Alexander and Margaret Hopkins Lewis

My great-great grandparents, Alexander and Margaret Hopkins Lewis.  Leaving a legacy of song and a love of music.

Ellen Matilda Ash Nelson and the Indian

Time has a tendency to alter memories.......this post is a correction of a story I shared earlier.  I had details confused on the story told to me by my grandmother.  This event actually happened to my great-great grandmother, Ellen Matilda Ash Nelson as a little girl.  She was quite a woman.

William Pynchon

Here's an incredible story about my maternal 9th-Great Grandfather - William Pynchon.  Born in England, he came to the Americas with the Massachusetts Bay Company and settled/founded Springfield, MA.  Involved with witchcraft trials 70 years before the Salem Witch Trials, he has the distinction of being the author of the first book banned and burned in the Americas!  Lots of information online for those who would like to spend more time reading about this incredible ancestor -