"The father and mother of Mrs. Williams were John T. and Elizabeth (Sharrats) Ashenhurst, natives of England and Pennsylvania respectively. Her father was a farmer in Ohio where he lived until his death in 1844. The mother died at her daughter's home in Hastings January 19, 1873, aged sixty-nine years. Mrs. Williams is the only one now living of a family of four children. Her grandparents were natives of Germany and reared a large family." p. 298 Portrait and biographical album of Barry and Eaton counties, Mich. Chicago: Chapman bros, 1891. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micounty/bad0899.0001.001/304
"John Sherarts and his wife, Elizabeth, came in 1809 and settled one-half mile west of the river on shore; sold out and removed in 1818. Their children were - Mary, who married Herrick Parker, Esq.; Betsey, who married John T. Ashenhurst; Katherine, who married Christopher Shafer; David, who married Betsey Compton; Caroline who married Charles Crandall; John, who married Abagail Gordon; Jane, who married Asa Fisk, and Angeline, who married David Hammond." Early Times and Incidents in Vermillion, Benjamin Summers, The Firelands Pioneer. June 1863. pp. 72-88. http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/erie/history/VermPion.txt