Ancestry of
Hugh Hefner

Founder of Playboy Magazine

Ruth Joy

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Hugh Hefner — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 45 
  • Father:
  • Silas Joy 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Masury   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Feb 1770 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Jun 1853 
  • Death Location:
  • Knox County, Ohio 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Asa Woodward
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Dec 1798 
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  • Child:

  Masury Joy Woodward (Ahnentafel No:22 )

• Sources for Ruth Joy

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A129286.
  • ² Hingham, MA: Vital Records, 1637-1845, Vol. 2, p. 76, Birth record for Ruth Joy.
  • ³ Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Illinois: Containing Full-page Portraits and Biographical Sketches . . ., Chicago: Biographical Publishing Co. (1885), 561.
  • ⁴ Joy, James Richard, Thomas Joy and His Descendants: In the LInes of His Sons Samuel of Boston, Joseph of Hingham, Ephraim of . . ., New York: Printed for the Family (1900), 78.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 359.

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