Ancestry of
Hugh Hefner

Founder of Playboy Magazine

Asa Woodward

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Hugh Hefner — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 44 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Woodward 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Bradford   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Feb 1760 
  • Birth Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Aug 1837 
  • Death Location:
  • Homer, Licking, Ohio 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Homer Cemetery, Homer, Licking, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Joy
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Dec 1798 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Masury Joy Woodward (Ahnentafel No:22 )

• Sources for Asa Woodward

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A129286.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/05/2018).
  • ³ Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Illinois: Containing Full-page Portraits and Biographical Sketches . . ., Chicago: Biographical Publishing Co. (1885), 561.
  • ⁴ 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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