Died December 30, 1870 Mariposa Free Press
At his residence, near Mariposa, Dec. 24, David C. ASHWORTH, a native of Kentucky, aged 54

ASHWORTH, D. C. December 30, 1870 Mariposa Free Press
Christmas festivities in Mariposa were marred by a sad and gloomy episode. On the Sunday last it became the melancholy duty of our citizens to pay the last tribute of respect to two old residents of this county -one of them and early settler of Mariposa, and both pioneers in California. There are few among the people now living in Mariposa county- none who have who have been here ten years or more, who didn't know David C. Ashworth, or old DC as he was familiarly termed. Mr. Ashworth came to California in 1849, pitching his tent near what is now the town of Coulterville. In the spring of 1850 he moved this side of the Merced and lived for a time at Mormon Bar, and then in the town of Mariposa, where he resided till 1855, when he located among the hills east of town and engaged in farming and stock raising. Mr. Ashworth was a unlettered man, but possessed of a fund of "old hard sense" and was strictly honest. D.C. Ashworth's word was as good as his bond and through his entire life his name was a proverb of integrity. He was a native of Kentucky and emigrated from Missouri to California. His death occurred on Sunday last after an illness of about ten days. He was fifty-four years old.