Joshiah Dwight Ashley (1804-1871)

Joshiah Dwight Ashley (Eli, Joseph, James, Joseph, David, Robert), born 1 November 1804 in Westfield, Mass.; died 25 January 1871 in Westfield ; married 21 May 1846 in Westfield, Maria Dewey, daughter of James and Lydia (Hisscock) Dewey, born 10 August 1808 in Westfield; died 27 March 1888 in Westfield.

Josiah Dwight Ashley settled in his native place. He contracted for and built a section of the New Haven and Northampton Railroad near Westfield. He was not engaged actively in any business, however. His wife was a woman of means, which, with his own property, enabled him to live leisurely. He sold the place which had been his father's, and bought a brick house on Franklin Street, where he carried on farming on a small scale and passed the remainder of his life.

CHILD BORN IN WESTFIELD, MASS.:

i. EMMA JANE, b. 30 Apr. 1847; m. 14 Nov. 1866, Benson J. Hascall of Warehouse Point, Conn.

Source: Francis Bacon Trowbridge, The Ashley Genealogy, History of the Descendants of Robert Ashley of Springfield, Massachusetts, (Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor; 1896), page 183.