My gr gr grandfather was Joseph Ash, gr gr grandmother, Martha Sanders. Gr grandfather, William Franklin Ash, gr grandmother, Phoebe Ellen Heath. The story is that Wm F. Ash was born in Iowa, 1 June 1855, however I have not located a census in Iowa for a Joseph with a son, Wm. F. On Wm F.'s death record, it shows Joseph as being born in Penn and Martha b. in IN. I have some other information if we can make a connection.