One of my favorite last names is A’Sturgus. This family showed up in Jefferson Co. KY in the the late 1700’s, migrated to Indiana, and were killed of by Indian raids on the Kentucky frontier. I love the name Minard A’Sturgus.
N° 16. A Grant to Minard Asturgus, Sepf 17* 1784, of a tract of
land extending from the River Kaskaskia to the ledge of rocks,
& from thence of forty Arpents in depth, bounded on one side
by Clark & Wikoff, & on the other by John Dodge.
http://www.beckes.org/records/military/knox.htm