Monthly Archives: March 2020

My interest in my family’s history began almost twenty-five years ago when my mother, Bonnie Ashworth, passed along to me an old, worn ledger book. The book contained poetry written over one hundred years ago by her great-great-grandfather and passed down to her by her Grandmother, Caroline Billingham Bentz (Grandpa Murphy’s granddaughter.) The family possessedContinue reading ““Grandpa Murphy” Started it All”