.org
Biography of Grandson, Silas Ashley
....sheriff of Casey County. He has lived in the county all his life...
Sheriff Ashley was born on a fram 23 miles east of Liberty, December 7, 1885. His grandfather was Robert Ashley, a native of Virginia and one of the early day farmers of Casey County, where he died in 1890. His wife was Delila Wesley, who also died in Casey County. The father of Sheriff Ashley is S. N. Ashley, born in Casey County in 1860, reared and married her, for a number of years was engaged in the timber business as well as a farmer, and since 1913 has lived on a farm at Eubanks in Pulask Co. ....S. N. Ashley married Sarah Wall who was born in Casey County, They were parents of eleven children: Rhoda, wife of William Wesley, a farmer in Pulaski County; Silas; J. H., a merchant at Eubank; Ambrose; Ezra P., who died at the age of seventeen; Colletie, wife of H. C. Barber, farmer in Pulaski County; Ruth, wife of J. F. Barber, Pulaski County, farmer; Mont; Millie; Glayds, and Ezra.
.... At Huntsville, TN, in 1905, Mr. Ashley married Miss Grace Wesley, daughter of J. B. and Mary (Lyn) Wesley, the latter now deceased. Her father is a farmer and surveyor living at Bethel Ridge in Casey County, and is a former county surveyor. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley have four children, Ina, born in 1909; Mildred, born in 1912; Irona, born 1914; and Orena, born 1917.

Birth	26 Mar 1823	Kentucky
Marriage	19 Aug 1840	Casey County, Kentucky - Delilah Jane Wesley
Death	27 Jan 1896	Casey County, Kentucky

Spouse	Delilah Jane Wesley (1823 - 1908)
Child	Solomon Newell Ashley (1864 - 1938)

Father	John Ashley (1794 - 1858)
Mother	Elizabeth Montgomery (1797 - 1871)
Sibling	Uriah J. Ashley (1816 - 1882)
Sibling	John O. Ashley (1819 - 1890)
Sibling	Obediah Ashley (1821 - )
Sibling	Elizabeth Ashley (1828 - 1911)
Sibling	Emily Ashley (1830 - 1870)
Sibling	Mary Ashley (1832 - 1865)
Sibling	James Montgomery Ashley (1834 - 1907)
Sibling	Minerva I. Ashley (1837 - )
Sibling	Thomas J. Ashley (1839 - )
Sibling	Aden Jones Ashley (1841 - 1914)
Sibling	Sarah B Ashley (1843 - 1880)