EIGHTH GENERATION

237. Wilbert Elroy GRIFFITH was born on 26 Jul 1885 in N. Braddock, Allegheny, PA. He died on 27 May 1957 in Richmond, , VA. He was buried in Rural Valley Cem, , PA. BIRTH/DEATH/MARRIAGE: Information provided by daughter, Margaret Jean Waite,
Annapolis, MD.
Died while on way home from a trip to Florida

Obit (1957) reads: Dr. WILBUR [Wilbert] GRIFFITH, Yatesboro, passed away
Monday, May 27, at 9 a.m. (EDT) in the Medical College Hospital at Richmond,
Virginia. He was born July 26, 1885 at North Braddock a son of Jonathan and
Mary Langford (Barber) Griffith. Dr. Griffith was graduated in 1908 from the
Physicians and Surgeons College of Baltimore (now University of Maryland) and
practiced medicine in Armstrong and Indiana Counties for forty-eight years. He
was a member of the Kittanning Lodge No. 244, F. & A.M. and the Consistory at
Coudersport, the Indiana County Medical Society, the American Medical
Association and the Yatesboro Presbyterian Church. He is survived by his wife,
the former Anna Craig, three sons, Dr. Harold C. Griffith, Rural Valley, James
C. Griffith, New Castle, and Dr. Wilbur [Wilbert] E. Griffith, Jr., of
Gainesville, Florida, one daughter, Mrs. Margaret Jean Waite, Annapolis,
Maryland, one sister, Mrs. George Larimer, Swissvale, ten grandchildren.
Friends will be received at the Edwards Funeral Home in Rural Valley after 6
p.m. this evening and until the hour of service, Thursday at 2:30 o'clock. His
pastor, the Rev. Charles Cochran, will officiate. Interment will be made in the
Rural Valley Cemetery.

He was married to Anna Maria CRAIG in Aug 1910 in Yatesboro, , PA. Anna Maria CRAIG was born on 27 Feb 1893. Wilbert Elroy GRIFFITH and Anna Maria CRAIG had the following children:

+252 i. Harold GRIFFITH.
+253 ii. Margaret Jean GRIFFITH.
+254 iii. James Craig GRIFFITH.
+255 iv. Wilbert Elroy GRIFFITH Jr..