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1 SOUR FamilyOrigins
2 NAME Family Origins(R) for Windows
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1 DATE 7 JUL 2005
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1 NAME Sara Leslie Griffith
1 ADDR 27486 Sierra Madre Drive
2 CONT Murrieta, CA 92563
1 _EMAIL genealogy@pal2pal.com
0 @I1@ INDI
1 NAME Sara Leslie /Griffith/
2 GIVN Sara Leslie
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 64AC66EDF4C047488077734EDC9C751C67B2
1 NOTE BIRTH: Birth Certificate, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
2 CONT
2 CONT CHRISTENING: Baptismal record from Westmont Presbyterian Church signed
2 CONC by Dr.
2 CONT Stanton. Also, have church bulletin.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Certificate San Diego County, San Diego, California, 1969.
2 CONT
2 CONT OCCUPATION: Congressional Campaign Staff; Computer Sys. Administrator;
2 CONT Newspaper advertising representative.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 7 MAY 1945
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 CHR
2 DATE 15 JUL 1945
2 PLAC Westmont Presby., Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 ENDL
2 DATE 10 SEP 1977
2 TEMP LANGE
1 SLGC
2 DATE 5 DEC 1979
2 TEMP LANGE
2 FAMC @F2@
1 BAPL
2 DATE 13 MAR 1976
1 REFN 1
1 FAMS @F1@
1 FAMC @F2@
0 @I2@ INDI
1 NAME Henry William /Jacoby/
2 GIVN Henry William
2 SURN Jacoby
1 SEX M
1 _UID E2E6E4C05FDFDD4380658C509344310B9EF8
1 NOTE BIRTH: Birth Certificate, Weld County, Colorado, 1942.
2 CONT
2 CONT OCCUPATION: U.S. Navy 1961-1987; Supervisor, General Motors.
2 CONT
2 CONT MILITARY: DD214, U.S. Navy.
2 CONT
2 CONT BIOGRAPHY: Hank Jacoby spent his early years on a sugar beet and
2 CONC potato farm
2 CONT located in Johnstown, Colorado that his father and uncle farmed
2 CONC together. He
2 CONT was the second of five children of Henry Jacoby, Sr. and Ruby Brown.
2 CONC When he
2 CONT was seven years old his father died suddenly, at the age of 42. His
2 CONC mother
2 CONT moved the family "into town" Greely, Colorado where Hank attended
2 CONC elementary
2 CONT and high school, graduating in 1960. Ruby Brown Jacoby remarried in
2 CONC May of 1953
2 CONT to George Henry Kuxhausen and they had one son, Randy. Hank's other
2 CONC sisters and
2 CONT brother are: Mary Martha Jacoby, b. 2 Aug 1940; Eileen Ruth Jacoby, b.
2 CONC 24 Feb
2 CONT 1945; Diane Lou Jacoby, b. 23 May 1947; Dale Arthur Jacoby, b. 28 Jan
2 CONC 1949.
2 CONT Randall Stephan Kuxhausen was born 10 Jul 1954.
2 CONT
2 CONT After graduating from Greely High School, Hank joined the Navy on 19
2 CONC Mar 1961
2 CONT and was sent to Boot Camp at Naval Training Center, San Diego,
2 CONC California.
2 CONT After graduating from Boot Camp he attended A-school at the Naval
2 CONC Training
2 CONT Center and was assigned to his first ship, U.S.S. Excel (MSO438), a
2 CONC minesweeper
2 CONT homeported in Long Beach, Calif. While aboard the Excel, Hank made his
2 CONC first
2 CONT cruise to the western Pacific including Hawaii, Midway, Hong Kong,
2 CONC Japan,
2 CONT Taiwan, Okinawa, Philippines and back to the U.S. and Seattle to
2 CONC attend the
2 CONT World's Fair and then to British Columbia.
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1964, Hank was reassigned to the U.S.S. Walke (DD723), a destroyer.
2 CONC In 1965
2 CONT he was stationed on the island of Guam aboard the U.S.S. Proteus
2 CONC (AS19), a
2 CONT submarine tender. After a year and half on Guam, he was sent to New
2 CONC Orleans as
2 CONT part of the commissioning crew of the U.S.S. Sphinx (ARL24), a light
2 CONC repair
2 CONT ship. He sailed aboard the Sphinx through the Panama Canal in 1968 to
2 CONC San Diego
2 CONT and then on to Vietnam, where he was attached to the Mobile Riverine
2 CONC Force in
2 CONT the Mekong Delta. After a year "in country" Hank was transferred in
2 CONC Jan. 1969
2 CONT to the U.S.S. Koka (ATA185), a sea-going tug operating out of San
2 CONC Diego.  While
2 CONT on board the Koka, he was selected for the Navy Warrant Officer
2 CONC Program, 1969.
2 CONT He took time out to get married on 11 Dec 1969 at the San Diego Naval
2 CONC Station
2 CONT Chapel and was commissioned in June 1970.  In 1971, Hank was sent for
2 CONC 10 weeks
2 CONT of training at the Damage Control Assistant school at Treasure Island,
2 CONC Calif.
2 CONT and then was assigned to the U.S.S. Iwo Jima (LPH2), a helicopter
2 CONC landing ship.
2 CONT After returning from a Westpac cruise to Japan, Okinawa, Hong Kong,
2 CONC and the
2 CONT Philippines, the Iwo was rehomeported to the East Coast, Norfolk Naval
2 CONC Station,
2 CONT and Hank had his second experience sailing through the Panama Canal,
2 CONC this time
2 CONT from West to East. He then sailed aboard the Iwo to the Mediterranean
2 CONC and
2 CONT visited Spain, France, Italy, Turkey, and Greece before returning to
2 CONC the U.S.
2 CONT and being transferred back to San Diego aboard the U.S.S. Cleveland
2 CONC (LPD7), a
2 CONT landing platform dock, a ship designed to land helicopters and launch
2 CONC and
2 CONT recover landing craft. On board the Cleveland, 1973, Hank had his
2 CONC first visit to
2 CONT Australia, crossing the Equator in the process and undergoing the
2 CONC time-honored
2 CONT initiation into the "Realm of the Shellback." From Australia, they
2 CONC visited the
2 CONT usual western Pacific ports as well as stopping in Korea. In June of
2 CONC 1975 he
2 CONT finally got to stay ashore for a couple of years, being assigned to
2 CONC DATC
2 CONT (Development and Training Center, Naval Station San Diego) where he
2 CONC was in
2 CONT charge of several of the ship repair shops. After 18 months there, he
2 CONC was
2 CONT assigned to the Recruit Training Command at the Naval Training Center,
2 CONC San
2 CONT Diego as the Receiving and Outfitting Officer and Recruit Company
2 CONC Commander. He
2 CONT spent three years at RTC/NTC and in June of 1980 was transferred to
2 CONC the
2 CONT U.S.S. Dixie (AD14), a destroyer repair ship. During the time spent at
2 CONC DATC and
2 CONT RTC, Hank also managed to complete his college education, attending
2 CONC classes
2 CONT nights and weekends.
2 CONT
2 CONT On board the Dixie, Hank made another trip to the western Pacific
2 CONC including the
2 CONT Indian Ocean and Diego Garcia, again crossing the equator where this
2 CONC time he
2 CONT got to be the initiator. The ship called at Somolia, Pakistan,
2 CONC Marutius, and
2 CONT another visit to Australia. On the way home, Hank became a "Golden
2 CONC Shellback"
2 CONT when he crossed the Equator and the International Dateline
2 CONC simultaneously.  In
2 CONT July of 1982, he took part in the decommissioning of the Dixie and was
2 CONC assigned
2 CONT to the U.S.S. Prairie (AD15), a sister ship to Dixie, in Long Beach,
2 CONC Calif. The
2 CONT Prairie made another Westpac deployment again to the Indian Ocean and
2 CONC Diego
2 CONT Garcia and Oman in the Persian Gulf. On the way back to the U.S. the
2 CONC ship
2 CONT called at Hobart, Tasmania. During this cruise, Hank had the
2 CONC opportunity to
2 CONT visit mainland China in 1984. In September of 1984, Hank was
2 CONC transferred to the
2 CONT Naval Weapons Station in Charleston, South Carolina, on board the
2 CONC U.S.S.
2 CONT Alamagordo (ARDM2), a submarine floating drydock, where he was the
2 CONC Dock Master
2 CONT in charge of docking nuclear submarines in for repairs.
2 CONT
2 CONT In April of 1987, Hank retired from the Navy after 26 years and 6
2 CONC days. He was
2 CONT honored with the Navy Commendation medal at his retirement ceremony
2 CONC held
2 CONT on board Alamagordo.
2 CONT
2 CONT He accepted a position with the Marine Construction Division of
2 CONC Bethlehem Steel
2 CONT in Baltimore, Maryland in 1987, moving over to an engineering
2 CONC supervisory
2 CONT position with General Motors Corporation in April 1989. In late 1991,
2 CONC he was
2 CONT transferred to a similar position with General Motors in Indianapolis,
2 CONC Indiana.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 APR 1942
2 PLAC Johnstown, Weld, CO
1 FAMS @F1@
0 @I3@ INDI
1 NAME David Marshall /Jacoby/
2 GIVN David Marshall
2 SURN Jacoby
1 SEX M
1 _UID E0EBA031B40F534E905AE4A8A1E226355454
1 NOTE BIRTH: Certificate, Ohio Dept. of Health, Div. of Vital Statistics No.
2 CONC 570399,
2 CONT Registrar's No. 6992.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 AUG 1965
2 PLAC Dayton, Montgomery, OH
1 FAMC @F1@
0 @I4@ INDI
1 NAME Lucie Estelle /L'Hommedieu/
2 GIVN Lucie Estelle
2 SURN L'Hommedieu
1 SEX F
1 _UID 0A84DB103AE8FF469E3D3359A28FEDF65BD1
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 AUG 1910
2 PLAC Tarrentum, Harrison Twp., Allegheny, PA
2 NOTE Lucie L'Hommedieu was born at the United Presbyterian Campground in
3 CONC Tarrentum, Harrison Township, Allegheny county, PA, where her family
3 CONC owned a summer cottage.  Her father, a young engineer with the
3 CONC Westinghouse Corp. had been transferred to the San Francisco Bay area
3 CONC and her parents, after giving up their own home in preparation for the
3 CONC move to California, stayed at the family camp until Lucie was born.
3 CONC They left for California by train when she was 3 weeks old.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 AUG 2004
2 PLAC at home, Murrieta, Riverside, California
2 NOTE Lucie died at home with her daughter, Sara Leslie, and her grandson,
3 CONC David Marshall, with her. Penny Jean Bailey was also there.
3 CONT
3 CONT Death Certificate recorded in Riverside County, CA
3 CONT
3 CONT OBITUARY:
3 CONT
3 CONT "TOMORROW IS TODAY'S DREAM"
3 CONT
3 CONT On August 28, 2004, Lucie Estelle L'Hommedieu Griffith passed quietly
3 CONC away at home in Murrieta, California. She died as she lived, with
3 CONC dignity and personal independence, true to her life motto, "Tomorrow
3 CONC is today's dream." She was 94.
3 CONT
3 CONT Lucie, known as Lucile in her later years, was born August 12, 1910,
3 CONC Turtle Creek, PA, and when only 3 weeks old, she had her first
3 CONC adventure, traveling across the country by train with her parents to
3 CONC the San Francisco Bay area. Here she grew up and began her life long
3 CONC love of California, her beloved Yosemite and Big Basin, camping and
3 CONC nature. Lucie graduated with highest honors from the University of
3 CONC California, Berkeley, with a degree in economics and personnel
3 CONC administration, (she later attended Boston University, University of
3 CONC Pittsburgh, and The New School in New York City, earning Masters in
3 CONC philosophy and psychology). It was the first year of the Great
3 CONC Depression after graduation from Berkeley and she often laughed that
3 CONC she got her first post graduation job in a department store credit
3 CONC department, not because of her education, but because she could type.
3 CONC Lucie had begun her working career at the age of 14, giving violin
3 CONC lessons for 50 cents a lesson and had paid for her college expenses
3 CONC reading to the blind and working as a playground supervisor and tennis
3 CONC instructor.
3 CONT
3 CONT In 1935, Lucie used a small inheritance from her Grandmother to
3 CONC finance a trip "back East" to visit with her Mother's family in
3 CONC Pittsburgh, PA. Just prior to her marriage in 1938 to Edgar Marshall
3 CONC Griffith, who she met shortly after arriving in Pittsburgh, she came
3 CONC to national prominence, as a ground breaker for women, when a business
3 CONC essay she wrote as part of a contest conducted by Forbes Magazine, was
3 CONC selected over 758 other entrants, all male. Her arrival in New York
3 CONC City to receive her award and expenses paid week in the city was met
3 CONC with much hand wringing as the Forbes Magazine men discovered her
3 CONC gender for the first time and tried to decided what to do with a woman
3 CONC contest winner. The CEO of the company, Mr. Forbes himself, put a stop
3 CONC to the grumbling and made a public statement that "woman or not, she
3 CONC was proof of the best and brightest and would get her prize and the
3 CONC national recognition she so well deserves."
3 CONT
3 CONT  After her marriage in November, 1938, she and her new husband,
3 CONC Marshall, set up housekeeping in Johnstown, PA where Marshall was the
3 CONC project manager for the flood wall project underway in a city famous
3 CONC for its devastating floods. It took Lucie less than six months to
3 CONC begin making her mark as a volunteer leader, trainer, board member,
3 CONC vice president, executive trainer and president Girl Scouts of the
3 CONC U.S.A. in Johnstown. She was also a board member for the Cambria City
3 CONC Mission, the Johnstown Symphony Auxiliary, Johnstown Youth Association
3 CONC all while finding time to play the violin in the Johnstown Symphony
3 CONC Orchestra. In 1945, she took a year off to have her only child, Sara
3 CONC Leslie Griffith, and worked hard at bringing scouting to the small
3 CONC mining towns that dotted the landscape in and around Cambria County.
3 CONC Lucie fought prejudice all her life and she always felt her crowning
3 CONC achievement was establishing the first troop for African American
3 CONC young girls. She became the Executive Director of the Johnstown Girl
3 CONC Scout Council in 1951. In 1961, now a young widow, she became the
3 CONC Executive Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Girl Scout Council,
3 CONC NY. In 1966, she was tapped to head the Bureau of Wages and Standards
3 CONC at National Headquarters in New York City. She left New York to begin
3 CONC her quest to return to California with a stop as Executive Director of
3 CONC the Northwest Cook County, Illinois council from 1968-1970 and in 1970
3 CONC she joined the Spanish Trails Girl Scout Council, Pomona, California.
3 CONC After her retirement in 1975, she returned to scouting as the Interim
3 CONC Director, Two Rivers G.S. Council in Quincy, Illinois until they could
3 CONC hire a permanent director.
3 CONT
3 CONT She continued her public service as a Member of the Quota Club, the
3 CONC Century Club of Buffalo, NY, charter member of the NAACP and active
3 CONC civil rights worker, the American Association of University Women, the
3 CONC Buffalo Philharmonic Auxiliary, as a volunteer for alcohol
3 CONC rehabilitation programs, a member of the Society of Personnel Women
3 CONC and member and officer of the Des Plaines and Pomona Soroptomist
3 CONC Clubs. She was a member and officer of the Chino Art Association, she
3 CONC recorded text books for the blind at the Claremont Center and
3 CONC volunteered for the California Literacy Campaign through the Chino
3 CONC Library, teaching adults to read. In retirement, she worked as a
3 CONC census enumerator and during tax season, as a preparer for H&R Block.
3 CONT
3 CONT Lucie's retirement years were ones spent traveling with her daughter
3 CONC and friends, visiting her family, playing bridge, painting, loving the
3 CONC computer age, and staying active. When Ronald Reagan was elected
3 CONC President, she took it as a personal challenge (they were the same
3 CONC age), and vowed, "if he can be that active, so can I." Her words
3 CONC during the week long Reagan funeral were, "I won!"
3 CONT
3 CONT Lucie is survived by her Daughter, Sara Leslie Griffith of Murrieta,
3 CONC CA, Grandson David Marshall Jacoby and his partner Penny of Murrieta,
3 CONC CA, Granddaughter Victoria Huggins and Greatgranddaughter, Jessica
3 CONC (age 13) of Kissimmee, FL, Nephew Robert L'Hommedieu of Placentia, CA,
3 CONC Nieces Susan L'H. Kalhoefer of Missouri, Maureen Murtaugh of Danville,
3 CONC CA and Martha Adams of Pittsburgh, PA. She was preceded in death by
3 CONC her parents, William Peryn and Sara (Young) L'Hommedieu, her brothers,
3 CONC Alfred and William R. L'Hommedieu, her sister, Annalene Hervey
3 CONC Callendar, and her husband, Edgar Marshall Griffith.
3 CONT
3 CONT Lucie requested that there be no funeral or formal gathering after her
3 CONC passing. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, any donations be
3 CONC given to the Talus Rock Council, Johnstown, PA. to establish
3 CONC camperships for needy girls or to the Parkinson Foundation in honor of
3 CONC Lucie's oldest and dearest friend, Helen Sellers. Private internment
3 CONC September 7, 2004, Forest Lawn, Covina Hills, CA
3 CONT
3 CONT
1 ENDL
2 DATE 5 DEC 1979
2 TEMP LANGE
1 SLGC
2 DATE 5 DEC 1979
2 TEMP LANGE
1 BAPL
2 DATE 26 AUG 1978
1 OCCU Westinghouse Corporation
2 DATE BET 1936 AND 1938
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA
2 NOTE Lucie worked as a Receptionist for a couple of years when she first
3 CONC came East after graduating from college. While she was at the East
3 CONC Pittsburgh Works, she entered and won first prize in a Forbes Magazine
3 CONC sponsored nationwide contest, "Why I Like to Work for My Company."
1 OCCU Girl Scouts of USA
2 DATE BET 1952 AND 1975
2 PLAC Johnstown, PA; Buffalo, NY, DesPlaines, IL; Pomona, CA
2 NOTE In addition to the Executive Director position in the Johnstown, PA
3 CONC (1952-1962), Burffalo, NY (1962-1966), DesPlaines, IL (1967-1970), and
3 CONC Spanish Trails, Pomona, CA (1970-1976) Girl Scout Councils, Lucile
3 CONC also served as a National Trainer from National Headquarters in New
3 CONC York City (1965-1967).
1 EDUC
2 DATE BET 1926 AND 1930
2 PLAC University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, Alameda, CA
2 NOTE Bachelor's Degree in Economics.
1 FAMS @F2@
0 @I5@ INDI
1 NAME Edgar Marshall /Griffith/
2 GIVN Edgar Marshall
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 121BE25FCFBEFB4EAB868D34D278CCBB07A5
1 NOTE
2 CONT
2 CONT
2 CONT
2 CONT
2 CONT
2 CONT
2 CONT
2 CONT
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 OCT 1908
2 PLAC Wilkinsburg, Allegheny, PA
2 NOTE Born at home, 410 Hampton Avenue, Wilkinsburg, Allegheny, PA.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 AUG 1958
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
2 NOTE Marshall died at his home at 432 Dickinson Street, Johnstown, Cambria
3 CONC county, PA. Cause of death was "coronary occlusion" complicated by
3 CONC diabetes.
3 CONT
3 CONT Obituary notice:
3 CONT Death Claims E. Marshall Griffith, 49. Davis Brake Beam
3 CONT Official Prominent in College Football.
3 CONT     A prominent Westmont businessman was pronounced dead on arrival
3 CONC Saturday morning at Memorial Hospital after suffering a heart attack
3 CONC at his home. He was E. Marshall Griffith , 49, of 432 Dickinson
3 CONC Street, assistant to the president of Davis Brake Beam Company.
3 CONT    Mr. Griffith was president of a class of approximately 300 men who
3 CONC were inducted into New Castle Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish
3 CONC Rite Masons, in 1944.
3 CONT "Given High Award"
3 CONT    A past president of the consistory's Johnstown Fellowship Club, he
3 CONC was presented one of the highest awards in Scottish Rite
3 CONC circles--Meritorious Service Award Jewel--at the  consistory's 99th
3 CONC reunion in 1956.
3 CONT   The Westmont man, former manager of Cambria Slag Company, served two
3 CONC years as president of Phi Delta Theta Alumni Club of Johnstown. He was
3 CONC a member of the 1929 undefeated  football team.
1 BURI
2 DATE 21 AUG 1958
2 PLAC Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA
2 NOTE Buried in Lot 68, Section 24. Common headstone, "GRIFFITH," for six
3 CONC grave plot. Buried with his father, mother, and sister.
1 ENDL
2 DATE 8 APR 1978
2 TEMP LANGE
1 SLGC
2 DATE 13 JUL 1978
2 TEMP LANGE
2 FAMC @F3@
1 BAPL
2 DATE 24 MAR 1978
2 TEMP LANGE
1 OCCU Civil Engineer
2 DATE BET 1932 AND 1958
2 PLAC Pennsylvania
2 NOTE Johnstown Flood Wall, Project Manager; Cambria Slag Company,
3 CONC President; Davis Brake Beam Company, Assistant to President;
3 CONC Pennsylvania Department of Highways.
1 EDUC
2 DATE BET 1922 AND 1926
2 PLAC Wilkinsburg, Allegheny, PA
2 NOTE From "The Annual" 1926, Wilkinsburg High School yearbook, one verse of
3 CONC a poem that consisted of a verse for each member of the senior class:
3 CONT          "Always beware of Marshall Griffith / His onslaught is indeed
3 CONC "terrif'th"; / In
3 CONT           football it always was his style, / To lie on the very
3 CONC bottom of the pile."
3 CONT The same yearbook lists the perfect boy and girl, under "Perfect Boy,"
3 CONC Marshall Griffith's shoulders.
1 EDUC
2 DATE BET 1926 AND 1932
2 PLAC Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Membership
2 DATE BET 1928 AND 1958
2 PLAC Pennsylvania
2 NOTE New Castle Consistory, 32 degree Mason; Phi Delta Theta fraternity,
3 CONC Ohio University; Elks.
1 EVEN New Castle Consistory, 32 degree Mason; Ph Delta Theta Fraternity, Ohio University; Elks Club
2 TYPE Membership
1 FAMS @F2@
1 FAMC @F3@
0 @I6@ INDI
1 NAME Edgar Alfred /Griffith/
2 GIVN Edgar Alfred
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 7B696C3B5993D441835DB7F9F544C5253FE5
1 NOTE OCCUPATION: Civil Engineer; Pennsylvania Dept. of Highways
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH SOURCE: Age, with birth date, as given on marriage license sworn
2 CONC affidavit,
2 CONT Crawford County, PA
2 CONT MARRIAGE SOURCE:  Certificate signed by Frank M. Silsby, Minister,
2 CONC filed with
2 CONT Clerk of the Orphans' Court of Crawford County, PA, License #9219
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH:  Death Certificate, Allegheny County, PA
2 CONT BURIAL: Tombstone inscription reads "Father";
2 CONT Buried with wife/son/daughter (1 large common headstone)
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: No will, property divided equally between son and daughter
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH: at home, 410 Hampton Avenue, Wilkinsburg, Allegheny, PA
2 CONT EDUCATION: Allegheny College, Meadville, Crawford, PA.
2 CONT MEMBER: New Castle Consistory, Mason; Phi Delta Theta fraternity,
2 CONC Allegheny
2 CONT College
2 CONT
2 CONT OBIT: The Gazette (Wilkinsburg), Friday, 11 March 1949, Front page,
2 CONC Vol. 27,
2 CONT No. 27, reads:
2 CONT E.A. GRIFFITH / DIES AT HOME / BURIAL WEDNESDAY
2 CONT      Funeral services for Edgar A. Griffith, former chief maintenance
2 CONC engineer
2 CONT of Allegheny county, were held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 from The
2 CONC Eaton
2 CONT Funeral Home with Dr. Ray E. Manne officiating. Burial was in Homewood
2 CONT Cemetery.
2 CONT      Mr. Griffith, 68, died Mar. 5 at his home on Whitney Ave. (note:
2 CONC actually
2 CONT died at home on Hampton Ave., Wilkinsburg.) He has been a resident of
2 CONC the
2 CONT borough for 40 years. He was born in North Braddock where he attended
2 CONC high
2 CONT school. After his graduation from Allegheny College in 1904, he was
2 CONC employed by
2 CONT the county.
2 CONT      Following his retirement in 1933, he worked for the state highway
2 CONT department.
2 CONT      He was a member of South Ave. Methodist church, Oriental Lodge
2 CONC #590, Fand
2 CONT AM, Pittsburgh Consistory, Syria Temple and Phi Delta Theta
2 CONC fraternity.
2 CONT      Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Norman Barr Glass, a teacher at
2 CONC Turner
2 CONT School, a son E. Marshall Griffith, of Johnstown, a brother, Dr. W.E.
2 CONC Griffith,
2 CONT of Yatesboro, a sister, Mrs. George F. Larimer, of Regent Square, and
2 CONC a
2 CONT granddaughter, Sara Leslie Griffith, of Johnstown.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 FEB 1880
2 PLAC N. Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 MAR 1949
2 PLAC Wilkinsburg, Allegheny, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Homewood Cem, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA
1 FAMS @F3@
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I7@ INDI
1 NAME Clara Elizabeth /Waelde/
2 GIVN Clara Elizabeth
2 SURN Waelde
1 SEX F
1 _UID 1021415143A58E4BA0D808764918AF058F39
1 NOTE DEATH: Death Certificate Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, File no. 54985
2 CONT BURIAL: Cemetery records, Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA, Lot 68,
2 CONC Section 24
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH/MARRIAGE: Age given as 24 as of June 1904 on marriage license
2 CONC affidavit of
2 CONT 26 October 1904. Marriage certificate signed by Frank M. Silsby,
2 CONC Minister on
2 CONT file with license #9219, Clerk of Orphans' Court of Crawford County,
2 CONC PA
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Crawford Journal 10-27-1904, p.8;5: Waelde-Griffith. In
2 CONC Meadville,
2 CONT Oct. 26, Miss Clara Elizabeth Waelde and Edgar A. Griffith, of
2 CONC Braddock, Pa.,
2 CONT Rev. Frank M. Silsby officiating.
2 CONT
2 CONT Meadville Morning Star, 10-27-1904, p.2;2:
2 CONT Popular Meadville Girl Becomes a Bride.
2 CONT The pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sullivan, 710 Lord Street was
2 CONC the
2 CONT scene of a pretty wedding Wednesday evening when their daughter, Miss
2 CONC Clara
2 CONT Elizabeth Waelde, was united in marriage to Edgar Alfred Griffith, of
2 CONC Braddock,
2 CONT Pa.
2 CONT At 7 o'clock the wedding party entered the parlor, which had been
2 CONC prettily
2 CONT decorated with yellow and white wedding bells, the colors being the
2 CONC bride's
2 CONT sorority colors. The wedding march from "Lohengrin" was played by Miss
2 CONC Belle
2 CONT Titus of Bradford. The bridesmaid was Miss Mayme Meckling, of Butler,
2 CONC Pa. and
2 CONT the groom was attended by Frank Waelde, a brother of the bride. The
2 CONC words that
2 CONT united the happy couple were spoken by Rev. Frank M. Sislsey, pastor
2 CONC of the
2 CONT First Presbyterian Church, the full ring service of that church being
2 CONC employed.
2 CONT Following the ceremony, which was performed in the presence of the
2 CONC immediate
2 CONT relatives only, a reception was held lasting from 8 to 10 o'clock. Mr.
2 CONC and Mrs.
2 CONT Griffith received the congratulations of all with their best wishes
2 CONC for their
2 CONT future welfare.
2 CONT Many beautiful and valuable presents were received by the bride.
2 CONT The bride is one of Meadville's popular young ladies, and the groom is
2 CONC also
2 CONT well known here, having attended Allegheny College and being a member
2 CONC of the
2 CONT Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He has a responsible position as civil
2 CONC engineer
2 CONT with the firm of the Miller-Patterson Company of Pittsburgh. Both Mr.
2 CONC and Mrs.
2 CONT Griffith are assured of the best wishes of many friends for all the
2 CONC happiness
2 CONT possible in their future life.
2 CONT The happy couple left for a bridal trip in the East and will be at
2 CONC home to
2 CONT their friends after December 1 at 1307 Walnut Street, Wilkinsburg.
2 CONT Those present from out of the city were: Mr. and Mrs. Griffith,
2 CONC parents of the
2 CONT groom; Wilbert Griffith and Miss Marie Griffith, brother and sister of
2 CONC the
2 CONT groom; Miss Aites and Mrs. Steward, of Braddock; Miss Mayme Meckling
2 CONC of Butler;
2 CONT Miss Minnie McGuire and Clawed McGuire of Conneaut Lake.
2 CONT
2 CONT Meadville Evening Republican, Thursday, October 27, 1904: An article
2 CONC almost
2 CONT identical to the above appeared regarding the Waelde-Griffith
2 CONC marriage.
2 CONT
2 CONT OBIT: The Gazette (Wilkinsburg), Front Page, Friday 26 June 1942, Vol.
2 CONC 20, No.
2 CONT 42, reads:
2 CONT Mrs. C.W. GRIFFITH / DIED SATURDAY AT / CONNEAUT LAKE
2 CONT      Mrs. Clara Waelde Griffith, 62, of 410 Hampton Ave., Wilkinsburg,
2 CONC charter
2 CONT member of Mu Phi Epsilon, a national musical fraternity, was buried
2 CONC Wednesday
2 CONT afternoon from the Eaton Funeral Home, Wilkinsburg. She died Saturday
2 CONC at her
2 CONT summer home, Conneaut Lake Park.
2 CONT      She was born in Meadville and had lived in Wilkinsburg 37 years.
2 CONC She
2 CONT attended the Pennsylvania Conservatory of Music and was a member of
2 CONC South Ave.
2 CONT Methodist church, Wilkinsburg.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 JUN 1880
2 PLAC Meadville, Crawford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 JUN 1942
2 PLAC Conneaut Lake, Crawford, PA
2 NOTE OBIT: The Gazette (Wilkinsburg), Front Page, Friday 26 June 1942, Vol.
3 CONC 20, No.
3 CONT 42, reads:
3 CONT Mrs. C.W. GRIFFITH / DIED SATURDAY AT / CONNEAUT LAKE
3 CONT      Mrs. Clara Waelde Griffith, 62, of 410 Hampton Ave., Wilkinsburg,
3 CONC charter
3 CONT member of Mu Phi Epsilon, a national musical fraternity, was buried
3 CONC Wednesday
3 CONT afternoon from the Eaton Funeral Home, Wilkinsburg. She died Saturday
3 CONC at her
3 CONT summer home, Conneaut Lake Park.
3 CONT      She was born in Meadville and had lived in Wilkinsburg 37 years.
3 CONC She
3 CONT attended the Pennsylvania Conservatory of Music and was a member of
3 CONC South Ave.
3 CONT Methodist church, Wilkinsburg.
1 BURI
2 PLAC Homewood Cem, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA
1 REFN 5
1 FAMS @F3@
0 @I8@ INDI
1 NAME Miriam Elizabeth /Griffith/
2 GIVN Miriam Elizabeth
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 7861F3BB239BFB4892521CBE37152F894AC9
1 NOTE BIRTH: Information compiled while subject still living. Birth
2 CONC Certificate, PA
2 CONT File #1202650-14, Allegheny County.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Marriage certificate PA #14479, dated 12 Jul 1947, Series X,
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH: Personally attended funeral
2 CONT BURIAL: Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA, Lot 68, Section 24
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 JUL 1914
2 PLAC Wilkinsburg, Allegheny, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 AUG 1986
2 PLAC Conneaut Lake, Crawford, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Homewood Cem, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA
1 FAMS @F4@
1 FAMC @F3@
0 @I9@ INDI
1 NAME Norman Barr /Glass/
2 GIVN Norman Barr
2 SURN Glass
1 SEX M
1 _UID 3351001D3AA58B4D9428658EC3738FC79380
1 NOTE Information supplied by daughter, Martha Marie Glass Adams.
2 CONT BIRTH: Affidavit of Birth, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of
2 CONC Venango
2 CONT reads: I, the undersigned, Jno. H. Glass of 22 E. Bissell Ave., Oil
2 CONC City, Pa.,
2 CONT do solemnly swear that I am the father of Norman Barr Glass, who
2 CONC resides at 22
2 CONT E. Bissell Ave., Oil City, Pa.; that he was born on Apr. 23, 1915 at
2 CONC 213 1/2
2 CONT Bissell Ave., Oil City, Pa., Witness my hand and seal this 31st day of
2 CONC July,
2 CONT A.D. 1941. (Signed) John H. Glass (Notarized.)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 APR 1915
2 PLAC Oil City, Venango, PA
1 FAMS @F4@
0 @I10@ INDI
1 NAME Jonathan J. /Griffith/
2 GIVN Jonathan J.
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 68EB26DD79BA554C9C3F7379AF97C65D5A4C
1 NOTE BIRTH/MARRIAGE: Birth and Marriage dates provided by daughter Marie
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT Larimer. Also records compiled by grandson, Edgar Marshall Griffith
2 CONC now in
2 CONT possession of his daughter, Sara Leslie Griffith.  Some additional
2 CONC information
2 CONT provided by Eileen Larimer Walker and Mary Louise Larimer,
2 CONC granddaughters.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: From "Marriages & Deaths from the Cambria Tribune": 19 Jul
2 CONC 1879
2 CONT (Saturday): married in Braddock, Allegheny County on the 19th by Rev.
2 CONC W.L.
2 CONT Kaine, Mr. Jonathan Griffith, formerly of this place and Miss Mary L.
2 CONC Barber of
2 CONT Braddock.
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC with
2 CONT Genealogical Memoirs, The Lewis Publishing Co., New York, Chicago,
2 CONC 1907, Vol.
2 CONT III, page 634.
2 CONT
2 CONT Indicates Jonathan was the son of Eli and Elizabeth Reighart Griffith,
2 CONC born
2 CONT April 12, 1853 and married Mary L. Barber, July 17, 1879, and had
2 CONC children
2 CONT Edgar, Wilbert and Alice M. (2 other children that had died are not
2 CONC listed in
2 CONT this source.)
2 CONT
2 CONT RELATIONSHIP: Named as "beloved son" in will of Eli Griffith.
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH: Certificate, State of Pennsylvania, File No. 98736, Reg. No.
2 CONC 88,
2 CONT information for certificate supplied by son, Dr. Wilbert E. Griffith.
2 CONT DEATH:  Tombstone inscription from Braddock Cemetery, North Braddock,
2 CONC PA reads
2 CONT Jonathan Griffith, 1853-1929. He is buried in plot with his wife,
2 CONC three
2 CONT daughters and son-in-law. There is a common headstone which says
2 CONC GRIFFITH and
2 CONT then smaller individual stones for each of the people with their names
2 CONC and
2 CONT dates. Picture of grave site in file.
2 CONT
2 CONT OBIT: The Daily News Herald, Braddock, PA, Wednesday, October 9, 1929,
2 CONC Front
2 CONT Page, reads:
2 CONT JONATHAN GRIFFITH, E.T. / VET, DIES OF PNEUMONIA
2 CONT      Jonathan Griffith, aged 76 years, a resident of the Braddock
2 CONC district for
2 CONT more than half a century, died at 2:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon in
2 CONC his home,
2 CONT 1009 Bell Avenue, North Braddock. Mr. Griffith's death was caused by
2 CONC pneumonia,
2 CONT although he had been in poor health for almost a year.
2 CONT      Mr. Griffith was born in Johnstown and came to Braddock at an
2 CONC early age.
2 CONT The house in which he lived on Bell avenue was one of the two first
2 CONC built in
2 CONT the Hill borough. Mr. Griffith was employed in the steel rail
2 CONC department of the
2 CONT Egar Thomson steel works for a number of years and was retired from
2 CONC active
2 CONT service almost a quarter of century ago. He was a member of the
2 CONC Braddock
2 CONT Methodist Episcopal church.
2 CONT      Mr. Griffith was the husband of the late Mary L. Griffith. He
2 CONC leaves these
2 CONT children: Edgar A. Griffith of Wilkinsburg; Dr. Wilbert E. Griffith of
2 CONT Yatesboro, PA; Mrs. George Larimer of Swissvale. Eight grandchildren
2 CONC survive,
2 CONT as well as these brothers and sisters: Reuben L. Griffith, Lowman E.
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT and William Griffith of Johnstown and Mrs. Edward Witt and Mrs. Milton
2 CONC Linhart
2 CONT of Johnstown.
2 CONT      Funeral services will be held in the Griffith home at 2:30
2 CONC o'clock
2 CONT tomorrow afternoon, Rev. Alexander Steel will officiate. Burial, under
2 CONC the
2 CONT direction of Undertaker W.L. Dowler of Braddock, will take place in
2 CONC the
2 CONT Braddock cemetery.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 APR 1853
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 8 OCT 1929
2 PLAC 1009 Bell Ave., N. Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 10 OCT 1929
2 PLAC Braddock Cem., Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 REFN 8
1 FAMS @F5@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I11@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Langford /Barber/
2 GIVN Mary Langford
2 SURN Barber
1 SEX F
1 _UID BD86A58C5BA2A94E8D932D050EAAB71039A6
1 NOTE DEATH: Death Certificate, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, File no.
2 CONC 101234
2 CONT BIRTH: Information extracted from death certificate. Information
2 CONC provided by
2 CONT son, Edgar Alfred Griffith showing age at time of death with birth
2 CONC date.
2 CONT DEATH: at home, 1009 Bell Ave, Braddock, Allegheny, PA
2 CONT
2 CONT OBIT: The Daily News Herald, Braddock, PA, Monday, October 26, 1926,
2 CONC Society
2 CONT Page, reads:
2 CONT FUNERAL SERVICES FOR / MRS. GRIFFITH HELD / FROM LATE HOME
2 CONT      Funeral services for the late Mrs. J.J. Griffith were held today
2 CONC from her
2 CONT late home, 1009 Bell avenue, North Braddock. Services were in charge
2 CONC of Dr.
2 CONT Thomas Charlesworth, paster of the First Methodist church of Braddock,
2 CONC of which
2 CONT she had long been a member.
2 CONT      Mrs. Griffith, aged 76 tears, was a lifelong resident of North
2 CONC Braddock,
2 CONT coming here when but a child with her parents.
2 CONT      Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, Edgar A. of
2 CONC Wilkinsburg, Dr. W.
2 CONT E. Griffith of Indiana, PA, and one daughter, Mrs. George F. Larimer
2 CONC of
2 CONT Swissvale; one brother, Alfred S. Barber of Tranford City and six
2 CONT grandchildren.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 3 NOV 1849
2 PLAC , England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 OCT 1925
2 PLAC N. Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Braddock Cem, Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 REFN 9
1 FAMS @F5@
0 @I12@ INDI
1 NAME Wilbert Elroy /Griffith/
2 GIVN Wilbert Elroy
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID BFC2D18AA218104A99E4ECCAAF192B99AF0C
1 NOTE BIRTH/DEATH/MARRIAGE: Information provided by daughter, Margaret Jean
2 CONC Waite,
2 CONT Annapolis, MD.
2 CONT Died while on way home from a trip to Florida
2 CONT
2 CONT Obit (1957) reads: Dr. WILBUR [Wilbert] GRIFFITH, Yatesboro, passed
2 CONC away
2 CONT Monday, May 27, at 9 a.m. (EDT) in the Medical College Hospital at
2 CONC Richmond,
2 CONT Virginia. He was born July 26, 1885 at North Braddock a son of
2 CONC Jonathan and
2 CONT Mary Langford (Barber) Griffith. Dr. Griffith was graduated in 1908
2 CONC from the
2 CONT Physicians and Surgeons College of Baltimore (now University of
2 CONC Maryland) and
2 CONT practiced medicine in Armstrong and Indiana Counties for forty-eight
2 CONC years. He
2 CONT was a member of the Kittanning Lodge No. 244, F. & A.M. and the
2 CONC Consistory at
2 CONT Coudersport, the Indiana County Medical Society, the American Medical
2 CONT Association and the Yatesboro Presbyterian Church. He is survived by
2 CONC his wife,
2 CONT the former Anna Craig, three sons, Dr. Harold C. Griffith, Rural
2 CONC Valley, James
2 CONT C. Griffith, New Castle, and Dr. Wilbur [Wilbert] E. Griffith, Jr., of
2 CONT Gainesville, Florida, one daughter, Mrs. Margaret Jean Waite,
2 CONC Annapolis,
2 CONT Maryland, one sister, Mrs. George Larimer, Swissvale, ten
2 CONC grandchildren.
2 CONT Friends will be received at the Edwards Funeral Home in Rural Valley
2 CONC after 6
2 CONT p.m. this evening and until the hour of service, Thursday at 2:30
2 CONC o'clock. His
2 CONT pastor, the Rev. Charles Cochran, will officiate. Interment will be
2 CONC made in the
2 CONT Rural Valley Cemetery.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 JUL 1885
2 PLAC N. Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 27 MAY 1957
2 PLAC Richmond, , VA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Rural Valley Cem, , PA
1 FAMS @F6@
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I13@ INDI
1 NAME Clara L. /Griffith/
2 GIVN Clara L.
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 4A15A29E0097014195A3179F9BF1032A1FBE
1 NOTE Death - age 11, spinal meningitis
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Braddock Cemetery tombstone inscription reads: Clara L.
2 CONC Griffith,
2 CONT 1882-1893.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1882
2 PLAC N. Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1893
2 PLAC N. Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Braddock Cem, Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I14@ INDI
1 NAME Alice Marie /Griffith/
2 GIVN Alice Marie
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID FF65DBD726A0934AADAE00CE532570935D1E
1 NOTE BIRTH/MARRIAGE:
2 CONT Married in her father's home on Bell Avenue, Braddock, PA.
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH:
2 CONT Date supplied by daughter Mary Louise Larimer, Pittsburgh, PA
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Baptismal information from records of Braddock Methodist
2 CONC Episcopal
2 CONT church now located at the McMasters Methodist Church of Turtle Creek.
2 CONT Officiating minister: Thomas N. Boyle.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 SEP 1887
2 PLAC N. Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 MAY 1977
2 PLAC Swissvale, Allegheny, PA
1 CHR
2 DATE 10 JUN 1888
2 PLAC Braddock M.E., Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Braddock Cem, Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 FAMS @F41@
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I15@ INDI
1 NAME Ida May /Griffith/
2 GIVN Ida May
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 29D00F9117F893469424B2300FC54D549010
1 NOTE Death - age 4, scarlet fever
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Braddock Cemetery tombstone inscription reads: Ida May
2 CONC Griffith,
2 CONT 1892-1896
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Baptismal information from records of Braddock Methodist
2 CONC Episcopal
2 CONT church now located at the McMasters Methodist Church of Turtle Creek.
2 CONT Officiating minister: J.W. Miles.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 MAY 1892
2 PLAC N. Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1896
2 PLAC N. Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 CHR
2 DATE 17 DEC 1893
2 PLAC Braddock M.E., Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Braddock Cem., Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I16@ INDI
1 NAME George Fullerton /Larimer/
2 GIVN George Fullerton
2 SURN Larimer
1 SEX M
1 _UID 4FCAE7E21E22F9468C957AA705DF3E31F6E0
1 NOTE SOURCE: Information supplied by daughter, Mary Louise Larimer
2 CONT
2 CONT Son of George Fullerton and Jennie M. Gray Larimer.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 APR 1886
2 PLAC Turtle Creek, Allegheny, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 FEB 1977
2 PLAC Pasadena, , CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Braddock Cem, Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 FAMS @F41@
0 @I17@ INDI
1 NAME Anna Maria /Craig/
2 GIVN Anna Maria
2 SURN Craig
1 SEX F
1 _UID 481F2FB5F5640340B4AD977DFC329FFF2853
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 FEB 1893
1 FAMS @F6@
0 @I22@ INDI
1 NAME Eli /Griffith/
2 GIVN Eli
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 5B31F13B5D50D841BF4D9717340F747463AA
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC with
2 CONT Genealogical Memoirs, The Lewis Publishing Co., New York, Chicago,
2 CONC 1907, Vol.
2 CONT III, page 634:
2 CONT Reads...son of Abner Griffith, was born in Somerset county, on his
2 CONC father's
2 CONT farm, in November, 1823....Eli married Elizabeth Reighart...was reared
2 CONC on the
2 CONT farm, and upon the death of his father helped his mother to manage
2 CONC until he had
2 CONT reached his majority, when he inherited his share of the estate (one
2 CONC hundred
2 CONT and sixty acres). In 1857 he sold his share to his brother Levi, and
2 CONC then
2 CONT removed to Johnstown, where, at Walnut Grove, he purchased a tract of
2 CONC one
2 CONT hundred and ten acres, which is now owned jointly by his children.
2 CONC Here he
2 CONT farmed and reared his family of sons and daughters. Politically he was
2 CONC first a
2 CONT Whig and later a staunch Republican, and it is related of him that he
2 CONC never
2 CONT voted other than a straight ticket. He died in 1902. (Source also
2 CONC gives his
2 CONT children, including Jonathan J. married Mary L. Barber, and lists
2 CONC their living
2 CONT children, Edgar, Wilbert and Alice M.)
2 CONT
2 CONT OTHER SOURCES:
2 CONT SAR records; DAR records; Family records
2 CONT Personal notes, including maps of cemetery locations, compiled by
2 CONC Edgar
2 CONT Marshall Griffith, now in possession of daughter, Sara Leslie
2 CONC Griffith.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Buried at Grandview Cemetery, Lot 126, Central Section #3,
2 CONT Westmont, Johnstown, PA. Moved from Sandyvale Cemetery, Johnstown, 17
2 CONC Nov 1927.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: WILL dated 27 Jul 1891, Codicil added 30 Jun 1896, proved 22
2 CONC Nov 1902.
2 CONT Reads: In the name of God, Amen! I Eli Griffith, of the Township of
2 CONC Stonycreek,
2 CONT County of Cambria and State of Pennsylvania, Farmer, being in good
2 CONC health of
2 CONT body, and of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make and declare
2 CONC this to
2 CONT be my last will and testament, in the manner following, that is to
2 CONC say, I order
2 CONT that all my just debts funeral expenses and the charges of proving
2 CONC this my
2 CONT will, be in the first place fully paid and satisfied; and after the
2 CONC payment
2 CONT thereof and every part thereof, I give and bequeath to my beloved
2 CONC children the
2 CONT following described portions or divisions, of land ("as designated on
2 CONC plot or
2 CONT draft of the subdivision of my farm located in Stonycreek Township,
2 CONC Cambria
2 CONT County, Pennsylvania by William Slick Esq. dated Feb. A.D. 1890,") in
2 CONC manner
2 CONT following, that is to say, I give and bequeath to my beloved son
2 CONC Jonathan
2 CONT Griffith all that certain lot or tract of land designated on said Plot
2 CONC or
2 CONT Draft, as (No. one) containing six acres and one hundred and forty
2 CONC seven
2 CONT perches, valued at Eight hundred and ninety-nine Dollars & forty seven
2 CONC & one
2 CONT half cents. I give and bequeath to my beloved son William Griffith all
2 CONC that
2 CONT certain piece or Lot of ground designated and Known on said Plat as
2 CONC (No Two)
2 CONT containing Seven Acres and five Perches valued at Nine hundred and
2 CONC fourteen
2 CONT Dollars and six & one fourth cents. I give and bequeath to my beloved
2 CONC son,
2 CONT Isaac E. Griffith, all that certain piece or plot of ground marked and
2 CONC known on
2 CONT said Plot or Draft as (No Three) valued at Nine hundred and Eighty
2 CONC seven
2 CONT Dollars and Eighty one and one fourth cents, containing six acres and
2 CONC one
2 CONT hundred and thirty Perches. I give and bequeath to my beloved Daughter
2 CONC Emma E.
2 CONT Blackburn (nee) Griffith, all that certain piece or plot of ground
2 CONC Designated,
2 CONT on said Plot or Draft (as No Four) containing six acres one hundred
2 CONC and Twenty
2 CONT five perches, valued at twelve hundred and twenty Dollars and sixty
2 CONC two and one
2 CONT half cents, this having the Farm House erected thereon, I give and
2 CONC bequeath to
2 CONT my beloved son Lowman E. Griffith all that certain piece plot or
2 CONC parcel of land
2 CONT designated and Known on said Draft as (No five) containing Nine acres
2 CONC and
2 CONT ninety Eight perches, and valued at Fifteen hundred and thirty eight
2 CONC Dollars
2 CONT the same having the farm Barn, erected thereon, I give and bequeath to
2 CONC my
2 CONT beloved Daughter Sarah M. Griffith, all that certain piece or plot of
2 CONC ground
2 CONT designated and Known on said plot or Draft, as (No Six) containing
2 CONC nine acres
2 CONT and Eight perches, and valued at Eleven hundred and Seventy-six
2 CONC Dollars and
2 CONT fifty cents, I give and bequeath to my beloved Daughter Mary A. Witt
2 CONC (nee)
2 CONT Griffith all that certain piece parcel or tract of land designated and
2 CONC Known on
2 CONT said plot as (No Seven), containing Eight acres and one hundred and
2 CONC twenty two
2 CONT perches and valued at one thousand and ninety-five dollars and thirty
2 CONC one and
2 CONT one fourth cents, I give and bequeath to my beloved son, Reuben
2 CONC Griffith all
2 CONT that certain piece plot or parcel of land Designated and Known on said
2 CONC plot or
2 CONT draft as (No Eight) containing Eight acres, and seventy one perches
2 CONC and valued
2 CONT at ten hundred and fifty-five Dollars and forty-six and Seventh eights
2 CONC of a
2 CONT cent. I give and bequeath to my beloved son Lemuel Griffith all that
2 CONC certain
2 CONT piece or plot of ground designated and Known on Said Plot or Draft as
2 CONC (No.
2 CONT Nine) containing six acres and Eighty four perches and valued at Eight
2 CONC hundred
2 CONT and forty eight Dollars and twenty five cents, I give and bequeath to
2 CONC my
2 CONT beloved son Joshua N. Griffith all that certain piece or plot of
2 CONC ground
2 CONT designated and Known on said Draft or plot as (No. Ten) containing six
2 CONC acres
2 CONT and valued at Seven hundred and fifty Dollars; And as I have executed
2 CONC and made
2 CONT ready for delivery to several of my beloved children ("to wit Jonathan
2 CONT Griffith, Isaac E. Griffith, Lowman Griffith, Lemuel Griffith and my
2 CONC son-in-law
2 CONT Edward Witt.) Deeds for Sertain lands heretofore purchased from me,
2 CONC for which
2 CONT they are to pay to my Executors hereinafter named, for the use of all
2 CONC my
2 CONT beloved children the sums named in said Deeds; authorizing and
2 CONC directing my
2 CONT said Executors to proceed Emediately to collect said purchase money so
2 CONT described, with the privilege of allowing said Executors to give each
2 CONC of my
2 CONT said children & son-in-Law a credit of their share due them out of my
2 CONC further
2 CONT Estate monies and Effects so that each beloved child shall have share
2 CONC and share
2 CONT alike. That is in the division of my Real Estate the appraisers has
2 CONC made some
2 CONT difference in the money value of said lands, It is my desire to place
2 CONC all my
2 CONT said beloved children on an equal footing I do with this in view
2 CONC direct my
2 CONT Executors to pay out of any monies that may belong to me at my death,
2 CONC among my
2 CONT said beloved children so that Each may have an Equal perportion of my
2 CONC worldly
2 CONT goods not taking into the account any lands purched [purchased] from
2 CONC me
2 CONT heretofore but they paying for the same and an equal division made
2 CONC thereafter,
2 CONT and I do authorize and direct my said Executor to carry out this my
2 CONC bequeaths
2 CONT to the letter, giving each of my said beloved children share and share
2 CONC alike of
2 CONT the said Estate real personal and mixed. And I do hereby nominate
2 CONC Constitute
2 CONT and appoint Isaac E. Griffith of Braddock Allegheny Co. and Irvin
2 CONC Rutledge of
2 CONT Johnstown Pa Executors of this my will hereby revoking and making void
2 CONC any and
2 CONT all former wills by me in any name heretofore made, and (section cut
2 CONC off) and
2 CONT testament, in Witness whereof, I, Eli Griffith the said testator have
2 CONC to this
2 CONT my last will and testament set my hand and seal this Twenty Seventh
2 CONC day of July
2 CONT A.D. 1891. (Signed) Eli Griffith (Seal) Witnesses: P.A. Cobaugh, L.J.
2 CONC Ripple.
2 CONT CODICIL: I, Eli Griffith, the Testator above named do hereby make and
2 CONC publish
2 CONT the following codicil to my Last Will and Testament, executed the 27th
2 CONC day of
2 CONT July A.D. 1891. First, I direct that my son Lemuel Griffith, be
2 CONC charged with
2 CONT the sum of a Mortgage of Five Hundred and twenty-five Dollars held, by
2 CONC the
2 CONT Johnstown Savings Bank against me. The money covered by said Mortgage
2 CONC having
2 CONT been borrowed for and paid over to him by me, and the same must be
2 CONC charged to
2 CONT him with any interest due thereon at the time of my death, so as to
2 CONC equalize
2 CONT him with the rest of my children. Second, Irvin Rutledge, one of the
2 CONC Executors
2 CONT appointed by me in my said Will, having died, since the execution
2 CONC thereof, I
2 CONT hereby appoint J.N. Griffith and I.E. Griffith, two of my sons to be
2 CONC Executors
2 CONT of my said Will, and of this codicil thereto, and to who shall be
2 CONC joined also,
2 CONT Edward Witt, my son-in-law. Witness my hand and seal this Thirtieth
2 CONC Day of June
2 CONT A.D. 1896. (Signed) Eli Griffith (Seal) Witnesses: W. Horace Rose,
2 CONC Jas. C.
2 CONT Darby.
2 CONT
2 CONT The following information extracted from Rootsweb.com database of:
2 CONT
2 CONT Brian Cartwrights Pennsylvania Families (Johnstown's First Families)
2 CONT
2 CONT Census: 23 Oct 1850 Jenner Twp, Somerset Co, Pa
2 CONT Note:
2 CONT reel M432_828 house 186 family 195
2 CONT GRIFFITH, Eli 29 m Pa, farmer, $2500 of land
2 CONT Elisabeth 29 f Pa
2 CONT Joshua N 7 m Pa, in school
2 CONT Isaac E 5 m Pa, in school
2 CONT Oliver L 1 m Pa
2 CONT RICHARD, Mary A 17 f Pa, in school
2 CONT Census: 19 Jul 1860 Conemaugh Twp, Cambria Co, PA
2 CONT Note:
2 CONT reel M653_1088 page 248 house 2123 family 2148
2 CONT GRIFFEN, Eli 37 m Pa, farmer, $4000 of land, $950 of property
2 CONT Elizabeth 39 f Pa
2 CONT Joshua 17 m Pa, farm laborer, in school
2 CONT Isaac E 15 m Pa, farm laborer, in school
2 CONT Oliver L 12 m Pa, in school
2 CONT Reuben L 10 m Pa, in school
2 CONT Jonathan 8 m Pa
2 CONT Mary A 6 f Pa
2 CONT Emma E 3 f Pa
2 CONT Census: 6 Aug 1870 Conemaugh Twp, Cambria Co, PA
2 CONT Note:
2 CONT reel M593_1317 page 140b house 61 family 57
2 CONT Johnstown P.O.
2 CONT GRIFFITH, Eli 46 m Pa, farmer, $20000 of land, $2000 of property,
2 CONC voter
2 CONT Elisa 48 f Pa, keeping house
2 CONT Edmund 23 m Pa, farm laborer, voter
2 CONT Lemuel 21 m Pa, farm laborer, voter
2 CONT Ruben 19 m Pa, farm laborer
2 CONT Jonathan 17 m Pa, farm laborer
2 CONT M. M. 15 f Pa, in school
2 CONT E Elisa 12 f Pa, in school
2 CONT Lowman 10 m Pa, in school
2 CONT Sarah 5 f Pa
2 CONT Willie 3 m Pa
2 CONT Census: 1 Jun 1880 Stonycreek Twp, Cambria Co, Pa
2 CONT Note:
2 CONT reel T9_1110 ED 188 page 181a house 18 family 18
2 CONT GRIFFITH, Eli 57 m Pa, head, farmer
2 CONT Elisabeth 58 f Pa, wife, keeping house
2 CONT Reuben 28 m Pa, son, works on farm
2 CONT Amanda 24 f Pa, dau, unemployed
2 CONT Emma 22 f Pa, dau, unemployed
2 CONT Lowman 18 m Pa, son, works in wire mill, in school
2 CONT Melissa 15 f Pa, dau, unemployed, in school
2 CONT William 13 m Pa, son, works on farm, in school
2 CONT Census: 6 Jun 1900 Stonycreek Twp, Cambria Co, Pa
2 CONT Note:
2 CONT reel T623_1388 ED 115 sheet 5a house 77 family 81
2 CONT BLACKBURN, Emma 42 (Jan 1858) f Pa, head, widowed, 3 children, 3
2 CONC living, owns home free
2 CONT Lloyd P 14 (Feb 1886) m Pa, son, attended school 7 months
2 CONT Lela M 11 (Dec 1888) f Kansas, dau, attended school 7 months
2 CONT Lulu P 11 (Dec 1888) f Kansas, dau, attended school 7 months
2 CONT GRIFFITH, Eli 76 (Sep 1823) m Pa, father, widowed
2 CONT Event: Obituary
2 CONT Note:
2 CONT Johnstown Daily Tribune, Mon., Nov. 10, 1902
2 CONT Eli Griffith died at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and
2 CONC Mrs. Edward S. Witt, No. 309 Bedford Street, between 12 and 1 o'clock
2 CONC this morning. He was stricken with paralysis a year and a half ago and
2 CONC since that time he had been helpless. The deceased was born in Jenner
2 CONC Township, Somerset County, on September 6, 1823 and was a brother of
2 CONC Levi Griffith, who died last November at the age of eighty-five. In
2 CONC 1843 Eli Griffith and Miss Elizabeth Reighard were married in Somerset
2 CONC County and in 1859 they removed to Stonycreek Township, this county.
2 CONC Mrs. Griffith died in April 1886 and since that time Mr. Griffith had
2 CONC made his home with his children who are as follows: Joshue N., I. E.,
2 CONC Jonathan J., all of Braddock; Lemuel, of Somerset Street; Reuben, of
2 CONC Edison; Mrs. Mary A. Witt, of No. 309 Bedford Street; Mrs. E. E.
2 CONC Blackburn, of No. 311 Bedford Street; Mrs. Melissa Arther, Lowman, and
2 CONC William Griffith, all of Stonycreek Township. He is also survived by
2 CONC thirty-three grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. In politics
2 CONC Mr. Griffith was a Republican and he had held a number of offices in
2 CONC Stonycreek Township during his residence in this county. He was a
2 CONC lifelong member of the Franklin Street M. E. Church and for many years
2 CONC was Superintendent of the Union Sunday School in Walnut Grove. The
2 CONC Rev. Dr. Thomas H. Woodring, pastor of the Franklin Street M. E.
2 CONC Church will conduct the obsequies at the Witt home at 2 o'clock
2 CONC Wednesday afternoon, after which interment will be made in Sandyvale
2 CONC Cemetery.
2 CONT ***LDS lists burial on 11/17/1927; possibly re-interred in Grandview.
2 CONC LADS lists birth at 9/1/1820. LDS lists marriage in 1843.
2 CONT
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 NOV 1823
2 PLAC Father's farm, Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 NOV 1902
2 PLAC Walnut Grove, Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 17 NOV 1927
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMS @F8@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I23@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Reighart/
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 SURN Reighart
1 SEX F
1 _UID 92D3AB625C5CAD46B969E99C0B1758C1FF58
1 NOTE BIRTH SOURCE: A Recreation of Burials, Sandyvale Cem. 1850-1906 (1986)
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Inscription 64 years, 7 months, 16 days, wife of Eli
2 CONT
2 CONT Possibly has a sister Mary Reighart
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907),
2 CONT Vol. III, page 620 gives Elizabeth's parents' names and her birth and
2 CONC death
2 CONT date.
2 CONT
2 CONT Her parents' names are given as William and Mary Ann Reighart.
2 CONC However, in
2 CONT William Reighart's will he does not list Elizabeth as one of his
2 CONC children. On
2 CONT the other hand, the will is witnessed by Elizabeth's husband and he
2 CONC mentions
2 CONT that the land he leaves to daughter Nancy borders the Abner Griffith
2 CONC land.
2 CONT Until information to contrary is found, I will show Elizabeth as a
2 CONC daughter of
2 CONT William Reighart.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 SEP 1821
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 APR 1886
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Sandyvale Cem, Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 REFN 17
1 FAMS @F8@
1 FAMC @F143@
0 @I24@ INDI
1 NAME Oliver Lemuel /Griffith/
2 GIVN Oliver Lemuel
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 6D9772306151CC41855F9A6043D49D9D9439
1 NOTE MARRIAGE: Cambria Tribune 2 May 1873:  married on the 1st by Rev. A.J.
2 CONC Endsley
2 CONT at the residence of John H. Cunningham, Esq., Lemuel F. Griffith and
2 CONC Miss Maria
2 CONT McCormick.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 MAY 1841
2 PLAC Conemaugh Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 4 DEC 1902
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, PA
1 FAMS @F9@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I25@ INDI
1 NAME Joshua N. /Griffith/
2 GIVN Joshua N.
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID D4BA4C97B85D3143A30FF2CA1D3023451D8B
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT gives birth date as 13 Oct 1843, marriage date as 25 Jan 1860.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 OCT 1843
2 PLAC Conemaugh Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F10@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I26@ INDI
1 NAME Isaac Edmund /Griffith/
2 GIVN Isaac Edmund
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID DDEE089279F40340B1038DEE774CA8661529
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT Retired a mechanic in Walnut Grove, near Johnstown, PA.  Born on his
2 CONC father's
2 CONT farm in Walnut Grove, Cambria County.  He was reared and attended the
2 CONC common
2 CONT schools of his home township.  Early in life he secured employment
2 CONC with the
2 CONT Cambria Iron Co., remained one year and then moved to Braddock, PA,
2 CONC where he
2 CONT was employed by the Carnegie Co. at their rolling mills.  Here he
2 CONC remained for
2 CONT 20 years, holding various positions, notably that of inspector of
2 CONC rails.  In
2 CONT this capacity, he was also employed by R.W. Hunt and Co. of Chicago
2 CONC for a
2 CONT period of 6 years.  He then returned to Johnstown and retired from all
2 CONC active
2 CONT business, building himself a comfortable house at Walnut Grove where
2 CONC he was
2 CONT still residing in 1906.  With his 3rd wife, he was a member of the
2 CONC Methodist
2 CONT Episcopal Church, of Knights and Ladies of Columbia, and Daughters of
2 CONC Liberty,
2 CONT Post No. 87, of Braddock.  He was also a member of the Royal Areanum.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE NOTICE:  Cambria Tribune appeared 9 Jun 1877 reads:  Married
2 CONC at
2 CONT Braddock's, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania on the 31st of May by Rev.
2 CONC F.H.
2 CONT Wilkinson, Mr. Edmund Griffith and Miss Ida B. St. Clair, both
2 CONC formerly of
2 CONT Johnstown.
2 CONT
2 CONT He preferred to use his name reversed: Edmund Isaac Griffith.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: record found at McMasters Methodist Church, Turtle Creek,
2 CONC PA. The
2 CONT record books had been transferred from the Braddock Methodist
2 CONC Episcopal Church
2 CONT of Braddock, PA. The marriage is entered for I.E. Griffith and Ida St.
2 CONC Clair,
2 CONT 31 May 1877, resident of Braddock, minister, T.H. Wilkinson,
2 CONC witnesses: Joshua
2 CONT Griffith and wife, and Jonathan Griffith.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 JAN 1846
2 PLAC Walnut Grove, Cambria, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Walnut Grove, Cambria, PA
1 FAMS @F11@
1 FAMS @F12@
1 FAMS @F43@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I27@ INDI
1 NAME Reuben Lewis /Griffith/
2 GIVN Reuben Lewis
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 154517B3F4DEB94B88601195C3FF7820E2D3
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
2 CONT Born on his father's farm in Somerset County, PA.  The years of his
2 CONC early
2 CONT childhood were passed on the homestead.  When he was 7 years old his
2 CONC parents
2 CONT moved to Johnstown, and it was in the common schools of that city that
2 CONC he
2 CONT obtained his education.  When a young man, he labored for a time at
2 CONC the Cambria
2 CONT Iron Co., making ninety cents a day, by which he saved enough money to
2 CONC purchase
2 CONT a team, with which he did general hauling.  At the time of his
2 CONC marriage, he
2 CONT purchased 15 acres of land, on which he erected a home and what is now
2 CONC known as
2 CONT "Springhill Farm."  He purchased 15 acres from his father and
2 CONC afterward
2 CONT inherited 8 acres more.  In 1880, he engaged in the dairy business,
2 CONC which he
2 CONT was still conducting very successfully in 1907, always finding
2 CONC Johnstown a
2 CONT ready and profitable market for his produce.
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH: Date supplied by Mrs. Gordon L. Griffith of Berkeley Springs,
2 CONC VA. Her
2 CONT husband is grandson of Reuben.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 APR 1851
2 PLAC Father's farm, Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1942
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 23 JUL 1942
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, PA
1 FAMS @F13@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I28@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Griffith/
2 GIVN Sarah
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 4CBC7DB381123847A22ECB457544E5E6AEEF
1 NOTE !RESEARCHER: Information from Quaker records extracted for W.W.
2 CONC Griffith by
2 CONT Heenan & Mount, Genealogists of Canterbury, England.
1 BIRT
2 DATE AUG 1711
2 PLAC Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales
1 REFN 4
1 FAMC @F18@
0 @I29@ INDI
1 NAME Emma E. /Griffith/
2 GIVN Emma E.
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID BFCBB8BD3616C7498D71C8FF7281CC1FFE7B
1 NOTE MARRIAGE:  Notice appeared in the Cambria Tribune 27 June 1884 which
2 CONC reads:
2 CONT Married on the 26th by Rev. L. McGuire, Mr. Jonston Blackburn and Miss
2 CONC Emma
2 CONT Griffith.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 JAN 1858
2 PLAC Conemaugh Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Grandview Cem, Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMS @F44@
1 FAMS @F102@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I30@ INDI
1 NAME Lowman Eli /Griffith/
2 GIVN Lowman Eli
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID EC0601BE6A95AF44A9B8E2BCA5AA39BEE871
1 NOTE BIOGRAPHY: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson
2 CONC Storey (1907)
2 CONT Reared on his father's farm and obtained a common school education in
2 CONC the
2 CONT school of his home township.  He aided his father with the farm work
2 CONC until he
2 CONT reached his majority, when he took charge of the place and managed it
2 CONC until
2 CONT the estate was finally settled.  He then went into the dairy business,
2 CONC which
2 CONT he carried on with success and profit for 8 years.  He also dealt
2 CONC considerable
2 CONT in real estate, and in 1907 was possessed of considerable realty in
2 CONC Johnstown
2 CONT and Walnut Grove.  He had numerous houses which he rented and erected
2 CONC a
2 CONT comfortable residence.  The coal rights of the land inherited from his
2 CONC father
2 CONT were sold for handsome figures.  The interest he has ever taken in
2 CONC public
2 CONT matters and educational affairs is best seen by the long period he
2 CONC held local
2 CONT office, such as school director and supervisor.  In 1907 he was
2 CONC president of
2 CONT the local school board and had held some township official position
2 CONC for the
2 CONT previous 18 years.
2 CONT
2 CONT Johnstown Tribune, January 16, 1893: A Walnut Grove Sleighing Party -
2 CONC A
2 CONT sleighing party left Walnut Grove on Sunday evening for Scalp Level,
2 CONC and
2 CONT arrived there at 9 o'clock. At Mr. George Conrads the party was
2 CONC entertained. A
2 CONT fine supper was served at half past 11 o'clock. The ladies and
2 CONC gentlemen in the
2 CONT party were Mr. John Lehman, Miss Lizzie Harshberger, Mr. George
2 CONC Mishler, Miss
2 CONT Annie Repp, Mr. Frank Repp, Miss Grace Griffith [note: dau. of Uriah
2 CONC A.
2 CONT Griffith], Mr. Paul Strayer, Miss Wagner,
2 CONT Mr. Ed Ream, Miss Strayer, Mr. Albert Wissinger, Miss Mollie Hite, and
2 CONC Mr.
2 CONT harry Slagle. The driver was Lowman Griffith. After an evening's
2 CONC enjoyment they
2 CONT departed for their homes, arriving at Walnut Grove at 3 o'clock in the
2 CONC morning.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 AUG 1860
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1947
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 26 JUL 1947
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, PA
1 FAMS @F46@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I31@ INDI
1 NAME Clara Jane /Griffith/
2 GIVN Clara Jane
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 912DC21484D0084C838A0871EAEF405A3501
1 NOTE Moved from Sandyvale Cemetery and reinterred at Grandview Cemetery.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 3 AUG 1863
2 PLAC Conemaugh Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 21 JAN 1864
2 PLAC Conemaugh Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 17 NOV 1927
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, PA
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I32@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah Melissa /Griffith/
2 GIVN Sarah Melissa
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 1947A488ACAB6C4E9895FF596F36E5D78381
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 APR 1865
2 PLAC Conemaugh Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F45@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I33@ INDI
1 NAME William /Griffith/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 043618090ED45F46942AADC62C9B1CE1D76B
1 NOTE He was known as "Windy Bill" for his penchant for starting arguments.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 MAY 1867
2 PLAC Conemaugh Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 19 DEC 1938
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, PA
1 FAMS @F14@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I34@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Amanda /Griffith/
2 GIVN Mary Amanda
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 3A6C1405820BEB44BD35C46CB7B94DEC460C
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 JUL 1855
2 PLAC Conemaugh Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F103@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I35@ INDI
1 NAME Maria Josephine /McCormick/
2 GIVN Maria Josephine
2 SURN McCormick
1 SEX F
1 _UID A706104A1B9E8545B8090383501955EA79D8
1 NOTE OBIT: Maria Josephine, wife of Lemuel Griffith, of Johnstown, died at
2 CONC the
2 CONT Griffith home, at 6:30 Thursday evening of a complication of diseases
2 CONC with
2 CONT which she had been ill for a long time. Mrs. Griffith was born in
2 CONC Indiana
2 CONT county, October 17, 1849, and was a sister of Olive McCormick, of
2 CONC Tennessee;
2 CONT Mrs. Samuel Fox, of Cedar Rapids, Ia., and Mrs. Sarah Bickel, of Ohio.
2 CONC Mrs.
2 CONT Robert McCormick, mother of Mrs. Griffith, died in Indiana county
2 CONC thirty five
2 CONT years ago, and her father died three years ago, in Tennessee. Mrs.
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT went to Johnstown when she was a little girl and had lived there ever
2 CONC since.
2 CONT She was married in May, 1873, to Lemuel Griffith, the ceremony being
2 CONC performed
2 CONT by the Rev. Dr. A.J. Endsley, of Somerset, then pastor of the Franklin
2 CONC street
2 CONT M.E. church. The deceased is survived by her husband and three
2 CONC daughters:
2 CONT Misses Ella May, Nellie Elizabeth and Olga, all at home. The funeral
2 CONC took place
2 CONT at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Griffith home. The deceased was
2 CONC a
2 CONT life-long member of the methodist Episcopal church.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 OCT 1849
2 PLAC , Indiana co., PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 AUG 1902
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMS @F9@
0 @I36@ INDI
1 NAME Emma /Thomas/
2 GIVN Emma
2 SURN Thomas
1 SEX F
1 _UID FC2724BA604E8B4FA00E409EC0E4208059E6
1 FAMS @F10@
0 @I37@ INDI
1 NAME Ida B. /St._Clair/
2 GIVN Ida B.
2 SURN St._Clair
1 SEX F
1 _UID 0C00D24326255C45906C45212D17856CA42D
1 NOTE BURIAL: Inscription reads: Mother / Ida B. Griffith / Born Dec. 17,
2 CONC 1855 / Died
2 CONT Aug 8 1889.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 DEC 1855
2 PLAC , , PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 8 AUG 1889
2 PLAC Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Braddock Cem., Allegheny, PA
1 FAMS @F11@
0 @I38@ INDI
1 NAME Amanda /Perkins/
2 GIVN Amanda
2 SURN Perkins
1 SEX F
1 _UID A7D9546C9143CD42B89150F1C7A4A3C37E99
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 FAMS @F43@
0 @I39@ INDI
1 NAME Annie L. /Barnhart/
2 GIVN Annie L.
2 SURN Barnhart
1 SEX F
1 _UID EC04C9E36F82E74DA75BEE3DCEBBF9FA6AD5
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: records of the Braddock Methodist Episcopal church, now
2 CONC located at the
2 CONT McMasters Methodist church of Turtle Creek, Mrs. Anna L. Griffith
2 CONC transferred
2 CONT by certificate from the Reformed Church of Greensburg.
1 FAMS @F12@
0 @I40@ INDI
1 NAME Sophie /Glitsch/
2 GIVN Sophie
2 SURN Glitsch
1 SEX F
1 _UID B9A650DEE833AE4DB571468380BCAF45C24B
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT Daughter of Casper and Anne E. (Hoffman) Glitsch and granddaughter of
2 CONC Christian
2 CONT and Elizabeth Glitsch.  Christian b. 1800, Germany.  Casper b. 1822 at
2 CONT Landenhause, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, emigrated 1847.  He was a
2 CONC machinist and
2 CONT for 35 years was employed by the Cambria Steel Co.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 MAR 1858
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 FAMS @F13@
0 @I41@ INDI
1 NAME Johnson /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Johnson
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX M
1 _UID B3DA6DC1ED2AD74BAE899FB46563DEDAFE6C
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
2 CONT Born in Bedford County and at the age of thirteen he went with his
2 CONC parents to
2 CONT Kansas and there obtained his education and learned the carpenter's
2 CONC trade at
2 CONT which he worked, in connection with contracting, until the close of
2 CONC his life.
2 CONT He afterward returned to Pennsylvania and for some years followed his
2 CONC trade in
2 CONT Johnstown, after which at the request of his parents, he went back to
2 CONC Kansas
2 CONT and engaged in contracting and building. It was in excavating for the
2 CONT foundation of a building that he met with an accident which resulted
2 CONC in his
2 CONT death.
2 CONT
2 CONT Johnson Blackburn and his wife Emma Griffith were 3rd cousins.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1854
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1889
2 PLAC , , KS
1 BURI
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMS @F44@
0 @I42@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Amanda /Kring/
2 GIVN Mary Amanda
2 SURN Kring
1 SEX F
1 _UID 304CAF855CBFFF4AB88A73ADFCA18C8726E7
1 NOTE Dates from an SAR index, #4708
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Grandview Cemetery Records.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 FEB 1864
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 JAN 1935
1 BURI
2 DATE 23 JAN 1935
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMS @F46@
0 @I43@ INDI
1 NAME Henry /Arthur/
2 GIVN Henry
2 SURN Arthur
1 SEX M
1 _UID 9897DF7A252C1440A9796248208FAFAA01E5
1 FAMS @F45@
0 @I44@ INDI
1 NAME Dolly /Ready/
2 GIVN Dolly
2 SURN Ready
1 SEX F
1 _UID 38E6A9E330C5254E94AFD7885EB60DE9BE5E
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT Daughter of John K. & Sarah (Dishong) Ready. Father b. 1821, d. 27 Oct
2 CONC 1895.
2 CONT Parents natives of Fulton County, PA.  He was a well-to-do farmer,
2 CONC owning
2 CONT several large farms, one he inherited from his father John Ready.  The
2 CONC Ready
2 CONT family came from Ireland several generations earlier. Children of John
2 CONC & Sarah
2 CONT Ready: Margaret m. Ermin Huber residing Lancaster, PA; Mary m. Henry
2 CONC Appleman;
2 CONT Kate m. William Diggins; Rose m. Ephriam Foster; Dolly; Alverda m.
2 CONC James
2 CONT Shelley of Dale Borough, Johnstown, PA.
1 BURI
2 DATE 28 DEC 1938
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, PA
1 FAMS @F14@
0 @I49@ INDI
1 NAME Amy /Morgan/
2 GIVN Amy
2 SURN Morgan
1 SEX F
1 _UID 7960232CDF9E724EBFA6731135BF3D9E1D78
1 NOTE !COMMENT: See notes for sons, Thomas and John, re: John's "Journal."
2 CONT
2 CONT !RESEARCHER: Information from Quaker records extracted for W.W.
2 CONC Griffith by
2 CONT Heenan & Mount, Genealogists of Canterbury, England.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1689
2 PLAC Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales
1 DEAT
2 DATE 3 MAY 1762
2 PLAC Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales
1 REFN 257
1 FAMS @F18@
0 @I50@ INDI
1 NAME John /Griffith/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 2D7C251DB41C8E418B7AA496B6AAFC476C95
1 NOTE !OCCUPATION: Farmer; Quaker Minister
2 CONT
2 CONT !RESIDENCE: In marriage record for Martha Griffith, Concord Monthly
2 CONC Meeting,
2 CONT 22nd 4 mo, 1752, Martha is listed as "Daughter of John Griffith of
2 CONC Brimlley in
2 CONT Radnersher Wels in great Briton...".
2 CONT
2 CONT !RESEARCHER: Information from Welsh Quaker records extracted for W.W.
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT by Heenan & Mount, Genealogists of Canterbury, England. (Relayed by
2 CONC Pat
2 CONT Griffith, wife of Gordon Lee Griffith, Berkeley Springs, WVA.)
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 APR 1745
2 PLAC Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales
1 REFN 256
1 FAMS @F18@
1 FAMC @F36@
0 @I51@ INDI
1 NAME Abner /Griffith/
2 GIVN Abner
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 3C1DFDAD88EF4E40A733656A32A4FCEE71AA
1 NOTE OCCUPATION: Farmer
2 CONT
2 CONT BIOGRAPHY: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson
2 CONC Storey with
2 CONT Genealogical Memoirs, The Lewis Publishing Co., New York, Chicago,
2 CONC 1907, Vol.
2 CONT II, page 524; Vol. III, page 633-634.
2 CONT
2 CONT Came to Somerset County April 12, 1812.
2 CONT According to Historical Society records for Somerset County, Abner
2 CONC moved
2 CONT with his father and brothers, Thomas, William, and Jesse from Bedford
2 CONC County
2 CONT to Somerset County. Thomas coming in 1809, followed a couple of years
2 CONC later by
2 CONT William and Abner, and Jesse coming last.
2 CONT
2 CONT HISTORY OF BEDFORD, SOMERSET AND FULTON COUNTIES, 1884, p. 506: Abner
2 CONT served as a county commissioner of Somerset county.
2 CONT
2 CONT QUAKER RECORDS: Abner was granted a Certificate to Menallen M.M.
2 CONC (Adams County)
2 CONT by Dunnings Creek M.M. (Bedford County) in order to marry on 11 Jun
2 CONC 1806.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Menallen Monthly Meeting records, reads in part:
2 CONT 25th of 6th mo. 1806. Whereas Abner Griffith son of William Griffith
2 CONC and Sarah
2 CONT his wife of Bedford Township in the County of Bedford and State of
2 CONC Pennsylvania
2 CONT and Mary Owen daughter of John Owen and Sarah his wife of Tyrone
2 CONC Township Adams
2 CONT County and State aforesaid...this twenty fifth day of the sixth month
2 CONC eighteen
2 CONT hundred six...at Monallen. WITNESSES: Catharine McKnight, Ann McGrew,
2 CONC Nancy
2 CONT McElhinney, Victor NcElhinney, Nancy King, Nancy Elliott, Mary McGrew,
2 CONC Mary
2 CONT Kirk, Amos Boen, Elizabeth Bateman, John Bateman, Wm Wright, Mary
2 CONC McGrew,
2 CONT Rebekah Thomas, Benjamin Wright, Rebekah ?, John McKnight, (Groom)
2 CONC Abner
2 CONT Griffith, (Bride) Mary Griffith, John Owen, Sarah Owen, Elizabeth
2 CONC Wright, Mary
2 CONT Wright, Nathan McGrew, Jacob Bateman, Robert McIlhenny, Finley McGrew,
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT Mickel, Sarah Rusk, Jane Mickel.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: WILL dated 28 APR 1832, registered 21 Feb 1833
2 CONT Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA. Reads: In the name of God Amen. I Abner
2 CONC Griffith of
2 CONT the County of Somerset in Jenner Township in the state of Pennsylvania
2 CONC and I
2 CONT being sick and weak in body but of sound and disposing mind of memory
2 CONC and
2 CONT understanding considering the sertenty of deth and the uncertanty of
2 CONC the time
2 CONT there of and being disirous to settle my worldly affairs and thereby
2 CONC be the
2 CONT better prepared to leave this wourld when it shall please God to call
2 CONC me hence
2 CONT do thereby make and publish this my last will and Testament in manner
2 CONC and form
2 CONT folowing that is to say first and principally I Comit my soul, into
2 CONC the hands
2 CONT of the Almity God and my body to the earth to be decently buried at
2 CONC the
2 CONT discretion of my execturos herein after named and after my debts and
2 CONC my Funeral
2 CONT charges are paid, I devise and bequeath as folows. I give and bequeath
2 CONC unto my
2 CONT loved wife Mary five hundred dollars to be paid in property or money,
2 CONC beside
2 CONT her bed and bedding. I give and bequeath unto my Five sons, John,
2 CONC William,
2 CONT Abner, Levi, Eli, the tree places in the names of Peter Werts, Samuel
2 CONC Taylor,
2 CONT Frederick Wagner. John to get the tract in the name of Peter Wertz
2 CONC containing
2 CONT 200 Acres whereon he now lives and also 20 Acres of the tract in the
2 CONC name of
2 CONT Andrew Hatry ajoining the above for the sum of twelve hundred dolars.
2 CONC William
2 CONT to get one hundred and fifty acres where he now lives in the name of
2 CONC Frederick
2 CONT Wagner according to the lines that was marked on the ground for the
2 CONC sum of
2 CONT twelve hundred dollars. Abner to get one hundred and fifty acres of
2 CONC the west
2 CONT side of a tract in the name of Samuel Taylor caled the home place for
2 CONC the sum
2 CONT of ten hundred and fifty dollars. Levi to get the north end of the
2 CONC Wagner tract
2 CONT containing one hundred and fity acres at the sum of nine hundred
2 CONC dollars. Eli
2 CONT to get the home place containing one hundred and fifty acres for the
2 CONC sum of
2 CONT twelve hundred dollars. The places wiled to Abner, Levi, Eli, the
2 CONC ishews and
2 CONT prophets to go towards maintaining my wife Mary and the minor children
2 CONC till of
2 CONT age after my decease. I will to my daughters, Sarah, Mry Ann and
2 CONC Deborah five
2 CONT hundred dollars each which will amount to fifteen hundred dollars. I
2 CONC devis and
2 CONT bequeath all the rest and residue of my Estate both real and personal
2 CONC to be
2 CONT equally divided to my eight children viz. John, William, Sarah,
2 CONC Maryann, Abner,
2 CONT Levi, Deborah, Eli and my wife Mary as long as she remains my widow
2 CONC let it be
2 CONT understood that my will is tht each and everyone is to go share and
2 CONC share alike
2 CONT acording to their portion to grante the deeds of the places that is in
2 CONC the
2 CONT names of Samuel taylor and Frederick Wagner to satisfy the mortgage if
2 CONC it has
2 CONT any affect and lastly I do hereby constitute and appint my two sons
2 CONC John and
2 CONT William Griffith to be my sole Executors of this my last Will and
2 CONC testmaent
2 CONT revoking annuling all former will by me heretofore made ratifying and
2 CONT confirming this and none than to be my last Will and testament in
2 CONC testimony
2 CONT whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty
2 CONC eighth day
2 CONT of April in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty
2 CONC two.
2 CONT
2 CONT                                        /s/ Abner Griffith {Seal}
2 CONT
2 CONT Signed sealed and delivered in the presance of Abner Griffith the
2 CONC above named
2 CONT testator as and for his last will and testmaent in the presance of us
2 CONC who at
2 CONT his request in his presance and in the presance of each others have
2 CONC subscribed
2 CONT our names as witness thereto
2 CONT
2 CONT /s/ William Hammer
2 CONT
2 CONT /s/ Emanuel Cover
2 CONT
2 CONT /s/ William Griffith
2 CONT
2 CONT Somerset County fs.
2 CONT This 21st day of February 1833 Personally Appeared before me Chaunsey
2 CONC Forward
2 CONT Register for the probate of Wills and granting letters of
2 CONC Administration in and
2 CONT for said County Emanuel Cover and William Griffith two of the
2 CONC subscribing
2 CONT witnesses to the written will and being duly swarn and affirmed
2 CONC according to
2 CONT law do depose and say that they were present and Wm Griffith says he
2 CONC signed his
2 CONT name as a witness at request of Testator who had proviously signed it.
2 CONC Saw and
2 CONT heard Abner Griffith the testator sign, seal, publish, pronounce and
2 CONC declare
2 CONT the foregoing instrument of writing as and for his testament and last
2 CONC will, and
2 CONT that at the time of so doing he was of Perfect and sound mind memory
2 CONC and
2 CONT understanding to the best of their knowledge and belief.
2 CONT
2 CONT /s/ C. Forward, Register                  /s/ Emanuel Cover
2 CONT
2 CONT                                           /s/ William Griffith
2 CONT
2 CONT Registered 21st February A.D. 1833, C. Forward Register.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Inscription: Abner Griffith / Born Jany. 22d, 1784, / & died
2 CONC Feb
2 CONT 12th / 1833, aged 49 / years & 21 days.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 JAN 1784
2 PLAC , York co., PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 FEB 1833
2 PLAC Jenner Township, Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Baptist Ch. Cem., near Boswell, Somerset, PA
1 ENDL
2 DATE 1 JUL 1993
1 FAMS @F19@
1 FAMC @F23@
0 @I52@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Owen/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Owen
1 SEX F
1 _UID 49EBC4325D7434428AE753AEDA9896E0CB7E
1 NOTE BURIAL: Inscription: In Memory of / Mary, / Wife of / Abner Griffith /
2 CONC died
2 CONT April 5 1858 / Aged 76 yrs 8 / mos & 26 ds. (Birth computed from
2 CONC elapsed
2 CONT time on tombstone.)
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE:  Menallen Monthly Meeting record for marriage gives parents'
2 CONC names,
2 CONT John and Sarah Owen of Tyrone Twp., now Adams County, PA
2 CONT
2 CONT 10-23-1806 Certificate of Removal for Mary from Menallen M.M. to
2 CONC Dunning's Creek
2 CONT
2 CONT 12-10-1806 Dunnings Creek Minutes of the Proceedings of the Monthly
2 CONC Meetings
2 CONT of Women Friends, Dunnings Creek, Bedford County reported "Mary
2 CONC Griffith hath
2 CONT produced a certificate from Menallen Monthly Meeting."
1 BIRT
2 DATE 7 JUL 1781
2 PLAC , , PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 5 APR 1858
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 REFN 33
1 FAMS @F19@
1 FAMC @F28@
0 @I53@ INDI
1 NAME John Owen /Griffith/
2 GIVN John Owen
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID F22CA811555E2445A7FD008A81B66632F095
1 NOTE OCCUPATION: Farmer
2 CONT
2 CONT John O. Griffith had two additional children known, Emma (Mrs. Adam
2 CONC Stevens)
2 CONT who had children Charles Stevens, born 1902 and Florence Stevens
2 CONC Glessner; and
2 CONT Jennie.  I have no information as to which of John's 2nd or 3rd wives
2 CONC was the
2 CONT mother of Emma and Jennie.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Tombstone reads: John O. Griffith / Died April 12, 1882 / age
2 CONC 74 yrs. 9
2 CONT mo. 1 day. (This stone was an obvious replacement stone.)
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: From LDS Microfilm #0558967, Somerset County, PA Marriages
2 CONC 1852-1875:
2 CONT Marriage of: John Owen Griffith and Rachel Rock; Father of Husband:
2 CONC Abner
2 CONT Griffith; Mother of Husband: Mary Griffith; Occupation of Husband:
2 CONC Farmer;
2 CONT Residence of Husband: Jenner Twp., Somerset Co., PA; Full Name of Wife
2 CONC previous
2 CONT to marriage: Rachel Rock; Father of Wife: David Blough; Mother of
2 CONC Wife:
2 CONT Magdalena Blough; Marriage contract date: April 17th 1853; Place
2 CONC Contracted:
2 CONT John Water, Jenner Twp., Somerset Co., PA; Color: White; Ceremony:
2 CONC Methodist
2 CONT Episcopal; Name of Pronouncer: Richard Jordan; Date of Certificate:
2 CONC June 15th
2 CONT 1853; Date of Registration: 16th; Signed: Jno. Hicks Dep. Regt.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 JUL 1807
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 12 APR 1882
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F20@
1 FAMS @F47@
1 FAMS @F50@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I54@ INDI
1 NAME William A. /Griffith/
2 GIVN William A.
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 6DCC8A59AE7D9C409E5423986D7B7EFA30D5
1 NOTE BURIAL: Inscription: William A. Griffith / died / May 10, 1891 / Aged
2 CONC / 82 ys.
2 CONT & 5 ms.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE SOURCE: Papers dated 25 AUG 1891; Proved 24 OCT 1891;
2 CONT Jenner Township, Somerset, PA.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: Died intestate, 7 children filed as heirs: Josiah J. Griffith
2 CONC of
2 CONT Jennerstown, Somerset County; Abner W. Griffith of Jennerstown; Mary
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT intermarried with John Thomas of Johnstown, Cambria County; Agnes
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT intermarried with George A. Markel of Johnstown; Lucinda Griffith
2 CONC intermarried
2 CONT with Jerry J. Shaffer of Jenner Township, Somerset County; David S.
2 CONC Griffith,
2 CONT Johnstown; Obadiah Griffith, Johnstown.
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH/DEATH: Dates computed from time elapsed on tombstone
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT Gives place of birth as "father's farm, Somerset County" but records
2 CONC indicate
2 CONT that his father did not come to Somerset County from Bedford County
2 CONC until
2 CONT approx. 1811-1812.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 DEC 1808
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 MAY 1891
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F21@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I55@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Griffith/
2 GIVN Sarah
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID C29C5072721D4E408DE916B8B7AE4BD40584
1 NOTE BIRTH/DEATH: Dates from tombstone
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 NOV 1810
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 SEP 1888
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F48@
1 FAMS @F142@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I56@ INDI
1 NAME Abner /Reighart/
2 GIVN Abner
2 SURN Reighart
1 SEX M
1 _UID C33430FE757FC74490B4692E5295579CD9F6
1 NOTE BURIAL: Inscription reads: Abner s/o D. & S. d. 12/11/1855 ag 20-4-5.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 AUG 1835
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 DEC 1855
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F142@
0 @I57@ INDI
1 NAME Deborah /Griffith/
2 GIVN Deborah
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 6123A94BD5574B4E941D65F6E93E74AB8F17
1 NOTE Named in father's will
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT OBIT: Ligonier Echo
2 CONT JOHNSTON - Mrs. Deborah Johnston, widow of John Johnston, formerly of
2 CONC Jenners,
2 CONT Somerset County, died at home of her daughter, Mrs. Harvey Black, on
2 CONC Market
2 CONT Street Wednesday, August 3, 1898, aged 79 years, 1 month, 12 days.
2 CONC Funeral took
2 CONT place on Friday. Interment at U.B. Cemetery near Jenners. She had been
2 CONC a member
2 CONT of this church for more than 40 years.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 JUN 1819
2 PLAC Father's farm, Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 3 AUG 1898
2 PLAC Ligonier, Westmoreland, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC U.B. Cemetery, Jennerstown, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F49@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I58@ INDI
1 NAME Hannah /Berkey/
2 GIVN Hannah
2 SURN Berkey
1 SEX F
1 _UID 66CB7833F5147E45A31AF8E9BEF34BFC3EAB
1 NOTE BURIAL: Inscription reads: Hannah wife of / John O. Griffith / died
2 CONC the 11 of
2 CONT June / A.D. 1850 aged 41 y 5 m / and 3 D.
2 CONT
2 CONT Information on this line received from Kay Sipe of Idaho. No
2 CONC documentation
2 CONT attached.
2 CONT
2 CONT Hannah Berkey was the daughter of Samuel Berkey and Susan Taylor.
2 CONC Samuel
2 CONT Berkey was the son of Jacob and Elizabeth Blough Berkey of Canton
2 CONT of Berne, Switzerland. Jacob, b. 1735, Switzerland, d.1805, Conemaugh,
2 CONT Somerset, PA. Elizabeth Blough born 1737 Switzerland, died 1813,
2 CONC Somerset
2 CONT county, PA. She was the daughter of Christian (son of Hans), b. 1700
2 CONT Switzerland, d. 12 Nov 1786, Lancaster, PA and Elizabeth Gastelli
2 CONC Blough
2 CONT (Children: Christian Blough, Jr. b. 7 Jul 1743 Canton of Berne,
2 CONC Switzerland,
2 CONT died 1777 Somerset, PA m. 1764 Magdalena Elizabeth Bender; Jacob
2 CONC Blough, b.
2 CONT 1736 Switzerland, d. 3 Sep 1810, m. Jan 1757 Anna Kauffman; Anna Maria
2 CONC Blough,
2 CONT b. 1754 Lebanon, Lancaster, PA, m. Christian Berkey; Barbara Blough;
2 CONC Elizabeth
2 CONT Blough m. Jacob Berkey; Veronica Blough b. 1739 m. 1760 John
2 CONC Schneider)
2 CONT
2 CONT JACOB and Elizabeth Blough Berkey had children: Elizabeth Berkey, b.
2 CONC 1759 m.
2 CONT John Furry; Fannie Berkey, b. 1761 m. Johannes Lehman; Magdalena
2 CONC Berkey, b.
2 CONT 1763 m. Christian Miller; Jacob Berkey, b. 1766 m. Barbara Miller;
2 CONC Joseph
2 CONT Berkey, b. 1768 m. Mary (Polly) Taylor; Samuel Berkey, b. 1778, d.
2 CONC 1848 m.
2 CONT Susan Taylor; David Berkey, b. 1780, d. 1862 m. 15 Jun 1802 Elizabeth
2 CONC Fyock;
2 CONT Anna Berkey m. Phillip Harman; Sarah Berkey m. David Fyock; Rachel
2 CONC Berkey, b.
2 CONT 1784 m. Benedict Peter Lehman.
2 CONT
2 CONT SAMUEL and Susan Taylor Berkey had children: Daniel B. Berkey, b. 18
2 CONC Nov 1796,
2 CONT Somerset county, PA, d. 24 Dec 1868; James Berkey, b. 1800, Somerset,
2 CONC PA, d. 3
2 CONT Apr 1872 m. ___ Miller; Sarah (Sally) Berkey, b. 15 Apr 1803, d. 30
2 CONC Aug 1876 m.
2 CONT George Stufft; Elizabeth Berkey, d. 1841 m. Jacob Berkey; Hannah
2 CONC Berkey, b. 14
2 CONT Jan 1807, d. 17 Jun 1850 m. John O. Griffith; William Berkey m.
2 CONC Caroline
2 CONT Penrod; Nancy (Anna) Berkey, b. 14 Mar 1811, d. 8 May 1882 m. Godfrey
2 CONC Cable;
2 CONT Elijah Berkey, b. 26 Aug 1812, d. 6 Apr 1884 m. Nancy Miller; Aaron
2 CONC Berkey, b.
2 CONT 2 Mar 1820, d. 25 Apr 1901, m. Ann Geissel Naugle; Abiah Berkey, b.
2 CONC 1827 m.
2 CONT Catherine Manges; Mary Berkey, b. 1816 m. Christian Harshberger
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 JAN 1809
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 JUN 1850
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F20@
0 @I59@ INDI
1 NAME Rachel (BLOUGH) /Rock/
2 GIVN Rachel (BLOUGH)
2 SURN Rock
2 NSFX (Widow)
1 SEX F
1 TITL (Widow)
1 _UID BCAF93EA05FB20479612306625F9BB80E672
1 NOTE BIRTH/DEATH: Computed from elapsed time on tombstone.
2 CONT Inscription: Our Mother / Rachel Griffith / wife of / John O. Griffith
2 CONC / died
2 CONT April 30, 1865 / aged 37 years 1 month / and 7 days / The Lord watch
2 CONC between /
2 CONT me and thee.
2 CONT
2 CONT Daughter of David and Magdalena Blough.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 MAR 1828
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 APR 1865
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F47@
0 @I60@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Jones/
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 SURN Jones
1 SEX F
1 _UID 60037F05AD81804685B75E0C197C721CA4EE
1 FAMS @F50@
0 @I61@ INDI
1 NAME Jacob /Berkey/
2 GIVN Jacob
2 SURN Berkey
1 SEX M
1 _UID 727750465630F54CB3D4CE26B0FCFC44AD43
1 NOTE BURIAL: Inscription on tombstone reads: aged 55 yr.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: 1850 Census, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA. Page 195,
2 CONC Family
2 CONT 236, age listed as 43 years, occupation: laborer.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1804
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 AUG 1859
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F48@
0 @I62@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Reighart/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Reighart
1 SEX F
1 _UID E23F631BF70F7A4E94F8D0A62A6E3675B2AE
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL RECORDS indicate Place of birth, Somerset County, Place of
2 CONC decease,
2 CONT Stony Creek Twp., Age at death, 80, Cause of Death Paralysis, Date of
2 CONC Death
2 CONT 4/23/1891, Lot 44, Section PR2, Page 19, Inter #1558.
2 CONT
2 CONT Possibly a daughter of William and Mary Ann Reighart. See notes for
2 CONC Elizabeth
2 CONT Reighart. She is not mentioned in William Reighart's will, although
2 CONC her husband
2 CONT is mentioned as having adjoining lands.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 AUG 1810
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 APR 1891
2 PLAC Stony Creek, Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 25 APR 1891
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMS @F22@
1 FAMC @F143@
0 @I63@ INDI
1 NAME John /Johnston/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Johnston
1 SEX M
1 _UID 1219175BF5BCB34AA7442A44E8940A456FB9
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1876
2 PLAC Ligonier, Westmoreland, PA
1 FAMS @F49@
0 @I64@ INDI
1 NAME William /Griffith/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 64C1CF6F7BCF3347B24F1B2C1E4553486D16
1 NOTE COMMENT: There are no early official records that use the name William
2 CONC Owen
2 CONT Griffith, all records indicate that he was William Griffith. HISTORY
2 CONC OF CAMBRIA
2 CONT COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA is the only place we see the "Owen" middle name.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESIDENCES: Chester to York County, circa 1758. York County to Bedford
2 CONT County, between 1783 and 1791. Bedford County to Somerset County,
2 CONC 1809.
2 CONT
2 CONT One account of William Griffith's migration from Bedford County to
2 CONC Somerset
2 CONT County states: "He came in the spring of 1809 from Fishertown through
2 CONT Johnstown, once an Indian path then up by way of Bens Creek -- where
2 CONC Berkey's
2 CONT now live. He found a hut about where Thomas Mills is located. The 1st
2 CONC night the
2 CONT wolves howled and he set fire to the bushes to keep off the wild
2 CONC animals. The
2 CONT next day he built a hut and remained three months. He went back to
2 CONC Bedford Co.
2 CONT and did not return for two years. Thomas came over the following
2 CONC spring after
2 CONT the father returned and when the father returned in 1811 with his
2 CONC family --
2 CONT William, Jesse, and Abner and their families. The Owens family came
2 CONC too, as two
2 CONT of their daughters had married Griffith boys. This farm is where
2 CONC Glessner now
2 CONT is located. He located where Jacob Speigle now lives. There is the big
2 CONC spring.
2 CONT Each farm was about 300 acres. They owned the whole county round
2 CONC about. The
2 CONT Lawyers Egles, etc. came here to hunt and shoot -- staying weeks at a
2 CONC time.
2 CONT Griffiths had horses, whisky, and monies galore. The Quaker Road is
2 CONC from Jake
2 CONT Speigle's barn down to the Johnstown Pike." (Found among some papers
2 CONC that Mrs.
2 CONT Mary E. Wilson of Bedford County, PA allowed W.W. Griffith to examine
2 CONC and cited
2 CONT by W.W. Griffith in his account of the Griffith family.)
2 CONT
2 CONT CENSUS: 1790, Bedford County. William Grifeth, 1 male over 16, 3 males
2 CONC under
2 CONT 16, 1 female. (Household next to brother-in-law, Nathan Hammond's, and
2 CONT William's oldest son, Thomas Griffith.)
2 CONT
2 CONT OCCUPATION: Farmer
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH-DEATH: Griffith Bible belonging to Mary Ann Griffith
2 CONT Fleck, great granddaughter of William Griffith.  She died in 1927.
2 CONC ("Laurel
2 CONT Messenger" Feb. 1982)
2 CONT
2 CONT MILITARY: PA Archives, 3rd Series, Vol. VII, page 57, William Griffith
2 CONC paid 40
2 CONT pounds, 4th Battalion, Hans Morrison, Sub Lieut., 1777-1780.
2 CONT PA Archives, 3rd Series, Vol. VII, pages 86-87, William Griffith, 4th
2 CONT Battalion, Capt. Colmery's Company, paid 375 pounds, 17 shillings, 6
2 CONC pence,
2 CONT 1780-83. (York County PA Militia)
2 CONT
2 CONT MILITARY: April 18, 1791, bounty Land Warrant application #9427, 100
2 CONC acres
2 CONT granted.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Abstract of the Records of Warrington Monthly
2 CONT Meeting, York County, Pennsylvania maintained at the Friend's Library
2 CONC at
2 CONT Swarthmore College, PA.
2 CONT
2 CONT On 9-10-1763 and on 10-8-1763, William Griffith and Sarah Hammond
2 CONC declare
2 CONT intentions to marry.
2 CONT
2 CONT William Griffith of Menallen township in the County of York, son of
2 CONC Thomas
2 CONT Griffith and Eve his wife, and Sarah Hamond of the same township,
2 CONC daughter of
2 CONT John Hammond and Deborah his wife, married 10-19-1763 at Menallen
2 CONC Meeting.
2 CONT (Marriage record page 59)  Witnesses:  Ann McGrew, Alice Wright, Jane
2 CONC Falkner,
2 CONT Jane Falkner (2), Elizabeth Hamond, Elizabeth Griffith, John Mickle,
2 CONC Robert
2 CONT Miller, William Beals, John Pope, William Pigeon, Thos. Griffith, Jno.
2 CONC Hamond,
2 CONT Finley McGrew, Mary Beals, Mary Glasgow, Mary Smith, Henry Marsh, John
2 CONC Morton,
2 CONT James Glasgow, Wm. Hutton, Samuel Buyers, Robert Mordough, Jesse
2 CONC Falkner,
2 CONT Nathan McGrew, Isaac Oldham, Finley McGrew, Benjamin Wright, Benja
2 CONC Wilson,
2 CONT Samuel Hutton, James McGrew, Eve Griffith, Thos. Hinshaw."
2 CONT
2 CONT LAND RECORDS: Menallen M.M. records indicate that William and Sarah
2 CONC Griffith of
2 CONT Menallen on 5-25-1784 sold land to Abraham Snyder, on upper fork of
2 CONC Connewingo
2 CONT
2 CONT LAND RECORDS: 1796, Thomas Griffith, William Griffith, and John
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT (brothers) bought land on Dunnings Creek in Bedford County, PA. Deed
2 CONC recorded 2
2 CONT January 1823. (Deed Book D., page 541, Bedford county, PA).
2 CONT
2 CONT LAND RECORDS: Spring Grove, surveyed 2 Jul 1770. Granted to Stephen
2 CONC Carmark,
2 CONT Patented to Samuel Riddle, Esq. 1-11-1813 to William Griffith 2-6-1813
2 CONC to Jesse
2 CONT Griffith 10-13-1815. Jesse and wife Lydia of Jenner Twp. to Hugh Reed
2 CONC 25 Apr
2 CONT 1818.
2 CONT
2 CONT TAX RECORDS: 1783, Menallen Twp., York (now Adams) County, PA.
2 CONT
2 CONT List #1: William Griffith was assessed for 245 acres with 7
2 CONC inhabitants, no
2 CONT servants, no negroes.
2 CONT
2 CONT List #2: Williiam Griffith was assessed for 245 acres with 7
2 CONC inhabitants, 2
2 CONT horses, 4 horned cattle, 8 sheep, 2 houses, 2 outhouses. Assessed
2 CONC valuation:
2 CONT L304. Tax paid: 9L-16sh-4p.
2 CONT
2 CONT PROBATE: Named as brother in Thomas Griffith will dated 28 Feb 1826,
2 CONC Somerset
2 CONT county, PA.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: RECORD OF BURIAL PLACE OF VETERAN, Commonwealth of
2 CONC Pennsylvania,
2 CONT Department of Military Affairs: Somerset County, Veteran of Rev. War,
2 CONC Served in
2 CONT Army, Dates of Service 1777-1783, Organization Capt. Colmery's Co.,
2 CONC York Co.,
2 CONT Rank Private, Cemetery Baptist Cemetery 2 mi. N. of Boswell, Pa,
2 CONC Somerset
2 CONT County, Location of Grave in Cemetery - Section Lot No. 4, Grave No.
2 CONC 4,
2 CONT Information given by PA Archives. (Recorded in the County Veterans'
2 CONC Grave
2 CONT Registration Record and sent to The Adjutant Generals' Office,
2 CONC Harrisburg,
2 CONT Pennsylvania for final Record - Griffith, William.)
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: 1921 letter of Norman Bruce Griffith to the Pennsylvania Dept.
2 CONC of
2 CONT Highways urges that the highway between Johnstown and Somerset be
2 CONC named the
2 CONT William Griffith Highway. The letter states: "William Griffith's
2 CONC gravestone
2 CONT is marked by veteran's groups by a small American flag on appropriate
2 CONT occasions to commemorate his military service in the Revolution."
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 OCT 1742
2 PLAC Sadsbury, Chester, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 7 MAY 1832
2 PLAC Jenner Township, Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Baptist Ch. Cem., near Boswell, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F23@
1 FAMC @F30@
0 @I65@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Hammond/
2 GIVN Sarah
2 SURN Hammond
1 SEX F
1 _UID 714D8BF37A0C37418C88860E2BD2636DAF06
1 NOTE BIRTH/DEATH: Old Griffith Family Bible belonging to Mary Ann Griffith
2 CONC Fleck,
2 CONT great granddaughter of William Griffith. ("Laurel Messenger" Feb.
2 CONC 1982)
2 CONT Some records show Sarah's birthdate as the 16th of Dec., some show the
2 CONC date as
2 CONT the 11th of Dec.  All records use the Quaker old style of dating
2 CONC making the
2 CONT 10th month December.
2 CONT
2 CONT PARENTS: "Laurel Messenger," November 1989 gives children of John and
2 CONC Deborah
2 CONT Dix Hammond,
2 CONT copied from photo copy in the Florence Dibert Collection of the
2 CONC Historical and
2 CONT Genealogical Society of Somerset County, PA by Marguerite L. Cockley,
2 CONC November
2 CONT 26, 1979.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Tombstone reads: Sarah, Wife of / Wm. Griffith, born / Jany
2 CONC 16th, 1743,
2 CONT & died Jany / 18th, 1824, aged 78 / years & 2 days. (Note age would
2 CONC make the
2 CONT date 1821, not 1824.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 DEC 1743
2 PLAC , York co., PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 JAN 1821
2 PLAC Jenner Township, Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Baptist Ch. Cem., near Boswell, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F23@
0 @I66@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Griffith/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 9AAF742D4F1BB3499F93C727A578EDCF49FD
1 NOTE BIRTH/DEATH: Dates computed from elapsed time on tombstone.
2 CONT
2 CONT OCCUPATION: Farmer
2 CONT
2 CONT CENSUS: 1790, Bedford County, PA. Thomas Grifeth, 1 male over 16, 1
2 CONC male under
2 CONT 16, 3 females.
2 CONT
2 CONT LAND RECORDS: 15-201, Thomas and Jane his wife to Redding B. Conover
2 CONC 9-2-1837,
2 CONT formerly land of William Griffith of Thomas to Thomas Griffith by deed
2 CONT 9-4-1830. (William of Thomas would be this Thomas' father.)
2 CONT
2 CONT 04 Sep 1830. Joseph Imhoff, High Sheriff, came into Court and
2 CONC acknowledged his
2 CONT deed to Thomas Griffith for one house and Lot #51. Also 5 other lots
2 CONC (#43, 44,
2 CONT 45, 49, and 50), all situated in Jennerville, Jenner Twp. Sold as the
2 CONC property
2 CONT of William Griffith (of Thomas). Consideration $100. (Somerset County,
2 CONC Docket
2 CONT A, Sheriff and Treasurer Deeds, page 25.)
2 CONT
2 CONT MILITARY: Burials of War of 1812 Veterans, Veterans' Grave Register,
2 CONC Somerset
2 CONT County, PA. Thomas Griffith, Army, served 9/2/14-3/5/15, Captain John
2 CONC Graham's
2 CONT Company, 2nd Regiment, 1st Brigade, Pa Militia, Private. (Buried
2 CONC Baptist
2 CONT Cemetery, Boswell, Pa.)
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: WILL dated 11 Jan 1831, codicil added 1835, proved 8 Mar 1842,
2 CONC Jenner
2 CONT Township, Somerset county, PA.
2 CONT
2 CONT I, Thomas Griffith of the township of Jenner in the county of
2 CONC Somerset,
2 CONT Pennsylvania being of sound & disposing mind & understanding do make
2 CONC my Last
2 CONT will and testament in the following manner viz. I direct my executors
2 CONC herein
2 CONT after mentioned to pay all my just debts & funeral charges and
2 CONC expenses in
2 CONT carrying into effect this will as soon as convenient after my decease.
2 CONT Secondly, I will and direct that the sum of eight hundred thirty three
2 CONC dollars
2 CONT & thirty three cents & a third shall remain in the hands of my
2 CONC executors during
2 CONT the widowhood of Jane my wife and that the interest whereof viz. fifty
2 CONC dollars
2 CONT shall be by them annually paid to her the first payment to her to be
2 CONC made
2 CONT within one year after my death or sooner if my executors shall think
2 CONC proper. I
2 CONT futher give & bequeath to my wife Jane one good bed, bedstead &
2 CONC bedding
2 CONT complete, which together with the aforesaid annuity shall be in full
2 CONC of her
2 CONT dower at law. I further desire that my wife Jane shall _____ remain
2 CONC ____ on the
2 CONT mansion place with my son Abner during her widowhood and I hereby
2 CONC grant unto
2 CONT her to have & enjoy the undisturbed & sole possession of such room or
2 CONC chamber
2 CONT in the mansion house as she may _____. I give and bequeath to my
2 CONC daughter
2 CONT Elizabeth intermarried with Thomas Blackburn one hundred dollars which
2 CONC together
2 CONT with whatsoever she has heretofore recieved shall be in full of her
2 CONC share & her
2 CONT part in my estate real & personal -- I give & bequeath to my son
2 CONC William all
2 CONT the claims of whatever description that I hold against him in full of
2 CONC his share
2 CONT & his part in my estate real and personal -- I give and bequeath to my
2 CONC daughter
2 CONT Sarah intermarried with John Biesal the sum of three hundred dollars
2 CONC which
2 CONT together with whatsoever she may have heretofore received shall be in
2 CONC full of
2 CONT her share & her part of my estate real & personal. I give and bequeath
2 CONC to my
2 CONT son Samuel the sum of two hundred dollars which together with
2 CONC whatsoever he may
2 CONT have heretofore received shall be in full of his share and his part in
2 CONC my
2 CONT estate real and personal. I give & bequeath to my daughter, Mary
2 CONC intermarried
2 CONT with Edward Hair two hundred dollars which together with whatsoever
2 CONC she may
2 CONT have heretofore received shall be in full her share & her part in my
2 CONC estate real
2 CONT and personal. But all claims that I now have against said Hair shall
2 CONC be
2 CONT deducted out of said legacy last mentioned. I have made & executed
2 CONC deeds to my
2 CONT sons Thomas, John, Jesse & Abner for five _____ tracts or pieces of
2 CONC land
2 CONT situated in Jenner township in the county aforesaid reference
2 CONC thereunto being
2 CONT ___ will more fully and at at large appear. I therefore order and
2 CONC direct my
2 CONT executors to deliver the aforesaid deeds respectively to my said sons
2 CONC Thomas,
2 CONT John, Jesse and Abner immediately after my decease. And I do hereby
2 CONC ratify &
2 CONT confirm the disposition of the said five tracts or pieces to the said
2 CONC four sons
2 CONT last mentioned equally to the terms of the said deeds their heirs &
2 CONC assigns
2 CONT forever and I further order and direct my said executors to procure &
2 CONC pay for a
2 CONT patent for the land conveyed to my son John.
2 CONT
2 CONT I further order and direct my said executors to procure and pay for
2 CONC the
2 CONT _______ title to the land conveyed to my son Thomas. -- I further give
2 CONC &
2 CONT bequeath to my son Thomas in addition to what he has heretofore
2 CONC received the sum
2 CONT of two hundred dollars in cash -- I further give & bequeath to my son
2 CONC Jesse the
2 CONT sum of three hundred & fifty dollars in cash also a silver watch & the
2 CONC stove
2 CONT now in the house occupied by William Woods. I further give & bequeath
2 CONC to my son
2 CONT Abner the sum of two hundred & fifty dollars in cash also the clock in
2 CONC my house
2 CONT -- After the payment of the foregoing legacies & bequests I hereby
2 CONC give &
2 CONT bequeath unto Rebecca intermarried with Joseph Hancock, Mary Anne
2 CONC intermarried
2 CONT with Jacob Clark -- Margaret intermarried with James Hanlon --
2 CONC Susannah
2 CONT intermarried with John Duncan & Thomas, John, & Jesse the sum of four
2 CONC hundred
2 CONT dollars each deductiing out of the legacy of Rebecca all claims that I
2 CONC hold
2 CONT against Joseph Hancock, also deducting out of the share of Mary Anne
2 CONC all claims
2 CONT that I hold against Jacob Clark, also deducting out of the legacy of
2 CONC Margaret
2 CONT the claims that I hold against James Hanlon. And also deducting out of
2 CONC the
2 CONT legacy of Susannah the claims that I hold against John Duncan. Further
2 CONC I do
2 CONT hereby give & bequeath after the payment of all the _____ before
2 CONC mentioned
2 CONT bequests the residue of my estate not _____ before devised bequeathed
2 CONC to my sons
2 CONT Thomas, John, Jesse, Abner and to my daughters Rebecca, Mary Anne,
2 CONC Margaret &
2 CONT Susannah, share & share alike. I do further order and direct all the
2 CONC legacies
2 CONT herein given to be paid in the following manner one third part thereof
2 CONC within
2 CONT one year after my demise one third within eighteen months & the
2 CONC balance within
2 CONT two years after my decease except the fund heretofore mentioned for
2 CONC the
2 CONT maintenance of my wife Jane during her widowhood which fund shall be
2 CONC divided
2 CONT amongst the said last mentioned eight children share and share alike
2 CONC within one
2 CONT month after the said Jane shall cease to remain my widow. Lastly I
2 CONC nominate &
2 CONT appoint my son John Griffith, my brother Abner Griffith and Charles
2 CONC Ogle
2 CONT Executors of this my last will & testament hereby revoking all other
2 CONC Wills by
2 CONT me at any time heretofore made --And I do hereby authorise & empower
2 CONC my said
2 CONT executors to make & execute all deeds & conveyances that may be
2 CONC necessary for
2 CONT transferring & granting any lands that I may have heretofore sold or
2 CONC bargained
2 CONT & contracted to sell and also all powers & authorities necessary to
2 CONC carry into
2 CONT full effect the matters contained in this said last will & testament.
2 CONT
2 CONT Signed sealed published pronounced & declared by the testator as & for
2 CONC his
2 CONT last will & testament in presence of us who at his requests & in his
2 CONC presence
2 CONT have subscribed our names as witnesses this 11th day of January 1831.
2 CONT
2 CONT /s/ Andrew Campbell
2 CONT
2 CONT /s/ John B. Reed                         /s/ Thomas Griffith {Seal}
2 CONT
2 CONT Whereas I Thomas Griffith of Jenner Township, Somerset county having
2 CONC made and
2 CONT duly executed my last will & testament in writing bearing date of the
2 CONC eleventh
2 CONT day of January one thousand eight hundred & thirty one, Now I do
2 CONC hereby declare
2 CONT this present writing to be as a codicil to my said will and direct the
2 CONC same to
2 CONT be ammended thereto & taken as part thereof. And I do hereby give and
2 CONC bequeath
2 CONT unto my daughter Rebecca intermarried with Joseph Hancock three
2 CONC hundred dollars
2 CONT in addition to her legacy in my said last will & testament -- I do
2 CONC also hereby
2 CONT give & bequeath unto my daughter Mary Anne intermarried with Jacob
2 CONC Clark one
2 CONT hundred dollars in addition to her legacy in my said last will &
2 CONC testament -- I
2 CONT do also hereby give & bequeath unto my daughter Margaret intermarried
2 CONC with
2 CONT James Hanlon one hundred dollars in addition to her legacy in my last
2 CONC will and
2 CONT testament -- I do also hereby give & bequeath unto my daughter
2 CONC Susannah
2 CONT intermarried with John Duncan one hundred dollars in addition to her
2 CONC legacy in
2 CONT my said last will & testament. And I do also hereby give & bequeath
2 CONC unto my son
2 CONT Jesse Griffith one hundred & fifty dollars in addition to his legacies
2 CONC in my
2 CONT said last will & testament -- And I order & direct my executors to
2 CONC deliver to
2 CONT my son Jesse Griffith a deed executed by me on fifteenth day of June
2 CONC eighteen
2 CONT hundred & thirty two for the Northwestern part or half of a tract of
2 CONC land
2 CONT warranted in the name of John Hofsinger & conveyed to me by the
2 CONC commissioners
2 CONT of Somerset county by deed dated tenth day of December 1824 -- And I
2 CONC do hereby
2 CONT declare the deed dated on the 11th day of January 1831 conveying the
2 CONC south part
2 CONT of the tract of land in the name of John Hofzinger to Jesse Griffith
2 CONC to be
2 CONT cancelled and destroyed, the said deed now having been delivered to
2 CONC said Jesse
2 CONT Griffith. And I do ratify and confirm my said last will & testament in
2 CONT everything except where the same is hereby altered as aforesaid.
2 CONT
2 CONT In witness whereof I the said Thomas Griffith have to the codicil set
2 CONC my
2 CONT hand and seal the _____ day of July(?) eighteen hundred thirty five.
2 CONC Signed
2 CONT Sealed Published pronounced & declared by the testator as & for a
2 CONC codicil to
2 CONT his last will & testament in presence of us who at his request & in
2 CONC his
2 CONT presence have subscribed our names as witnesses.
2 CONT
2 CONT /s/ Wm. Clarke
2 CONT
2 CONT /s/ Joseph Shaffer                       /s/ Thomas Griffith {Seal}
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Inscription: In Memory of / Thomas Griffith, Sen. / Born Sept
2 CONC 1st 1767,
2 CONT & / died March 4th 1842, / Aged 74 Years 6 mo. & / 3 d.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Marcia (Griffith) Buescher, P.O. Box 542, Kimball, NE
2 CONC 69145. (308)
2 CONT 235-2008.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Janet (Raymond) Faust, R.R.5, Box 497, Johnstown, PA
2 CONC 15905. (814)
2 CONT 288-2211.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Patricia L. Anderegg, 3227 Valley Drive, LeClaire, IA
2 CONC 52753. (319)
2 CONT 332-5649.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 SEP 1767
2 PLAC , Chester co., PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 MAR 1842
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Baptist Ch. Cem., near Boswell, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F24@
1 FAMS @F51@
1 FAMS @F204@
1 FAMC @F23@
0 @I67@ INDI
1 NAME William /Griffith/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Griffith
2 NSFX Jr.
1 SEX M
1 TITL Jr.
1 _UID 773FD8657D69504FBFA8569BD5C3F559B6D3
1 NOTE OCCUPATION: Farmer
2 CONT
2 CONT BIOGRAPHY: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson
2 CONT Storey (1907):
2 CONT He took up 360 acres of new land along the Johnstown and Somerset
2 CONC turnpike,
2 CONT near Glessner in Jenner township and began the pioneer work of
2 CONC clearing it and
2 CONT opening a farm for cultivation.  Subsequently his brothers came and
2 CONC took lands
2 CONT near his own. He led an exemplary life and was buried in the cemetery
2 CONC of the
2 CONT old Free Will Baptist church near the present town of Boswell.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Menallen Monthly Meeting records, reads in part:
2 CONT
2 CONT 26th of 6th mo. 1799. Whereas William Griffith son of William griffith
2 CONC and
2 CONT Sarah his wife of Bedford Township in the County of Bedford and State
2 CONC of
2 CONT Pennsylvania and Sarah Owen daughter of John Owen and Sarah his wife
2 CONC of Tyrone
2 CONT Township in the County of York and State aforesaid...the twenty sixth
2 CONC day of
2 CONT the sixth month seventeen hundred ninety nine...at Meeting House at
2 CONC Monallen.
2 CONT WITNESSES: Benjamin Wilson, William Wright, Stephen Hendricks, George
2 CONC Wilson,
2 CONT John Wright, Samuel Wright, Benjamin Wright Jr, Eliza Wright, Mary
2 CONC Owen, Sarah
2 CONT Wilson, Jane Mickle, Sarah Hendricks, Mary Wright, Sarah Hendricks,
2 CONC Mary Harr,
2 CONT Alice Wright, (Groom) William Griffith, (Bride) Sarah Griffith, John
2 CONC Owen,
2 CONT Jesse Griffith, John Wright, Benjamin Wright, John Morton, John Wright
2 CONC Jr,
2 CONT Finly McGrew, Nathan Hendricks, Nathan Wright.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 MAR 1777
2 PLAC , York (now Adams), PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 JUN 1857
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F25@
1 FAMC @F23@
0 @I68@ INDI
1 NAME Jesse /Griffith/
2 GIVN Jesse
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 96C4B724E2AAFB4291FBAF7E348D08D15105
1 NOTE BIRTH/DEATH: Dates computed from elapsed time on tombstone.
2 CONT
2 CONT OCCUPATION: Farming and Lumbering; Brokerage Business & General Store.
2 CONT
2 CONT QUAKER_RECORDS: Warrington Monthly Meeting Records, York County, PA
2 CONC indicate
2 CONT "Jesse Griffith of Warrington Mtg. complained of 3-9-1799 for
2 CONC attending places
2 CONT of diversion and dancing: disowned 5-11-1799. 6-8-1799 declared
2 CONC intention to
2 CONT appeal."
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Marriage date from DAR records.
2 CONT
2 CONT BIOGRAPHY: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson
2 CONC Storey (1907)
2 CONT He was engaged in farming and lumbering during his entire active life,
2 CONC and in
2 CONT addition to this carried on an extensive brokerage business and
2 CONC conducted a
2 CONT general store.  The store was located at Jenner Cross Roads, on the
2 CONT Chambersburg and Pittsburgh pike, and was the favorite stopping place
2 CONC in those
2 CONT days of the teamsters and all who had occasion to travel that road.
2 CONC He removed
2 CONT to Jenner Cross Roads, Jenner township, Somerset county, PA, and lived
2 CONC to the
2 CONT age of 78 years.  He was a member of the Quaker faith, and in politics
2 CONC he was
2 CONT an Old Line Whig.
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH: History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties, PA (1884)
2 CONC gives death
2 CONT date as 1859, which is incorrect based on his Will and Burial
2 CONC information.)
2 CONT Also, there are some errors on the Death Registration recorded in
2 CONC Somerset
2 CONT County as given by his son, William C. Griffith. He was born in York
2 CONC County
2 CONT prior to his parents moving to Bedford County, not Bedford County. His
2 CONC wife's
2 CONT maiden name was Conley not his mother's. The death registration
2 CONC indicates he
2 CONT died of an "inflamation of the lungs," and indicates his birth as 21
2 CONC Oct 1779.
2 CONT The Certificate is dated May 11th 1854 and registered on the 15th by
2 CONC Jno. Hicks
2 CONT Dept. Regt. It indicates he was survived by issue: William C. Griffith
2 CONC and Jehu
2 CONT Griffith.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: Will dated 2 MAY 1854; proved 30 JUN 1854, Jenner Twp.,
2 CONC Somerset, PA.
2 CONT Will of May 2nd 1854  This is to certify that I
2 CONT Jesse Griffith of my own free will and in my own proper mind, do will
2 CONC and
2 CONT bequeath to my Grandson Jesse Griffith, son of my son William C.
2 CONC Griffith, the
2 CONT sum of Two hundred dollars.  The same to be put at interest by his
2 CONC guardian Wm.
2 CONT C. Griffith to be applied toward his maintenance by the said guardian
2 CONC and here
2 CONT unto I have set my hand and affix my seal this 2nd day of May 1854.
2 CONT
2 CONT Attest
2 CONT
2 CONT /s/ Joseph Fleming
2 CONT
2 CONT /s/ Jehu Griffith                             Jesse Griffith {Seal}
2 CONT
2 CONT There is a statement with the will that indicates that Jesse did not
2 CONC sign his
2 CONT will himself, but that it was signed by his son Jehu.  This statement
2 CONC reads in
2 CONT part:  ...and that he was at the time of so doing of perfect & sound
2 CONC mind,
2 CONT memory and understanding, but when read to him and fully approved by
2 CONC him, he
2 CONT was prevented by the extremity of his last illness from signing it
2 CONC himself but
2 CONT requested me to sign it for him..."    Jehu Griffith attested on 30
2 CONC June 1854
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Inscription: Jesse Griffith, Sr. died 5-3-1854, aged 74 yr. 6
2 CONC mo. 13
2 CONT das.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 OCT 1779
2 PLAC Old Homestead, York (now Adams), PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 3 MAY 1854
2 PLAC Jenner Cross Rds, Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Baptist Ch. Cem., near Boswell, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F26@
1 FAMC @F23@
0 @I69@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Rebecca
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX F
1 _UID E2D069844EB91D46931668AFD28F23DF2C1C
1 NOTE QUAKER_RECORDS: Rebecca Griffith, late Blackburn, disowned by Dunnings
2 CONC Creek
2 CONT Monthly Meeting 9-20-1797 for marriage to 1st cousin.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Inscription: Rebecca Griffith / Wife of Thomas Griffith / died
2 CONC Oct.
2 CONT 1st 1828, in / the 52nd year / of her age.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Janet (Raymond) Faust, R.R.5, Box 497, Johnstown, PA
2 CONC 15905. (814)
2 CONT 288-2211.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Patricia L. Anderegg, 3227 Valley Drive, LeClaire, IA
2 CONC 52753. (319)
2 CONT 332-5649.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Marcia Griffith Buescher, P.O. Box 542, Kimball, NE 69145.
2 CONC (308)
2 CONT 235-2008.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1776
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., York (now Adams), PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1 OCT 1828
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Baptist Ch. Cem., near Boswell, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F24@
1 FAMC @F33@
0 @I70@ INDI
1 NAME Jane /Bowen/
2 GIVN Jane
2 SURN Bowen
1 SEX F
1 _UID 330A714ADC6CB1459AF6227D691391C3358A
1 NOTE QUAKER_RECORDS: Menallen Women's Meeting, York County, PA.
2 CONT 2-21-1799, Jane Gordon, formerly Bowen of Dunnings Creek Meeting has
2 CONT accomplished her marriage to a man not of our society.
2 CONT
2 CONT QUAKER_RECORDS: Minutes of Women's Meeting, Dunnings Creek M.M.,
2 CONC Bedford County,
2 CONT PA 9-16-1829 Jane Griffith, nee Gordon, married out of membership.
2 CONT
2 CONT RELATIONSHIP: WILL of James Gordon filed 29 Jul 1818 Bedford County,
2 CONC PA calls
2 CONT her "daughter-in-law" $10 per year for 20 years as long as widow. (On
2 CONC 29 Jul
2 CONT 1818 there was an inquiry into the authenticity of the will of James
2 CONC Gordon,
2 CONT St. Clair Twp., as to whether the signature was a forgery. On Tuesday,
2 CONC 8 Sept
2 CONT 1818, the following were appointed to examine the will: Samuel
2 CONC Blackburn,
2 CONT Thomas Hay, Alexander McGregor, Morgan James, Henry Buch & James
2 CONC Clark, Jr.
2 CONT James Kinton was a witness for the executors. Daniel Clark's wife,
2 CONC Hannah, was
2 CONT present also.)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 JUL 1781
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., York (now Adams), PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1840
2 PLAC Jenner Township, Bedford, PA
1 FAMS @F51@
0 @I71@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Owen/
2 GIVN Sarah
2 SURN Owen
1 SEX F
1 _UID FF98BB3C244CF747943062498F663B8C6750
1 NOTE BURIAL: Inscription: wife of William Griffith, aged 73 yr. 15 das.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE:  Menallen Monthly Meeting records give parents' names in
2 CONC marriage
2 CONT record.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 FEB 1779
2 PLAC , York co., PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 FEB 1852
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Baptist Ch. Cem., near Boswell, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F25@
1 FAMC @F28@
0 @I86@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Griffith/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID A0DB26A158D9864B891F50EC65719DA23DC8
1 NOTE !OCCUPATION: Weaver; Farmer.
2 CONT
2 CONT !BIRTH: Calendar of some records of the Society of Friends,
2 CONC Hereford/Worcester
2 CONT and Wales Monthly Meetings. Shows father as John Griffith. (Births,
2 CONC burials and
2 CONT marriages, supplement to Monthly Meeting.)
2 CONT
2 CONT !BIRTH/FAMILY/EMIGRATION: Journal of the Life, Travels and Labor in
2 CONC the Work of
2 CONT the Ministry of John Griffith (brother of Thomas), Friends Historical
2 CONC Library,
2 CONT Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA.
2 CONT
2 CONT John Griffith, brother of Thomas, in his "Journal" states: My father
2 CONC was John
2 CONT Griffith and my mother Amy Morgan of Radnor, Wales. Father and Mother
2 CONC were
2 CONT Quakers, Mother first to adopt faith. In 1726 my brother [Thomas] and
2 CONC myself
2 CONT embarked at Milford Haven on board the Constantine galley of Bristol,
2 CONC Edward
2 CONT Foy, Master. Our uncle, John Morgan, who lived about 12 miles from the
2 CONC city of
2 CONT Philadelphia came on board and conducted us to his house where I
2 CONC continued for
2 CONT some time. My brother [Thomas] being a weaver settled at my Aunt Mary
2 CONT Pennell's, following his trade.
2 CONT
2 CONT The children of John and Amy Griffith on the ship were: Thomas, 18
2 CONC years; John,
2 CONT 14 years; and Martha, 8 years. These children were met by their
2 CONC uncles, John
2 CONT Morgan, Hugh Morgan and Aunt Mary Morgan Pennel, who lived at Radnor,
2 CONC then
2 CONT Haverford, then Abington (Pennsylvania). Thomas Griffith went home
2 CONC with his
2 CONT Aunt to Abington, then to Sadsbury. [Milford Haven was in County
2 CONC Pembroke,
2 CONT Wales.]
2 CONT
2 CONT 26 April 1727 Thomas Griffith appeared before the Chester Monthly
2 CONC Meeting,
2 CONT Chester County, PA and produced a Certificate of Removal from the
2 CONC Talcoed
2 CONT Monthly Meeting in Radnorshire, Wales.  After the Certificate was
2 CONC recorded at
2 CONT Chester, the minutes indicate it was to be sent on to Abington Monthly
2 CONC Meeting
2 CONT to serve as a recommendation for Thomas' brother, John Griffith.
2 CONT
2 CONT The Certificate has been preserved and a copy was found on file at
2 CONC Friends
2 CONT Historical Library at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. It reads as
2 CONC follows:
2 CONT
2 CONT CERTIFICATE OF REMOVAL from Talcoed Monthly Meeting, County of Radnor,
2 CONT Wales: "To the Monthly Meeting or Quarterly Meetings of Friends and
2 CONC Brethren
2 CONT in the Province of Pensilvania in America but more particularly to the
2 CONC Monthly
2 CONT Meeting of Friends at Abington in the Sd. Province --- whereas three
2 CONC children
2 CONT Thomas Griffith about 18 years of age and John Griffith his brother
2 CONC about 14
2 CONT years of age and Martha Griffith their sister about 8 years of age,
2 CONC all born in
2 CONT the Parish of Nantmeal and County of Radnor in South Wales, Being the
2 CONC Sons and
2 CONT Daughter of John Griffith and Amy his wife, inhabitants and Land
2 CONC holders in the
2 CONT Parish and County aforesaid, are by the order and free consent of
2 CONC their sd
2 CONT parents intending in a few days to go aboard a Ship Belonging to the
2 CONC Port of
2 CONT Bristol, Whereof Edward Foy is Captain, In order to Sail in Sd Ship
2 CONC (if God
2 CONT permit) to the City of Philadelphia in the Sd. Province.  There to be
2 CONC delivered
2 CONT to their uncles, John Morgan, Hugh Morgan or either of them or to Mary
2 CONC the wife
2 CONT of John Pennell who is their Mother's sister, who all of them if
2 CONC living are
2 CONT settled inhabitants in this Sd. Province to the intent that they the
2 CONC Sd. John
2 CONT Morgan, Hugh Morgan and Mary their sister may take care of them and
2 CONC dispose of
2 CONT them as they shall think best and in case their relations doe perform
2 CONC what is
2 CONT desired and hoped for by the Sd. parents.  --We then the persons
2 CONC hereunder
2 CONT named who are members of the Meeting which the Sd. parents belong by
2 CONC order of
2 CONT our Monthly Meeting held at Talcoed the 10th instant doe desire that
2 CONC the Sd.
2 CONT three children or either of them may be disposed of according as
2 CONC Friends of the
2 CONT Sd. Meeting of Abington shall think most expedient, and as to their
2 CONC Sd.
2 CONT children's descent we give you to understand that their Parents are
2 CONC Honest
2 CONT Friends having each of them a Public Testimony for the Truth wherewith
2 CONC Friends
2 CONT have Unity; and we further Desire (as well on the behalf of the Sd.
2 CONC Children
2 CONT who are hopeful as also for their parents and their aged Grandmother's
2 CONC sake who
2 CONT is an Honest Woman, namely Sarah Rees) that you will as need shall
2 CONC require,
2 CONT advise or assist the Sd. children in Order that they may be settled to
2 CONC Honest
2 CONT Friends, further and we, according to our power shall be willing to
2 CONC answer what
2 CONT you or any of our Brethren shall in Love desire of us who are your
2 CONC Loving
2 CONT Friends.  Signed at and by Order of our Monthly Meeting at Talcoed the
2 CONC 10th of
2 CONT the 4th month 1726. (Since the Quaker Calendar year began in March,
2 CONC the 4th
2 CONT month would be June.)
2 CONT
2 CONT From 1727 until 1738 we find no record of Thomas Griffith in the
2 CONC Quaker
2 CONT records. We can only assume that he was busy learning his craft as a
2 CONC weaver,
2 CONT and perhaps building himself a home or preparing for the day he would
2 CONC be
2 CONT married and have a family. But typical of many young bachelor men,
2 CONC even, it
2 CONT would seem, conservative Quaker young men, Thomas gets himself in some
2 CONC trouble
2 CONT with the Society. We find the following references to him in the
2 CONC Sadsbury
2 CONT Monthly Meeting records:
2 CONT
2 CONT 5, 1st mo. 1738: "This meeting being informed that Thomas Griffith
2 CONC hath of late
2 CONT been at a shooting match and there did quarrel and fight, Anthony Shaw
2 CONC and
2 CONT Jonas Chamberlain are desired to treat with him in order to bring home
2 CONC to a
2 CONT sense of his misdoing, and return an account to next Meeting where he
2 CONC is
2 CONT desired to appear."
2 CONT
2 CONT 1, 3d mo. 1738: "At a Monthly Meeting of Sadsbury held at
2 CONC Leacock...the
2 CONT representatives being called all appeared. The Friends appointed last
2 CONC meeting
2 CONT to treat with Thos. Griffith not having as yet an opportunity with him
2 CONC are
2 CONT continued and to report to next Meeting."
2 CONT
2 CONT 5, 4th mo. 1738: "At a Monthly Meeting of Sadsbury at
2 CONC Sadsbury...Thomas
2 CONT Griffith produced a paper to this meeting expressing his sorrow for
2 CONC striking a
2 CONT man at a shooting match as mentioned before which paper is accepted as
2 CONT Satisfaction and Anthony Shaw is desired to read it in a First Days
2 CONC Meeting at
2 CONT Sadsbury and return it to next Meeting..."
2 CONT
2 CONT After the satisfactory conclusion to the above events, Thomas again
2 CONC disappears
2 CONT from the records of Sadsbury until four years later we find:
2 CONT
2 CONT 4, 7th mo. 1742: "Thomas Griffith produced a paper of condemnation
2 CONC setting
2 CONT forth his sorrow for his outgoing in marriage, desiring Friends to
2 CONC continue him
2 CONT under their care, which was received, and Anthony Shaw is appointed to
2 CONC read it
2 CONT in a First-Day Meeting at Sadsbury."
2 CONT
2 CONT [NOTE: Marrying "out" or "out of unity" means one of the parties to
2 CONC the
2 CONT marriage was not a Quaker and a reason for "disownment." To be
2 CONC disowned meant
2 CONT you could not actively particpate in meetings or be part of the Quaker
2 CONT community; a sad state of affairs in these early years when the
2 CONC majority of the
2 CONT community were members of the Society of Friends. A member could
2 CONC "acknowledge"
2 CONT the wrong doing by publicly repenting the error and once this had been
2 CONC done,
2 CONT the member would be welcomed back into the group as if the offense had
2 CONC not
2 CONT happened. All "condemnations" or "complaints" were recorded in the
2 CONC minutes, as
2 CONT well as the steps taken to bring the member to repentance and
2 CONC acknowledgement.]
2 CONT
2 CONT [NOTE: A marriage "out of unity" is different from a "marriage
2 CONC contrary to
2 CONT discipline." The latter was a more serious offense as it meant
2 CONC marriage by a
2 CONT "hireling teacher" or "marriage by a priest." Priest in the Quaker
2 CONC records
2 CONT means a minister of any other religion; hireling teacher usually meant
2 CONC a
2 CONT Justice of the Peace or Civil marriage of some kind.]
2 CONT
2 CONT 6, 7th mo. 1742: At the Monthly Meeting of Sadsbury held at Leacock
2 CONC "The Friend
2 CONT appointed to read Tho. Griffith's paper reports he hath performed that
2 CONT Service."
2 CONT
2 CONT It is apparent that remaining within the Society was important to
2 CONC Thomas,
2 CONT although he does not appear to have taken any active role within the
2 CONC Sadsbury
2 CONT meeting as it is 16 long years before we hear of him again. On page 90
2 CONC of the
2 CONT Sadsbury minutes we find that "Thos. Griffith requests our certificate
2 CONC to
2 CONT Warrington Monthly Meeting..."
2 CONT
2 CONT 6, 5th mo. 1758:  "The Friends appointed to prepare a certificate for
2 CONC Thomas
2 CONT Griffith produced one here, which was approved and signed."
2 CONT
2 CONT The next record of the Thomas Griffith family appears in the
2 CONC Warrington Monthly
2 CONT Meeting records when Thomas' wife, Eve, finally joins the Society of
2 CONC Friends.
2 CONT
2 CONT 3-18-1758:  "Eve Griffith requests at this Meeting to be received into
2 CONT membership, which after consideration is granted."
2 CONT
2 CONT 8-19-1758:  Thomas Griffith produced a certificate from Sadsbury
2 CONC Monthly
2 CONT Meeting dated 6-5-1758, which was read and accepted.
2 CONT
2 CONT Unfortunately, the end of the Thomas Griffith story is a rather
2 CONC unhappy one.
2 CONT For whatever reason, perhaps poor health, Thomas apparently began to
2 CONC drink to
2 CONT excess in the last couple of years before his death. The following
2 CONC entries in
2 CONT the Menallen Preparative Meeting Minutes tell the tale of a man who,
2 CONC it would
2 CONT appear, was trying very hard to stay "in unity" with Friends, but lost
2 CONC the
2 CONT battle. At the same time as the members of Menallen were "treating"
2 CONC with
2 CONT Thomas, they were also "treating" with his sister-in-law, Martha
2 CONC Faulkner (wife
2 CONT of Jesse) for the same problems. (For a comparison of the two cases,
2 CONC see
2 CONT Appendix, "The Descendants of Thomas Faulkner" section, Jesse
2 CONC Faulkner/Martha
2 CONT Smith.)
2 CONT
2 CONT 9th of 8th mo. 1766: "Menallen Meeting informs that Thomas Griffith
2 CONC hath been
2 CONT guilty of drinking spiritous liquor to excess. John Griest and Jacob
2 CONC Beals are
2 CONT appointed to Labour with him to convince him of the evil of his ways
2 CONC and
2 CONT reclaim him from that pernicious practice and report to next meeting."
2 CONT
2 CONT 13th of 9th mo. 1766: "The friends appointed to treat with Thomas
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT reports they have had a middling satisfactory opportunity with him and
2 CONC that he
2 CONT desired to be waited with for some time. John Hammond and William
2 CONC Hutton are
2 CONT appointed to inform him that he is waited with until next meeting and
2 CONC report to
2 CONT next meeting."
2 CONT
2 CONT 11th of 10th mo. 1766: "The friends appointed to inform Thomas
2 CONC Griffith that he
2 CONT was waited with, reports they have and that he desired to be waited
2 CONC with
2 CONT another month. John Wright and George Wilson are appointed to treat
2 CONC with him
2 CONT again and report to next meeting."
2 CONT
2 CONT 8th of 11th mo. 1766: "The friends appointed to treat with Thomas
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT reports they have and that he says he cannot do anything towards
2 CONC condemming his
2 CONT misconduct therefore this meeting appoints John Hammond and requests
2 CONC John
2 CONT Wright to prepare a testimony against him and produce it to next
2 CONC meeting."
2 CONT
2 CONT 13th of 13th mo. 1766: "The friends appointed to prepare a testimony
2 CONC against
2 CONT Thomas Griffith are continued for that service."
2 CONT
2 CONT 10th of 1st mo. 1767: "The friends appointed to prepare a testimony
2 CONC against
2 CONT Thomas Griffith sent one to this meeting which is as follows viz:
2 CONC Whereas
2 CONT Thomas Griffith having had his education amongst us the People called
2 CONC Quakers
2 CONT but for want of a faithful adherence to the guidance of the unerring
2 CONC Spirit of
2 CONT truth gave way so far to a libertine Spirit as to be guilty of taking
2 CONC strong
2 CONT liquor to excess divers times and notwithstanding the great labours of
2 CONC Love
2 CONT bestowed upon him in order for his Restoration he too often persists
2 CONC in his
2 CONT Evil practice, which all such Evil practices we testifie against and
2 CONC deny him
2 CONT the said Thomas Griffith to be a member of our Religious Society until
2 CONC he comes
2 CONT to see his misconduct and make satisfaction for his outgoing which
2 CONC that he may
2 CONT is our desire. Which was approved and signed on behalf of this meeting
2 CONC by the
2 CONT clerk but he requesting to be waited with until next meeting the
2 CONC publishing of
2 CONT it is deferred until then and John Hammond and Benjamin Wright are
2 CONC appointed to
2 CONT inform him and report to next meeting." (NOTE: John Hammond was
2 CONC Thomas'
2 CONT son-in-law.)"
2 CONT
2 CONT 7th of 2nd mo. 1767: "Menallen Meeting informs that Thomas Griffith
2 CONC was
2 CONT desirous of attending this meeting to condemn his misconduct but they
2 CONC thought
2 CONT it best to wait some time to prove his sincerity. John Wright and
2 CONC George Wilson
2 CONT are appointed to let him know he is waited with another month."
2 CONT
2 CONT 14th of 3rd mo. 1767: "The friends appointed to inform Thomas Griffith
2 CONC he was
2 CONT waited with reports they did but it appears necessary to publish the
2 CONC testimony
2 CONT against him as his conduct is not amended, therefore John Blackburn
2 CONC and John
2 CONT Wright are appointed to show it to him, give him a copy if desired
2 CONC with notice
2 CONT of the privledge of an appeal which if he decline then John Blackburn
2 CONC to read
2 CONT it in public meeting at Manallen and return it to next meeting."
2 CONT
2 CONT 11th of 4th mo. 1767: "The friend appointed to read the testimony
2 CONC against
2 CONT Thomas Griffith reports he did and returned it to this meeting."
2 CONT
2 CONT This is the last Thomas is mentioned in any Quaker records that we
2 CONC know about
2 CONT at this time and it was less than two short years later that he died
2 CONC in 1769.
2 CONT After reading many Quaker records where similar problems are "treated"
2 CONC with, it
2 CONT seems that Thomas' case was just a bit different. In other cases,
2 CONC Martha
2 CONT Faulkner's, for example, there was a history of drinking problems for
2 CONC many
2 CONT years before action was finally taken to this extent. We have found no
2 CONC prior
2 CONT history in Thomas' case. In Thomas' case the use of the phrase
2 CONC "reclaim him" is
2 CONT different than other cases where the term "bring them to a sense of
2 CONC their evil"
2 CONT is used. Also, other cases mention that the person does "not have the
2 CONC capacity"
2 CONT to condemn themselves, whereas this is not mentioned in Thomas' case
2 CONC and his
2 CONT seems to be a case of overindulgence "divers times" not habituation.
2 CONT
2 CONT Thomas Griffith is buried at Friends Grove, "Old Menallen" (Center
2 CONC Mills Road
2 CONT off Route 234, Adams County, PA). His grave is marked by a simple
2 CONC field stone
2 CONT typical of early Quaker cemeteries and the stone bears the markings
2 CONC "T.G. 1769"
2 CONT scratched into the surface of the stone. His exact date of death is
2 CONC unkown.
2 CONT
2 CONT !ESTATE: WILL registered 5-13-1769; York, PA. B-187. Admins. Eve and
2 CONC William
2 CONT Griffith.
2 CONT
2 CONT !ADMINISTRATION: Orphans' Court of York County, Docket B, 223, 224.
2 CONT On 5-31-1769, Mary, aged 18, and Rebecca, upwards of 14 years,
2 CONC daughters of
2 CONT Thomas, late of Menallen, choose their mother, Eve, and Jesse Faulkner
2 CONC as
2 CONT guardians.  On the same date:  "On petition of Eve Griffith, the court
2 CONC appoints
2 CONT Nicholas Wireman (Weirman) of Huntingdon and Jesse Faulkner of
2 CONC Menallen for her
2 CONT children Eve, Thomas, Ann, and Jesse, all under 14 years.  William
2 CONC Griffith,
2 CONT eldest son of Thomas, petitions representing his father Thomas,
2 CONC stating that he
2 CONT left his widow, Eve, and children:  William, Elizabeth (married to
2 CONC Thomas
2 CONT Blackburn), John, Susanna, Mary, Rebecca, Eve, Thomas, Anne, and
2 CONC Jesse, and was
2 CONT seized of 194 acres and allowance in Menallen."
2 CONT
2 CONT A final report on the estate of Thomas Griffith was made eight years
2 CONC later by
2 CONT Eve Griffith and son William Griffith, administrators of the estate:
2 CONC "May 29,
2 CONT 1777, came into court William Griffith and Eve Griffith,
2 CONC administrators of
2 CONT goods of Thomas Griffith, dec., and produced their administration
2 CONC account of
2 CONT the estate of the Deceased as settled by the Register of this county
2 CONC whereby
2 CONT there appears to be a balance in the hands of the said administrators
2 CONC of 317
2 CONT pounds, four shillings and nine pence whereof the court opposes and it
2 CONT appearing to the Court that John Griffith, one of the persons of the
2 CONC said
2 CONT deceased, Thomas Blackburn and Elizabeth, his wife, one of the
2 CONC daughters of the
2 CONT said deceased had both been advanced by the said Intestate in his
2 CONC lifetime more
2 CONT than their distribution or distributive shares of said estate and that
2 CONC Jonathan
2 CONT Wright and Susannah his wife another of the daughters of the said
2 CONC deceased had
2 CONT received in the lifetime of the said Intestate 16 pounds and 14
2 CONC shillings and 3
2 CONT pence and that the said William Griffith had also received in the life
2 CONC time of
2 CONT the said Intestate the sum of 56 pounds, which sums added to the said
2 CONC balance
2 CONT makes in all 369 Pounds 19 shillings."
2 CONT
2 CONT "Whereupon the Court ordered the said Intestate's widow retain in her
2 CONC hands 129
2 CONT pounds, 15 shillings and 5 pence her share of the said balance as
2 CONC widow; and
2 CONT the said William Griffith retain in his hands 1 pound, 11 shillings
2 CONC and 4 pence
2 CONT which with the said sum of 56 pounds, which he has already received is
2 CONC in
2 CONT full of his two shares as eldest son, and the administrators pay unto
2 CONC Jonathan
2 CONT Wright and Susannah his wife 12 pounds 1 shilling and 5 pence, which
2 CONC is in full
2 CONT for her share of said balance; that they pay Anthony Blackburn and
2 CONC Mary his
2 CONT wife another of the daughters of the said Intestate the sum of 28
2 CONC pounds, 15
2 CONT shillings and 8 pence in full for her share of the said balance and
2 CONC that they
2 CONT also pay unto Rebecca, Eve, Thomas, Ann, Jesse Griffith all children
2 CONC of the
2 CONT deceased each the sum of 28 pounds 15 shillings 8 pence in full of
2 CONC their shares
2 CONT in the balance which with the cost of this Court is the full amount of
2 CONC the said
2 CONT Personal estate."  (York County, PA, Orphans Court Docket, Book C,
2 CONC pages
2 CONT 16-17.) [The use of the word "Intestate" in the foregoing is a
2 CONC misnomer, as a
2 CONT will for Thomas Griffith was registered on 5-13-1769 in York County,
2 CONC PA.]
2 CONT
2 CONT [NOTE: On page 355 of IMMIGRATION OF THE IRISH QUAKERS. 1682-1750 by
2 CONC Albert Cook
2 CONT Myers, 1902, the author says that Thomas Griffith who married Eve may
2 CONC have been
2 CONT the son of John Griffith, who had a son Christopher, from Grange,
2 CONC Ireland, near
2 CONT Charlemont. (Sadsbury Mtg.) This supposition of the author is
2 CONC incorrect. Thomas
2 CONT Griffith, as stated above was the son of John and Mary Morgan Griffith
2 CONC of
2 CONT Radnorshire Wales, brother to the renowned Quaker minister, John
2 CONC Griffith of
2 CONT Chester County, PA/Essex, England.) However, the information given
2 CONC regarding
2 CONT this Thomas Griffith is correct, he is buried at Friends, and his
2 CONC grave marked
2 CONT T.G. is still visible.]
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 MAY 1708
2 PLAC South Divn, Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 13 MAY 1769
2 PLAC Menallen, York, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 1769
2 PLAC Friends Burial, Old Menallen, York, PA
1 REFN 128
1 FAMS @F30@
1 FAMC @F18@
0 @I87@ INDI
1 NAME Eve /Faulkner/
2 GIVN Eve
2 SURN Faulkner
1 SEX F
1 _UID 2BC75F2D2F9BB9499EC8F14C016477FAC31E
1 NOTE !PARENTS: Named in will of Thomas Faulkner as daughter, Eve. (See
2 CONC extensive
2 CONT notes for Thomas Faulkner and Mary Catherine Ferree family also notes
2 CONC under
2 CONT husband on her Quaker membership.)
2 CONT
2 CONT !COMMENT: Eve is supposed to have accompanied her sons when they
2 CONC migrated from
2 CONT York County, PA to Bedford County, PA in the late 1790s and to have
2 CONC died in
2 CONT Bedford County in 1811. She is supposed to be buried at Friends
2 CONC Cemetery
2 CONT (Spring Meadow) near Fishertown, but noone has been able to locate her
2 CONC grave.
2 CONT Quaker graves were often unmarked, and this may be the case with
2 CONC Eve's. It is
2 CONT this researcher's opionion that the above supposition is likely to be
2 CONC true since
2 CONT it was about the 1811 time period that Eve's sons began to migrate and
2 CONC take up
2 CONT residence in Somerset county, PA.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1722
2 PLAC , Lancaster co., PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1811
2 PLAC , Bedford co., PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Spring Meadow, Friends B.Gr., Bedford, PA
1 REFN 129
1 FAMS @F30@
0 @I88@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Griffith/
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 012BFF4E37C61646B46239BC9BC6FC3B7526
1 NOTE MARRIAGE: 11th of 10th Month 1768, Thomas Blackburn-Elizabeth Griffith
2 CONT Thomas Blackburn of Manallon Township County of York and Province of
2 CONT Pennsylvania, son of John Blackburn and Rebekhah his wife both
2 CONC deceased, and
2 CONT Elizabeth Griffith Daughter of Thomas Griffith and Eve his wife of the
2 CONC Township
2 CONT County and Province aforesaid...on the Eleventh Day of the Tenth month
2 CONC in the
2 CONT year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty eight...at their
2 CONC meeting
2 CONT House in Manallon in the County aforesaid....Thomas Blackburn,
2 CONC Elizabeth
2 CONT (herXmark) Blackburn. Witnesses: Benjamin Wilson, Elijah Mickle,
2 CONC William Royl,
2 CONT Thomas Stockton, Jr., David Beatty, Thomas Baldwin, Nathan McGrew,
2 CONC John Pope,
2 CONT Samuel Withers, Isaac Everitt, Frances Lamborn, William Nevitt,
2 CONC William Delap,
2 CONT John Griest, Benjamin Loan, John Mickle, Margaret Shepherd, Mary
2 CONC Blackburn,
2 CONT Sarah Mickle, Martha Everitt, Mary McGrew, Susanna Griffith, Jane
2 CONC Baldwin,
2 CONT Hannah Jones, Elizabeth Hammond, Thomas Blackburn, Joseph Blackburn,
2 CONC Moses
2 CONT Blackburn, Solomon Shepherd, Nathan McGrew, Jacob Cox, John Morton,
2 CONC Rachel
2 CONT Blackburn. (From: 100 YEARS AT WARRINGTON by Margaret Walmer, marriage
2 CONC records
2 CONT of Warrington/Menallen Monthly Meetings, York County, PA)
2 CONT
2 CONT IGI shows birth year as 1747
2 CONT
2 CONT Will of brother Thomas Griffith dated 28 Feb 1828 lists "to heirs of
2 CONC my sister
2 CONT Elizabeth dec'd. wife of Thos. Blackburn dec'd."
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1745
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., York (now Adams), PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 29 DEC 1818
2 PLAC St. Clair Twp., Bedford, PA
1 FAMS @F31@
1 FAMC @F30@
0 @I89@ INDI
1 NAME John /Griffith/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 453BEBECEE0BC7408333BB703C143C14D809
1 NOTE OCCUPATION: Farmer
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH/DEATH: from an unrecorded Bible record in Bedford county in
2 CONC possession of
2 CONT Harold Griffith, copied by Margaret Aaron Spielman. Lists "John
2 CONC Griffith ser
2 CONT was boarn January 8th Anno Domoni 1748." "John Griffith senior
2 CONC departed this
2 CONT life December the 11th AD 1840."
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Warrington Monthly Meeting records, York County, PA.
2 CONT John Griffith and Alice Falkner complained of 4-14-1770 by Menallen
2 CONC meeting for
2 CONT marriage by priest, being 1st cousins; disowned 5-12-1770.
2 CONT
2 CONT John Griffith, case is left under consideration [1st mention,
2 CONC 4-11-1772]
2 CONT 6-13-1772, has been visited and it appeared "his request was for
2 CONC outward views,
2 CONT therefore this meeting takes no further notice of it at present."
2 CONT
2 CONT MILITARY: Private, PA Line, 6th Battalion York County Militia,
2 CONC commanded by 2nd
2 CONT Lieut. Isaac McKissick, residence Hopewell Township, according to a
2 CONC Class Roll
2 CONT dated 21 April 1778. Rec'd. bounty land, Warrant application #9456, 6
2 CONC May 1791,
2 CONT 100 acres.
2 CONT
2 CONT Joined with his brothers in 1796 in buying land in Bedford County on
2 CONC Dunnings
2 CONT Creek where he farmed and later his son, William, operated a tannery.
2 CONT
2 CONT Named as "brother" in Thomas Griffith will dated 28 Feb 1826.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: John's burial marker at Spring Meadow reads simply: JOHN
2 CONC GRIFFITH /
2 CONT 1840. This marker is a replacement for an earlier marker that exists
2 CONC that
2 CONT reads: JOHN GRFth 1840.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: ADMINISTRATION filed by Henry Reininger, Adm., Bedford County
2 CONT Courthouse, October 31st 1844, Bedford, Pennsylvania. Papers filed by
2 CONC Heirs
2 CONT Living in Ohio and Indiana. "Know all men by these presents that we
2 CONC William H.
2 CONT Jones and Rachel Jones his wife late Rachel Sills, and Charles Slack
2 CONC and Sarah
2 CONT Slack his wife late Sara Sills and Lydia Sills of Champaign County and
2 CONC State of
2 CONT Ohio and legal heirs and legal representatives of Mary Sills Deceased
2 CONC and
2 CONT formerly Mary Griffith and daughter of the late John Griffith
2 CONC Deceased, late of
2 CONT St. Clair Township in Bedford County and State of Pennsylvania, Do
2 CONC hereby
2 CONT nominate, constitute and appoint William B. McCrea Esq. of said County
2 CONC of
2 CONT Champaign our true and lawful attorney for us and each of us, in our,
2 CONC and each
2 CONT of our names and for our and each of our use, to collect by suit, and
2 CONT otherwise, and to receive, and upon payment to him, to receipt for by
2 CONC release
2 CONT and discharge under seal or otherwise all debts, dues, and demands
2 CONC whatsoever
2 CONT due and owing to us or either of us in the said State of Pennsylvania:
2 CONC and
2 CONT especially all money or other right interest or claim due to us or
2 CONC eithr of us
2 CONT from or in the Estate of the late John Griffith Deceased late of said
2 CONC St. Clair
2 CONT Township, Bedford County and State of Pennsylvania as known and legal
2 CONT representatives of the said Mary Sills Dec'd whether the said money
2 CONC interest
2 CONT and claim be in the hands of Henry Reininger or any other person or
2 CONC persons
2 CONT Hereby ratifying and confirming and by these presents allowing
2 CONC whatsoever our
2 CONT said attorney shall or may in our and each or either of our names
2 CONC lawfully use
2 CONT or cause to bed done in and about the premises by virtue of these
2 CONC present. In
2 CONT virtue thereof the said William H. Jones and Rachel Jones his wife and
2 CONC Charles
2 CONT Slack and Sarah Slack his wife and Lydia Sills have hereunto set our
2 CONC hands and
2 CONT seals this    day of   A.D. 1846. Executed in the presence of The
2 CONC State of
2 CONT Ohio, Champaign County Be it remembered that on    day of    A.D. 1846
2 CONC before
2 CONT the undersigned Justice of the Peace in the aforesaid county came the
2 CONC above
2 CONT named William H. Jones and Rachel Jones his wife and Charles Slack and
2 CONC Sarah
2 CONT Slack his wife and Lydia Sills and severally acknowledged the signing
2 CONC and
2 CONT sealing of the above warrant to be their free and voluntary act and
2 CONC deed for
2 CONT the purpose therein expressed. In witness...."
2 CONT
2 CONT Paper for Indiana: "Know all men by these presents that we James
2 CONC Blackford and
2 CONT Mary Blackford the wife of the said James Blackford formerly Mary
2 CONC Sills of the
2 CONT County of Delaware and the State of Indiana legal heirs and
2 CONC representatives of
2 CONT Mary Sills Dec'd formerly Mary Griffith do hereby consitute and
2 CONC appoint William
2 CONT B. McCrea of Champaign County of the State of Ohio our lawful attorney
2 CONC for us
2 CONT and in our name and for our use to collect by suit or otherwise and
2 CONC receive and
2 CONT upon the payment to him to receipt for by release under seal or
2 CONC otherwise all
2 CONT debts or demands whatsoever due or owing to us especially our rights
2 CONC and
2 CONT interest in the estate of John Griffith dec'd late of St. Clair
2 CONC Township
2 CONT Bedford County in the State of Pennsylvania which we claim as the
2 CONC legal heirs
2 CONT of Mary Sills formerly Mary Griffith daughter of the said John
2 CONC Griffith.
2 CONT Whatsoever our said attorney shall lawfully do in the premises we do
2 CONC hereby
2 CONT confirm the same as if we were personally present and did the same.
2 CONC [Notorized
2 CONT State of Indiana, Delaware County, James A. Gilbert, Justice of the
2 CONC Peace,
2 CONT March 9th, 1846.]"
2 CONT
2 CONT      W.W. Griffith states in his papers: "John Griffith settled
2 CONC property on his
2 CONT children when they married and on those who sought homes in other
2 CONC states.
2 CONT      We have found a record in Bedford County, PA of the property
2 CONC settled on
2 CONT the two daughters.
2 CONT      These two daughters were Alice and Susan. Both of these married
2 CONC men named
2 CONT Griffith. When the husband of Susan Griffith, who was a John Griffith,
2 CONC signed
2 CONT this deed he stated that his wife was Susan (using the past tense).
2 CONC The father,
2 CONT John Griffith, left Jesse Griffith, the son of Susan Griffith, some
2 CONC land
2 CONT stating that his mother had been his daughter, Susan Griffith." (See
2 CONC futher
2 CONT notes on the daughters under their own listings.)
2 CONT
2 CONT "John Griffith retained some property in his own name with the
2 CONC provision that
2 CONT Thomas Griffith have the first choice of buying it. He [Thomas] died
2 CONC before the
2 CONT sale could be completed. It was for this property that the Ohio and
2 CONC Indiana
2 CONT heirs presented their claims."
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 JAN 1748
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 DEC 1840
2 PLAC Fishertown, Bedford, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Spring Meadow, Friends B. Gr., Bedford, PA
1 FAMS @F32@
1 FAMS @F54@
1 FAMC @F30@
0 @I90@ INDI
1 NAME Susanna /Griffith/
2 GIVN Susanna
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 7823D29144826B4B8F17E345550DBF7DE637
1 NOTE SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA by Albert Cook
2 CONC Myers
2 CONT indicates she married Jonathan Wright 5 mo. 16 1770. Removed to Ohio
2 CONC in 1801,
2 CONT and finally settled at Poplar Ridge, Fayette Co., Indiana.
2 CONT
2 CONT Thomas Griffith will dated 28 Feb 1826 lists "to my sister Susanna
2 CONC wife of
2 CONT Jonathan Wright"
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Dr. George Forrest Wright, 501 Spyglass Lane, Vero Beach,
2 CONC FL
2 CONT 32963-4359.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1749
2 PLAC , York co., PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Poplar Ridge, , IN
1 FAMS @F57@
1 FAMC @F30@
0 @I91@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Griffith/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID D2CEBEE2DB6DBD4FBED762DB36D9502DF2C0
1 NOTE Aged 18 in 1769 guardianship petition after father's death
2 CONT
2 CONT Warrington Monthly Meeting Records show that Anthony Blackburn, Jr.
2 CONC and Mary
2 CONT Griffith declare intentions of marriage 4-14 and 5-12-1770.
2 CONT
2 CONT Anthony Blackburn, son of John Blackburn and Rebecca his wife of
2 CONC Menallen
2 CONT Township in the County of York, and Mary Griffith, daughter of Thomas
2 CONC Griffith,
2 CONT deceased, and Eve his wife of the township and county aforesaid
2 CONC married
2 CONT 5-16-1770 at Menallan Meeting. (Marriage record, p. 146)
2 CONT
2 CONT Witnesses:  Alexander McGrew, William Hutton, Samuel Wright, Joel
2 CONC Wright, James
2 CONT McGrew, George Delap, John Linganore, John McCan, William McGrail,
2 CONC Robert
2 CONT Delap, James McGrail, John Hammond, William Farquar, Jr., William
2 CONC Delap, John
2 CONT Wright, Nicholas Wierman, George Wilson, William Wierman, Benj.
2 CONC Wilson, John
2 CONT Mickle, John Wright, Sr., John Blackburn, Isbel Blackburn, Ann
2 CONC Blackburn,
2 CONT Rebekah Griffith, Alice Griffith, Mary McGrew, Debra Hammond, Catharan
2 CONT Lingenore, Mary Gofine, Thomas Blackburn, Moses Blackburn, Anthony
2 CONC Blackburn,
2 CONT Joseph Blackburn, Thomas Blackburn, Rachel Blackburn, Rebekah
2 CONC Blackburn,
2 CONT Elizabeth Blackburn, Alice Blackburn, Elinor Blackburn.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mary Griffith Blackburn is listed as deceased in her brother Thomas
2 CONC Griffith's
2 CONT will dated 28 Feb 1826.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1751
2 PLAC Menallen, York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1826
2 PLAC , , PA
1 FAMS @F33@
1 FAMC @F30@
0 @I92@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca /Griffith/
2 GIVN Rebecca
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 9E20C7DB35462B418648F9E516F018E6F7EB
1 NOTE Aged 14 in 1869 guardianship petition after father's death
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: from Warrington/Menallen Monthly Meeting records, reads in
2 CONC part: 17th
2 CONT of 6th Mo. 1772. Whereas John Mickle junr son of John Micle senr of
2 CONC Manallin
2 CONT Township in the County of York and Province of Pennsylvania and
2 CONC Rebekah
2 CONT Griffith Daughter of Thomas Griffith late of Township County and
2 CONC Province
2 CONT aforesaid...this seventeenth Day of the sixth month commonly called
2 CONC July [sic]
2 CONT in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and seventy two
2 CONC 1772...at
2 CONT Manallin aforesaid John Mickle [groom] Rebekah Mickle [bride].
2 CONC [WITNESSES]:
2 CONT William Gilliland, David (illegible), John Gilliland, William
2 CONC (illegible), John
2 CONT Pope, Jane Wright, Deborah Hammond, John Morton, David Beatty, Joseph
2 CONC John,
2 CONT John Lingenore, John Hammond, Finley McGrew, Laurence Cox, Sarah Rusk,
2 CONC Mary
2 CONT McGrew, Abel John, Mary John, Samuel Wright, Mary McGrew, Nathan
2 CONC Hammond,
2 CONT Andrew Logan, John Mickle, Eve (X) Griffith, Thomas Boyd, William
2 CONC Griffith,
2 CONT John Griffith, Elijah Mickle, Samuel Mickle, John Mickle, Thomas
2 CONC Blackburn,
2 CONT Anthony Blackburn, Sarah Mickle, Benjamin Wright.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: records from Menallen Monthly Meeting records, reads in
2 CONC part: 12th of
2 CONT 3rd mo. 1783. Whereas Thomas Bowen of Monallen Township in the County
2 CONC of York
2 CONT in Pensylvania Son of Thomas Bowen and Jane his wife and Rebecca
2 CONC Mickle
2 CONT Daughter of Thomas Griffith deceased and Eve his wife of the County
2 CONT aforesaid...this twelfth day of the third month in the Yar of our lord
2 CONC One
2 CONT thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty three...at Monallin. WITNESSES:
2 CONC Elizabeth
2 CONT Wright, Rebecca Griffith, Deborah Hutton, Jonathan Wright, Samuel
2 CONC Hutton, Isaac
2 CONT Garretson, Mary McGrew, Rachel Long, Elizabeth McGrew, Alice
2 CONC Blackburn, Jane
2 CONT Wright, Deborah Cox, (Groom) Thomas Bowen, (Bride) Rebecca Bowen,
2 CONC Thomas Bowen,
2 CONT Jean Bowen, James Watson, Jean Bowen, Lidia Bowen, John Bowen. William
2 CONC Hutton,
2 CONT Thomas Blackburn, John Wright, George Hammond, Thomas Long, Rebecca
2 CONC Pilkington,
2 CONT Susanna Garretson, Hannah Long, William Wright, Thomas Griffith, Amos
2 CONC Edwards,
2 CONT Finley McGrew, James McGrew, Isaac Everitt.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1755
2 PLAC Sadsbury, Lancaster, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC , , PA
1 FAMS @F55@
1 FAMS @F58@
1 FAMC @F30@
0 @I93@ INDI
1 NAME Eve /Griffith/
2 GIVN Eve
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID BFF7B9E2887CB646972299522779EFD256D4
1 NOTE SOURCE: Warrington Monthly Meeting, York County, PA Abstract of Record
2 CONC from
2 CONT Friends Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Eve Griffith, Jur. and Samuel Mickle complained of 2-7-1778
2 CONC for
2 CONT marriage by a hireling teacher: disowned 7-11-1778 (Monthly Meeting)
2 CONT Samuel and Eve must have been reinstated at some point because on page
2 CONC 360 of
2 CONT Menallen Minutes dated 10/13/1799 there is entry of certificate of
2 CONC removal for
2 CONT them from Warrington to Menallen and also their children are listed
2 CONC with
2 CONT various entries in the Menallen minutes.
2 CONT
2 CONT Will of Thomas Griffith dated 28 Feb 1826 lists "to heirs of my sister
2 CONC Eve
2 CONT Mickle dec'd."
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH: Buried Friends Cemetery Old Menallen, inscription reads: Eve
2 CONC Mickle /
2 CONT died 2, 11, 1814.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1757
2 PLAC Sadsbury, Lancaster, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 FEB 1814
2 PLAC Straban Twp., Adams, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Old Menallen Cem, Adams, PA
1 FAMS @F66@
1 FAMC @F30@
0 @I94@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Griffith/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 306DAC3D01A2BD458FB875E4B3B3821ED16E
1 NOTE SOURCE: Marriage record Menallen Monthly Meeting records, reads in
2 CONC part:
2 CONT 22nd of 5th mo. 1782. Whereas Thomas Griffith, son of Thomas Griffith
2 CONC Deceased
2 CONT & Eve, his wife of Monalin Township County of York and Province of
2 CONC Pennsylvania
2 CONT and Rachel Blackburn, Daughter of Thomas Blackburn and Alice his wife
2 CONC of the
2 CONT Township County and Province aforesaid...this Twenty Second day of the
2 CONC Fifth
2 CONT Month in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty
2 CONC Two...at
2 CONT Monalin Meeting House. WITNESSES: Thomas Blackburn, Jonathan Wright,
2 CONC James
2 CONT McGrew, James McGrail, William Colmary, John Colmary, Mary McGrew,
2 CONC Rebekah
2 CONT Oldham, Hannah Wright, William Griffith, William Wright, John Wright,
2 CONC Joseph
2 CONT Hewitt, Finley McGrew, Thomas Hewitt, James Watson, George Wilson,
2 CONC Thomas
2 CONT Oldham, Thomas Bowen, Nathan Hammond, (Groom) Thomas Griffith, (Bride)
2 CONC Rachel
2 CONT Griffith, Thomas Blackburn, Eve Griffith, Isabel Blackburn, Alice
2 CONC Blackburn,
2 CONT Elizabeth Blackburn, Thomas Blackburn, John Blackburn, Rebekah Mickle,
2 CONC Susanna
2 CONT Wright, Jane Wright, Ann Wright.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: WILL dated 28 Feb 1826, probated 23 Mar 1826, Abstracts of
2 CONC Bedford
2 CONT County Wills, Vol. II, pages 198-201 reads:
2 CONT GRIFFITH, THOMAS, late of St. Clair Twp. Wife Rachel; wife to pay
2 CONC Edith wife of
2 CONT Eli Miller; wife to pay Mary Allison dau. of Catharine and Andrew
2 CONC Allison; to
2 CONT children of my sister Mary Blackburn dec'd: Thomas, Elizabeth Roser
2 CONC widow of
2 CONT Peter Roser dec'd., Margaret wife of Jacob Sink, Jesse, Ann wife of
2 CONC Jess Vore,
2 CONT Jr., Sara wife of Elijah McGrigor; to children of my sister Ann wife
2 CONC of John
2 CONT Wright: Samuel, Thomas, Wm., Mary wife of Jacob Harris, Rachel wife of
2 CONC John
2 CONT Farquhar; to heirs of my sister Elizabeth dec'd. wife of Thos.
2 CONC Blackburn dec'd:
2 CONT John, William, Elizabeth wife of John Wisegarver, Anthony, heirs of
2 CONC Moses
2 CONT Blackburn, heirs of Eve late wife of Benj. Vore, heirs of Rebecca late
2 CONC wife of
2 CONT Joseph Vore, Joseph Blackburn; to my brothers John, William, Jesse; to
2 CONC my
2 CONT sister Susanna wife of Jonathan Wright; to heirs of my sister Eve
2 CONC Mickle dec'd;
2 CONT to Thomas Mickle only child of my late sister; in trust for use of Eve
2 CONT Blackburn dau. of my sister Mary; to my sister Mary; to Thomas and
2 CONC Jesse
2 CONT Blackburn, Elizabeth Bowser, Widow Margaret (Jacob Sink), Ann (Jesse
2 CONC Vore);
2 CONT Sarah (Elijah McGrigor); to Samuel, Thos., Wm. Wright, Mary (Jacob
2 CONC Harris); to
2 CONT William Bowser (son of Elizabeth Bowser). Exrs.: Thos. Blackburn son
2 CONC of John
2 CONT dec'd. and Thos. Oldham. Wits: Thos. Penrose, Jr., John Remley, Thos.
2 CONT Blackburn.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1759
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE MAR 1826
2 PLAC St. Clair Twp., Bedford, PA
1 FAMS @F56@
1 FAMC @F30@
0 @I95@ INDI
1 NAME Ann /Griffith/
2 GIVN Ann
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 7CE033117E1B7F4BBFC029F3862B0D6CC83D
1 NOTE In Thomas Griffith will dated 28 Feb 1826, listed as "sister Ann wife
2 CONC of John
2 CONT Wright."
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Marriage record in Menallen Monthly Minutes, reads in part:
2 CONT 12th of 12th mo. 1781. Whereas John Wright, Son of Samuel Wright
2 CONC deceased and
2 CONT Gartrude his wife of Monalin Township in the County of York and
2 CONC Province of
2 CONT Pensylvania; and Ann Griffith Daughter of Thomas Griffith, Deceased
2 CONC and Eve his
2 CONT wife of the Township County and Province aforesaid...this Twelfth day
2 CONC of the
2 CONT twelfth Month in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and
2 CONC Eighty
2 CONT One...at Monalin Meeting House. WITNESSES: Rachell Blackburn, Alice
2 CONC Blackburn,
2 CONT Finley McGrew, Mary McGrew, Elizabeth McGrew, William Hutton, John
2 CONC Wireman,
2 CONT Joseph Hewitt, Thomas Wright, Benjamin Wright, Jane Wright, Elizabeth
2 CONC Wright,
2 CONT Rebekah Mickle, Benjamin Townsend, James Watson, Anthony Blackburn,
2 CONC (Groom)
2 CONT John Wright, (Bride) Ann Wright, Gertrude Wright, Eve Griffith,
2 CONC Benjamin
2 CONT Wright, Jonathan Wright, William Wright, Thomas Griffith, Hannah
2 CONC Wright, John
2 CONT Wright.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Dr. George Forrest Wright, 501 Spyglass Lane, Vero Beach,
2 CONC FL
2 CONT 32963-4359. Quotes I.W. Blackburn: "she in time became physically
2 CONC impaired,
2 CONT bent, and suffered for a number of years from shaking palsy."
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 MAR 1761
2 PLAC , Chester, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1839
1 FAMS @F67@
1 FAMC @F30@
0 @I96@ INDI
1 NAME Jesse /Griffith/
2 GIVN Jesse
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 758EEED8729BB24DAF42E99C86DE7CED18A7
1 NOTE Menallen Monthly Meeting minutes indicate he was disowned 4-9-1787
2 CONT
2 CONT Went to Bedford County, PA with his brothers first, then located in
2 CONC Indiana
2 CONT County, PA
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: WILL BOOK 1, p. 214, resided Center Twp., Indiana County, PA,
2 CONC date
2 CONT 1831, legatees: Wife Elizabeth, Son Jesse, Son Joseph, Daughter Eve,
2 CONC Daughter
2 CONT Rebecca, Daughter Elizabeth, Daughter Margaret, Son Thomas. Executors,
2 CONC sons
2 CONT Jesse and Joseph.
2 CONT
2 CONT WILL: Dated 7 Dec 1829, probated 29 April 1831.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Deed, Book 4, page 80. I, Jesse Griffith of Napier Twp.,
2 CONC Bedford
2 CONT County, PA and Elizabeth, his wife for $550 paid by Thomas Griffith of
2 CONC the
2 CONT County and State aforesaid, son of the said Jesse & Elizabeth, his
2 CONC wife, convey
2 CONT the following land in Aston Twp., Indiana County, PA...containing 153
2 CONT acres...dated 27 Feb 1817 to Thomas Griffith by deed dated 20 March
2 CONC 1818.
2 CONT Recorded 11 April 1819.
2 CONT
2 CONT Named as brother in Thomas Griffith will dated 28 Feb 1826.
2 CONT
2 CONT DEED: In a letter from Emma Nixon Bolton to Edwin Tyson, of Menallen
2 CONC Meeting,
2 CONT it is stated that Jesse and Elizabeth were married prior to 1800 as
2 CONC they sign a
2 CONT deed together in 1800. I haven't located the deed.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1763
2 PLAC , York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 29 APR 1831
2 PLAC Center Twp., Indiana, PA
1 FAMS @F34@
1 FAMC @F30@
0 @I97@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX M
1 _UID 04D4B964C0756944A55BF9162CCDF5D7AB24
1 NOTE SOURCE: 100 YEARS AT WARRINGTON, compiled by Margaret Walmer, Heritage
2 CONC Press
2 CONT (York County, Pennsylvania Quakers, Marriages, Removals, Births &
2 CONC Deaths)
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA by Albert Cook
2 CONC Myers
2 CONT gives birthdate as 8 mo. 19, 1744 (19 Oct 1744). In Footnote on page
2 CONC 181
2 CONT regarding the movement of the Quakers over to Bedford County from York
2 CONC County,
2 CONT PA, a diary notation by Benjamin Walker of Warrington notes "to
2 CONC Bedford then
2 CONT Thos. Blackburns on Dennings Creeck Lodged." [Dunnings Creek]
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: BLACKBURN AND ALLIED DESCENDANTS OF JOHN BLACKBURN, SR.,
2 CONC Evelyn D.
2 CONT Gibson, Arbor Printing Co., Lincoln, NE, c1978.
2 CONT
2 CONT Served in the Revolutionary War.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: Will, dated 29 Dec 1818, probated 30 Sep 1822.
2 CONT (Page 78-80, Bedford County Wills, Vol. II)
2 CONT
2 CONT In the Name of God Amen--Whereas--I Thomas Blackburn of St. Clair
2 CONC Township,
2 CONT Bedford County and State of Pensylvania Being of Sound Disposing mind
2 CONC memory
2 CONT and understanting, and Calling to mind the uncertainty of Life, Have
2 CONC thought
2 CONT proper to make Constitute and publish this my Last will and testament
2 CONC in manner
2 CONT and form following Dizanulling and Revokeing all Will or Wills
2 CONC heretofore by
2 CONT me made acknowlegeing this and No Other to be my Last Will and
2 CONC tesament
2 CONT
2 CONT      First of all I Recommend my Soul to God who Give it me and my
2 CONC Body to
2 CONT Desently Buryed at the Discriesion of my Executors herein after
2 CONC mentioned and
2 CONT Named--
2 CONT
2 CONT      Secondly--I Give and Bequeth to my Son John Blackburn the two
2 CONC Hundred
2 CONT Acres of Land that he Now Lives on and to his hairs and Asigns for
2 CONC Ever--
2 CONT
2 CONT      I Give and Bequeth to my to my Son Thomas Blackburns hair, and
2 CONC their hair
2 CONT and Asings for ever all that tract or parsel of Land that the now Live
2 CONC on to be
2 CONT Devided According to his Last will and Testament--I give and bequeth
2 CONC to my Son
2 CONT William Blackburn Twelve Dollars to be paid out of my personal Estate
2 CONC he
2 CONT haveing Been Already Advanced By me--I Give and Bequeth to my Son
2 CONC Anthony
2 CONT Blackburn six Dollars he haveing been Already Advanced by me--I Give
2 CONC and
2 CONT Bequeth to my Son Moses Blackburns three Sons, namely John Moses and
2 CONC Thomas one
2 CONT Thousand Dollars to be Eaquelly Devided to them or the Surviver or
2 CONC Survivers of
2 CONT them to be paid when the Arive at the Age of twenty one years with
2 CONC what
2 CONT Intresst it may Bring the one third of the intrust of the Above Sum to
2 CONC be paid
2 CONT to their mother as Long as She Continues a Widow--But In Case my son
2 CONC Moses
2 CONT Blackburns Children Should all Die or any of them Before the Arive at
2 CONC full Age
2 CONT then the ABove Sum of one thousand Dollars Shall be Devided Eaquilly
2 CONC Bwtween
2 CONT all my Children then Living or Such part of the thousand as might be
2 CONC coming to
2 CONT any one of them Dieing --I Give and Bequeth to my Son Joseph Blackburn
2 CONC all my
2 CONT plantation that I now Live on Containing two Hundred and Seventy five
2 CONC Acres
2 CONT with the Apertence thereunto belonging with fifty Acres on the Chesnut
2 CONC Ridge
2 CONT And to his hairs and Asigns for Ever. And Also give him all my
2 CONC Personal Estate
2 CONT he paying All my just Debts and funeral Expenses--I Give and Bequeth
2 CONC to my
2 CONT Daughter Eve Vore and Benjm Vore one Hundred and fifty Eight Acres
2 CONC which the
2 CONT now poses--he paying me one hundred and fifty Eight Dollars for which
2 CONC we
2 CONT Agreed--I Give and Bequeth to my Daughter Rebecca Vore and Joseph Vore
2 CONC one
2 CONT hundred and fifty Eight Acres being Part of the Above tract which was
2 CONC Devided
2 CONT Between him and his Brother Benjamin, for which he is to pay me one
2 CONC hundred and
2 CONT fifty Eight Dolars Also I Give and Bequeth to my Daughter Elizabeth
2 CONC Wisgarver
2 CONT one hundred and Sixty Dollars to be paid her Out of the money which is
2 CONC to be
2 CONT Colected from Benjamin & Joseph Vore--
2 CONT
2 CONT     And further I Constittue Nominate and Apoint my Sons John
2 CONC Blackburn &
2 CONT Joseph Blackburn to be my Executors in this my Last will and
2 CONC Testament--
2 CONT
2 CONT     In Witness whereof I have Set my hand and Sale this twenty Ninth
2 CONC Day of
2 CONT December one thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen--
2 CONT
2 CONT     Signed Seald, Publishd and Deliverd in Presents of us
2 CONT
2 CONT Test /s/ Sam Blackburn /s/ Jonathan Edwards            /s/ Thomas
2 CONC Blackburn
2 CONT
2 CONT                                                             (Sale)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 OCT 1744
2 PLAC , York (now Adams), PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1822
2 PLAC St. Clair Twp., Bedford, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Spring Meadow, Fishertown, Bedford, PA
1 FAMS @F31@
0 @I98@ INDI
1 NAME Alice /Faulkner/
2 GIVN Alice
2 SURN Faulkner
1 SEX F
1 _UID 8D84C87D929FE9458040E15715E7230EDA1F
1 NOTE MARRIAGE:  Married her first cousin, John Griffith, who was the son of
2 CONC her
2 CONT father's sister, Eve Faulkner Griffith who married Thomas Griffith.
2 CONC They were
2 CONT disowned by the Quaker membership for marrying because of their close
2 CONC blood
2 CONT relationship.  Alice died comparatively young and John married another
2 CONC Quaker
2 CONT girl, Lydia Wilson, who expressed sorrow for her "marrying out," but
2 CONC John
2 CONT Griffith refused to do so and remained without the pale.
1 BIRT
2 PLAC , , PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1772
2 PLAC , York co., PA
1 FAMS @F54@
0 @I99@ INDI
1 NAME Lydia /Wilson/
2 GIVN Lydia
2 SURN Wilson
1 SEX F
1 _UID EF65B88485482B41BE1B80D6B576FEC0E1B7
1 NOTE SOURCE: Abstract of the records of Warrington Monthly Meeting, York
2 CONC County, PA:
2 CONT  Lydia Griffith, formerly Wilson complained of 1-9-1773 for marriage
2 CONC by a
2 CONT priest
2 CONT to one not a member. (John Griffith disowned for marrying 1st cousin
2 CONC as 1st
2 CONT wife.)
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA by Albert Cook
2 CONC Myers
2 CONT indicates she was the daughter of George Wilson, b. about 1715 and
2 CONC Ruth Douglas,
2 CONT widow, b. about 1709. George and Ruth Wilson were complained of 11 mo.
2 CONC 3, 1738
2 CONT by the meeting at Grange near Charlemont, for marriage by a "priest,"
2 CONC "ye Sd
2 CONT Ruth Duglass being formerly married orderly amongst us." They produced
2 CONC an
2 CONT acknowledgement, 3 mo. 14, 1740 and thereupon a certificate of removal
2 CONC to
2 CONT Pennsylvania was signed for them from Grange Meeting, near Charlemont,
2 CONC County
2 CONT Armagh, Ireland, received 1 mo. 1, 1741-42 by Concord Monthly Meeting,
2 CONC now
2 CONT Delaware County. About 1747, they removed to York, now Adams County,
2 CONC bringing
2 CONT a certificate, dated 3 mo. 4, 1747 from Concord to Warrington Monthly
2 CONC Meeting,
2 CONT 2 mo. 16, 1748, and settled on a farm in Menallen Township, near the
2 CONC site of
2 CONT Bendersville (formerly called Wilsonville), where George Wilson died 9
2 CONC mo. 15,
2 CONT 1785 and his wife Ruth died 7 mo. 12, 1784. The had children: ALICE,
2 CONC b. 7 mo.
2 CONT 10, 1741; Benjamin, b. 7 mo. 20, 1743; Sarah, b. 1 mo. 15, 1745; and
2 CONC LYDIA, b.
2 CONT 2 mo. 30, 1747.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 APR 1747
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., York, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC , , PA
1 FAMS @F32@
0 @I100@ INDI
1 NAME Jonathan /Wright/
2 GIVN Jonathan
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX M
1 _UID 5785586A42569541B10E3169417D0B326032
1 NOTE SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA by Albert Cook
2 CONC Myers
2 CONT which cites "Friend's Intelligencer" for 2 mo. 29, 1896, Vol. LIII,
2 CONC pp.;
2 CONT Literary Era, Vol. VII, 125. for information on John Wright/Susanna
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT and their children
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Dr. George Forrest Wright, Vero Beach, Florida
2 CONT
2 CONT RESIDENCE: supposed to have moved to Ohio in 1801.
2 CONT
2 CONT CENSUS: 1820, Blooming Grove Twp., Franklin Co., IN. Jonathan and
2 CONC Jonathan
2 CONT Wright, Jr.
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Poplar Ridge, , IN
1 FAMS @F57@
0 @I101@ INDI
1 NAME Anthony /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Anthony
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX M
1 _UID 8DCBF32B052047468FAA2A77E3F07296DD49
1 NOTE Anthony Blackburn served in the Revolutionary War.
2 CONT
2 CONT According to Eveylyn D. Gibson, BLACKBURN AND ALLIED DESCENDANTS OF
2 CONC JOHN
2 CONT BLACKBURN, SR, 1978, "Because of his etraordinary strength, Anthony's
2 CONT contemporaries dubbed him 'Stout Anthony'." His birth occurred in
2 CONC Lancaster
2 CONT County only a day or two before York County was established from
2 CONC Lancaster
2 CONT County.  Anthony was one of the Blackburn children who received a
2 CONC bequest in
2 CONT the will of Jonathan Hughes of Menallen, probated 5-30-1769. Anthony
2 CONC and Mary
2 CONT resided in or near the Menallen area for about 11 years after their
2 CONC marriage.
2 CONT Record from Warrington Meeting date 7-12-1777 states "...Thomas
2 CONC Blackburn, Jr.
2 CONT and Anthony Blackburn, Jr. have associated or joined in the military
2 CONC exercise."
2 CONT After he served his period of enlistment he offered an acknowledgment
2 CONC for his
2 CONT violation of Quaker discipline and was accepted at Warrington Meeting
2 CONC 5-9-1778.
2 CONT
2 CONT Certificate of Removal 5-14-1781 from Menallen to Pipe Creek Meeting,
2 CONC Maryland
2 CONT was issued to Anthony, wife Mary and children Rebecca, Thomas, Eve and
2 CONT Elizabeth. 6-10-1782, Anthony produced certificate from Pipe Creek
2 CONC Meeting back
2 CONT to Menallen Meeting for himself, wife Mary and five children Rebecca,
2 CONC Thomas,
2 CONT Eve, Elizabeth and Mary which was dated 5-16-1782.
2 CONT
2 CONT 1783 appeared on the tax list of Menallen Twp. in York County, PA with
2 CONT household totaling seven inhabitants. 1784 listed on Bedford County
2 CONC tax list as
2 CONT nonresident owner. 3-31-1786 a tract of 150 acres in Bedford County
2 CONC was
2 CONT surveyed to Anthony Blackburn. 1790 enumerated in the census of
2 CONC Bedford County
2 CONT as head of his household consisting of 2 males over age 16, 1 male
2 CONC under 16 and
2 CONT 8 females. 1800 Census St. Clair Twp., Bedford County, PA, himself,
2 CONC wife, 8
2 CONT children; 1810 with wife and 5 children; 1820 with wife and one
2 CONC daughter
2 CONT (probably Eve).
2 CONT
2 CONT Eveyln Gibson states in her Blackburn book "Requests to have a Quaker
2 CONC meeting
2 CONT authorized in Bedford County resulted in the establishment of the
2 CONC Dunning's
2 CONT Creek meeting for worship in 1794. The following year, Anthony
2 CONC Blackburn,
2 CONT Jonathan Bowen and William Kenworthy served on a committee to purchase
2 CONC a six
2 CONT acre tract of land to be held in trust as a future meeting house site.
2 CONC The
2 CONT Dunning's Creek worship meeting was expanded into a preparative
2 CONC meeting in 1795
2 CONT under the care of Menallen Meeting. The hundred mile distance
2 CONC separating the
2 CONT two meetings and the difficulties encountered in traveling that
2 CONC distance, were
2 CONT instrumental in the final establishment of Dunning's Creek as a
2 CONC Monthly Meeting
2 CONT in 1803. After that date, records of Anthony Blackburn and his family
2 CONC are found
2 CONT in the minutes of Dunning's Creek Meeting."
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: WILL dated 20 Oct 1822, probated 6 Jan 1824. (Bedford County
2 CONC Willbook
2 CONT II, page 110-111).
2 CONT
2 CONT      I Anthony Blackburn of St. Clair Township County of Bedford State
2 CONC of
2 CONT pennsylvania have thought fit to make this my last Will and testament
2 CONC Revokeing
2 CONT and Disanulling all wills by me heretofore made this to be my last
2 CONC will and
2 CONT testament I Commend my Soul to God that give it me and my Body to
2 CONC biuryed at
2 CONT the Decrein of my Executors hereater to be named  I bequeth to my Wife
2 CONC Mary
2 CONT Blackburn all my personal Estate and plantion wheron I live and that
2 CONC adjoining
2 CONT During her life time and if my Wife Shall Decease before my Daughter
2 CONC Eve the
2 CONT land Shall be kept and the Rents and profits Shall be for her Suport
2 CONT
2 CONT      After the Death of my daughtr Eve my Executors Shall put all my
2 CONC lands to
2 CONT publick Sale and the proceeds thereof Shall be Devided among my
2 CONC surviving
2 CONT Children & Share and Share alike.
2 CONT
2 CONT      There Shall be no apraisment taken of my personl Estate
2 CONT
2 CONT      I Constitute my Son Jesse Blackburn and my Son in law Elijah
2 CONC McGrigor my
2 CONT
2 CONT Executors giveing to my Said Executors power and athorty to Sell and
2 CONC Convey
2 CONT away all my Estate as I have herein Devised.
2 CONT
2 CONT      In Witness that this is my last Will I hereunto set my and this
2 CONC twntyth dy
2 CONT of October in the yr of oun thousand & Eigt hundred the twenty too
2 CONC [signed]
2 CONT Anthony Blackburn
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 AUG 1749
2 PLAC Menallen, York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 6 APR 1824
2 PLAC St. Clair Twp., Bedford, PA
1 FAMS @F33@
0 @I102@ INDI
1 NAME John /Mickle/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Mickle
2 NSFX Jr.
1 SEX M
1 TITL Jr.
1 _UID DF05F4231933A4418E663D47F70F0F05BE9F
1 NOTE SOURCE: Quaker records and IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS INTO
2 CONC PENNSYLVANIA by
2 CONT Albert Cook Myers
2 CONT
2 CONT Brother to Samuel Mickle who married Rebecca's sister Eve Griffith.
2 CONT See notes on MICKLE under Samuel Mickle.
2 CONT Son of John and Jane Morthland Mickle.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: From the Records of J. Warren Mickle, 3615 Rutherford St.,
2 CONC Harrisburg,
2 CONT PA, revised by: Robert L. Cable, 689 Wyndamere Road, Lewisberry, PA
2 CONC 17339.
2 CONT
2 CONT John, Jr. transferred from New Garden Meeting to Menallen Meeting on
2 CONC 5/31/1755
2 CONT and was a taxpayer in Menallen Township, York (now Adams) County in
2 CONC 1779-1783.
2 CONT Died before his father's Will was written on 6/9/1787.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 APR 1753
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1783
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., York (now Adams), PA
1 FAMS @F55@
0 @I103@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Bowen/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Bowen
1 SEX M
1 _UID 37F34E79E7A32D449AEFBDC43AC6A96E0DA6
1 NOTE Marriage record at Menallen Monthly Meeting indicates he was the son
2 CONC of Thomas
2 CONT and Jane Edwards Bowen (See marriage record for Thomas & Jane
2 CONC Nottingham M.M.
2 CONT records.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: WILL dated 4 April 1812, probated 6 April 1812. (St. Clair
2 CONT Township, Bedford County Wills, Bk. 1, p. 317-318).
2 CONT
2 CONT     In the name of God Amen.
2 CONT
2 CONT     I Thomas Bowen of St. Clair Township Bedford County State of
2 CONC Pennsylvania,
2 CONT Being weak of Body but of perfect mind and memory and calling to mind
2 CONC the
2 CONT Mortality of this Body do make and Ordain this as my Last Will and
2 CONC Testament
2 CONT hereby Revoking and Disanulling all other Will or Wills by me Made, do
2 CONT constitute and ordain this as my last Will and Testament.
2 CONT
2 CONT     Imprimis that is to say my Body to be Decently buried and funeral
2 CONC charges
2 CONT first paid and all my Just Debts to be paid, By my Executors Hereafter
2 CONC to be
2 CONT named--
2 CONT
2 CONT     Imprimis I order and direct that my Brothers and Sisters Namely,
2 CONC Rachel
2 CONT Russell, Sarah Wilson, and William Bowen's Heirs namely Thomas Bowen &
2 CONC David
2 CONT Bowen, Jonathan Bowen, Mary Fields, John Bowen and Lydia Mathers'
2 CONC Heirs to come
2 CONT in for their Mothers Share, and the aforesaid Thomas Bowen & David
2 CONC Bowen Heirs
2 CONT of William Bowen to come in for their fathers Share. The
2 CONC aforementioned Heirs
2 CONT are to have all my Estate both Real and personal equally divided
2 CONC Amongst them.
2 CONT I likewise Constitute and ordain My Well Beloved Brother Jonathan
2 CONC Bowen & my
2 CONT Beloved Friend Thomas Blackburn son of Anthony Executors of this my
2 CONC Last Will
2 CONT and Testament
2 CONT
2 CONT     In Witness wereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this first
2 CONC day of the
2 CONT fourth month Aprile 1812--
2 CONT
2 CONT     Signed sealed and delivered in presence of
2 CONT
2 CONT /s/ Thomas Blackburn farmer
2 CONT /s/ William Griffith
2 CONT
2 CONT                                 /s/ Thomas Bowen {seal}
2 CONT
2 CONT August 5, 1814. Came into Court Jonathan Bowen and Thomas Blackburn,
2 CONC executors
2 CONT of the estate of Thomas Bowen, late of St. Clair Twp., deceased, and
2 CONC produced
2 CONT the account of their administration by which it appears there is a
2 CONC balance of
2 CONT $1,615.36 1/2 subject to distribution. Court confirmed and
2 CONC distribution
2 CONT awarded. (Bedford County Orphans Court Records).
1 DEAT
2 DATE APR 1812
2 PLAC St. Clair Twp., Bedford, PA
1 FAMS @F58@
0 @I104@ INDI
1 NAME John /Griffith/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID C30669761A843E449210AF369D2E15C4F30E
1 NOTE !OCCUPATION: Quaker Minister; in England he was listed as a wool and
2 CONC linen
2 CONT draper.
2 CONT
2 CONT !BIOGRAPHICAL: John writes in his "Journal": "When I was about the age
2 CONC of
2 CONT thirteen years, a Friend who had lived some time in Pennsylvania,
2 CONC being in our
2 CONT parts, and frequently at our house, gave a very pleasing account of
2 CONC that
2 CONT country. I haveing two uncles and one aunt there, some of whom had
2 CONC before
2 CONT written to encourage our going over thither, my inclination grew very
2 CONC strong to
2 CONT go; though my parents, especially my father, was at first very much
2 CONC against it.
2 CONT But I was as one imoveably bent for going; which, when my parents saw,
2 CONC and that
2 CONT an elder brother inclined to go with me, they at length consented
2 CONC thereto, and
2 CONT procured a certificate of our being in unity with Friends." (See copy
2 CONC of
2 CONT Certificate under 3-Thomas Griffith.)
2 CONT
2 CONT John continues, "There being a family of Friends living in the compass
2 CONC of our
2 CONT Monthly Meeting, also going over in the same ship, we were delivered
2 CONC under
2 CONT their care;...We had a passage of about eight weeks from land to land.
2 CONC We were
2 CONT about eighty or ninety passengers, generally healthy, amongst whom
2 CONC three
2 CONT children were born whilst on board, and none of us removed by death."
2 CONT
2 CONT John remininces rather sadly, "my mother, as I remember, was educated
2 CONC in
2 CONT Society with the people called Quakers, and a steady and valuable
2 CONC Friend she
2 CONT was...My father, as I have heard him relate, was convinced...after he
2 CONC arrived
2 CONT to man's estate and found it a great cross to join in society with the
2 CONC despised
2 CONT Quakers; he being the only one in the family, which was pretty large,
2 CONC that
2 CONT joined in society with that people....[he eventually became] a truly
2 CONC living
2 CONT minister...as I well remember, though I left him when I was young [age
2 CONC 14], and
2 CONT never saw him again."
2 CONT
2 CONT Although much of John's "Journal" is dry reading, detailing his view
2 CONC on
2 CONT religion and the Society of Friends, we do get a glimpse of the more
2 CONC personal
2 CONT side of his nature from the following excerpts: he was afraid to tell
2 CONC lies
2 CONT (except to embellish a pleasant story), never swore an oath or uttered
2 CONC a curse,
2 CONT never departed from the plain speech, kept "much love and regard" for
2 CONC those
2 CONT whom he regarded as truly religious and commonly attended first day
2 CONC meetings.
2 CONT We get a picture of a man driven by his religious convictions and
2 CONC needs when he
2 CONT tells us that in attempting to conquer temptations, he first Triumphed
2 CONC over the
2 CONT sins of the flesh and then found that Satan became an "angel of light"
2 CONC to make
2 CONT him mortify his body. After going around half-starved, with too little
2 CONC sleep,
2 CONT and attempting to work continually, he fell into a religious
2 CONC depression until a
2 CONT ministering Friend visited and told him that his torturing of the body
2 CONC was a
2 CONT design of Satan. John Griffith, caught between good and evil, realized
2 CONC that he
2 CONT had the power of decision. Afterward the Lord "broke in upon my soul,
2 CONC by his
2 CONT judgments mixed with mercy, in such a powerful manner, as that I was
2 CONC made
2 CONT willing to yield up thereunto, come life or death." John, in the midst
2 CONC of his
2 CONT "high career" in the ministry, lost his gift to speak for nearly five
2 CONC months.
2 CONT He tells us that the "Lord finally saw his suffering and restored the
2 CONC ability."
2 CONT
2 CONT We also learn from the "Journal" that John married twice. His first
2 CONC wife,
2 CONT Rebekah, daughter of Josiah and Sarah Fearne, granddaughter of John
2 CONC Blunston,
2 CONT was a woman of property. They made their home at Darby, near
2 CONC Philadelphia. He
2 CONT mentions three children and a fourth that died. He tells us that he
2 CONC became a
2 CONT minister of the Quaker faith, visiting the Meetings in New England,
2 CONT Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, and that he was sent to England
2 CONC and
2 CONT France. [NOTE: Hopewell Monthly Meeting minutes, Frederick co., VA
2 CONC records
2 CONT John's visit in 1765, calling him, "an English Friend with a Welsh
2 CONC name." His
2 CONT visit was two years after the end of the French and Indian War, and he
2 CONC says,
2 CONT "It was an exceedingly dark, afflicting time." (Hopewell Friends
2 CONC History,
2 CONT 1734-1934.)] We learn from the "Journal" that his second marriage was
2 CONC to
2 CONT Frances Wyatt. When John died at the age of 63, he had been a minister
2 CONC for 42
2 CONT years.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Darby Monthly Meeting records. 8 mo, 5, 1737: John & Rebecca
2 CONC Fearne
2 CONT announce intention to marry. 9 mo, 2, 1737, 2nd announcement of
2 CONC intention, 9
2 CONT mo, 13, 1737, John of Chester co., PA and Rebecca Fearn, daughter of
2 CONC Josiah
2 CONT (deceased) of Chester Co., PA, married at Darby Monthly Meeting, PA.
2 CONT 7-22-1746, his wife Rebekah died and one of the children died just one
2 CONC week
2 CONT earlier of what John calls "distemper." Of the three children left,
2 CONC the
2 CONT youngest was only 2 1/2 weeks old. In 1747, he made a trip to England
2 CONC and
2 CONT Wales, visiting his mother, his father had died 3 years earlier. There
2 CONC were a
2 CONT brother and sister living at home with the mother in South Wales,
2 CONC another
2 CONT sister was married nearby. 10-10-1749, he left London, at St. Albans,
2 CONC where he
2 CONT was met by Benjamin Kidd.
2 CONT
2 CONT He obtained a Certificate of Removal from Darby Monthly Meeting in
2 CONC Chester
2 CONT county, PA, directly to the Monthly Meeting of Witham, Essex, England.
2 CONC He had
2 CONT one daughter with him and his sister Mary (Johns) who had been his
2 CONC housekeeper
2 CONT since before Rebekah died. He left and traveled to East Nottingham, PA
2 CONC on
2 CONT 8-12-1750, where his sister left them. He sailed 9-11-1750 and cleared
2 CONC the
2 CONT Chesapeake Bay on the 18th. 10-19-1750, he landed at Falmouth Harbor,
2 CONC England
2 CONT and after marrying Frances Wyatt, settled in Chelmsford, Essex,
2 CONC England.
2 CONT
2 CONT He visited his mother again in 1751 and visited the Pales Meeting,
2 CONC Talcoyd
2 CONT Meeting and the Coom Meeting, 6 miles from his Mother's house. His
2 CONC brother,
2 CONT Benjamin, then acted as guide to Cardiganshire, where he visited a
2 CONC small, poor
2 CONT meeting at Evans.
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1765/66, he visited America again.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE FOR THE ABOVE: Journal "The Life, Travels and Labor in the Work
2 CONC of the
2 CONT Ministry of John Griffith," can be found at the Friends Historical
2 CONC Library,
2 CONT Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. Additional copies can be found at
2 CONC the
2 CONT Pennsylvania Historical Society at Philadelphia.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mrs. Nancy Speers, Archivist at Friends Historical Library, writes in
2 CONC a March
2 CONT 1992 letter to this researcher: "John Griffith was granted a
2 CONC certificate to
2 CONT Witham M.M. in Chelmsford, Essex, Eng., leaving Amy and Rebecca behind
2 CONC in the
2 CONT care of his sister, Mary Speakman, wife of Micajah Speakman of Concord
2 CONC M.M.
2 CONT John married 2nd in Chelmsford, Essex, to Frances Wyatt, and they had
2 CONC one son,
2 CONT John, b. 11 Mar 1754, d. the 21st of that same month. In 1765, on 31
2 CONC Oct. he
2 CONT [John] was received back at Darby M.M. on certificate from Chelmsford
2 CONC on a
2 CONT visit both religious and to relatives. As we have seen, his daughter
2 CONC Hannah was
2 CONT already married when he arrived, unless he got there in time for her
2 CONC marriage.
2 CONT I have no idea whether it was Nathan Davis with whom he had the
2 CONC problems, and
2 CONT could not find the reference in the PA Magazine to which you and Dr.
2 CONC Frost
2 CONT referred. What I did find, in a different volume of it, was a
2 CONC memorandum
2 CONT written by John Griffith on 13 Nov 1766 in which he left his daughters
2 CONC Amy and
2 CONT Rebecca in the care of his sister Mary Speakman, and hoped his friends
2 CONC Isaac
2 CONT Zane, John Pemberton, and Edmund Hollinshead would advise and counsel
2 CONC them as
2 CONT to marriage when and if the time came. I have not found any signs of
2 CONC marriage
2 CONT for either of these daughters. Soon after the Memorandum was written,
2 CONC John
2 CONT sailed for England again, and never returned."
2 CONT
2 CONT After receiving the above message from Mrs. Speers, a copy of the
2 CONC letter from
2 CONT John Griffith to his friend John Pemberton was located that reveals
2 CONC much about
2 CONT his daughters and other personal matters:
2 CONT
2 CONT Chelmsford 10 12 mo. 1767
2 CONT
2 CONT Dear Friend John Pemberton:
2 CONT
2 CONT      I recd thine yesterday of last 10 mo with the affecting account
2 CONC of the
2 CONT escape [death] of my daughter Amy which sudden and unexpected event
2 CONC caused for
2 CONT the present some sorrow and sadness yet not without a degree of hope
2 CONC that in
2 CONT the wise disposal of Divine providence it is all ordered for the best.
2 CONC It
2 CONT affords great satisfaction to find by thy account that her conduct had
2 CONC been
2 CONT such as to engage the affections and regard of friends and that she
2 CONC left the
2 CONT world with so much resignation to the Divine Will. The Departure of
2 CONC such a
2 CONT child tho it comes near is abundantly more easy and satisfactory than
2 CONC when
2 CONT parents (as too many have to have the great and deep anxiety on acct
2 CONC of the
2 CONT irreligious & disorderly conduct of their children.) I sincerely wish
2 CONC her
2 CONT sudden removal in the prime of life may have a due impression on the
2 CONC minds of
2 CONT her sisters that are left behind, as well as upon others, that they
2 CONC may be
2 CONT quickened in a dilligent preparation for that awful change -- I am
2 CONC entirely one
2 CONT with thee in thy sentiment that the poor young man sho'd not suffer in
2 CONC his
2 CONT circumstances by marrying my daughter and if thy father Zanes and thee
2 CONC think
2 CONT it proper that he should have the remaining part of the L50 to make up
2 CONC any
2 CONT defficiency you have my full consent to deduct the said L50 out of the
2 CONC money
2 CONT arising from the sale of the land, which you have wholly in your power
2 CONC to stop
2 CONT as they cannot a present make any tittle to it without your yes. I
2 CONC think that
2 CONT if the young man has all that money, he ought to deliver all her
2 CONC wearing
2 CONT apparel and things which she had before she married him to her two
2 CONC sisters --
2 CONT and as my daughter Hannah has I hope a good husband to take care of
2 CONC her and the
2 CONT perfect use of both her arms; tho she has as great a share in my
2 CONC affections as
2 CONT any; yet I think considering the condition of my poor daughter Rebecca
2 CONC that she
2 CONT ought to have much the greatest part, her best gound or gounds and
2 CONC ____ having
2 CONT said so much I shall leave the order of it to my sister Mary with thy
2 CONC father
2 CONT and thee -- With respect to the selling the land I must wholly leave
2 CONC it to your
2 CONT disgression in conjunction with those to be benefitted by it. Also
2 CONC consulting
2 CONT Brother and Sister Speakman on behalf of my daughter Rebecca pray take
2 CONC great
2 CONT care to have her part of the money arising from the sail well secured.
2 CONC I still
2 CONT think Wm Hornes price is far below what might be made of it if things
2 CONC in your
2 CONT country in relation to Cash was to return to its former Condition.
2 CONC What if my
2 CONT son in law and daughter Hannah were to take down the old house to bild
2 CONC one upon
2 CONT it with the materials & endeavor to get a price of Morphmedow to help
2 CONC them out
2 CONT and Nathans father with him, to secure Beckeys part, he ought to
2 CONC advance
2 CONT something handsome if he can having done little yet, but I only just
2 CONC mention
2 CONT it. I don't doubt but I shall redily acquiess in any way that you all
2 CONC think for
2 CONT the best -- I very well approve of thy intention of sending the years
2 CONC rent with
2 CONT the money for my horse in one bill. Please to speak to my cousin
2 CONC Josiah Bunting
2 CONT before hand & let him know I wo'd take it kind if he and Silas Jones
2 CONC wo'd pay
2 CONT the whole rent upon its being due but wo'd not care how soon I have it
2 CONC next
2 CONT year. I have since winter came been much troubled with my old
2 CONC disorder, tho I
2 CONT keep pretty much about. My dr wife and the rest are in usual health.
2 CONC Sister
2 CONT Shelton and her eldest daughter deceased the last summer and fall, the
2 CONT daughter about 9 weeks before her mother. It has been a time of pretty
2 CONC great
2 CONT mortality in divers places -- and has long been and is still like to
2 CONC continue a
2 CONT dearth of most all sorts of provisions. Wheat sells one less than
2 CONC 7/.7/6 or 8/
2 CONT pr bushell so than many of the poor suffer much & indeed it is a hard
2 CONC time upon
2 CONT milling people from the dullness of trade, the great charge of
2 CONC housekeeping and
2 CONT poor rates running so high. I think care sho'd be taken in the sale of
2 CONC the land
2 CONT that Wm Horne sho'd have liberty to take his crop of that year of in
2 CONC which it
2 CONT is sold and then I think hele not be much of a sufferer, but as he is
2 CONC not like
2 CONT to have it long, I hope youl be as sparing as possible in regard to
2 CONC cutting
2 CONT down timber for rails as that wo'd injure the prices but am willing to
2 CONC leave
2 CONT all to you believing youl order things as well or better than I can --
2 CONC I have
2 CONT had the opportunity by means of a frd of London to peruse S Smith's
2 CONC History of
2 CONT New Jersey and sho'd be glad thou'd send me that of Pensilvania
2 CONC unbound wh I
2 CONT understand was to be in two vols vix one of the State & one of the
2 CONC church, &
2 CONT take the price of them out of the money in thy hands. Direct them to
2 CONC any frd in
2 CONT London for me -- thou intimates the affair relating to those who have
2 CONC armed is
2 CONT not like to be resumed any more; but don't tell me how far your mo &
2 CONC quarterly
2 CONT meeting have censured that conduct which was what I wanted to hear --
2 CONC I am
2 CONT sorry to find thy mother my good landlady had had such a bad state of
2 CONC health
2 CONT but hope as she seems upon recovery she will yet be spared a while to
2 CONC her
2 CONT family since a wife's dear love is remembered by her husband and
2 CONC family to thy
2 CONT well wife & your relations and to frds as has opportunity & freedom
2 CONC Not
2 CONT forgetting my children bro & sister when seest them. I conclude &
2 CONC remain thy
2 CONT affectionate friend.
2 CONT
2 CONT                                             John Griffith
2 CONT
2 CONT P.S. I send this by packet as I don't expect any other opportunity
2 CONC soon enough.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 MAY 1713
2 PLAC Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 JUN 1776
2 PLAC Chelmsford, Essex, England
1 BURI
2 DATE 23 JUN 1776
2 PLAC Friends Bur. Gr., Chelmsford, Essex, England
1 REFN 5
1 FAMS @F59@
1 FAMS @F69@
1 FAMC @F18@
0 @I105@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Griffith/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID A7B18BC94A8FC44089B8DF1982808DFF50CB
1 NOTE SOURCE: Named in her brother John's Journal with husband
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Information from Quaker records extracted for W.W. Griffith by
2 CONC Heenan &
2 CONT Mount, Genealogists of Canterbury, England.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mary Grifith came to PA on a certificate from Brinfloyd M.M. in Wales
2 CONC received
2 CONT at Concord M.M. 5 Aug 1734, during the time of her brother John's
2 CONC first marriage
2 CONT and stayed with her aunt, Mary Morgan Pennel in Concord Township. She
2 CONC was there
2 CONT to help her sister-in-law, Rebecca, with her young daughters, and take
2 CONC care of
2 CONT them after Rebecca died. She had a certificate to Chester M.M. 2 Jan
2 CONC 1737/38;
2 CONT Mary was granted a certificate back to Concord M.M. 1 May 1751,
2 CONC received at
2 CONT Concord 6 May 1751 and married there on 22 Apr 1752.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Concord Monthly Meeting records, page 205 reads: Micajah
2 CONC Speakman of
2 CONT Concord in the County of Chester and Province of Pennsilvania Son of
2 CONC Thos.
2 CONT Speakman of Londongrove in the County of Chester aforesd and mary
2 CONC Griffeth of
2 CONT Concord aforesaid Daughter of John Griffith of Brimlley in Radnersher
2 CONC Wels in
2 CONT great Briton...22, 4m, 1752...at the meeting house in Concord.
2 CONC Witnesses: Caleb
2 CONT Peirce, Peter Hatton, John Peirce, Daniel Stanton, Thos. Mercer, John
2 CONC Glaves,
2 CONT Saml. Mendenhall, Nathan Yearnall, John Brinton, Jos. Gilpin, Robert
2 CONT Mendenhall, Caleb Brinton, Abraham Sharpless, John Newlin, Samuel
2 CONC Talkenton,
2 CONT Mary Peirce, Lydia Mendenhall, Margret Elis, Mary Newlin, Rachel
2 CONC Walter, Hannah
2 CONT Pimm, Mary Hall, Mary Newlin, Jane Gibbons, Margaret Brinton, Hannah
2 CONC Yarnall,
2 CONT Ann Gerrett, Hannah Lloyd, Esther Mendenhall, Ann Sharpless, Hannah
2 CONC Trimble,
2 CONT Sarah Newlin, Micajah Speakman (groom), Mary Speakman (bride), Ann
2 CONC Speakman,
2 CONT Mary Pennell, Hugh Speakman, Thos. Speakeman, Ebenezer Spekman,
2 CONC Nicholas
2 CONT Newlin, Ann Newlin, Elizabeth Gleaves, Jno. Pennell Jur, Jas.
2 CONC Mendenhall,
2 CONT Hannah Mendenhall, Nathan Garrett, Robert Pyle, Joshua Speakman,
2 CONC Hannah Hatton
1 BIRT
2 DATE 7 MAY 1715
2 PLAC Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales
1 DEAT
2 DATE BET 1774 AND 1781
2 PLAC , Chester co., PA
1 FAMS @F70@
1 FAMC @F18@
0 @I106@ INDI
1 NAME Martha /Griffith/
2 GIVN Martha
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 2DEBAB690573584091428CE602F62F0EB693
1 NOTE Martha member of Bradford Monthly Meeting (Quaker).
2 CONT
2 CONT See extensive notes for her brother, Thomas Griffith, regarding her
2 CONC immigration
2 CONT in 1726 from Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales.  Copy of Certificate
2 CONC Removal
2 CONT from Talcoyd M.M., Wales.  Lived with her aunt, Mary Morgan Pennell of
2 CONC Chester
2 CONT County, PA.  She was 8 years old when she came to America with her
2 CONC brother
2 CONT Thomas, age 18, and brother John, age 14.  See notes for her brother
2 CONC John's
2 CONT "Journal" under both John and Thomas Griffith records.
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH: Information from Welsh Quaker records extracted for W.W.
2 CONC Griffith by
2 CONT Heenan & Mount, Genealogists of Canterbury, England.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 JUN 1718
2 PLAC Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1742
2 PLAC East Caln Twp., Chester, PA
1 FAMS @F61@
1 FAMC @F18@
0 @I107@ INDI
1 NAME Benjamin /Griffith/
2 GIVN Benjamin
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID D80875C009EBAA44883BFBDF8D5BD83589EF
1 NOTE BIRTH: Information from Quaker records extracted for W.W. Griffith by
2 CONC Heenan &
2 CONT Mount, Genealogists of Canterbury, England.
2 CONT Also, included marriage date to Alice Pugh and children's names and
2 CONC birth
2 CONT information.
2 CONT
2 CONT Occupation: Farmer
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 DEC 1718
2 PLAC Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Llanvihangel, Rheidithon, Radnorshire, Wales
1 FAMS @F60@
1 FAMS @F68@
1 FAMC @F18@
0 @I108@ INDI
1 NAME Amey /Griffith/
2 GIVN Amey
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 2177981F58E0B347ACE25F5E764FD3D83C0A
1 NOTE !COMMENT: There is a listing in the IGI for an Amey Griffiths who
2 CONC married David
2 CONT Jones, 21 May 1763, Llanyre Parish, Radnor, Wales.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1720
2 PLAC Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales
1 DEAT
2 PLAC , Radnorshire, Wales
1 FAMC @F18@
0 @I109@ INDI
1 NAME Rebekah /Fearne/
2 GIVN Rebekah
2 SURN Fearne
1 SEX F
1 _UID CD51555C97E9FB49B7F02929AF5EC17DD737
1 NOTE !DEATH: Rebekah's death was due to complications during the birth of
2 CONC her fourth
2 CONT child. We learn a little more about the Fearne family from the
2 CONC references
2 CONT that follow:
2 CONT
2 CONT !SOURCE: HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, George Smith, M.D.,
2 CONT Philadelphia, 1862. Page 463:
2 CONT
2 CONT Page 462. FEARNE, ELIZABETH (widow), with her son Joshua, and
2 CONC daughters
2 CONT Elizabeth, Sarah and Rebecca, emigrated from "Darby," in the County of
2 CONC "Darb,"
2 CONT England, in 1682.  They were all Friends, and her husband, who is not
2 CONC named in
2 CONT the certificate, had suffered imprisonment in England on account of
2 CONC his
2 CONT religion.  She was a woman of excellent character, but was not very
2 CONC active in
2 CONT meeting affairs.  In 1684 her daughter Elizabeth was married to John
2 CONC Kay, and
2 CONT her daughter Sarah to Thomas Sharp, both of Newtown, N.J. Her younger
2 CONC daughter,
2 CONT Rebecca, married Walter Faucet, of Ridley, and after his death, John
2 CONC Wood, of
2 CONT Darby.
2 CONT
2 CONT Page 462-463. FEARNE, JOSHUA, who had resided in Ashoner, Derbyshire,
2 CONC England,
2 CONT immigrated with his mother Elizabeth, and sisters, Elizabeth and
2 CONC Sarah, and
2 CONT settled in Darby township in 1682.  His father, in his day, had borne
2 CONC "a good
2 CONT testimony against ye false prophets, by suffering imprisonment for
2 CONC tythes," and
2 CONT it may be truthfully said, that the remaining members of the family,
2 CONC in their
2 CONT new home, maintained with consistency and propriety the doctrines and
2 CONC practices
2 CONT for which he had been a sufferer.  Joshua Fearne was married to
2 CONC Abigail Bats,
2 CONT of Newtown, in West Jersey, in 1687, and died in 1693, leaving two
2 CONC children,
2 CONT Joshua and Mary, to survive him.  He was a man of ability, and during
2 CONC the short
2 CONT period his life was spared, after his arrival in Pennsylvania, his
2 CONC time was
2 CONT much occupied in public employments.  He was Sheriff of the County,
2 CONC Clerk and
2 CONT also Justice of the Court, and upon two occasions was elected a member
2 CONC of the
2 CONT Provincial Assembly.  He was one of those selected to testify against
2 CONC George
2 CONT Keith.  Abigail died more than two years before her husband.
2 CONT
2 CONT FEARNE, Josiah, was a younger son of the immigrant Elizabeth Fearne,
2 CONC but he did
2 CONT not arrive in this country till some years after the elder members of
2 CONC the
2 CONT family.  In 1700 he was married to Sarah, the daughter of John
2 CONC Blunston.
2 CONT Letitia Penn, the daughter of the Proprietary, was present at the
2 CONC marriage, and
2 CONT signed the certificate.  Their children were Elizabeth, Sarah, Martha,
2 CONC Joseph,
2 CONT Mary, REBECCA and Josiah.  The were all strictly in unity with
2 CONC Friends.
2 CONT
2 CONT Page 451. BUNTING, SAMUEL, the first of the family of that name who
2 CONC settled
2 CONT within our limits, did not arrive till 1722, when, being a Friend, he
2 CONC presented
2 CONT his certificate to Darby Meeting. In 1727, he married Martha, the
2 CONC daughter of
2 CONT Josiah Fearne and sister to Rebekah Fearne Griffith]. Samuel, though a
2 CONC very
2 CONT pious man, was addicted to making verses. He left a poetic account of
2 CONC his
2 CONT voyage to America, from which we learn that it was a very unpleasant
2 CONC one. He
2 CONT was detained five weeks waiting for the vessel, the "Neptune," to
2 CONC proceed to
2 CONT sea, was sixty-five days on the water, and running out of provisions
2 CONC was
2 CONT obliged to land at Hampton, in Virginia. From that place the
2 CONC passengers walked
2 CONT to Pennsylvania.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 SEP 1746
2 PLAC , Chester, PA
1 REFN 5-s
1 FAMS @F69@
0 @I110@ INDI
1 NAME Frances /Wyatt/
2 GIVN Frances
2 SURN Wyatt
1 SEX F
1 _UID FF8F2E4220324F47B00932FA6879DE25AF23
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Chelmsford, Essex, England
1 REFN 5-s2
1 FAMS @F59@
0 @I111@ INDI
1 NAME James /Mendenhall/
2 GIVN James
2 SURN Mendenhall
1 SEX M
1 _UID 8D72103CCEFD804A9826DC64A215F3780096
1 NOTE UPDATE: 1994-03-31
2 CONT
2 CONT Quaker records for Goshen M.M. indicate James married his second wife
2 CONC there and
2 CONT removed to New Garden, N.C. 1762
2 CONT
2 CONT According to Ancestors of American Presidents by Gary Boyd Roberts,
2 CONC NEHGS,
2 CONT James was the son of Aaron Mendenhall and Rose Pierson. (Aaron was
2 CONC born
2 CONT 9-20-1690, E. Caln, Chester, PA, died 4-30-1765. Married 1715. Rose
2 CONC Pierson was
2 CONT born in 1693 and died in 1771, the daughter of Thomas Pierson, died
2 CONC 1722, from
2 CONT Bristol, England to New Castle County, Delaware and East Caln, PA, and
2 CONC Rose
2 CONT Dixon. Aaron Mendenhall was the son of John Mendenhall and Elizabeth
2 CONC Maris who
2 CONT married in 1685.) James had a sister, Lydia Mendenhall, who married
2 CONC her 2nd
2 CONT cousin, Joshua Mendenhall in 1755. Joshua was born 11-11-1727/8 in
2 CONC East Caln,
2 CONT PA, died 2-5-1816, son of Benjamin Mendenhall, Jr., born 3-5-1691 in
2 CONC North
2 CONT Carolina, died 5-13-1743, married 3-9-1717, Lydia Roberts, born about
2 CONC 1694 in
2 CONT Wales, daughter of Owen and Mary Roberts. Benjamin, Jr. was the son of
2 CONC Benjamin
2 CONT Mendenhall, 1659-1758 (brother to John Mendenhall above) of Delaware
2 CONC county, PA
2 CONT and Ann Pennel, born 1667, died May 1709, married 1689.
2 CONT
2 CONT According to The Newlin Family, Ancestors and Descendants of John and
2 CONC Mary Pyle
2 CONT Newlin by Algie Newlin, 1965, Benjamin, John and Mary Mendenhall were
2 CONC 3 of
2 CONT eight children of Thomas and Joan mendenhall of Parish Ramesbury,
2 CONC Wiltshire,
2 CONT England. Her fther was Francis Mendenhall who died in 1673. Also see:
2 CONC Mendenall
2 CONT Genealogy by Henry Hart Beeson, 1969.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Patricia J. Smith, Harbor City, CA.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 NOV 1718
2 PLAC "of" E. Caln, Chester, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1788
2 PLAC , Wilkes co., GA
1 FAMS @F61@
0 @I114@ INDI
1 NAME William /Griffith/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 309C5210C3D9CC4EAA6D06E3A9FF2D27E09D
1 NOTE Nothing personal is known about the Grandfather of our immigrant
2 CONC ancestor.
2 CONT However, from the Certificate of Removal for Thomas Griffith, it is
2 CONC stated that
2 CONT the family were landholders so it is probably safe to assume that
2 CONC William
2 CONT Griffith was a landholder in Wales, more than likely a small farmer.
2 CONC From the
2 CONT tone of the "Journal" of John Griffith, his grandson, we believe the
2 CONC family to
2 CONT have been an educated one. John makes reference in his "Journal" to
2 CONC the family
2 CONT being large in number, so it is assumed that William Griffith had many
2 CONC more
2 CONT children than the one we show here. In Radnorshire there is a Margaret
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT of parish Landewy, Radnorshire, who married Edward Jones of parish of
2 CONC St.
2 CONT Harmon, Radnorshire, 5, 4th mo. 1680 and several of the witnesses
2 CONC recorded in
2 CONT the Quaker record include Griffiths and a Rees. The marriage date
2 CONC would make it
2 CONT possible for her to have been a sister of William Griffith (R:145).
2 CONC There is
2 CONT also a Quaker record for Ross-Heref.-Radnor for the birth of a
2 CONC Susannah
2 CONT Griffiths, daughter of William and Mary, dated 7, 4th mo. 1721, that
2 CONC would make
2 CONT it possible that William Griffith, the father, would be a brother to
2 CONC John
2 CONT Griffith (R:81). There is is a final marriage entry 19th of 2 mo. 1719
2 CONC for
2 CONT James Lloyd of parish Lansanfread, co. Radnor, widower and Ann
2 CONC Griffith of same
2 CONT parish, spinster, eldest daughter of Thos. Griffith of parish of
2 CONC Landrindod,
2 CONT Radnor. The name Thomas would indicate that he is probably a relative
2 CONC of our
2 CONT Thomas (R:117), perhaps John's (R:81) older brother. Further
2 CONC circumstantial
2 CONT evidence tying these entries to our Thomas (R:117) is the fact that
2 CONC Thomas
2 CONT named a daughter Susanna and a daughter Ann, neither name being that
2 CONC of his
2 CONT wife, mother, or mother-in-law. All of this is conjecture, however,
2 CONC and unless
2 CONT someone is willing and able to dig much deeper into the Welsh records,
2 CONC we may
2 CONT never know.
2 CONT
2 CONT Research in Wales becomes particularly difficult for the untrained due
2 CONC to the
2 CONT Welsh use of the old system of patrynomics which is a name derived by
2 CONC adding
2 CONT the name of the father to form the new name in the next generation. In
2 CONC Wales,
2 CONT Thomas son of John would read Thomas ap John which could become Thomas
2 CONC John or
2 CONT Thomas Jones. Or Thomas might go one step further and add a
2 CONC grandfather's name,
2 CONT such as Thomas ap John ap William and become Thomas John, Thomas
2 CONC Jones, or even
2 CONT Thomas Williams. It would not be unusual to find in a single Welsh
2 CONC pedigree
2 CONT chart a different surname chosen for each child. Surnames did not
2 CONC begin to be
2 CONT used regularly by the Welsh until after the large migrations to
2 CONC America and
2 CONT many of the early Pennsylvania records of Welsh immigrants reflect the
2 CONT continued use of the patrynomic. To complicate matters more, many of
2 CONC the
2 CONT patrynomics became contracted and were pronounced as they were heard
2 CONC such as
2 CONT the name Bowen, which comes from a contraction of "ap owen," or Price
2 CONC which was
2 CONT originally "ap Rhys." Our own John Griffith (R-135) refers in his
2 CONC "Journal" to
2 CONT his sister Mary as "Mary Johns," which is probably how she was known
2 CONC in Wales,
2 CONT coming from the Welsh "Mary verch John" translating to "John's
2 CONC daughter Mary"
2 CONT shortened to "Mary Johns." However, she must have elected to use the
2 CONC surname
2 CONT Griffith as her legal name, since she is listed as Mary Griffith in
2 CONC her
2 CONT marriage record.
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Radnorshire, Wales
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Radnorshire, Wales
1 REFN 512
1 FAMS @F36@
0 @I128@ INDI
1 NAME Nehemiah Reighart /Griffith/
2 GIVN Nehemiah Reighart
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID C7AE872BD7D6F245811A5CC5615926DA81CE
1 NOTE OCCUPATION: Farmer, Teacher, Mercantile Businessman
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
2 CONT He was reared on his father's farm in Somerset county, PA.  He
2 CONC obtained a good
2 CONT common school education at the local schools and at the County Normal.
2 CONC He
2 CONT followed teaching school five years: two terms in Richland Twp.,
2 CONC Cambria County
2 CONT 1857-59; one term in Bedford County 1860; and two in Somerset County
2 CONC 1861-62.
2 CONT When offered the Richland school he was advised by many, owing to the
2 CONC rough
2 CONT element prevailing in that section, not to accept the position, but
2 CONC he, being a
2 CONT young man of courage and having confidence in his own ability to
2 CONC manage an
2 CONT element of this type, accepted and made so complete a success that
2 CONC after the
2 CONT expiration of the first term his services were solicited for another.
2 CONC He
2 CONT decided to teach one more term, and then went to Bedford, where he
2 CONC taught one
2 CONT term, and then to Somerset county, teaching two more terms.  In each
2 CONC of these
2 CONT positions he gave such complete satisfaction that school boards met
2 CONC and
2 CONT requested his return.  In 1862, he went to farming in Somerset County,
2 CONC where he
2 CONT remained four years, and then removed to Yoder Twp., Cambria County,
2 CONC near Mill
2 CONT Creek, where he purchased a farm and later another tract, farther
2 CONC back.
2 CONT Subsequently he sold his property to the Cambria Iron Company.  He
2 CONC then removed
2 CONT to Conemaugh township and there bought 262 acres, and there he
2 CONC remained 20
2 CONT years, after which he moved to Walnut Grove, where he had acquired 53
2 CONC acres
2 CONT from his father.  At about this time, he engaged in the mercantile
2 CONC business,
2 CONT keeping for eight years the only general store in that vicinity.  In
2 CONC 1900, he
2 CONT retired from all active service, having sold his stock of goods.  In
2 CONC 1906 he
2 CONT had a small farm which still gave him some employment.  He also owned
2 CONC a
2 CONT comfortable residence in Walnut Grove.  Like all the Griffith family,
2 CONC he was
2 CONT and ardent supporter of the Republican party.  For many years he was
2 CONC school
2 CONT director in Conemaugh township.  He was a member of the United
2 CONC Brethren Church
2 CONT and president of its board of trustees.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 SEP 1837
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1921
2 PLAC Walnut Grove, Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 26 JUL 1921
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, PA
1 FAMC @F22@
0 @I129@ INDI
1 NAME Elias /Griffith/
2 GIVN Elias
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 1734D9666A724545A197F3A6B56C982AA410
1 NOTE Served in 54th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
2 CONT
2 CONT Killed at the Battle of New Market during the Civil War
2 CONT
2 CONT Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge defeats Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel at New
2 CONC Market, VA,
2 CONT halting the Union Shenandoah Valley Campaign.
2 CONT
2 CONT As part of his grand strategy for 1864, Grant planned to lay waste the
2 CONT Shenandoah Valley, that rich granary upon which Lee was so dependent
2 CONC for food
2 CONT for his army.  The Valley's summer harvest was vital to the South, for
2 CONC rations
2 CONT were running short; in April Lee wrote Davis, "I cannot see how we can
2 CONC operate
2 CONT with our present supplies."
2 CONT
2 CONT At first Grant's plans were frustrated by the inept Union generals
2 CONC assigned to
2 CONT that region.  Franz Sigel and David Hunter were carrying on the
2 CONC tradition of
2 CONT bungling set in the past by Patterson, Fremont, Banks, and Milroy.
2 CONT
2 CONT Sigel had advanced up the Valley as far as New Market, where, on May
2 CONC 15, he met
2 CONT a scratch force assembled by John C. Breckinridge, which included the
2 CONC cadet
2 CONT corps of the Virginia Military Institute.  Breckinridge attacked and,
2 CONC with the
2 CONT V.M.I. cadets distinguishing themselves, chased Sigel back down the
2 CONC Valley.
2 CONT This little victory assured Lee of the Valley's wheat harvest.
2 CONT *****From:  American Heritage THE CIVIL WAR, Vol. II, p.534
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 AUG 1839
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 MAY 1864
2 PLAC "In Battle", New Market, VA
1 FAMC @F22@
0 @I130@ INDI
1 NAME William Harry /Griffith/
2 GIVN William Harry
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 48DA21687909D64EB3825F9ACE23D7EA3120
1 NOTE Served in the cavalry during the Civil War
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE NOTICE:
2 CONT Cambria Tribune 28 Feb 1868:  Married on the 27th of Feb. at the
2 CONC residence of
2 CONT the bride's mother in this place by Rev. A.H. Thomas, Mr. William
2 CONC Griffith and
2 CONT Miss Ella Hite, both of Johnstown.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL RECORDS from Grandview Cemetery, Lot 238, Section PR4, Page
2 CONC 226.
2 CONT Died of pneumonia.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Contact Candy Roth 9572 Millbrook Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio
2 CONC 45231 for
2 CONT additional information and documentation on related lines.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 MAY 1841
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 APR 1891
2 PLAC Stonycreek Twp., Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 21 APR 1891
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F22@
0 @I131@ INDI
1 NAME Cyrus /Griffith/
2 GIVN Cyrus
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID D6D8F9E3864AD04E8E36781C15FE336A80E5
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
2 CONT
2 CONT Died at Andersonville Prison in Georgia during the Civil War
2 CONT
2 CONT No dates on tombstone, just G.A.R. reads: In Memory of / Cyrus / son
2 CONC of / A. &
2 CONT M. Griffith
1 BIRT
2 DATE 7 APR 1843
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Andersonville, , GA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F22@
0 @I132@ INDI
1 NAME Emily Ann /Griffith/
2 GIVN Emily Ann
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID C3AE8453CC06AA49A3D7413D4630210BA77D
1 NOTE BURIAL: No marker left, most of the Griffith burials at Sandyvale were
2 CONC moved to
2 CONT Grandview in the early part of the 1900s.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Cambria Tribune 25 Mar 1864:  Married on Thursday the 17th
2 CONC of Mar. by
2 CONT Rev.
2 CONT J.W. Plannett, Mr. Louis Von Lunen and Miss Emily A. Griffith, all of
2 CONC Cambria
2 CONT County.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 JAN 1845
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Sandyvale Cem, Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F22@
0 @I133@ INDI
1 NAME Ann Eliza /Griffith/
2 GIVN Ann Eliza
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 2F8BB03D42F1904DBEEB72B2B382DA7C0F9B
1 NOTE BIRTH SOURCE: Cambria Tribune Obituary Notice
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT Obituary notice in the Cambria Tribune reads: Died in East Liberty at
2 CONC noon
2 CONT today, Annie E., wife of Mr. E.P. Ditzler and daughter of Abner
2 CONC Griffith, of
2 CONT Stonycreek Township, aged 30 years.  Remains were brought by train for
2 CONT interment from the M.E. Church at the corner of Franklin and Locust
2 CONC Streets.
2 CONT
2 CONT Believe her remains were moved to Grandview, probably from Sandyvale
2 CONC and
2 CONT reburied on 28 April 1892. She is in plot with parents, husband and
2 CONC other
2 CONT family members.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 OCT 1846
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 31 MAR 1876
2 PLAC East Liberty, Allegheny, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 28 APR 1892
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F22@
0 @I134@ INDI
1 NAME Maria Morilla /Griffith/
2 GIVN Maria Morilla
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID A3236E1762CC404DAE12CBC832989EB77818
1 NOTE Cambria Tribune 22 Oct 1874:  (Thursday) Married at the residence of
2 CONC her
2 CONT brother in this city on the 22nd by Rev. Beacom, James Penrod and Miss
2 CONC Merilla
2 CONT Griffith, all of this city.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: In same plot with parents, husband and child, sister and
2 CONT brother-in-law.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 JUL 1848
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1 JAN 1929
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F22@
0 @I135@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Griffith/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 8A05F5D17595A3459961A90A358F2B583B62
1 NOTE DEATH: Died as an infant. Tombstone reads: In memory of / Mary /
2 CONC daughter of /
2 CONT A. & M. Griffith / died / July 2, 1856 / aged 11 mos. / 12 days.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 MAY 1855
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2 JUL 1856
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F22@
0 @I136@ INDI
1 NAME Jesse /Griffith/
2 GIVN Jesse
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID C83A58450D1ABA42B28A6A4101F6EDD66334
1 NOTE BIRTH: Computed from elapsed time on tombstone.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Research done on this line by Clifford L. Sayre, Jr., 1415
2 CONC Ladd Street,
2 CONT Silver Spring, MD  20902. (A copy of his research in files of Sara
2 CONC Leslie
2 CONT Griffith Jacoby.) Research includes a search of the census records for
2 CONC Cambria
2 CONT and Somerset County, notes of his grandmother, Mary Magdalene Griffith
2 CONT Dunmyer, daughter of Nelson Griffith and other research as noted.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 AUG 1816
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 MAR 1855
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Hopewell ME Cem., Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I137@ INDI
1 NAME Ella May /Griffith/
2 GIVN Ella May
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID E53281FF71B35542A2119ABD8CF62F525F76
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT Never married.
1 FAMC @F9@
0 @I138@ INDI
1 NAME Nellie Elizabeth /Griffith/
2 GIVN Nellie Elizabeth
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 6C5F8F8DF78C884CA1355F6F419CB3CB3DC9
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT Never married.
1 FAMC @F9@
0 @I139@ INDI
1 NAME Olga /Griffith/
2 GIVN Olga
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 20E99FD3BB6E4D42B945C9C1ECFC8F1F51E9
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT Never married.
1 FAMC @F9@
0 @I140@ INDI
1 NAME Sadie /Griffith/
2 GIVN Sadie
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 56A14A2713CAD24290624CFC1FC1B3173D0C
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I141@ INDI
1 NAME Effie /Griffith/
2 GIVN Effie
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID BF80D420A74789468BEB820292197D0C1ECD
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I142@ INDI
1 NAME Forest /Griffith/
2 GIVN Forest
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID CC088DC3ECBA5C47921D72248682BA89FD50
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I143@ INDI
1 NAME Elma /Griffith/
2 GIVN Elma
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 21AA2EE6CD8AC5479C876AE48B9E37516439
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I144@ INDI
1 NAME William /Griffith/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 13C9791870385443ABC1F997CF826CD53AEF
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I145@ INDI
1 NAME May /Griffith/
2 GIVN May
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 2B9E313916143244BE0610BF26F3AB6A9427
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I146@ INDI
1 NAME S. Olive /Griffith/
2 GIVN S. Olive
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID CECC52EA7200794FAEBB711A2A3E2611A37F
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Inscription reads: Mother / S. Olive Wise / 1878 - 1956.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1878
2 PLAC Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1956
2 PLAC Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Braddock Cem., Allegheny, PA
1 FAMC @F11@
0 @I147@ INDI
1 NAME Frederick /Griffith/
2 GIVN Frederick
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID ED615475AF3B4A47901DF25FCD4D62626E3B
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Baptismal information from records of Braddock Methodist
2 CONC Episcopal
2 CONT church now located at the McMasters Methodist Church of Turtle Creek.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 SEP 1881
2 PLAC Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 CHR
2 DATE 13 SEP 1891
2 PLAC Braddock M.E., Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 FAMC @F11@
0 @I148@ INDI
1 NAME Roy /Griffith/
2 GIVN Roy
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID B0453FA3B396064D823A02BCA05FD70ACD3E
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Baptismal information from records of Braddock Methodist
2 CONC Episcopal
2 CONT church now located at the McMasters Methodist Church of Turtle Creek.
2 CONT Officiating minister: J.W. Miles.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 AUG 1893
2 PLAC Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 CHR
2 DATE 18 MAR 1894
2 PLAC Braddock M.E., Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 14 SEP 1937
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, PA
1 FAMC @F12@
0 @I149@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret "Peg" Ivy /Griffith/
2 GIVN Margaret "Peg" Ivy
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID FFFD34BCCE3ABA4BBA6613C47C55458F951C
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Baptismal information from records of Braddock Methodist
2 CONC Episcopal
2 CONT church now located at the McMasters Methodist Church of Turtle Creek.
2 CONT There are two entries for Margaret. The first lists her as Margaret
2 CONC Ivy
2 CONT Griffith, daughter of I.E. & A.L. Griffith, with a baptismal date of
2 CONC 11
2 CONT September 1896. The second entry lists her as a daugher of Edmund &
2 CONC Annie with
2 CONT a baptismal date of 3 Jan 1897.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 APR 1896
2 PLAC Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 CHR
2 DATE 11 SEP 1896
2 PLAC Braddock M.E., Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 FAMC @F12@
0 @I150@ INDI
1 NAME John Clifford /Griffith/
2 GIVN John Clifford
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID FE29D1EA6F92AB48BB39C0EB4AA85A6D2E06
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 FEB 1896
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F14@
0 @I151@ INDI
1 NAME Melissa Alverda /Griffith/
2 GIVN Melissa Alverda
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 9933E226DF8F2747A8AC76F38B4212449046
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 APR 1893
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F14@
0 @I152@ INDI
1 NAME Lloyd Arlington /Griffith/
2 GIVN Lloyd Arlington
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 3CC900D6A6469B40AC05D4985210A6BF8673
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 MAR 1899
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F14@
0 @I153@ INDI
1 NAME Frederick Raymond /Griffith/
2 GIVN Frederick Raymond
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 677C3125EEC7E548B6507E6B4EB83FC71602
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 MAY 1906
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F14@
0 @I154@ INDI
1 NAME Laura Lulu /Griffith/
2 GIVN Laura Lulu
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 199B8CA984BE05478C27539F724FD1D9879B
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 SEP 1881
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F13@
0 @I155@ INDI
1 NAME Ralph /Griffith/
2 GIVN Ralph
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 5F15F556F881634EA7DB2A0BD21A3D0DD63B
1 NOTE SOURCE: A Recreation of Burials Sandyvale Cemetery, 1850-1906,
2 CONC compiled by
2 CONT Phyllis M. Oyler, printed by Closson Press, 1986
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 JUN 1883
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 MAR 1887
2 PLAC Meadowvale, Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Sandyvale Cem., Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F13@
0 @I156@ INDI
1 NAME Reginia /Griffith/
2 GIVN Reginia
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID EB8A757F7FFCDE4C9086B52C155F460AC90A
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 JUN 1885
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F13@
0 @I157@ INDI
1 NAME Clifford /Griffith/
2 GIVN Clifford
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 3D5E8A9A1D71564EAA07C59D1B07C313FC4B
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 SEP 1887
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 MAR 1888
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F13@
0 @I158@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Amanda /Griffith/
2 GIVN Mary Amanda
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 9B19558AC611E9429ED5ED95895489EFDF99
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 APR 1889
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F13@
0 @I159@ INDI
1 NAME Philip Glitsch /Griffith/
2 GIVN Philip Glitsch
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 2A268037BA8A8A48BA9C4DE8366D1150AC32
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
2 CONT
2 CONT Also information supplied by Pat Griffith, wife of Gordon Lee
2 CONC Griffith.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 SEP 1892
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F13@
0 @I160@ INDI
1 NAME Warren Elroy /Griffith/
2 GIVN Warren Elroy
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 4CDC8C63A1B9744D966786E67FDC8F4CD12C
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: A Recreation of Burials Sandyvale Cemetery, 1850-1906,
2 CONC compiled by
2 CONT Phyllis M. Oyler, printed by Closson Press, 1986
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 SEP 1894
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 MAR 1895
2 PLAC Stony Creek Twp., Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Sandyvale Cem., Johnstown, PA
1 FAMC @F13@
0 @I161@ INDI
1 NAME Richard Casper Eli /Griffith/
2 GIVN Richard Casper Eli
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 9A91E12067D0FD4BB97FA67057ADA6D1742B
1 NOTE DEATH: Obituary reads: Richard C.E. Griffith, 89, of New Florence RD2
2 CONC died
2 CONT Monday, June 30, 1986 at Memorial Hospital, Johnstown. Mr. Griffith
2 CONC was born
2 CONT Aug. 20, 1896 in Johnstown, son of the late Reuben and Sophie Glitch
2 CONC Griffith.
2 CONT He was a self-employed painter, a charter member of Oakland United
2 CONC Methodist
2 CONT Church, Johnstown, and a member of Bethel Presbyterian Church, Clyde.
2 CONT
2 CONT Survivors include his wife Jennie Louise Slagle, four children, Willis
2 CONC R.,
2 CONT Armagh, Donald L., Johnstown, Arlena Kurtz, Bethesda, Md., and Vernon
2 CONC R.,
2 CONT Dallas, Texas, 13 grandchildren, 13 greatgrandchildren. He was
2 CONC preceded in
2 CONT death by an infant son and daughter, and several brothers and
2 CONT sisters...interment in Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: In another obit it states that he and his wife as of 1986
2 CONC had been
2 CONT married 67 years. (Indiana Gazette)
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Anniversary Announcement states they will celebrate their
2 CONC 63rd
2 CONT wedding anniversary on Jan. 22, 1983.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 AUG 1896
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 JUN 1986
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 3 JUL 1986
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F13@
0 @I162@ INDI
1 NAME Lovice Evangeline /Griffith/
2 GIVN Lovice Evangeline
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID BF0F47A44CBC5F49BFAE5E4374FD50B1E947
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 SEP 1898
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F13@
0 @I163@ INDI
1 NAME Jesse /Griffith/
2 GIVN Jesse
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 777BEB0C0DB0D54F90344643A3E6B3E538C8
1 NOTE BURIAL: Inscription: aged 55 yr. 4 mo. 28 das.
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH/DEATH: Dates computed from time elapsed on tombstone
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 MAY 1810
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 3 OCT 1865
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Baptist Ch. Cem., near Boswell, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F134@
1 FAMC @F24@
0 @I164@ INDI
1 NAME Eli /Griffith/
2 GIVN Eli
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 1C01F7C79C951146907D4F52B445A1954018
1 NOTE Dates computed from time elapsed on tombstone
2 CONT BURIAL: Tombstone reads: Eli, son of / J.O. & H. Griffith / Died Feb
2 CONC 23rd /
2 CONT 1848 / Aged 17 years / 7 mos & 2 days.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 JUL 1830
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 FEB 1848
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F20@
0 @I165@ INDI
1 NAME Aaron /Griffith/
2 GIVN Aaron
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 024CFAD9AA8A264FB4D0AF187E969F6E36B6
1 NOTE Dates computed from time elapsed on tombstone.
2 CONT BURIAL: Tombstone reads: Aaron / son of / J.O. & H. Griffith / died
2 CONC June 28th /
2 CONT 1847 / Aged 15 years 5 / mos & 4 days.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 DEC 1831
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 JUN 1847
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F20@
0 @I166@ INDI
1 NAME William W. /Griffith/
2 GIVN William W.
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID C01C10A476565A47B06DF3BB6ED7E4D8C9C6
1 NOTE OCCUPATION: Farmer
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH/DEATH: Birth and Death dates listed on tombstone
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Date from Somerset County, PA marriage records
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT He was the fourth child and second son of William and Sarah (Owens)
2 CONC Griffith,
2 CONT and was one year old when his father moved over into Somerset county
2 CONC from
2 CONT Bedford county and took up his residence in Jenner Township.  In
2 CONC making the
2 CONT journey with his family, William Griffith passed the site of the
2 CONC present city
2 CONT of Johnstown and at that time just one log cabin was to be seen
2 CONC standing there;
2 CONT all else was unsettled and unoccupied land, not particularly inviting
2 CONC to
2 CONT prospective settlers, and so the family passed along and located on
2 CONC the
2 CONT Somerset and Johnstown turnpike, near where Glessner now stands.
2 CONC William W.
2 CONT spent his entire life on the old home farm in Jenner Twp. and died
2 CONC there at the
2 CONT age of 85 years.  He remained true to the religious convictions of his
2 CONT ancestors, who were of the Society of Friends, until a short time
2 CONC before his
2 CONT death, when he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: WILL dated 3 Jan 1891, on file Somerset County, PA.
2 CONT Names daughter Mary A., grandsons Griffith Morgan and Griffith Walter,
2 CONC and
2 CONT other children Edward H., Rebecca J., Norman B. and Sarah Louisa.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 MAY 1809
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 MAY 1893
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., near Glessner, Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp. Bapt, Jenner Township, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I167@ INDI
1 NAME William /Griffith/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 6684913C7F3D9B439A7D5DC6BFC99736E014
1 NOTE BURIAL: Inscription: d. 6-27-1880 ag 80-3-12.
2 CONT There is quite a lot of discrepancy on just where William Griffith
2 CONC died and is
2 CONT buried. The William Griffith in the Jenner Township Baptist Church
2 CONC Cemetery is
2 CONT buried with Thomas Griffith, Sr., however, descendants in Iowa believe
2 CONC he lived
2 CONT in later years with his son in Iowa and that he died and is buried
2 CONC there,
2 CONT although a gravesite has not been located.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: BLACKBURN AND ALLIED DESCENDANTS, Gibson, 1978, page 201.
1 BIRT
2 DATE AUG 1788
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F204@
0 @I168@ INDI
1 NAME Hiram (Levi) /Griffith/
2 GIVN Hiram (Levi)
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 08E8DF52E3DE5141955E1B1056527648F8C3
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT CENSUS: 1850, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA, page 187-88,
2 CONC family 181,
2 CONT age listed as 31 years, occupation: Miller.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1819
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I169@ INDI
1 NAME Lydia Allen /Conley/
2 GIVN Lydia Allen
2 SURN Conley
1 SEX F
1 _UID E140F4B92C57DA4CA10D4E0DCD27B329503A
1 NOTE BIRTH/DEATH: Dates computed from elapsed time on tombstone.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Inscription: Lydia Griffith / died / Nov 7 1855 / aged 76
2 CONC years / 1 mo
2 CONT & 3 ds.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 OCT 1779
2 PLAC , , PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 7 NOV 1855
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Baptist Ch. Cem., near Boswell, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F26@
0 @I170@ INDI
1 NAME William Conley /Griffith/
2 GIVN William Conley
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID C3F1DBE69CBB1D4C9E99097BBD9C9B402418
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
2 CONT He was born in Bedford county, PA and when a very young lad was taken
2 CONC to
2 CONT Somerset county and raised on the homestead farm. His education was
2 CONC acquired in
2 CONT the old subscription schools. He was familiarly known as "Baptist
2 CONC Billy" to
2 CONT distinguish him from the Williams in the other branches of this
2 CONC family, who all
2 CONT bore some title to distinguish them from each other, as: "New Years
2 CONC Bill;"
2 CONT "Tobacco Billy," engaged in raising tobacco; "Brick House Billy,"
2 CONC owner of the
2 CONT only brick house in the place, etc. William Griffith inherited one of
2 CONC the farms
2 CONT of his father in Jenner township, to which he made many additions, and
2 CONC was one
2 CONT of the largest land owners in that section. He was engaged in farming
2 CONC and
2 CONT lumbering all his life, and died on his farm in Jenner Township at the
2 CONC age of
2 CONT 93 years. He was a lifelong member of the Free Will Baptist church,
2 CONC and a local
2 CONT preacher of renown. He held a place in the respect of the community,
2 CONC and his
2 CONT counsel was sought far and near. He was at first an Old Line Whig, but
2 CONC later
2 CONT joined the ranks of the Republican party.
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH: Registration of Deaths, Somerset County, Vol. 1, page 57A.
2 CONC Cause of
2 CONT Death given as "old age."
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: WILL dated 9 Jul 1897, filed 23 Dec 1897, Somerset County, PA
2 CONT Mentions his "crippled son Jessie," his daughter Eva.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 NOV 1804
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 NOV 1897
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 16 NOV 1897
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F26@
0 @I171@ INDI
1 NAME Allen Connelly /Griffith/
2 GIVN Allen Connelly
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 6276F9506368BE4E86B7A27E88737035F5FF
1 NOTE OCCUPATION: Store and Tavernkeeper
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH: Tombstone reads: In Memory of / Allen Griffith / son of / Jesse
2 CONT Griffith, Born May / the 4th 1806; and departed / this life Feb, the
2 CONC 20th /
2 CONT aged 31 years 8 mos. & / 16 days.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 MAY 1806
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 FEB 1837
2 PLAC Jenner Cross Rds, Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F26@
0 @I172@ INDI
1 NAME Micajah /Speakman/
2 GIVN Micajah
2 SURN Speakman
1 SEX M
1 _UID B44F449BED788F4AA5F148DF8BD85E59F77F
1 NOTE MARRIAGE: Concord Monthly Meeting, page 346. Micajah Speakman of the
2 CONC Township
2 CONT of Concord in the County of Chester in Pensylvania, and Phebe Yarnall
2 CONC Widow of
2 CONT Nathan Yarnall Decd. of the Township of Birmingham & County
2 CONC aforesd...23, 5m,
2 CONT 1781...in a Public meeting...at Concord. [Signed] Micajah Speakman,
2 CONC Phebe
2 CONT Speakman. [Witnesses]: John Brinton, John Townsend, Obadiah Bonsall,
2 CONC Richd.
2 CONT Strode, James Gibbons, Samuel Trimble, John Peirce Junr, Caleb Peirce,
2 CONC Hugh
2 CONT Judge, Joseph West, Robert Green, Jacob Talbot, Thos. Meeteer, Phebe
2 CONC Trimble,
2 CONT Margaret Brinton, Phebe Miller, Ann Moore, Thomas Speakman, Abigail
2 CONC Speakman,
2 CONT Eli Yarnall, Edith Sharples, Joshua Sharples, Charles Dingee, Willm,
2 CONC Trimble
2 CONT Jur, John Cheyney, James Painter, George Martin, John Eyre, Norris
2 CONC Jones, John
2 CONT Sharples, John Walter, Robt. Mendenhall, Sarah West, Willm. Peter,
2 CONC Joseph
2 CONT Davis, Nathan Sharples, Peter Hatton, Esther Mendenhall, John
2 CONC Mendenhall,
2 CONT Tabitha Mendenhall, Nathal. Newlin, Martha Newlin, Joshua Yarnall,
2 CONC Andw.
2 CONT Scoulfield, Benjm. Sharples, Thomas Newlin, Sarah Newlin, Hannah
2 CONC Yarnall,
2 CONT Susanna Griffith, Thos. Newlin, Mary Speakman, Willm. Hawkins.
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH: Concord M.M. records: 10 mo. 4th 1812, Micajah Speakmon (son of
2 CONC Thos.)
2 CONT died & buried at Concord 5th.
2 CONT
2 CONT OCCUPATION: Blacksmith.
2 CONT
2 CONT REFERENCE: THE SPEAKMAN FAMILY OF AMERICA, compiled by Emma Speakman
2 CONC Webster,
2 CONT pub. by Henry Ferris, Genealogist, Philadelphia, 1930.
2 CONT
2 CONT "Micajah Speakman was a blacksmith, evidently diligent in business and
2 CONT prosperous. His descendants have old documents of his, one a survey
2 CONC and map of
2 CONT a tract of land in Concord township which he bought of Joseph Nicklin,
2 CONC dated
2 CONT June 16th, 1766, and a deed dated March 12th, 1794, signed by Micajah
2 CONC and his
2 CONT second wife Phebe, conveying part of the same tract to his brother
2 CONC Thomas, for
2 CONT a consideration of L280.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 NOV 1726
2 PLAC , Chester co., PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 APR 1812
2 PLAC Concord, Chester, PA
1 FAMS @F70@
0 @I173@ INDI
1 NAME John /Griffith/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID B0251C32134A294CBA34CF3573314FF0CAA1
1 NOTE OCCUPATION: Farmer
2 CONT
2 CONT RELATIONSHIP: Named in father's will.
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH/DEATH: Dates computed from time elapsed on tombstone.
2 CONT
2 CONT CENSUS: 1850, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA, page 192, family
2 CONT 210, lists age as 40, occupation: farmer.
2 CONT
2 CONT CENSUS: 1860, Jenner, Somerset County, PA lists him as age 50, wife
2 CONT Catherine age 41 and six children (names illegible.) Page 240,
2 CONC Dwelling No.
2 CONT 615, Family No. 620.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Inscription: 72 yr. 3 mo. 3 das.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 7 MAR 1809
2 PLAC , Bedford co., PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 JUL 1881
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Baptist Ch. Cem., near Boswell, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F24@
0 @I174@ INDI
1 NAME Samuel /Griffith/
2 GIVN Samuel
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID CF749FF8713172459F92BEBE7E6D40D5E002
1 NOTE OCCUPATION: Sheriff (died in office)
2 CONT
2 CONT HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey, 1907
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH: Tombstone reads: Samuel Griffith / of Jesse / Born 19th of 10th
2 CONC month /
2 CONT 1807 / Died 30th of 9th month / 1849 / In the 42nd year / of his age.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF WESTMORELAND COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA, John W. Jordan,
2 CONC Vol. II,
2 CONT Lewis Pub. Co., 1906, page 357. Note birth and marriage dates do not
2 CONC correspond
2 CONT to those on tombstone or History of Cambria County. Reads:
2 CONT Samuel Griffith, son of Jesse Griffith, was born in 1804, in Somerset
2 CONC county,
2 CONT and in early life engaged in the hotel business in Jenners, in
2 CONC connection with
2 CONT farming. In 1845 he was elected sheriff of Somerset county, and at the
2 CONC time of
2 CONT his death was still in office. In politics he was a Whig. He married
2 CONC Elizabeth
2 CONT Hillegass, in 1830..
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 OCT 1807
2 PLAC , Bedford co., PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 SEP 1849
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F26@
0 @I175@ INDI
1 NAME Lucinda /Reighart/
2 GIVN Lucinda
2 SURN Reighart
1 SEX F
1 _UID BD6F73FAB387A24BB8855C0B8524EB2A22B7
1 NOTE Named in Estate papers for husband as Lucinda and that she died two
2 CONC years
2 CONT before.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: (same stone as husband) reads: Lucinda / Wife of / W.A.
2 CONC Griffith / died
2 CONT / april 9, 1889 / Aged 83 yrs. 3 mos. / and 26 days.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 JUN 1805
2 PLAC Bloody Run, Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 9 APR 1889
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F21@
0 @I176@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Hammer/
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 SURN Hammer
1 SEX F
1 _UID A6E36ED6A3F04D4EBD1A456117439AD44091
1 NOTE Letter dated 7 June and 15 June from Alice Finley Lindsey to Edward
2 CONC Tyson
2 CONT regarding the parentage of Jesse Griffith states: My mother Lizzie
2 CONC Griffith was
2 CONT the daughter of Joseph Griffith. He was born in 1828 and was the son
2 CONC of Jesse
2 CONT Griffith and his wife Susannah Pilson Griffith. These were Quakers -
2 CONC Susannah
2 CONT wearing the garb within the memory of my mother and aunts. This Jesse
2 CONC was born
2 CONT Dec. 21, 1800 in Bedford Co. Pa and died March 24, 1890 in Indiana Co.
2 CONC His wife
2 CONT Susannah was born Dec. 24, 1807 and died Jan. 27, 1897. Jesse Griffith
2 CONC was the
2 CONT son of Jesse Griffith and Elizabeth Hammer Griffith. ... "
1 FAMS @F34@
0 @I177@ INDI
1 NAME Samuel /Mickle/
2 GIVN Samuel
2 SURN Mickle
1 SEX M
1 _UID B1DF7D6E2B64434C9518168B7A5895408E0C
1 NOTE NOTES on MICKLE from IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS: Robert and John
2 CONC Mickle
2 CONT [brothers] had Certificate of Removal from Dublin, Ireland, dated 4
2 CONC mo. 2,
2 CONT 1730, received at New Garden Monthly Meeting, Chester County, PA, 7
2 CONC mo. 26,
2 CONT 1730. John Mickle, Sr., brother of Robert, married "by a priest,"
2 CONC about 1736,
2 CONT to Jane ____. They removed to Menallen Township, York County, PA about
2 CONC 1747.
2 CONT Children: (1) SARAH, b. 10 mo. 29, 1737 m. about 1760 to John Mickle,
2 CONC her first
2 CONT cousin, for which she was disowned. (2) ELIJAH, b. 2 mo. 8, 1740 (at
2 CONC Warrington
2 CONT M.M., 11 mo. 18, 1758, Menallen Meeting reported that Elijah Mickle
2 CONC and John
2 CONT Shepperd "hath both left the parts unknown to their parents"). (3)
2 CONC MARY, b. 10
2 CONT mo. 4, 1741 m. "OUT," about 1761 to ___ Sheppard. (4) HANNAH, b. 10
2 CONC mo. 14, 1745
2 CONT m. "OUT," about 1765 to ___ Rail. (5) JANE, b. 1 mo. 16, 1747-48. (6)
2 CONC JOHN, b.
2 CONT 12 mo. 4, 1753 m. 6 mo. 17, 1772 at Menallen Meeting, Rebecca,
2 CONC daughter of
2 CONT Thomas Griffith. (7) SAMUEL, b. 2 mo. 26, 1756 m. about 1778 Eve dau.
2 CONC of Thomas
2 CONT Griffith and d. March 26, 1819. [100 Years at Warrington gives name of
2 CONC wife of
2 CONT John Mickle, Sr. as Jane Morthland who married 2nd ??? Squib.
2 CONT
2 CONT At Warrington M.M. 4 mo. 10, 1762, John Mickle, of Menallen Meeting,
2 CONC it is
2 CONT apprehended, has connived at his daughter's keeping company in order
2 CONC for
2 CONT marriage with one not of our Society. 6 mo. 12, 1762, Jane Mickle
2 CONC charged with
2 CONT the same offense. 10 mo. 9, 1762, she acknowledges that "she
2 CONC Carelessly went
2 CONT away from my own house until my daughter Mary took the opportunity to
2 CONC go away
2 CONT with a man not in unity with Friends, in order to accomplish her
2 CONC marriage by a
2 CONT priest; I being warned to the Contrary I do now look upon my self to
2 CONC have been
2 CONT remiss in my duty."
2 CONT
2 CONT 2 mo. 12, 1763, John Mickle reported somewhat condescending. 6 mo. 11,
2 CONC 1763, he
2 CONT acknowledges that "I inadvertently went abroad at the time my Daughter
2 CONC Mary ran
2 CONT away to be married, notwithstanding I was Cautioned to take Care of
2 CONC her, & that
2 CONT she was to run away that night; for which I am heartily sorry."
2 CONT
2 CONT 3 mo. 11, 1769, John Mickle, Sr., was complained of by Menallen, "for
2 CONC joining
2 CONT with others in dancing so far as to be present & see it & imitate it
2 CONC himself &
2 CONT also that he has for a considerable time neglected attending our
2 CONC Religious
2 CONT meetings," disowned 7 mo. 8, 1769.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: WILL dated 23 November 1818; probated 10 April 1819. Straban
2 CONC Township.
2 CONT Weak. Children: Griffith, John, Thomas, Samuel, Robert, Jean, Sarah,
2 CONC Eve, Mary
2 CONT wife of Victor King. Executors: William Gilliland Sr., Finley McGrew.
2 CONT Witnesses: William Walker, William Gilliland Jr.. (Adams County Will
2 CONC Book C,
2 CONT page 115.)
2 CONT
2 CONT Served as Private, Lancaster Co., PA Militia.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Quaker records and IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS INTO
2 CONC PENNSYLVANIA by
2 CONT Albert Cook Myers
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: From the Records of J. Warren Mickle, 3615 Rutherford St.,
2 CONC Harrisburg,
2 CONT PA, revised by: Robert L. Cable, 689 Wyndamere Road, Lewisberry, PA
2 CONC 17339.
2 CONT Samuel was a taxpayer in York (now Adams) County, Tyrone Township
2 CONT (Heidlersburg) in 1779-1780 and in Menallen Township (Benderville) in
2 CONC 1782-83.
2 CONT Moved to Straban Township near Hunterstown, where he died. Samuel,
2 CONC Eve, and
2 CONT Thomas are buried in the old Quaker Cemetery on the East side of
2 CONC Opossum Creek
2 CONT in Butler Township, Adams County midway between Biglerville and
2 CONC Heidlersburg
2 CONT along Rt. 234, at the site of the old Menallen Quaker Church which was
2 CONC about
2 CONT three miles from the present site. Samuel's Will is dated November 23,
2 CONC 1818,
2 CONT and is recorded (May 30, 1820) in the Register of Wills Office, Court
2 CONC House,
2 CONT Gettysburg, Adams County, PA.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 FEB 1756
2 PLAC Menallen, York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 MAR 1819
2 PLAC Straban Twp., Adams, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Old Menallen Cem, Adams, PA
1 FAMS @F66@
0 @I178@ INDI
1 NAME Rachel /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Rachel
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX F
1 _UID 609288B89DF78F4C8FD69C29432A00FC34DE
1 NOTE Marriage announcement Menallen Monthly Meeting gives parents as Thomas
2 CONC and
2 CONT Alice Blackburn.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: WILL dated March 30, 1840, probated November 9, 1841. St.
2 CONC Clair Twp.,
2 CONT Bedford County, PA. (Page 205) Mentions: Thomas Griffith, late
2 CONC husband; Sophia
2 CONT Penrose and my niece Elizabeth Way; Edith Miller; Mary Walker;
2 CONC Margaret Gooden;
2 CONT Rachel Way dau. of Elizabeth Way; niece Elizabeth Blackburn dau. of my
2 CONC brother
2 CONT Thomas (deceased); niece Racchel of Thomas; Thomas and Robert McCoy;
2 CONC to Thomas
2 CONT and Rachel Miller (minor children of Eli and Edith Miller); to Abner
2 CONC and Thomas
2 CONT Walker (minor children of Benjamin and Mary Walker); to Margaret wife
2 CONC of Philip
2 CONT Gooden; to Thomas son of Philip and Margaret Gooden; to Henry
2 CONC Whitaker; to Hugh
2 CONT McCoy; to Hannah Bowen daughter of Benjamin and Mary Bowen; to my
2 CONC nephew James
2 CONT Blackburn; to Hugh McCoy. Executors: James McGrail, Hugh McCoy.
2 CONC Witnesses:
2 CONT Alex. McGregor, Thomas Blackburn, Thomas K. Miller.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1759
2 PLAC , York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 JUL 1841
2 PLAC St. Clair Twp., Bedford, PA
1 FAMS @F56@
0 @I179@ INDI
1 NAME John /Wright/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX M
1 _UID DD8108BF765DDC40B9BFA58BE9287AC70E4E
1 NOTE SOURCE:  Minutes of Menallen Monthly Meeting (Quaker) on file Friends
2 CONC Library
2 CONT Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
2 CONT
2 CONT "Ann Griffith, dt. Thos. & Eve, m. John Wright, son of Sam & Gertrude"
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF THE IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA, 1682-1750
2 CONC by
2 CONT Albert Cook Myers, Swarthmore, PA, 1902, p. 395:
2 CONT John Wright was the son of Samuel Wright who married 9 mo. 4, 1754, at
2 CONT Huntington Friends' Meeting, now Adams County, Gertrude Wierman,
2 CONC daughter of
2 CONT William and Gertrude (Sietman) Wierman. Samuel died probably about or
2 CONC prior to
2 CONT 1781, and Gertrude married secondly, William Ferguson, widower, of
2 CONC Menallen.
2 CONT She died in 1802, having had 8 children by her first husband: John
2 CONC Wright
2 CONT married Ann Griffith; Hannah, d. unmarried; Rachel, m. 6 mo. 13, 1781,
2 CONC at
2 CONT Menallen Meeting, James Hodgson, son of John and Martha Hodgson, of
2 CONC Berkeley
2 CONT Co., VA. Child: James.; William Wright, m. Agnes Tanger. Children:
2 CONC Agnes and
2 CONT Margaret; Jesse, m. first, Alice Hammond, and had one child, Samuel;
2 CONC m.
2 CONT secondly, Catharine Davis, and had one child, Jesse (m. Elizabeth
2 CONC Mantz.
2 CONT Children: Eliza and Jane); Benjamin Wright m. first, Hannah Hendricks.
2 CONC Went to
2 CONT Kentucky and married a second time; Samuel Wright m. Eve Latchew.
2 CONC Children:
2 CONT Hannah m. Nathan Harris and removed to Salem, Ohio, Jane m. Daniel
2 CONC Minnich;
2 CONT William; Jesse m. Susanna Pittendorff; Phebe m. William Ferguson.
2 CONT
2 CONT Samuel Wright, father of John Wright, was the son of John Wright and
2 CONC wife
2 CONT Elizabeth, from Castleshane, County of Monaghan, Ireland. Settled in
2 CONC Menallen
2 CONT Twp., York, now Adams County, Pa as early as 1748, members of
2 CONC Warrington M.M.
2 CONT They had nine children: Mary; Samuel; Rachel; Joseph; Alice; Benjamin;
2 CONC John;
2 CONT Joel; and Jonathan. (See IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS for further
2 CONC details on
2 CONT these other lines.)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 AUG 1755
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., York (now Adams), PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 JUN 1820
1 FAMS @F67@
0 @I180@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Griffith/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 643B76F7A1F8A04BA581766D00B9C78FA8A7
1 NOTE RESEARCHER: Janet (Raymond) Faust, R.R.5, Box 497, Johnstown, PA
2 CONC 15905. (814)
2 CONT 288-2211.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 APR 1802
2 PLAC , Bedford co., PA
1 FAMC @F24@
0 @I181@ INDI
1 NAME Abner /Griffith/
2 GIVN Abner
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 23DD670081F5904FB65C6A4826B32B921670
1 NOTE DEATH: Tombstone inscription reads: Abner, son of John O. Griffith,
2 CONC died July
2 CONT 17th, 1829, aged 6.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1823
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 7 JUL 1829
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F20@
0 @I182@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Griffith/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID EF801200AF47A543BE4FC0D361DECE8D9979
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1833
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F20@
0 @I183@ INDI
1 NAME Levi /Griffith/
2 GIVN Levi
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 92B047CBC071524FA5339E3E6E52D8B123FD
1 NOTE BURIAL: Tombstone reads: Levi / son of / J.O. & H. Griffith / died
2 CONC April / 29th
2 CONT 1849 / aged 13 years 3 / mos & 29 days.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 DEC 1835
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 APR 1849
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F20@
0 @I184@ INDI
1 NAME Jordan /Griffith/
2 GIVN Jordan
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 7397A6F45B1173418D4B521454005B1ACB2C
1 NOTE UPDATE: 1993-08-16 with cemetery information.
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Tombstone inscription gives birth/death dates.
2 CONC Buried with
2 CONT wife. Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church cemetery, Jennerstown.
2 CONT
2 CONT ERROR: IGI gives birth year as 1845.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1839
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1913
1 BURI
2 PLAC Christ Ev. Luth., Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F20@
0 @I185@ INDI
1 NAME John /Griffith/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID E5AAD38FF8CC5E47B5C07716FC415D0A0039
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 MAY 1842
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 7 AUG 1842
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F20@
0 @I186@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Rebecca
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX F
1 _UID 8CCD0ABECD53C84FAF3781624B432EDDBAD0
1 NOTE Will of Thomas Griffith dated 28 Feb 1826 lists "heirs of Rebecca late
2 CONC wife of
2 CONT Joseph Vore" as one of the "heirs of my sister Elizabeth dec'd. wife
2 CONC of
2 CONT Thos. Blackburn decd."
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: BLACKBURN AND ALLIED DESCENDANTS OF JOHN BLACKBURN, SR., who
2 CONC came from
2 CONT Ireland to Pennsylvania in 1736, Evelyn D. Gibson, Arbor Printing Co.,
2 CONC Lincoln,
2 CONT NE, 1978, page 108-109.
2 CONT Cites: 1822 Will of Thomas Blackburn, Bedford Co., PA; Bk 2, p. 78.
2 CONT 1826 Administration of estate of Joseph Vore, Miami Co., Ohio.
2 CONT 1829 Administration of estate of Rebecca Vore, Montgomery Co., Ohio.
2 CONT Vore Family records contributed by Miss Mary Helen Pemberton, West
2 CONC Milton,
2 CONT Ohio.
2 CONT 1825 Deed: Joseph and Rebecca Vore to William Blackburn, Bedford Co,
2 CONC PA, Bk N.,
2 CONT p. 532.
2 CONT
2 CONT Last enumerated in Bedford County, PA, in the 1820 census of St. Clair
2 CONC Twp.,
2 CONT with their five oldest children. They lived on a farm owned by Thomas
2 CONT Blackburn, Rebecca's father. When her father died in 1822, his will
2 CONC bequeathed
2 CONT "...to my Daughter Rebecca Vore and Joseph Vore one hundred and fifty
2 CONC eight
2 CONT acres being part of the...tract which was devided Between him and his
2 CONC Brother
2 CONT Benjamin...for which he is to pay me one hundred and fifty Eight
2 CONC Dolars..."
2 CONT About five years later, Joseph and Rebecca moved to Miami Co., Ohio,
2 CONC where
2 CONT Joseph died in 1826. When Rebecca died in 1829, guardians were
2 CONC appointed by the
2 CONT Montgomery County probate court for her four youngest children.
2 CONT
2 CONT Among the papers concerning the administration of Rebecca's estate,
2 CONC was a bill
2 CONT dated march 1829, presented by Leonard Brock "for nursing and
2 CONC attendance at his
2 CONT house for said Rebecca Vore in her last illness, three weeks at $2.00
2 CONC per
2 CONT week--$$6.00. The bill was paid by the administrator 8-23-1829.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1785
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1829
2 PLAC , Montgomery, OH
1 FAMC @F31@
0 @I187@ INDI
1 NAME William /Blackburn/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX M
1 _UID 6816372151B68049AA1ADACDC9E5724576C7
1 NOTE Will of Thomas Griffith dated 28 Feb 1826 lists William as one of the
2 CONC "heirs of
2 CONT my sister Elizabeth dec'd. wife of Thos. Blackburn decd."
2 CONT
2 CONT Dunnings Creek Meeting records indicate William and wife Amy granted a
2 CONT Certificate of Removal to Westland Monthly Meeting 4-10-1815.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Marriage, Menallen Monthly Meeting records, reads in part:
2 CONT 3rd of 5th mo. 1797. William Blackburn son of Thomas Blackburn and
2 CONC Elizabeth
2 CONT his wife of Bedford County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Amy
2 CONC Kenworth
2 CONT daughter of William and Mary Kenworthy of the same place...third day
2 CONC of the
2 CONT fifth month One thousand seven hundred ninety seven...at Meeting house
2 CONC of
2 CONT Dunnigs Creek in Bedford County aforesaid. WITNESSES: Jonathan Bowen,
2 CONC Ann
2 CONT Bowen, Mordicai Adams, Hannah Adams, Adam Bowman, Isaac Kenworthy,
2 CONC Lidia
2 CONT Kenworthy, Ruth Kenworthy, Abigail Penrose, Elizabeth Hancok, Thomas
2 CONC Bowen,
2 CONT John Smith, William Griffith, James Adams, William Shepperd, Susanna
2 CONC Adams,
2 CONT James Smith, (Groom) William Blackburn, (Bride) Amy Blackburn, Thomas
2 CONT Blackburn, William Kenworthy, Elizabeth Blackburn, Mary Kenworthy,
2 CONC Anthony
2 CONT Blackburn, Hannah Kenworthy, Jesse Kenworthy, Thomas Griffith, Thomas
2 CONC Adams.
2 CONT
2 CONT BLACKBURN DATABASE.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1776
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., York (now Adams), PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1839
2 PLAC , Montgomery, IN
1 ENDL
2 DATE 11 JUL 1993
1 FAMC @F31@
0 @I188@ INDI
1 NAME John /Blackburn/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX M
1 _UID 47FD49ED8114F6428FC269E864E223EB3D4B
1 NOTE SOURCE: BLACKBURN AND ALLIED DESCENDANTS by Gibson
2 CONT
2 CONT Known as "Miller John"
2 CONT
2 CONT Will of Thomas Griffith dated 28 Feb 1826 lists John as one of the
2 CONC "heirs of my
2 CONT sister Elizabeth dec'd. wife of Thos. Blackburn decd."
2 CONT
2 CONT John moved to Bedford County with his parents in 1770.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: Will dated December 4, 1844, probated January 4, 1845. Names
2 CONC Wife
2 CONT Sarah, children Rachael, Elizabeth, Margaret Otto's heirs, Joseph,
2 CONC Lydia and
2 CONT Sarah, Rachel, Lydia wife of Wm. Border, Sarah wife of Duncan
2 CONC McGregor, Jacob,
2 CONT Jacob's son Samuel, Jacob Otto to be guardian of minor children of
2 CONC Margaret
2 CONT deceased. Exrs.: Finley McGrew, James Blackburn. Wits.: John Black,
2 CONC Anthony
2 CONT Blackburn, Nathan Oldham. (Page 303, Bedford County Wills, Vol. III)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 JUL 1769
2 PLAC Menallen, York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE DEC 1844
2 PLAC Napier Twp., Bedford, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Spring Meadow, Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F31@
0 @I189@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX F
1 _UID 9CA8893A839280439514707EF66E0C11F762
1 NOTE Elizabeth still a member of Menallen Mtg. in York County even after
2 CONC moving to
2 CONT Bedford County. On 6-6-1794 Menallen records indicate that the women
2 CONC of the
2 CONT meeting entered a complaint against Elizabeth Wisecarver, formerly
2 CONC Blackburn,
2 CONT for accomplishing her marriage "by a Justice to one not a member."
2 CONC Disowned by
2 CONT Menallen 8-11-1794.
2 CONT
2 CONT Will of Thomas Griffith dated 28 Feb 1826 lists Elizabeth wife of John
2 CONT Wisegarver as one of the "heirs of my sister Elizabeth dec'd. wife of
2 CONC Thos.
2 CONT Blackburn decd."
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Family Group Sheet submitted for the Griffith Project by J.A.
2 CONC Clements,
2 CONT 219 N.W. K Street, Richmond, IN 4734-2141.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 JUN 1771
2 PLAC Menallen, York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 OCT 1843
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC St. John's Luth., Cessna, Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F31@
0 @I190@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX M
1 _UID 0C23EE199879FD4BB7E9E0853AE9F0C26923
1 NOTE ESTATE: WILL dated April 9, 1813, probated April 17, 1813.
2 CONT (Abstracts of Bedford County, PA Wills Vol. I, page 345-346.)
2 CONT In the name of God amen  I Thomas Blackburn of Napier Township Bedford
2 CONC County
2 CONT and State of Pennsylvania being sick and weak of body but sound in
2 CONC judgment and
2 CONT of perfect mind and memory and calling to mind the mortality of this
2 CONC body do
2 CONT make and ordain this my last Will and testament hereby revoking and
2 CONC disanuling
2 CONT all other Will or Wills by me heretofore made do constitute and ordain
2 CONC this as
2 CONT my last Will & testament
2 CONT
2 CONT      Item  I Commend my soul to God who gave it me and my body to be
2 CONC decently
2 CONT buried at the discretion of my Executors herein after to be named, and
2 CONC my
2 CONT funeral charges and Just debts to be paid by my Executors
2 CONT
2 CONT      Item  I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Rebekah Blackburn
2 CONC three Cows
2 CONT of her own choosing and all the Remainder and residue of my personal
2 CONC property
2 CONT except one two years old colt which is to be sold with the remainder
2 CONC of my horn
2 CONT cattle.
2 CONT
2 CONT      Item  I likewise give and bequeath to my beloved wife Rebekah
2 CONC Blackburn al
2 CONT the grain in the ground now on the plantation whereon I now live for
2 CONC the
2 CONT support of her and the children and also I give her possession of the
2 CONC House and
2 CONT all the other buildings with the plantation whereon I now live for her
2 CONC and my
2 CONT childrens Support during her natural life or widowhood
2 CONT
2 CONT      Item  It is my will and desire that my two eldest Sons namely
2 CONC Thomas &
2 CONT William Blackburn provided they live with their mother in due
2 CONC subjection till
2 CONT they becomeheads of families of their own are then to have the
2 CONC plantation we
2 CONT now live on as Equally as possable Devided between them
2 CONC notwithstanding they
2 CONT are still to provide for their mothers maintenance by paying to her
2 CONC yearly the
2 CONT sum of forty dollars that is twenty dollars by each of them and she
2 CONC still to
2 CONT remain in possession of my house as long as she Continues to be a
2 CONC Widow
2 CONT
2 CONT      Item  I likewise direct that my four Daughters namely Margaret,
2 CONC Elizabeth,
2 CONT Ann & Maria if they live with their mother in Due subjection till they
2 CONC become
2 CONT of the age of eighteen years Shall have each of them one Cow and a bed
2 CONC and
2 CONT bedding which shall be valued at ten dollars.
2 CONT
2 CONT      Item  I likewise order and direct that my three younger sons
2 CONC Namely Moses,
2 CONT Joseph & John Blackburn when they shall arrive at the age of sixteen
2 CONC years are
2 CONT to be put to trades of their own choosing
2 CONT
2 CONT      Item  I hereby appoint my two beloved Brothers namely William and
2 CONC Anthony
2 CONT Blackburn Executors of this my last Will and testament with full power
2 CONC to sell
2 CONT and Convey a part of my Real estate if Requisite as I could have Done
2 CONC myself
2 CONT
2 CONT      In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this
2 CONC Ninth day of
2 CONT the fourth month A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
2 CONC [Signed] Thomas
2 CONT (his mark) Blackburn {Seal} Signd seald and Deliverd in presence of us
2 CONC [signed]
2 CONT Thomas Blackburn [signed] Tho. Blackburn, Junr.
2 CONT
2 CONT 1 Nov 1813, came into Court Thomas, William and Margaret Blackburn,
2 CONC minor
2 CONT children of Thomas Blackburn, deceased, late of Napier Twp. above the
2 CONC age of 14
2 CONT years and chose Thomas Blackburn (their grandfather) and John
2 CONC Blackburn (their
2 CONT uncle) as their guardians. Court approved.
2 CONT
2 CONT Same day, on petition of Rebecca Blackburn, widow of Thomas Blackburn,
2 CONT deceased, late of Napier Twp., the court appointed Thomas Blackburn
2 CONC (their
2 CONT grandfather) and John Blackburn (their uncle) guardians of Elizabeth,
2 CONC Rebecca,
2 CONT Moses, Joseph, John, Ann, and Maria Blackburn, minor children of the
2 CONC above
2 CONT decedent, under the age of 14 years.
2 CONT
2 CONT April 6, 1815, came into Court William Blackburn and Anthony
2 CONC Blackburn,
2 CONT executors of the last Will of Thomas Blackburn, late of Napier Twp.,
2 CONC deceased
2 CONT and presented their account of administration by which it appears
2 CONC there is a
2 CONT balance due to the executors of $17.14. Confirmed by the court.
2 CONC (Bedford Co.
2 CONT Orphans Court Records.)
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: BLACKBURN, page 102-103:
2 CONT "Thomas and Rebecca (Jones) Blackburn and nine of their children were
2 CONT enumerated in the 1810 census of St. Clair Twp., Bedford county, PA.
2 CONC It appears
2 CONT they lived in a part of St. Clair Twp., that was cut off into Napier
2 CONC Twp. in
2 CONT 1812, on a tract of land belonging to Thomas' fther, Thomas Blackburn.
2 CONC However
2 CONT when young Thomas died in Napier Twp., he left his will in which he
2 CONC treated the
2 CONT property as his own....Thomas had no legal right to the land and
2 CONC buildings he
2 CONT attempted to will to his wife and children. However, his father,
2 CONC allowed his
2 CONT son's widow and children to remain on the property and his will,
2 CONC probated in
2 CONT 1822, bequethed to the heirs of his son, Thomas, deceased, the tract
2 CONC of land
2 CONT whereon the widow, Rebecca, was living with her children, and
2 CONC stipulated this
2 CONT legacy to be divided according to the will of his son, Thomas, whose
2 CONC will
2 CONT actually predated that of his father.
2 CONT
2 CONT The children of Thomas and Rebecca Blackburn spent considerable time
2 CONC with their
2 CONT Blackburn grandparents after the death of their father, probably due
2 CONC to
2 CONT difficult financial needs of their mother after the death of Thomas.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1773
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE APR 1813
2 PLAC Napier Twp., Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F31@
0 @I191@ INDI
1 NAME Anthony /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Anthony
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX M
1 _UID 115C63A22F6BD7439ED080BB8B40983F7148
1 NOTE Will of Thomas Griffith dated 28 Feb 1826 lists Anthony as one of the
2 CONC "heirs
2 CONT of my sister Elizabeth dec'd. wife of Thos. Blackburn decd."
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 MAY 1778
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1843
1 FAMC @F31@
0 @I192@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Joseph
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX M
1 _UID D2ADAD9ED578AE469AD0D171C64AF8814027
1 NOTE Will of Thomas Griffith dated 28 Feb 1826 lists "Joseph Blackburn as
2 CONC one of
2 CONT the "heirs of my sister Elizabeth dec'd. wife of Thos. Blackburn
2 CONC decd."
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: Will dated September 4, 1845, probated September 29, 1845.
2 CONT (Page 335, Bedford County Wills, Vol. III)
2 CONT In the name of God Amen  I Joseph Blackburn of St. Clair Township
2 CONC Bedford
2 CONT County and State of Pennsylvania being weak in body but of perfect
2 CONC mind and
2 CONT memory and of sound and disposing Judgmant (Praised be God for it) and
2 CONC calling
2 CONT to mind the mortality of this body and Knowing that it is appointed by
2 CONC infinite
2 CONT goodness for all men once to die and that I may be the better prepared
2 CONC to leave
2 CONT this world do make and ordain this my last will and testament hereby
2 CONC revoking
2 CONT and disanulling all other will or wills by me here tofore made do
2 CONC constitute
2 CONT and ordain this my last will and Testament in manner and form
2 CONC following that is
2 CONT to say, first and principally I Commend my Soul into the hands of
2 CONC Almighty God
2 CONT my Creator, hoping for free pardon of all my sins and to enjoy
2 CONC everlasting
2 CONT happiness in the heavenly Kingdom through Jesus Christ my savior.
2 CONT      My body I commit to the earth at the discretion of my Executors
2 CONT hereinafter named And as touching such wordly property as it has
2 CONC pleased God to
2 CONT bless me with I dispose of it in the following manner viz:
2 CONT      Item I order and direct that all my Just debts and funeral
2 CONC expences be
2 CONT first paid out of the proceeds of my personal estate--Item I give and
2 CONC bequeath
2 CONT to my Beloved wife Margaret Blackburn a part of the tract of land I
2 CONC now live on
2 CONT together with my mansion house all the Buildings there on erected to
2 CONC have full
2 CONT power and Controle of and over the same during her natural life I give
2 CONC and
2 CONT bequeath to my wife Margaret out of my personal estate two horses
2 CONC three Cows
2 CONT and as many hogs as she Choeses to keep all her Choice out of my stock
2 CONC also as
2 CONT much household and kitchen furniture as She thinks nessary
2 CONT      Further I order and will that my wife Margaret shall have the one
2 CONC thrid
2 CONT part of the proffits of my mill and the half of the proffits of the
2 CONC grain that
2 CONT is raised on my farm and a sufficiency of feed for her stock--
2 CONT      item I order and will and so do direct that my son Thoms W.
2 CONC Blackburn
2 CONT shall have the house he now lives in with all the buildings attached
2 CONC there to
2 CONT together with my lower mill and all the land on the north end of my
2 CONC plase with
2 CONT the exceptions of the schoolhouse and the nessary lot adjoining the
2 CONC same the
2 CONT lines to Commence at a corner on Smiths line at the far end of the
2 CONC stone Bridge
2 CONT back of my Barn and to run down back of the little meddow and across
2 CONC the race
2 CONT to a cherry thense down, the, by the mill and to the old run in the
2 CONC meddow
2 CONT thence down the run to the old line thence along the old line to the
2 CONC hill to a
2 CONT post together with ten acres off the north end of my ridge tract of
2 CONC land I give
2 CONT and bequeath to him his heirs and asigns forever
2 CONT      Item I order and direct that my son Thoms W Blackburn whall pay
2 CONC the one
2 CONT fourth of the proceeds of his Mechienery to the keeping of the upper
2 CONC mill in
2 CONT repair together with the remaining two thirds of the upper mill for
2 CONC reparing
2 CONT and pay a miller.
2 CONT      Item I order and will and so I do direct that my son Thomas is to
2 CONC pay five
2 CONT hundred dollars in manner and form following one hundred dollars in
2 CONC one year
2 CONT after the death of my wife and one hundred Dollars annually until the
2 CONC five
2 CONT hundred Dollars is all paid and the same to be equally divided share
2 CONC and share
2 CONT alike amongst himself and the rest of my heirs
2 CONT      Item I further order and will that my son Thomas shall have full
2 CONC power and
2 CONT priveledge to the water right as he now has with power to build a dam
2 CONC where he
2 CONT pleases
2 CONT      Item I order and will that my three minor Children namely Hannah
2 CONC Sarah and
2 CONT Rebecca Blackburn shall have there living out of my estate until the
2 CONC become of
2 CONT age Item further I order and will that if my personal proeprty does
2 CONC not reach
2 CONT to pay the debts then in that case my executors is to sell as much of
2 CONC my ridge
2 CONT tract as the think proper for that purpose
2 CONT      Item I further order and Direct that at the death of my wife that
2 CONC all the
2 CONT remaining residue of my property together with a share in a lot of
2 CONC ground in
2 CONT New Philadelphia shall be then sold to the best possible advantage and
2 CONC all the
2 CONT arising moneys from the efforts of that sale shall be equally divided
2 CONC amongst
2 CONT my seven Daughter share and share alike.
2 CONT      Item I hereby Appoint my trusty friend William McMillin and my
2 CONC beloved son
2 CONT Thomas W Blackburn Executors of this my last will and testament
2 CONC investing them
2 CONT with full power to sell and convey all my lands and to settle my other
2 CONT Bequathments
2 CONT      In Witness where of I have herunto affixed my hand and seal this
2 CONC fourth
2 CONT day of Sep[tember in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
2 CONC and forty
2 CONT five--[Signed] Joseph Blackburn (seal). Signed sealed and deliverd in
2 CONC presance
2 CONT of us [signed] Jeremiah Gordon [signed] Peter Winegardiner.
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1822, Joseph inherited his father's farm: "...to my son Joseph
2 CONC Blackburn all
2 CONT my plantation that I now Live on containing two Hundred and Seventy
2 CONC five Acres
2 CONT on Chestnut Ridge...and all my Personal estate he paying all my just
2 CONC Debts and
2 CONT funeral expenses..."
2 CONT
2 CONT Built and operated a grist mill near Spring Hope, Bedford County, PA.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1793
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 SEP 1845
2 PLAC St. Clair Twp., Bedford, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Spring Hope, Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F31@
0 @I193@ INDI
1 NAME Eve /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Eve
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX F
1 _UID D9CEEF34AB03964EA98121A570E5CFF262E4
1 NOTE Will of Thomas Griffith dated 28 Feb 1826 lists "heirs of Eve late
2 CONC wife of
2 CONT Benj. Vore" as one of the "heirs of my sister Elizabeth dec'd. wife of
2 CONC Thos.
2 CONT Blackburn decd."
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: BLACKBURN AND ALLIED DESCENDANTS OF JOHN BLACKBURN, SR.,
2 CONC Evelyn D.
2 CONT Gibson, Arbor, Lincoln, NE, 1978, pgs 112-113:
2 CONT Lived Napier Twp., Bedford Co. and were enumerated there in the 1820
2 CONC census.
2 CONT Eve died by or before 1826.
2 CONT Eve mentioned in will of father, Thomas Blackburn, 1822.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Dunnings Creek Meeting records, 1-15-1807 Eve Vore, formerly
2 CONT Blackburn, was married by Magistrate.
1 BIRT
2 DATE BET 1785 AND 1790
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 28 FEB 1826
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F31@
0 @I197@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Griffith/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 034DCA2160A07040968D3F37F6D0AE877FAF
1 NOTE RELATIONSHIP: Mentioned in her father's will.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907).
1 BIRT
2 DATE BET 1791 AND 1795
2 PLAC , Bedford co., PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC , Somerset co., PA
1 FAMC @F204@
0 @I198@ INDI
1 NAME Mary (Polly) /Griffith/
2 GIVN Mary (Polly)
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID D9B00D2302771F42B280B18D5542B31B68AC
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Monthly Meetings of Women Friends, Dunnings Creek, Bedford
2 CONC County, PA:
2 CONT Mary Richards, nee Griffith, married by magistrate, 6-16-1819.
2 CONT
2 CONT CENSUS: Jenner Twp., Somerset County, PA, page 192, family 211, shows
2 CONC Mary
2 CONT Richard age 48 years.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1802
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC , , PA
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I199@ INDI
1 NAME Ann /Griffith/
2 GIVN Ann
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 9E9A384091505A49A811E655432E26F8B725
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Minutes of Dunnings Creek Meeting (Quaker):
2 CONT 6/13/1827 Ann Cable, nee Griffith, married out of membership.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1805
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC , , MO
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I200@ INDI
1 NAME John /Griffith/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 0E40FB66AE53864FA99483E51A15D66594DB
1 NOTE OCCUPATION: Farmer
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH: Computed from elapsed time on tombstone.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESIDENCES:Lived at Latrobe, PA.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA, William Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH: Cambria Tribune 12 Jun 1885 (Friday):  Died in Latrobe on the
2 CONC 11th,
2 CONT John Griffith, aged 81 years, 14 days.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Inscription: In Memory of / John Griffith / died / June 11
2 CONC 1885 / Aged
2 CONT / 81 yrs. & 18 days.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 MAY 1804
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 JUN 1885
2 PLAC Latrobe, Westmoreland, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I201@ INDI
1 NAME Ruth /Griffith/
2 GIVN Ruth
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID B8BB43D14B4A2F42B42B8DFF843E48C5C7CB
1 NOTE BURIAL: Inscription: wife of John Walter, aged 26 yr. 3 mo. 10 das.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 DEC 1811
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 MAR 1838
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I202@ INDI
1 NAME Lydia /Griffith/
2 GIVN Lydia
2 SURN Griffith
2 NSFX (Twin)
1 SEX F
1 TITL (Twin)
1 _UID CF1F10A90A901C4F83367CD422CB6D122130
1 NOTE Twin to Rebecca
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1818
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I203@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca /Griffith/
2 GIVN Rebecca
2 SURN Griffith
2 NSFX (Twin)
1 SEX F
1 TITL (Twin)
1 _UID F77FB4DC510F70438459768B9DBAE7AFE43A
1 NOTE BURIAL: (with husband) reads: Rebecca / His Wife / 1818-1884.
2 CONT
2 CONT CENSUS: 1850, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA, page 184, family
2 CONC 160, age
2 CONT listed as 36 years.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1818
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1884
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp. Bapt, Jenner Township, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I204@ INDI
1 NAME Jehu /Griffith/
2 GIVN Jehu
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 729D308D7EF81145BE8C86EB5F4E45307562
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT See notes on his father, Jesse Griffith, regarding Jehu's affidavit on
2 CONC signing
2 CONT his father's will.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Tombstone reads: Jehu Griffith / died / July 12 1881 / aged /
2 CONC 72 years
2 CONT 3 ms. & / 3 days. (Wife's inscription on same stone.)
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: OLD AND NEW WESTMORELAND, Vol. III, The American Historical
2 CONC Society,
2 CONT Inc., New York, 1918, page 840, reads:
2 CONT
2 CONT "Jehu Griffith, son of Jesse and Lydia (Connelly) Griffith was born in
2 CONC Somerset
2 CONT county, Pennsylvania, and owned a farm of four hundred acres in Jenner
2 CONT township. One hundred acres of this he sold, later disposed of the
2 CONC entire
2 CONT estate and moved to Ligonier township, where he purchased a small
2 CONC tract on
2 CONT which he made his home during the remainder of his life. He was a
2 CONC Republican,
2 CONT and a member of the Free Will Baptist Church near Boswell, Somerset
2 CONC county. Mr.
2 CONT Griffith married Catherine Scott.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 APR 1809
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 JUL 1881
2 PLAC Ligonier, Westmoreland, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F26@
0 @I205@ INDI
1 NAME Levi /Griffith/
2 GIVN Levi
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 5A14DBF79CB18D4E8F434AB03E2D1D10CCBE
1 NOTE Named in father's will
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH: Registration of Deaths, Somerset Co., PA, Vol. 1, page 59A.
2 CONC Cause of
2 CONT death: "old age." Buried with Mary H. 1817-1860 and Rebecca w/o H. d.
2 CONT 5-27-1853, ag 34-1-18
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH-DEATH: Certified copies of Levi Berkey Family Bible, on file at
2 CONC DAR
2 CONT Headquarters, Washington, DC. (John Owen Vertical File.)
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: Will, dated 28 Apr 1901, probated 29 Nov 1901: Be it
2 CONC Remembered, That
2 CONT I, Levi Griffith, of the City of Johnstown, County of Cambria and
2 CONC State of
2 CONT Pennsylvania being of sound and disposing mind, memory and
2 CONC understanding, and
2 CONT considering the uncertainty of life, do therefore make, plublish and
2 CONC declare
2 CONT this to be my last Will and Testament, in manner and form following,
2 CONC tht is to
2 CONT say: Item I direct that all my just debts, funeral expenses and
2 CONC charges of
2 CONT proving this, my will, shall, in the first place, be paid and fully
2 CONC satisfied
2 CONT by my Executors hereinafter named. Item I give and devise unto my wife
2 CONC Susannah
2 CONT the house and lot whereon I now reside, situate at No. 808 Franklin
2 CONC street,
2 CONT city of Johnstown, County of Cambria, Pennsylvania, to have, hold and
2 CONC enjoy the
2 CONT same, for and during the term of her natural life. I also give and
2 CONC bequeath to
2 CONT my said wife all the household furniture contained in the said
2 CONC dwelling house
2 CONT at the time of my decease, for and during the term of her natural
2 CONC life. I
2 CONT further direct my Executors to set aside one-third of the residue of
2 CONC my Estate,
2 CONT in trust to pay over to my said wife the interest and income arising
2 CONC therefrom
2 CONT annully during her natural life and said one-third is hereby fiven,
2 CONC devised and
2 CONT bequeathed for that purpose. The foregoing provisions for and on
2 CONC behalf of my
2 CONT said wife are made and intended to be in lieu and in full satisfaction
2 CONC of her
2 CONT right and calim of dower and exemption which she might have in my
2 CONC estate under
2 CONT the Intestate and Exemption laws of this Commonwealth. Item. After the
2 CONC death of
2 CONT my said wife I hereby authorize and direct my Executors hereinafter
2 CONC named to
2 CONT sell the above mentioned real estte and personal property, either at
2 CONC public or
2 CONT private sale, and to make, execute and deliver proper deeds and
2 CONC conveyances to
2 CONT the purchasers, and to distribute and pay over the proceeds thereof as
2 CONT hereinafter directed. Item. I give and bequeath to the Trustees of the
2 CONC Hopewell
2 CONT Methodist Episcopal Church of Jenner Towsnhip, Somerset County,
2 CONC Pennsylvania,
2 CONT the sum of Two Hundred Dollars. Item. I authorize and direct that all
2 CONC the rest
2 CONT and residue of my Estate, real, personal and mixed, whatsoever and
2 CONC wheresoever
2 CONT situate shall be converted into cash as soon as conveniently may be
2 CONC after my
2 CONT decease, and for that purpose I hereby authorize
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 DEC 1816
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 NOV 1901
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 8 NOV 1901
2 PLAC Hopewell ME Cem., Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F104@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I206@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret /Griffith/
2 GIVN Margaret
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 9F1E04F42C0F764FA31A6153FD44A2ABB4C8
1 NOTE CENSUS: 1850, Jenner Twp., Somerset County, PA shows her as Margaret
2 CONT Hanline.
2 CONT There is also a child shown as age 3/12 named Mary A. that must be a
2 CONC grandchild
2 CONT since James Hanlon died in 1844.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Janet (Raymond) Faust, R.R.5, Box 497, Johnstown, PA
2 CONC 15905. (814)
2 CONT 288-2211.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 FEB 1804
2 PLAC , Bedford co., PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC , Somerset co., PA
1 FAMC @F24@
0 @I207@ INDI
1 NAME Daniel /Reighart/
2 GIVN Daniel
2 SURN Reighart
1 SEX M
1 _UID F9C6A77144543445A87E92FEF9DFDA67B7FA
1 NOTE BURIAL: Inscription: aged 30 yr. 8 mo. 3 das.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: WILL, dated 2 May 1838, proved 8 June 1838, reads:
2 CONT The last will and testament of Daniel Reighart of Jenner Township
2 CONC Somerset
2 CONT county. In the name of God I Daniel Reighart considering the
2 CONC uncertainty of
2 CONT this mortal life and being of sound mind and memory (blessed by
2 CONC Almighty God
2 CONT for the same) do make and publish this my last will and testament in
2 CONC manner and
2 CONT form following (that is to say) just my wish is that my wife Sarah is
2 CONC to remain
2 CONT on the place with the children as long as she shall live providing she
2 CONC shall
2 CONT remain my widow be it understood that she is to have the privilege of
2 CONC the house
2 CONT so long as she lives. Second, I give and bequeth unto my beloved wife
2 CONC all my
2 CONT personal estate as long as she remains my widow. Third, I give and
2 CONC bequeath unto
2 CONT my sone Abner Reighart the west end of the place the new road to be
2 CONC the line.
2 CONT Fourth, I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Mary Ann Reighart, the
2 CONC residue of
2 CONT the original tract including the twenty three acres adjoining lands of
2 CONC the
2 CONT widow Griffith., Mathew Hair and others. My will is that Abner and
2 CONC Mary Ann is
2 CONT to pay out of their portion to my younger daughter Nancy Reighart to
2 CONC make her
2 CONT equal so that they all have share and share alike. My wife Sarah is to
2 CONC have the
2 CONT ishews and prophets arising of the place to go towards maintaining her
2 CONC and the
2 CONT minor children until of age. And lastly I hereby constitute and
2 CONC appoint John O.
2 CONT Griffith my Executor and my wife Sarah Reighart my Executrix of this
2 CONC my last
2 CONT will and testament hereby revoking all former will by me made in --?--
2 CONC Whreof I
2 CONT have hereunto set my hand and seal this second day of May in the year
2 CONC of our
2 CONT Lord 1838. WITNESSES: Abner Griffith, George Piper, John Ankney.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 SEP 1807
2 PLAC , , PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 MAY 1838
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp. Bapt, Jenner Township, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F142@
1 FAMC @F143@
0 @I208@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /--?--/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN --?--
1 SEX F
1 _UID E604FCCF2F632A4CAC138D68F689D3E6A9E6
1 NOTE BIRTH: Information from Quaker records extracted for W.W. Griffith by
2 CONC Heenan &
2 CONT Mount, Genealogists of Canterbury, England.
1 BIRT
2 PLAC , Wales
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 JUL 1773
2 PLAC , Radnor, Wales
1 BURI
2 PLAC Plaes Cemetery, Radnor, Wales
1 FAMS @F60@
0 @I209@ INDI
1 NAME Alice /Pugh/
2 GIVN Alice
2 SURN Pugh
1 SEX F
1 _UID EE1938A04314FB45A170AA5039DAAEB0F2E4
1 BIRT
2 PLAC , Wales
1 DEAT
2 PLAC , Wales
1 FAMS @F68@
0 @I210@ INDI
1 NAME Abner W. /Griffith/
2 GIVN Abner W.
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID FAAA885A5CD1184AAAF7EE3C4EC5C253089C
1 NOTE Named in estate papers for father
2 CONT
2 CONT 1850 Census, Jenners Twp., Somerset County, page 187, family 178,
2 CONC listed as 19
2 CONT year old.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Abner W. / Griffith / Nov. 27, 1830 / May 30, 1902. (same
2 CONC stone as
2 CONT wife.)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 NOV 1830
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 MAY 1902
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F21@
0 @I211@ INDI
1 NAME Josiah J. /Griffith/
2 GIVN Josiah J.
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID AAFAE26211437F4DB12EA830F9679D4E0A3F
1 NOTE Named in estate papers for father
2 CONT
2 CONT 1850 Census, Jenners Twp., Somerset County, page 187, family 178,
2 CONC listed as 4
2 CONT year old.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: Tombstone reads: Josiah J. Griffith / 1846 - 1918.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1846
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1918
2 PLAC Jennerstown, Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F21@
0 @I212@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Griffith/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 30DA8822D78E5A428D88C951C1E6D0BB1670
1 NOTE RELATIONSHIP: Named in estate papers for father 25 Aug 1891.
2 CONT
2 CONT CENSUS: 1850, Jenners Twp., Somerset County, page 187, family 178,
2 CONT listed as 17 year old.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Announcement in the "Cambria Tribune" 17 Feb 1860, reads:
2 CONC Married at
2 CONT Jenner Cross Roads on the 9th by Rev. Raredin, Mr. John thomas of
2 CONC Johnstown and
2 CONT Mrs. Mary Griffith of Jenner.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1833
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F21@
0 @I213@ INDI
1 NAME Agnes /Griffith/
2 GIVN Agnes
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID D10CDB76F01FD54EACCEB89ECE071988A6D0
1 NOTE Named in estate papers for father
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F21@
0 @I214@ INDI
1 NAME Lucinda /Griffith/
2 GIVN Lucinda
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID B98808B698E3344BA7BF89D55D93C92FA580
1 NOTE Named in estate papers for father
2 CONT
2 CONT 1850 Census, Jenners Twp., Somerset County, page 187, family 178,
2 CONC listed as 7
2 CONT year old.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1843
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F21@
0 @I215@ INDI
1 NAME David S. /Griffith/
2 GIVN David S.
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 6E75C27CB7A89D4D8756A6557EE6A6CC1827
1 NOTE Named in estate papers for father
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: as published in the Herald & Whig, Somerset, PA, copy made
2 CONC by Dr.
2 CONT E.C. Saylor about 1930, printed in the May, 1990 Laurel Messenger,
2 CONC Somerset
2 CONT County Historical Society:
2 CONT Feb. 10, 1867--David S. Griffith to Annie Berkey at residence of Wm.
2 CONC Zimmerman,
2 CONT both of Jenner Twp., by Rev. A.J. Heller.
2 CONT
2 CONT 1850 Census, Jenners Twp., Somerset County, page 187, family 178,
2 CONC listed as 6
2 CONT year old.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1844
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F21@
0 @I216@ INDI
1 NAME Obadiah /Griffith/
2 GIVN Obadiah
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID FAB894794C65E649AB0D8BA2BC0AC62131F3
1 NOTE Named in estate papers for father.
2 CONT
2 CONT 1850 Census, Jenners Twp., Somerset County, page 187, family 178,
2 CONC listed as 1
2 CONT year old.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1849
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F21@
0 @I217@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth "Betsey" /Griffith/
2 GIVN Elizabeth "Betsey"
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 4F409ABEDC12CB4AB20C681567A4E20C1E75
1 NOTE RELATIONSHIP: named as daughter in her father's will.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Janet (Raymond) Faust, R.R.5, Box 497, Johnstown, PA
2 CONC 15905. (814)
2 CONT 288-2211.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Marcia (Griffith) Buescher, P.O. Box 542, Kimball, NE
2 CONC 69145. (308)
2 CONT 235-2008.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 22 JAN 1786
2 PLAC St. Clair Twp., Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 AUG 1847
2 PLAC St. Clair Twp., Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F204@
0 @I218@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Griffith/
2 GIVN Sarah
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID E744DE3931ED414388A338F174021FC49167
1 NOTE UPDATE: 1994-05-16
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH: 26 Jun 1792 date from Mary Wilson's records.
2 CONT MARRIAGE: 1815 from Mary Wilson's records.
2 CONT
2 CONT RELATIONSHIP: Named in father's will.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1789
2 PLAC , Bedford co., PA
1 FAMC @F204@
0 @I219@ INDI
1 NAME Samuel /Griffith/
2 GIVN Samuel
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 586EDECAC01CA4449EFCD116B8C57FC87775
1 NOTE RELATIONSHIP: Named in father's will.
1 BIRT
2 DATE BET 1791 AND 1793
2 PLAC , Bedford co., PA
1 FAMC @F204@
0 @I220@ INDI
1 NAME Abner /Griffith/
2 GIVN Abner
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 233586F364E8104C896CE1722F54D62A4434
1 NOTE RELATIONSHIP: Named in father's will
2 CONT
2 CONT CENSUS: 1850, Jenner Twp., Somerset County, PA indicates his wife
2 CONT was named Elizabeth.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Janet (Raymond) Faust, R.R.5, Box 497, Johnstown, PA
2 CONC 15905. (814)
2 CONT 288-2211. (Note: Gives birth/death dates for Abner and Elizabeth,
2 CONC death date
2 CONT for Eve Wisegarver.) Indicates that Abner and Elizabeth moved to
2 CONC Indiana
2 CONT County, PA about 1852.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 JAN 1812
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 NOV 1885
2 PLAC Marion Center, E. Mahoning Twp., Indiana, PA
1 FAMC @F24@
0 @I221@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca /Griffith/
2 GIVN Rebecca
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 44ED8A7C7C3A0F4DAAC82E197F6FE6E0B6E2
1 NOTE RELATIONSHIP: Named in father's will.
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH: Janet (Raymond) Faust, R.R.5, Box 497, Johnstown, PA 15905.
2 CONT (814) 288-2211.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 APR 1798
2 PLAC St. Clair Twp., Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F24@
0 @I222@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Anne /Griffith/
2 GIVN Mary Anne
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 63F951AAE6698A40BE0681B881F86ADB2B19
1 NOTE RELATIONSHIP: Named in father's will
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Blackburn Database.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Janet (Raymond) Faust, R.R.5, Box 497, Johnstown, PA
2 CONC 15905. (814)
2 CONT 288-2211.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESIDENCE: lived in Brush Valley, PA.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 MAR 1800
2 PLAC , Bedford co., PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 JUN 1885
2 PLAC Brush Valley, Indiana, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Fry Cemetery, Brush Valley, Indiana, PA
1 ENDL
2 DATE 7 JUL 1993
1 FAMC @F24@
0 @I223@ INDI
1 NAME Susannah /Griffith/
2 GIVN Susannah
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID CA56A510BAEBA542A7EE2F00C807E5805968
1 NOTE RELATIONSHIP: Mentioned in father's will as Susannah Duncan.
2 CONT
2 CONT CENSUS: 1850, Jenner Twp., Somerset county, PA, age listed as 44
2 CONC years.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Janet (Raymond) Faust, R.R.5, Box 497, Johnstown, PA
2 CONC 15905. (814)
2 CONT 288-2211.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 JAN 1806
2 PLAC , Bedford co., PA
1 FAMC @F24@
0 @I228@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Griffith/
2 GIVN Sarah
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID D470344EC13824469740E40C0B9B2F9257E9
1 NOTE SOURCE: Menallen Monthly Meeting Minutes.
2 CONT Sarah Griffith, daughter of John Griffith, requests membership with
2 CONC Menallen,
2 CONT 5-13-1793.
2 CONT
2 CONT Sarah Griffith requests marriage with Thomas Blackburn, 9-9-1793.
2 CONT
2 CONT Marriage record reads in part:
2 CONT 16th of 10th mo. 1793. Whereas Thomas Blackburn son of Thomas
2 CONC Blackburn and
2 CONT Alice his wife of the Township of Monalon County of York and State of
2 CONT Pennsylvania and Sarah Griffith Daughter of John Griffith and Lidia
2 CONC his wife of
2 CONT the Township County and State aforesaid...this sixteenth day of the
2 CONC tenth month
2 CONT one thousand seven hundred and ninety three...at Menalon. WITNESSES:
2 CONC Thomas
2 CONT Bowen, Elizabeth Wright, ? Oldham, Thomas Hammond, Thomas Hammond,
2 CONC James
2 CONT Hammond, Sarah Rusk, Reachal Wright, Ruth Wilson, John McGrail, Rachel
2 CONT Griffith, Ann Bowen, Isabel Blackburn, Benjamin Wright, George Hamond,
2 CONC John
2 CONT Blackburn, Thomas Wright, John Bowen, Ruth Wright, Steven Hendriks,
2 CONC (Groom)
2 CONT Thomas Blackburn, (Bride) Sarah Blackburn, John Griffith, John
2 CONC Blackburn,
2 CONT Samuel Garriston, Alice Garetson, Sally Johnston, Mary McGrew, Martha
2 CONC McGrew,
2 CONT Finly McGrew, Joel Hutton, George Wilson.
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH: probably died before 1820, as no wife listed for her husband,
2 CONC Thomas
2 CONT Blackburn, in the 1820 Census of Bedford County, PA.
1 BIRT
2 DATE BET 1773 AND 1776
2 PLAC , York (now Adams), PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1820
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F32@
0 @I229@ INDI
1 NAME Clara Maurine /Glass/
2 GIVN Clara Maurine
2 SURN Glass
1 SEX F
1 _UID C3C4125E9B1B9B4584ED6EBE3D4B044C0264
1 NOTE BIRTH Info from living source. Birth Certificate, State of PA,
2 CONT Allegheny County, File #0340780-50.
2 CONT
2 CONT Lives in Danville, Calif.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 FEB 1950
2 PLAC Wilkinsburg, Allegheny, PA
1 FAMS @F79@
1 FAMC @F4@
0 @I230@ INDI
1 NAME Martha Marie /Glass/
2 GIVN Martha Marie
2 SURN Glass
1 SEX F
1 _UID 8A2916358E7F774DBB2FA0AC246CFB5EEEC9
1 NOTE BIRTH: Information from living source. Birth certificate, State of PA,
2 CONC County
2 CONT of Allegheny, File #0763730-53.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Marriage certificate, dated 3 Oct 1987, #96841, Series
2 CONC Two-C, signed
2 CONT by Rev. George A. Wilt, Catholic Priest.
2 CONT
2 CONT Martha was baptized at the South Avenue Methodist Church in
2 CONC Wilkinsburg, but
2 CONT was confirmed and took her first Holy Communion at the Beulah
2 CONC Presbyterian
2 CONT Church in Churchill. She attended the Churchill area schools (now
2 CONC Woodland
2 CONT Hills School District, K-12, graduating in 1971. She attended Grove
2 CONC City
2 CONT College, Grove City, PA, from 1971-1975, graduating with a degree in
2 CONC Business
2 CONT Administration. She was a member of Gamma Chi Sorority and Angel
2 CONC Flight
2 CONT (auxiliary to AFROTC program). Two weeks after college, Martha began
2 CONC her career
2 CONT with the Campbell Soup Company in sales, covering the territory from
2 CONC Western
2 CONT Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. She was the first woman in
2 CONC Pittsburgh in
2 CONT sales for Campbells. In 1981, Martha took a position in sales with the
2 CONC Johnson
2 CONT and Johnson Company and remained with them until after her marriage in
2 CONC 1987.
2 CONT From 1990 until 1993, Martha and Bernie were maintaining dual
2 CONC residency between
2 CONT their home in Churchill and first in Dallas, and then in Chicago, due
2 CONC to
2 CONT Bernie's employment.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 MAY 1953
2 PLAC St. Francis Hosp, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA
1 CHR
2 PLAC S. Ave. Meth., Wilkinsburg, Allegheny, PA
1 FAMS @F80@
1 FAMC @F4@
0 @I231@ INDI
1 NAME Harold /Griffith/
2 GIVN Harold
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID F0E492F9424A824BBAA27C82292C594303C7
1 NOTE Information supplied by Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
2 CONT
2 CONT OCCUPATION:  Dentist
2 CONT
2 CONT Married twice, 2 children by first wife, 3 children by 2nd
2 CONT
2 CONT Obit reads: DR. HAROLD CRAIG GRIFFITH, 65, of Statesville, N.C. died
2 CONC Sunday
2 CONT April 10, 1977 in Memorial Hospital, Statesville. A son of Dr. Wilbert
2 CONC and Anna
2 CONT Craig Griffith, he was born Aug. 31, 1911 in Yatesboro. Dr. Griffith
2 CONC was a
2 CONT retired dentist and had practiced in Rural Valley for many years
2 CONC before moving
2 CONT to Statesville two years ago. He was a veteran of WW II serving in the
2 CONC U.S.
2 CONT Army dental corps as a captain. Surviving are his widow, Betty Sheets
2 CONT Griffith, three sons: Harold R., Charlotte, N.C., Wilbert C.,
2 CONC Statesville,
2 CONT N.C., Geoffrey E., Charlotte, N.C., three daughters, Mrs. Larry
2 CONC (Kathleen
2 CONT Smith, Bethlehem, Mrs. Gary (Barbara) Lourance, Statesville, N.C.,
2 CONC Miss Betty
2 CONT Griffith, at home, his mother, Yatesboro, two brothers, James, New
2 CONC Castle,
2 CONT Wilbert, Pittsburgh, a sister Mrs. Margaret Waite, Annapolis, Md., six
2 CONT grandchildren. Private funeral services were held Wednesday, April 13
2 CONC at 2:30
2 CONT pm in the Roy W. Carson Funeral Home, Rural Valley, with the Rev.
2 CONC Arthur R.
2 CONT Kaufman officiating. Interment was in Rural Valley Cemetery.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 AUG 1911
2 PLAC Yatesboro, Armstrong, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 APR 1977
2 PLAC Statesville, , NC
1 BURI
2 PLAC Rural Valley Cem, Indiana, PA
1 FAMS @F81@
1 FAMS @F82@
1 FAMC @F6@
0 @I232@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret Jean /Griffith/
2 GIVN Margaret Jean
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 7817BC65845EF44AAE9466023E42F4D9C707
1 NOTE Information supplied by Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 DEC 1919
2 PLAC Indiana, Indiana, PA
1 FAMS @F83@
1 FAMC @F6@
0 @I233@ INDI
1 NAME James Craig /Griffith/
2 GIVN James Craig
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID C9F53F4234AA8648AB5882862EB963D91925
1 NOTE Information supplied by Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 SEP 1924
2 PLAC Yatesboro, Armstrong, PA
1 FAMS @F87@
1 FAMC @F6@
0 @I234@ INDI
1 NAME Wilbert Elroy /Griffith/
2 GIVN Wilbert Elroy
2 SURN Griffith
2 NSFX Jr.
1 SEX M
1 TITL Jr.
1 _UID CD5F62B7229FCE4BB752C007AED6D8327DD9
1 NOTE Information supplied by Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 DEC 1926
2 PLAC Yatesboro, Armstrong, PA
1 FAMS @F88@
1 FAMC @F6@
0 @I235@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Griffith/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID C56670FCAA1DCC439CA22AB6D028AD2A5AD4
1 NOTE ESTATE: WILL dated 17 Jan 1866, Probate 19 Jun 1867. Will Book 3, page
2 CONC 338.
2 CONT Indiana County, PA
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE SOURCE: Auditor's report 10 Jul 1882
2 CONT
2 CONT From Deed Indexes of Indiana Co., PA for time period of 1803 to 1928,
2 CONC 5
2 CONT references involving the sale or purchase of property in Center Twp.,
2 CONC Indiana
2 CONT County, PA.
2 CONT 1.  On 27 Feb 1817, Thomas Griffith, son of Jesse & Elizabeth Griffith
2 CONC (all
2 CONT residents of Napier Twp., Bedford Co., PA) purchased a tract of 153+
2 CONC acres in
2 CONT Center Twp., Indiana Co., PA, from his parents.  Deed Book 4, page 80.
2 CONT 2.  On 5 Nov 1836, Thomas & Sarah Griffith sold the above tract of
2 CONC 153+ acres
2 CONT in Center Twp., Indiana Co, PA, to John Risinger.  Deed Book 95, page
2 CONC 126.
2 CONT 3.  On 6 Mar 1837, just four months after the above sale, Thomas
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT purchased a tract of 135+ acres in Center Twp., Indiana Co, PA from
2 CONC Robert
2 CONT McLanahan, Jr.  Deed Book 9, page 402.
2 CONT 4.  On 27 Jun 1839, Thomas Griffith and his wife Sarah sold off 2+
2 CONC acres of the
2 CONT above tract to their neighbor, James Elwood.  Deed Book 11, page 105.
2 CONT 5.  On 1 Mar 1882, Samuel H. Griffith and Thomas G. Row, executors of
2 CONC the
2 CONT estate of Thomas & Sarah Griffith, sold the remaining 133 acres of the
2 CONC tract
2 CONT purchased in #3 above to Esther A. Cummins.  Deed Book A-45, page 5.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1796
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE JUN 1867
2 PLAC White Twp., Indiana, PA
1 FAMC @F34@
0 @I258@ INDI
1 NAME Eileen /Larimer/
2 GIVN Eileen
2 SURN Larimer
1 SEX F
1 _UID 1B1AEE26442F5049AA80A278C91C3C13CD05
1 NOTE Born at home.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 FEB 1924
2 PLAC Regent's Square, Swissvale, Allegheny, PA
1 FAMS @F78@
1 FAMC @F41@
0 @I259@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Louise /Larimer/
2 GIVN Mary Louise
2 SURN Larimer
1 SEX F
1 _UID F7F784CC6343DE4594B2EF24F9FBC06478A0
1 NOTE Never married.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 OCT 1926
2 PLAC Columbia Hosp., Wilkinsburg, Allegheny, PA
1 FAMC @F41@
0 @I260@ INDI
1 NAME Russell /Walker/
2 GIVN Russell
2 SURN Walker
1 SEX M
1 _UID 4CEFFABF1BD9A44884B01741C1D21F657783
1 NOTE First wife died, one child, Glenn Allan Walker, born 16 Aug 1951(?) m.
2 CONC Beverly
2 CONT Bray and have daughter Eryn Walker and son Corey Walker.
1 FAMS @F78@
0 @I261@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas A. /Murtaugh/
2 GIVN Thomas A.
2 SURN Murtaugh
1 SEX M
1 _UID 6C9364ED4F77894B96B4B0CA2CA6187C14A8
1 FAMS @F79@
0 @I262@ INDI
1 NAME Heather Marie /Murtaugh/
2 GIVN Heather Marie
2 SURN Murtaugh
1 SEX F
1 _UID BF321ABD03B0B0448CE23B9FD32D387766A0
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 DEC 1980
1 FAMC @F79@
0 @I263@ INDI
1 NAME Scott Thomas /Murtaugh/
2 GIVN Scott Thomas
2 SURN Murtaugh
1 SEX M
1 _UID D528D2507709C944A62BBB85E3E9399F6119
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 JAN 1983
1 FAMC @F79@
0 @I264@ INDI
1 NAME Bernard Joseph /Adams/
2 GIVN Bernard Joseph
2 SURN Adams
1 SEX M
1 _UID CB9865788322524FBEECBD8E0EE052A86387
1 NOTE BIRTH: Birth Certificate, State of PA, County of Allegheny, File
2 CONC #0000800-60.
2 CONT Father: Robert Charles Adams, age 42. Mother: Patricia Mary Burke, age
2 CONC 39.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 JAN 1960
2 PLAC St. Francis Hosp, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA
1 FAMS @F80@
0 @I265@ INDI
1 NAME Geraldine /Romig/
2 GIVN Geraldine
2 SURN Romig
1 SEX F
1 _UID 980A8FA5E7732146882E50F74A58EB11321A
1 NOTE Information supplied by Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 APR
1 FAMS @F81@
0 @I266@ INDI
1 NAME Harold Romig /Griffith/
2 GIVN Harold Romig
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID F61B6ACCF1F7F34D97BD84E5D44E13FA5B07
1 NOTE Information supplied by Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
2 CONT
2 CONT Nickname:  Sonny
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 JUL 1937
1 FAMC @F81@
0 @I267@ INDI
1 NAME Wilbert Craig /Griffith/
2 GIVN Wilbert Craig
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 30BC3D6A2BFCC644BA4390727D8C14EFCFA2
1 NOTE Information supplied Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 FEB 1942
1 FAMC @F81@
0 @I268@ INDI
1 NAME Betty Helen /Sheets/
2 GIVN Betty Helen
2 SURN Sheets
1 SEX F
1 _UID 12CC89BA0D14244287359AD46C2866EBB780
1 NOTE Information supplied by Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
2 CONT
2 CONT Maiden name supplied by son, Geoffrey E. Griffith
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH: Obituary reads: Betty H. Griffith of 998 Alabama St.,
2 CONC Kannapolis, N.C.,
2 CONT formerly of Rural Valley, died May 18 in the Charlotte Memorial
2 CONC Hospital, N.C.
2 CONT She was born in Armstrong County to Blanche Hartsell and the late Earl
2 CONC H.
2 CONT Sheets. Mrs. Griffith was a homemaker. She is survived by her mother,
2 CONC Blanche
2 CONT Hartsell of Kittanning, a son, Geoffrey E. Griffith of Atlanta, GA,
2 CONC two
2 CONT stepsons, Harold R. of Florida and Wilbert C. of Rock Hill, S.C.,
2 CONC three
2 CONT daughters, Mrs. Larry (Kathleen) Smith of Rural Valley, Mrs. Barbara
2 CONC G.
2 CONT Lourance of Rock Hill, S.C., and Mrs. Terry (Betsy) Hollis of
2 CONC Kannapolis,
2 CONT N.C., and six grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by her
2 CONC husband, Dr.
2 CONT Harold C. Griffith, on apr. 10, 1977, and her stepfather, George
2 CONC Hartsell.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 MAY 1927
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 MAY 1986
2 PLAC Kannapolis, , NC
1 FAMS @F82@
0 @I269@ INDI
1 NAME Geoffrey Everett /Griffith/
2 GIVN Geoffrey Everett
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID C3C63A80265737479C7518B586C93ADC818F
1 NOTE Information supplied by Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 AUG 1948
2 PLAC , , PA
1 FAMC @F82@
0 @I270@ INDI
1 NAME Kathleen Jennifer /Griffith/
2 GIVN Kathleen Jennifer
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 84B8BB0FD7093540AA4C0F9047ABAD51E024
1 NOTE Information supplied by Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 OCT 1949
2 PLAC , , PA
1 FAMS @F105@
1 FAMC @F82@
0 @I271@ INDI
1 NAME Barbara Ann /Griffith/
2 GIVN Barbara Ann
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 9D10BB304D11F5408E27214D858A2C9B2400
1 NOTE Information supplied by Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 NOV 1950
2 PLAC , , PA
1 FAMS @F106@
1 FAMC @F82@
0 @I272@ INDI
1 NAME Betty Helen /Griffith/
2 GIVN Betty Helen
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 810464625A036543A6F0D69899869D7E8ECE
1 NOTE Information supplied by Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
2 CONT
2 CONT Nickname:  Betsy
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 MAY 1959
2 PLAC , , PA
1 FAMS @F107@
1 FAMC @F82@
0 @I273@ INDI
1 NAME Merton Theodore /Waite/
2 GIVN Merton Theodore
2 SURN Waite
1 SEX M
1 _UID 55234561EC8F2646AAFED1BBD5B0D963FA7F
1 FAMS @F83@
0 @I274@ INDI
1 NAME Marion Craig /Waite/
2 GIVN Marion Craig
2 SURN Waite
1 SEX F
1 _UID 0BFD75CDF9AA544DA0B1AFADDF99B291F6D7
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 DEC 1945
2 PLAC , , MD
1 FAMS @F84@
1 FAMC @F83@
0 @I275@ INDI
1 NAME Jean Ann /Waite/
2 GIVN Jean Ann
2 SURN Waite
1 SEX F
1 _UID 3D1D37E4CA1DAD47A26B894DD69F61858E41
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 NOV 1948
2 PLAC , , MD
1 FAMS @F85@
1 FAMS @F86@
1 FAMC @F83@
0 @I276@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Ayres/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Ayres
1 SEX M
1 _UID BC02EE4A9878E84290A1BE309B96D2DC2E47
1 FAMS @F84@
0 @I277@ INDI
1 NAME Scott Allen /Ayres/
2 GIVN Scott Allen
2 SURN Ayres
1 SEX M
1 _UID A17FEC7E00D75C46AB1219AC7AFA91780252
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 MAR 1980
1 FAMC @F84@
0 @I278@ INDI
1 NAME William Craig /Ayres/
2 GIVN William Craig
2 SURN Ayres
1 SEX M
1 _UID E32F818807E81046A804A1AC4CE6AD7CB47F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 3 APR 1985
2 PLAC , Anne Arundel, MD
1 FAMC @F84@
0 @I279@ INDI
1 NAME Charles Lester /Ford/
2 GIVN Charles Lester
2 SURN Ford
1 SEX M
1 _UID ACF9EEBB546F724F8A7EBB70105928962C4F
1 FAMS @F85@
0 @I280@ INDI
1 NAME Charles Lester /Ford/
2 GIVN Charles Lester
2 SURN Ford
2 NSFX Jr.
1 SEX M
1 TITL Jr.
1 _UID 578280A0094B4A42BB43C80A59F357F7437A
1 NOTE Nickname:  Chad
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 MAY 1973
1 FAMC @F85@
0 @I281@ INDI
1 NAME Dennis /Reese/
2 GIVN Dennis
2 SURN Reese
1 SEX M
1 _UID DC88E5D25C02B441BF0EF5ADD05015AEC020
1 FAMS @F86@
0 @I282@ INDI
1 NAME Christopher /Reese/
2 GIVN Christopher
2 SURN Reese
1 SEX M
1 _UID C149D9AE232E30419C68ED9809DEA4D73EED
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 AUG 1981
2 PLAC , , MD
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1 DEC 1984
2 PLAC , , MD
1 FAMC @F86@
0 @I283@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Ellen /Wilson/
2 GIVN Mary Ellen
2 SURN Wilson
1 SEX F
1 _UID 83804313EA33BD409976C4EC9DBD808B9788
1 NOTE Information supplied by Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 MAY 1925
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 APR 1973
1 FAMS @F87@
0 @I284@ INDI
1 NAME James Craig /Griffith/
2 GIVN James Craig
2 SURN Griffith
2 NSFX Jr.
1 SEX M
1 TITL Jr.
1 _UID CBCCDFDD6AD5FA46B813C79BF0242F519339
1 NOTE Information supplied by Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 JAN 1953
2 PLAC , , PA
1 FAMS @F148@
1 FAMC @F87@
0 @I285@ INDI
1 NAME John Wilbert /Griffith/
2 GIVN John Wilbert
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 4C28D3BD8367574CBC5C1D5B6A4AD2ED94CE
1 NOTE Information supplied by Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 JAN 1955
2 PLAC , , PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 AUG 1984
2 PLAC Conneaut Lake, Crawford, PA
1 FAMC @F87@
0 @I286@ INDI
1 NAME Ellen Jane /Griffith/
2 GIVN Ellen Jane
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID ABFAA6980210C4409F8669FD7089B68EC130
1 NOTE Information supplied by Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 DEC 1960
2 PLAC , , PA
1 FAMS @F149@
1 FAMC @F87@
0 @I287@ INDI
1 NAME Joan /Bovard/
2 GIVN Joan
2 SURN Bovard
1 SEX F
1 _UID 3FB179E0F04E274B95A0BEB462106FB6375C
1 NOTE Lived in Kittaning, Armstrong county, PA while growing up.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 FEB 1930
2 PLAC Magee Hospital, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA
1 FAMS @F88@
0 @I288@ INDI
1 NAME Wilbert Elroy /Griffith/
2 GIVN Wilbert Elroy
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID C4EF9460C75DF249BD99C9C8E82F8AC8564F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 MAR 1957
2 PLAC Gainesville, Alachua, FL
1 FAMS @F150@
1 FAMC @F88@
0 @I289@ INDI
1 NAME Christine Karen /Griffith/
2 GIVN Christine Karen
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 0D84B0A8563E2E46AAB7CE483AB4BB576806
1 NOTE Information supplied by Margaret Jean Griffith Waite
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 OCT 1960
2 PLAC Shady Side Hosp., Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA
1 FAMS @F151@
1 FAMC @F88@
0 @I290@ INDI
1 NAME David Kevin /Griffith/
2 GIVN David Kevin
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 4888BD6D775C6F46A74749B97D9C521EFBB1
1 NOTE David is a teacher.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 AUG 1963
2 PLAC St. Francis Hosp, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA
1 FAMC @F88@
0 @I294@ INDI
1 NAME Marcia /Walker/
2 GIVN Marcia
2 SURN Walker
1 SEX F
1 _UID 4A6AD1BA6337B94BA9D62DA82C27B288BE1D
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 JUL 1964
1 FAMC @F78@
0 @I295@ INDI
1 NAME Marian /Walker/
2 GIVN Marian
2 SURN Walker
1 SEX F
1 _UID 7D5767478C34C3468F2F86A462B4A0EAD3ED
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 SEP 1965
1 FAMC @F78@
0 @I296@ INDI
1 NAME Griffith /Mendenhall/
2 GIVN Griffith
2 SURN Mendenhall
1 SEX M
1 _UID 638DB37245C6E341B1B6118D71E984ADD4C9
1 NOTE SOURCE:  Notes extracted from Quaker records at Friends Library,
2 CONC Swarthmore, PA
2 CONT Bradford Monthly Meeting
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE:  Mendenhall Genealogy by Henry Hart Beeson, 1969
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: New Garden Monthly Minutes, page 87. Gryffith Mendenhall son
2 CONC of James
2 CONT & Martha Mendenhall the latter Decsd. of ye Township of E. Caln in ye
2 CONC County of
2 CONT Chester & Province of Pennsylvania and Sarah Lamborn Daughter of
2 CONC Robert & Sarah
2 CONT Lamborn of Londongrove...29, 4m, 1762...in a Publick Meeting at
2 CONC Londongrove...
2 CONT Witnesses: Susanah Dutton, Rebekah Johnson, Emey Mode, Hannah Hurford,
2 CONC John
2 CONT Hurford, Thos. Lamborn, Lydia Lamborn, Wm. Johnson, Aaron Mendenhall
2 CONC jur, Moses
2 CONT Coates, Moses Mendenhall, Ruth Mode, Hannah Mode, Josiah Lamborn,
2 CONC Enoch
2 CONT Wickersham, Joseph Hurford, Isaac Hurford, Joshua Johnson, Thos.
2 CONC Carrington,
2 CONT Isaac Swayne, Wm. Wood, Mary Wright, Sarah Swayne Jur, Eliza. Hurford,
2 CONC John
2 CONT Webstr, Dinah Lamborn, Mary Baker, Eliza. Johnson, Mary England, Tamar
2 CONC Kirk,
2 CONT Susanah Mendenhall, Phebe Carson, John Mendenhall, Margret Wood,
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT Mendenhall (groom), Sarah Mendenhall (bride), James Mendenhall, Robert
2 CONC Lamborn,
2 CONT Sarah Lamborn, Hannah Mendenhall, Mary Speakman, Robt. Lamborn Jur,
2 CONC Wm.
2 CONT Lamborn, John Lamborn, Ann Fisher, Eliza. Fisher, Micajah Speakman,
2 CONC Wm.
2 CONT Chandler, Phinehas Mendenhall, Grace Mendenhall, Francis Lamborn.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 SEP 1740
2 PLAC , , PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1793
1 FAMC @F61@
0 @I297@ INDI
1 NAME Phineas /Mendenhall/
2 GIVN Phineas
2 SURN Mendenhall
1 SEX M
1 _UID F93000A3C9A67E42BD9114C0B7893DB14B2C
1 NOTE SOURCE:  Notes extracted from Quaker records at Friends Library,
2 CONC Swarthmore, PA
2 CONT Bradford Monthly Meeting
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE:  Mendenhall Genealogy by Henry Hart Beeson, 1969.
2 CONT
2 CONT QUAKER RECORDS: Disowned by Wrights, GA Meeting in 1783.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Patricia J. Smith, Harbor City, CA. Family group sheets
2 CONC for Phineas
2 CONT Mendenhall and descendants.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 DEC 1741
2 PLAC , , PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1804
2 PLAC , , NC
1 FAMC @F61@
0 @I318@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Griffith/
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 6D0E80159CD8174A9C67D684664C41548966
1 NOTE Unmarried.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1743
1 FAMC @F32@
0 @I319@ INDI
1 NAME Susanna /Griffith/
2 GIVN Susanna
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID D263CA004527F943B8D0152B1EFB4ABC8E75
1 NOTE Supposed to be married to John Griffith (parentage unknown). There is
2 CONC a
2 CONT possibility that she was not married and the John Griffith referred to
2 CONC was, in
2 CONT fact, her father. The Blackburn Database has the strange note under
2 CONC the John
2 CONT Griffith, husband of Susanna, which reads: "Father unknown for
2 CONC certain, other
2 CONT than he was a Blackburn of the Bedford County Blackburns." This note
2 CONC does not
2 CONT make sense, if Susanna's husband was really yet another John Griffith.
2 CONT
2 CONT According to statements made by W.W. Griffith in his papers "When the
2 CONC husband
2 CONT of Susan Griffith, who was a John Griffith, signed this deed [property
2 CONC the
2 CONT father John Griffith had settled on his two daughters by his first
2 CONC marriage] he
2 CONT stated that his wife was Susan (using the past tense). The father,
2 CONC John
2 CONT Griffith, left Jesse Griffith, the son of Susan Griffith, some land
2 CONC stating
2 CONT that his mother had been his daughter, Susan Griffith. Susan Griffith
2 CONC is buried
2 CONT at Spring Meadows in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, beside her husband
2 CONC and near
2 CONT her father."
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL: there are two stones for Susanna Griffith, one gives death
2 CONC date as Oct.
2 CONT 7 1868, the other Oct. 2, 1868, both show her as being aged 89 yrs, 8
2 CONC mo, 5 ds.
1 BIRT
2 DATE JAN 1779
2 PLAC , York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE OCT 1868
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Friends Cem., Spring Meadow, Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F54@
0 @I320@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Griffith/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID AF1C2B1D6C7DBD43B5963DE9BB457AB49BB3
1 NOTE BIRTH: Information from Quaker records extracted for W.W. Griffith by
2 CONC Heenan &
2 CONT Mount, Genealogists of Canterbury, England.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 AUG 1763
2 PLAC Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales
1 FAMC @F60@
0 @I321@ INDI
1 NAME James /Griffith/
2 GIVN James
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID A11FE8BE3DB2FE4C8F285FA020CB4A65EF15
1 NOTE BIRTH: Information from Quaker records extracted for W.W. Griffith by
2 CONC Heenan &
2 CONT Mount, Genealogists of Canterbury, England.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 3 APR 1784
2 PLAC Tynyllan, Llandegley, Radnor, Wales
1 FAMC @F68@
0 @I322@ INDI
1 NAME Samuel /Griffith/
2 GIVN Samuel
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 1AC9D367F2B15047A504B3F708524D2273D9
1 NOTE Letter written by Samuel's granddaughter, Mildred Thomas sent by Kay
2 CONC Sipe of
2 CONT Idaho, to Leslie Jacoby. Lists several family members with birth
2 CONT and death dates from a Bible extraction from Dolly Griffith records.
2 CONT
2 CONT Marriage record of 1866-67 from the HERALD & WHIG, Somerset, PA from a
2 CONC copy
2 CONT made by Dr. E.C. Saylor about 1930 and reprinted in the LAUREL
2 CONC MESSENGER, May
2 CONT 1990, reads: Dec. 20, 1866--Samuel Griffith to Matilda Jane Fulmer
2 CONC both of
2 CONT Somerset Co., by Jacob Fleck Esq.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: WILL dated 9 Aug 1933, Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA.
2 CONT Calls himself a widower.
2 CONT Directs he be buried at the Baptist Church Cemetery
2 CONT Names his children Rebecca Gindlesperger, deceased; Annie Shaulis;
2 CONC Scott
2 CONT Griffith; Charlie Griffith; Bertha Kauffman; Randa Weaver; Walter
2 CONC Griffith; and
2 CONT Mary Dolly Thomas.
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH: Certificate on file PA Dept. of Health, Bureau of Vital
2 CONC Statistics, file
2 CONT #52816.
2 CONT
2 CONT OBIT: Somerset paper, Vol. XXVII, reads:
2 CONT ONLY SURVIVING CIVIL WAR / VETERAN IN THIS SECTION / ANSWERS LAST ROLL
2 CONC CALL
2 CONT Death of Samuel Griffith, Aged 90 Years, Cause / For Profound Sorrow
2 CONC Among
2 CONT Residents of / This Entire Section of the County; Was / Held in the
2 CONC Highest of
2 CONT Esteem by All / Classes.
2 CONT DEPARTED DEFENDER OF OUR NATION / IS ACCORDED A MILITARY FUNERAL
2 CONT      Residents of this community were profoundly shocked on Tuesday
2 CONC afternoon
2 CONT of last week when it became known that Samuel Griffith, well-known and
2 CONT highly-esteemed Civil War veteran had answered the last roll call and
2 CONC passed on
2 CONT to his reward.
2 CONT      Mr. Griffith, who at the time of his death was aged 90 years, is
2 CONC believed
2 CONT to have been the only surviving Civil War veteran residing in this
2 CONC section of
2 CONT Somerset county.
2 CONT      Mr. Griffith, for the past several years has shown a certain
2 CONC degree of
2 CONT frailty which is customary among those who have been privileged to
2 CONC live to a
2 CONT ripe old age--in fact his physical health had been somewhat impaired
2 CONC for the
2 CONT past score of years, and at times this community's "Grand Old Man," as
2 CONC he has
2 CONT been kindly referred to, suffered periods of illness which many men,
2 CONC with less
2 CONT courageous spirit would have been unable to withstand. But not so in
2 CONC the case
2 CONT of the subject of our sketch, for he always rallied from these periods
2 CONC of
2 CONT sickness and in a few days' time his many friends would again have the
2 CONC pleasure
2 CONT of seeing him and conversing with him. Several weeks ago he was again
2 CONC taken
2 CONT ill, and despite his remarkable fortitude, he was forced to take to
2 CONC his bed. He
2 CONT was unable to take nourishment readily and his physical condition soon
2 CONC showed
2 CONT signs that he perhaps had entered upon his last period of illness. He
2 CONC weakened
2 CONT gradually until the end came in a most peaceful manner late Tuesday
2 CONC afternoon.
2 CONT      Samuel Griffith was a man of sterling characteristics. In his
2 CONC mode of
2 CONT living he was guided by the highest ideals of life. As a neighbor and
2 CONC friend
2 CONT he was ever mindful and considerate of the rights and opinions of
2 CONC others and it
2 CONT was indeed both a privilege and a pleasure to sit with him in the
2 CONC quietude of
2 CONT his home and converse over matters of far-reaching importance in
2 CONC connection
2 CONT with the progress and advancement of humanity as a whole.
2 CONT      For more than three score and ten years affiliated with the
2 CONC Baptist
2 CONT church in Jenner township, Mr. Griffith's life showed at every turn
2 CONC the
2 CONT uplifting effects of religious enlightenment, and his daily actions,
2 CONC as well as
2 CONT the statements he uttered, were in keeping with his conception of what
2 CONC a
2 CONT Christian life should be.
2 CONT      Samuel Griffith, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John O. Griffith, both
2 CONC deceased was
2 CONT born in Jenner township, this county. He spent practically all of his
2 CONC life
2 CONT within the confines of this county, during which time he followed
2 CONC farming.
2 CONT      In February or March, 1865, when this nation was engaged in
2 CONC terrible
2 CONT conflict, involving the Civil War, Samuel Griffith answered the call
2 CONC to arms
2 CONT and enlisted in company "A," 88th regiment, 3rd brigade, 3rd division,
2 CONC and 50th
2 CONT corps, U.S. infantry and served throughout the remainder of the war,
2 CONC being
2 CONT discharged from service June 30th, 1865, with the rank of corporal. He
2 CONC saw much
2 CONT action while a defender of the nation, being numbered among those who
2 CONT participated in a number of the major engagements of the war. During
2 CONC recent
2 CONT years it was especially interesting to sit and talk with him and
2 CONC listen to his
2 CONT description of the hardships endured by the soldiers of 1861-1865.
2 CONC During the
2 CONT last few hours of his life, when he knew that the cold hand of death
2 CONC was
2 CONT hovering about him, he hoped and prayed earnestly that he might be
2 CONC spared to
2 CONT once more hear the martial music, the roll of the drum and the sound
2 CONC of the
2 CONT bugle, for to him these sounds meant more than he could explain for he
2 CONC was one
2 CONT of the privileged number who knew full well what defense of his
2 CONC country, under
2 CONT the most trying circumstances, truly meant. During recent years he was
2 CONC honored
2 CONT at each Memorial Day service held in the community and it was indeed
2 CONC an event
2 CONT in which he took special pride.
2 CONT      Mr. Griffith was twice married, his first wife, who was Miss
2 CONC Matilda
2 CONT Fuller, passing away during the year of 1866. His second wife, who
2 CONC prior to her
2 CONT marriage was Miss Matilda Duncan, died six years ago last September 2.
2 CONC To the
2 CONT first union one daughter, Rebecca, who later became the wife of Levi
2 CONT Gindlesperger, of Jenner township, was born. Mrs. Gindlesperger
2 CONC preceded her
2 CONT father to the grave by about twenty-one years. To the second union
2 CONC eight
2 CONT children were born, one of whom Marion, died in infancy. The names of
2 CONC the other
2 CONT surviving children are as follows: Charles and Scott Griffith,
2 CONC Boswell; Walter
2 CONT Griffith, of Cleveland, O.; Mrs. L.E. Shaulis of Boswell; Mrs. Bertha
2 CONC Kaufman
2 CONT and Mrs. William Weaver, of Jenner township, and Mrs. Dorsey Thomas,
2 CONC of
2 CONT Johnstown. Twenty-three grandchildren, nineteen great-grandchildren
2 CONC and two
2 CONT great-great grandchildren also survive.
2 CONT      Funeral services were conducted at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon
2 CONC at the
2 CONT Jenner township Baptist church, the Rev. Daniel E. Harman, of
2 CONC Linesville, Pa.,
2 CONT former paster of that congregtion officiating, assisted by the Rev.
2 CONC Walter E.
2 CONT Lundberg, paster of the local Lutheran church. Interment was amde in
2 CONC the church
2 CONT cemetery , in charge of L.G. Hoffman, local mortician. Mr. Griffith
2 CONC was given a
2 CONT military funeral, in charge of the local Post of the American Legion.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 MAR 1844
2 PLAC , , PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 MAY 1934
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F20@
0 @I323@ INDI
1 NAME John /Griffith/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 39FCDD4AA34D754FBEAB2911D83A75518BA9
1 NOTE BIRTH: Information from Quaker records extracted for W.W. Griffith by
2 CONC Heenan &
2 CONT Mount, Genealogists of Canterbury, England.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 NOV 1757
2 PLAC Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 DEC 1757
2 PLAC Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales
1 BURI
2 PLAC Pales Cemetery, Radnorshire, Wales
1 FAMC @F60@
0 @I324@ INDI
1 NAME Alice /Griffith/
2 GIVN Alice
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 5D01C7AF1B760547A2531DB0295E54519FD5
1 NOTE Supposed to be married to Robert Griffith (parentage unknown) and have
2 CONC a son
2 CONT Thomas Griffith
2 CONT
2 CONT According to statements made in W.W. Griffith's papers "Alice
2 CONC Griffith, the
2 CONT daughter of John Griffith, lived to an advanced age. An account of her
2 CONC life as
2 CONT told by members of the family living in Ohio is that her husband was
2 CONC connected
2 CONT with a store making trips East to Philadelphia and from one of these
2 CONC trips he
2 CONT never returned. It was believed that he was robbed and killed. Her
2 CONC father, to
2 CONT protect the inheritance for her and her child, willed the mother's
2 CONC share to her
2 CONT son Thomas Griffith on condition that he care for his mother. The
2 CONC tragedy of
2 CONT this is that the son died before the mother, shortly after inheriting
2 CONC the
2 CONT property. As he was married, this property went to his widow and heirs
2 CONC and the
2 CONT mother was left dependent upon the kindness of relatives.  Checking on
2 CONC the
2 CONT records of Bedford County, PA, we find a record of a Robert Griffith
2 CONC and a ___
2 CONT Mickle who were merchants. There is a court record where they took
2 CONC property in
2 CONT payment for bills. (Deed Book D, page 621, Year 1808.)"
1 FAMC @F54@
0 @I325@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Griffith/
2 GIVN Sarah
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID EFFA5B9D82033B46B32941C8DC0A0E6222B7
1 NOTE BIRTH: Information from Quaker records extracted for W.W. Griffith by
2 CONC Heenan &
2 CONT Mount, Genealogists of Canterbury, England.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 JAN 1779
2 PLAC Cilminawyd, Llandihangel Rhe, Radnorshire, Wales
1 FAMC @F68@
0 @I326@ INDI
1 NAME John /Griffith/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 51A4024473B34240B05FD877A70E7AF0604B
1 NOTE Bible record.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1779
2 PLAC St. Clair Twp., Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 27 OCT 1843
2 PLAC , Bedford co., PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC St. Johns Luth., Cessna, Bedford, PA
1 ENDL
2 DATE 7 JUL 1993
1 FAMC @F32@
0 @I327@ INDI
1 NAME John /Griffith/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 117B101768891D4F91DE0C782CC7A0AC4227
1 NOTE BIRTH: Information from Quaker records extracted for W.W. Griffith by
2 CONC Heenan &
2 CONT Mount, Genealogists of Canterbury, England.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 APR 1760
2 PLAC Nantmel Parish, Radnorshire, Wales
1 FAMC @F60@
0 @I351@ INDI
1 NAME Abner /Griffith/
2 GIVN Abner
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 74806E8B78AE6049ADEB1CEFE50973551550
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey
2 CONC (1907)
2 CONT He was one of four pioneers who located in the wilderness and founded
2 CONC Somerset
2 CONT county, PA.  Here he took up a grant of six hundred and forty acres,
2 CONC which he
2 CONT cleared of timber and made for his family a good farm.  He was of the
2 CONC Quaker
2 CONT faith, and in politics a Whig.  His property consisted of six large
2 CONC farms, one
2 CONT of which he sold to Michael Stufft.  A farm was given to each of his
2 CONC sons, and
2 CONT his personal property and ready money were divided among his
2 CONC daughters.
2 CONT
2 CONT He later became a member of the Freewill Baptist Church after removing
2 CONC to Stony
2 CONT Creek Township in Cambria County.
2 CONT
2 CONT BURIAL RECORDS: Indicate place of birth, Somerset County, PA, Place of
2 CONC decease,
2 CONT Stonycreek Twp., Cause of Death, Old Age, Age 85, Date of Death
2 CONC 4/16/1900, Lot
2 CONT 44, Section PR2, Page 19, Inter #4093
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: Will dated 12 May 1892. File #6024 (17 Apr 1900).
2 CONT      In the name of God Amen!! I Abner Griffith, of the Township of
2 CONC Stony Creek
2 CONT in the County of Cambria and State of Pennsylvania, being of sound and
2 CONT disposing mind, memory and understanding, hereby make, publish and
2 CONC declare this
2 CONT as my last will and testament, hereby revoking and declaring null and
2 CONC void any
2 CONT will by me made at any time heretofore.
2 CONT      And first: I direct all my just debts and funeral expenses and
2 CONC the expense
2 CONT of proving and executing this will t be paid: and as to the remainder
2 CONC of my
2 CONT Estate I will and dispose of the same as follows--
2 CONT      Whereas on the 19th day of October A.D. 1889 I entered into
2 CONC seperate
2 CONT contracts with the following named children viz: Marilla Penrod, N.R.
2 CONC Griffith,
2 CONT Uriah Griffith and Emily Von Luenen and also with my son-in-law Louis
2 CONC Von
2 CONT Luenen, in which contracts, for a consideration therein mentioned I
2 CONC sold to
2 CONT each of them, severaly, a certain portion or kpurpart of my farm in
2 CONC Stony Creek
2 CONT Township, Cambria County, and in said contracts I stipulated and
2 CONC provided, that
2 CONT each of said purchasers should pay interest on the purchase money, at
2 CONC a rate,
2 CONT therein designated, during the joint lives of myslef and my wife, Mary
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT and the life of the survivor of us and further stipulating and
2 CONC providing that
2 CONT the purchase money should be paid in full on the death of such
2 CONC survivor at
2 CONT which time it was also stipulated a deed of confeyance should be made
2 CONC to each
2 CONT of said purchasers: Now I hereby authorize and direct my hereinafter
2 CONC named
2 CONT Executors to make execute and deliver to each of the aprties above
2 CONC named, upon
2 CONT their complying with the terms of the contract on their part, a deed
2 CONC of
2 CONT conveyance for the land sold to them severaly. And I direct that my
2 CONC Executor,
2 CONT Louis Von Luenen, shall make such deed to Nehemiah R. Griffith and my
2 CONC Executor,
2 CONT Nehemiah R. Griffith shall make such deeds to Emily von Luenen and
2 CONC Louis Von
2 CONT Luenen.
2 CONT      Item:--I give devise and bequeth to my grandchildren being
2 CONC children of my
2 CONT deceased son, William griffith, namely: Harrie, May, Gertrude, Pearl,
2 CONC Maud E.,
2 CONT Charles, Naomi and Howard Griffith:--the following described real
2 CONC estate
2 CONT portions or purparts of my farm situate in Stony Creek Township,
2 CONC Cambria County
2 CONT and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a Chestnut stump,
2 CONC thence
2 CONT along line of Joseph Hoffman South fifty-one degrees East,
2 CONC foruty-three and one
2 CONT third perches to a post, thence North thirty-four degrees, along line
2 CONC of
2 CONT division No. 4, eighty-nine perches to line of division No. 6, thence
2 CONC North
2 CONT seventy-two degrees West seventeen and two-tenth perches to a post,
2 CONC Corner of
2 CONT Eli Griffith, thence along division No. 2 South fifty-three and
2 CONC three-fourth
2 CONT degrees West eighty-four perches to a Chestnut stump, the place of
2 CONC Beginning,
2 CONT and being purpart No. 3 on division of land made by S.W. Miller for
2 CONC Abner
2 CONT Griffith and containing sixteen acres and one perch.
2 CONT      Also:--Beginning at a post on the pike on line of land of Eli
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT thence by division No. 9 South fifty-one and one-fourth degrees West
2 CONC sixty
2 CONT perches to division No. 7, thence by division No. 7. North thirty-four
2 CONC degrees
2 CONT West thrity four and one tenth perches to line of land of Wertz heirs,
2 CONC thence
2 CONT North sixteen degrees East twenty-eight and six-tenth perches to land
2 CONC of G.W.
2 CONT Wissinger, thence by said Wissinger's land to the Pike, thence along
2 CONC the Pike
2 CONT and land of Eli Griffith to the place of Beginning. Being purpart No.
2 CONC 8 on
2 CONT division of land aforesaid and containing seventeen acres and
2 CONC onehundred and
2 CONT fifty seven perches. Excepting and reserving from this devise two
2 CONC pieces or
2 CONT lots of ground. One thereof conveyed to Louis Von Luenen and the other
2 CONC conveyed
2 CONT to Jacob Rose. The land hereby devised to my said grandchildren I
2 CONC value at the
2 CONT sum of Thirty Two Hundred and Thirty Four and 31/100 ($3234.31)
2 CONC Dollars and
2 CONT Charge the said land with the payment of that amount to my Estate by
2 CONC the
2 CONT divisees thereof. I further direct that the said land shall be charged
2 CONC with the
2 CONT payment to me, or my Attorney in Fact, with interest on the above
2 CONC stated sum at
2 CONT the rate of Four (4) percent per annum during my life time. And
2 CONC Whereas some of
2 CONT my grandchildren, before mentioned are minors, and during their
2 CONC minority their
2 CONT Guardian, Louis Von Luenen has advanced and may continue to advance
2 CONC certain
2 CONT sums for their support and maintainance, the same being done at my
2 CONC request. id
2 CONT direct that such sums thus advanced, or to be advanced hereafter shall
2 CONC also be
2 CONT a charge on the share of said minors in the land above devised to
2 CONC them: And
2 CONT Whereas also: the said Louis Von Luenen has advanced and may hereafter
2 CONC contunue
2 CONT to advance certain sums of money in payment of the interest above
2 CONC provided for:
2 CONT I direct that any sum, thus advanced or to be advanced by him, on
2 CONC account of
2 CONT such interest shall be a charge upon the land of my said grandchildren
2 CONC and
2 CONT shall be paid by them to said Louis Von Luenen. And I further direct
2 CONC that my
2 CONT hereinafter named Executors shall make a deed to my said grandchildren
2 CONC for the
2 CONT land above deivsed to them, upon their paying or settling the several
2 CONC charges
2 CONT above mentioned.
2 CONT      Item:--It is my will and I hereby direct that the proceeds
2 CONC arrising from
2 CONT the sale of my farm as aforesaid (after deducting whatever may be
2 CONC necessary to
2 CONT apy expenses and debts) shall be divided into six equal parts or
2 CONC shares and I
2 CONT give and bequeth, to my children and grandchildren, the same as
2 CONC follows
2 CONT      To my daughter, marilla Penrod, intermarried with James D.
2 CONC Penrod, one
2 CONT share or part. To my son, Nehemiah R. Griffith, one share or part. To
2 CONC my son,
2 CONT Uriah A. griffith, one share or part. To my daughter, Emily Von
2 CONC Luenen,
2 CONT intermarried with Luis Von Luenen, one share or part. to the chidlren
2 CONC of my
2 CONT deceased daughter, Annie Ditzler, intermarried with Edward P. Ditzler:
2 CONC namely
2 CONT Vernon Ditzler, Abner Ditzler, Edward Ditzler and Cyrus Ditzler,
2 CONC jointly one
2 CONT share or part, the same to be divided equaly between the said children
2 CONC share
2 CONT and share alike. To the children of my deceased son, William Griffith,
2 CONC namely,
2 CONT Harrie Griffith, May Griffith, Gertrude Griffith, pearl Griffith,
2 CONC Maude E.
2 CONT Griffith, Charles Griffith, Naomi Griffith and Howard Griffith,
2 CONC jointly one
2 CONT share or part, the same to be divided equaly between the said
2 CONC children, share
2 CONT and share alike.
2 CONT      Item:--I authorize and direct my hereinafter named Executors at
2 CONC the time
2 CONT of my death to make a careful computation of amounts due on contracts
2 CONC with my
2 CONT children and on land devised to the children of my deceased son
2 CONC William and
2 CONT after makeing such allowance as in the judgment of my Executors may be
2 CONC proper
2 CONT to meet and pay expenses and debts, to allow to each child, a credit
2 CONC on the
2 CONT purchase money equal to his or her share in my estate according to the
2 CONC terms of
2 CONT above item.
2 CONT      Item:--I nominate, constitute and appoint my son Nehemiah R.
2 CONC Griffith and
2 CONT my son-in-law Louis Von Luenen to be Executors of this my last will
2 CONC and
2 CONT testament.
2 CONT      In testimony whereof I Abner Griffith the above named testator
2 CONC have
2 CONT hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal this Twelveth day of
2 CONC May Anno
2 CONT Domini One thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety Two.
2 CONT      Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named
2 CONC testator, as and
2 CONT for his last will and testament, who in his presence and the presence
2 CONC of each
2 CONT other and at his request have signed our names hereto as Witnesses
2 CONC thereto:
2 CONT /s/ W.H. Frederick   /s/ Ivan R. Linton.          /s/ Abner Griffith
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 SEP 1814
2 PLAC Father's farm, Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 APR 1900
2 PLAC Stony Creek, Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 18 APR 1900
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMS @F22@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I352@ INDI
1 NAME Amy /Griffith/
2 GIVN Amy
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID F1F761B256C11041AEA717183240F72979BF
1 NOTE BIRTH: Information from Quaker records extracted for W.W. Griffith by
2 CONC Heenan &
2 CONT Mount, Genealogists of Canterbury, England.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 SEP 1778
2 PLAC Cilminawyd, Llandihangel Rhe, Radnorshire, Wales
1 FAMC @F68@
0 @I354@ INDI
1 NAME James /Griffith/
2 GIVN James
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID B51C9D6D9E0BE44B84667D9076DE98EA80B3
1 NOTE BIRTH: Information from Quaker records extracted for W.W. Griffith by
2 CONC Heenan &
2 CONT Mount, Genealogists of Canterbury, England.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 AUG 1781
2 PLAC Tynyllan, Llandegley, Radnor, Wales
1 FAMC @F68@
0 @I355@ INDI
1 NAME Benjamin /Griffith/
2 GIVN Benjamin
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 8ECD3C7CF267A04199181D4C4CB20991FF48
1 NOTE BIRTH: Information from Quaker records extracted for W.W. Griffith by
2 CONC Heenan &
2 CONT Mount, Genealogists of Canterbury, England.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 JUN 1777
2 PLAC Cilminawyd, Llandihangel Rhe, Radnorshire, Wales
1 FAMC @F68@
0 @I356@ INDI
1 NAME Ruth /Griffith/
2 GIVN Ruth
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 3E0538662DC74148B0877C5AFF6E6C5EA27B
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1792
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1837
2 PLAC , , OH
1 FAMC @F32@
0 @I357@ INDI
1 NAME William /Griffith/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID D7EAC5F430024045BC206A92FE7D31A85D22
1 NOTE BURIAL: Inscription reads: William Griffith was born April the 9th In
2 CONC the year
2 CONT of Our Lord 1789. Dep't this life July 23d, 1845 aged 66 ? y. 3 M. and
2 CONC 14 D.
2 CONT
2 CONT There is another stone for him with a slightly different incription
2 CONC which
2 CONT reads: William Griffith was born April 10 In the year of Our Lord 1789
2 CONC Dep this
2 CONT life July 23, 1845 aged 56 y, 3 m - 14 d.
2 CONT
2 CONT NOTE: in Spring Meadow there are several duplicate stones for
2 CONC individuals.
2 CONT
2 CONT OBITITUARY: Bedford Gazette and Inquirer, 1845 reads: 24 August, died
2 CONC William
2 CONT Griffith, age 58.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: HISTORY OF BEDFORD, SOMERSET AND FULTON COUNTIES,
2 CONC PENNSYLVANIA,
2 CONT Chicago, Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1884, p.283.
2 CONT William Griffith, Sr., made the first improvement on the Griffith
2 CONC farm. He
2 CONT erected a tannery in 1833, which was run by him and his sons until he
2 CONC died in
2 CONT 1845. The tannery was then run by Joseph Griffith. It burned in 1864,
2 CONC but was
2 CONT rebuilt by Joseph Griffith, who then turned the business over to his
2 CONC son John
2 CONT who still conducts it in connection with farming.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: Notice in the Bedford Gazette: 5/7/47. Heirs of William
2 CONC Griffith, late
2 CONT of St. Clair Twp. - William, Mary, Ann (wife of Thomas Jones), John,
2 CONC Samuel,
2 CONT Joseph,, Sarah (wife of John F. Ake), Hannah (wife of George N.
2 CONC Emler), Daniel,
2 CONT Josiah, James, Maria, Abner & Elizabeth, all minors.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 APR 1789
2 PLAC , York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 JUL 1845
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Friends Cem., Spring Meadow, Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F32@
0 @I358@ INDI
1 NAME Uriah A. /Griffith/
2 GIVN Uriah A.
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID ECE76421585D4A4193E6859D382538A0682A
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC Vol.III
2 CONT He was reared in Somerset county until six years of age, when his
2 CONC parents
2 CONT removed to Walnut Grove, Cambria county. His education was obtained in
2 CONC the
2 CONT public schools. Until he reached his majority he remained on his
2 CONC father's farm
2 CONT and assisted in the work of the place. He then found employment in the
2 CONC Cambria
2 CONT Iron Company at Homestead, PA, and there remained over one year, then
2 CONC returned
2 CONT to Johnstown and became an employee of the Lorain Steel Company. After
2 CONC leaving
2 CONT the iron business he launched into the milk business for himself. In
2 CONC this he
2 CONT succeeded well and continued in the same for fourteen years, selling
2 CONC out in
2 CONT 1903. Being in full possession of all his physical powers, he did not
2 CONC care to
2 CONT remain unemployed, so he opened a grocery store at Walnut Grove, in
2 CONC which he is
2 CONT now doing a good business. While never taking an active part in local
2 CONC politics,
2 CONT he has served his township as tax collector.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 MAR 1852
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Walnut Grove, Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 21 MAY 1930
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, PA
1 FAMC @F22@
0 @I359@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Griffith/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID D9BFABEF4E1E6D40B0EE0EB1BC6867F72A6A
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1776
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1822
2 PLAC Christiansburg, Champaign, OH
1 BURI
2 PLAC Honeycreek Cem., Christiansburg, Champaign, OH
1 FAMC @F32@
0 @I362@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca /Johnston/
2 GIVN Rebecca
2 SURN Johnston
1 SEX F
1 _UID 11ACE929B539CE4F9AB7B4A2ABE9A54B05E8
1 NOTE Letter from Richard M. Rupert, 109 Lisa Lane, St. Marys, GA  31558,
2 CONC dated 2
2 CONT Dec. 1989 states that:
2 CONT
2 CONT Deborah Griffith married to John Johnston, died 1876,
2 CONT John and Deborah's daughter, Rebecca, married Harvey Black of Ligonier
2 CONT Boro., Westmoreland Co., PA. Richard Rupert's wife (whose name he does
2 CONC not give
2 CONT in the letter) was raised on the site of their home and shop.
2 CONT
2 CONT New information received from Rick Rupert in Oct. 1992 gives birth and
2 CONC death
2 CONT dates, children and other comments.
2 CONT
2 CONT Rick speculates that Irene Johnston, born 16 Apr 1881 may have been
2 CONC Rebecca's
2 CONT child before marriage and the father may have been a DENNY of Denny
2 CONC Flats.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 AUG 1858
2 PLAC , , PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 JUL 1935
2 PLAC Ligonier, Westmoreland, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Ligonier Valley, Ligonier, Westmoreland, PA
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I363@ INDI
1 NAME Lulu Pearl /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Lulu Pearl
2 SURN Blackburn
2 NSFX (Twin)
1 SEX F
1 TITL (Twin)
1 _UID 6BF881902AEFA244ACD0AA424A48760EF1DB
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
1 FAMC @F44@
0 @I364@ INDI
1 NAME Lulu Merle /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Lulu Merle
2 SURN Blackburn
2 NSFX (Twin)
1 SEX F
1 TITL (Twin)
1 _UID 69D09A8368BFFF45995F288DC1F2746F048E
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
1 FAMC @F44@
0 @I365@ INDI
1 NAME Lloyd Ellsworth /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Lloyd Ellsworth
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX M
1 _UID 9A5C2508E29AA14682396ADED7190EAE354A
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
1 FAMC @F44@
0 @I366@ INDI
1 NAME Milton /Lenhart/
2 GIVN Milton
2 SURN Lenhart
1 SEX M
1 _UID C0A716DE8D7AFF49A9E5D5E141DAB1BD7743
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Grandview Cem, Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMS @F102@
0 @I367@ INDI
1 NAME Edward /Witt/
2 GIVN Edward
2 SURN Witt
1 SEX M
1 _UID 2E39DA1572D5B14C97BE57957BB23A5EA0FA
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
1 FAMS @F103@
0 @I368@ INDI
1 NAME Edith /Witt/
2 GIVN Edith
2 SURN Witt
1 SEX F
1 _UID 4A2F16C87A3AD04EA07ABF30609572E47D98
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
1 FAMC @F103@
0 @I369@ INDI
1 NAME Genevive /Witt/
2 GIVN Genevive
2 SURN Witt
1 SEX F
1 _UID E038ACB822FAE440A4B3CF471CA3ABA23519
1 NOTE SOURCE: HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Henry Wilson Storey,
2 CONC 1907
1 FAMC @F103@
0 @I370@ INDI
1 NAME Jesse /Griffith/
2 GIVN Jesse
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID D24A290E09766F40A8A9CB29C878151934B7
1 NOTE !OBITUARY: Indiana Times, 3/26/1890. Jesse Griffith, White Twp., died
2 CONC in his
2 CONT home Monday morning 3/24/1890 was probably the oldest man in White
2 CONC Twp. being
2 CONT over 90 years of age. Came from Bedford County when a young man and
2 CONC located on
2 CONT the farm where he died. In 1827 he married Susannah Pilson. Eleven
2 CONC children.
2 CONT Buried in Greenwood Cemetery at 12 o'clock Wed. 3/26/1890.
2 CONT
2 CONT !ESTATE: WILL, book 6, page 450; Sale OC 17, p. 122; Acct., Acct. 14,
2 CONC p. 49.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mentions wife Susannah, sons Lewis W. and Johnston S., daughter Lydia
2 CONC E.,
2 CONT granddaughter, Alice who was daughter of son Jesse. Also mentions
2 CONC without a
2 CONT relationship: John Griffith, Joseph Griffith, Nancy J. Griffith, Mary
2 CONT intermarried to J.W. Uncupher, Juliet intermarried to H. Wissinger,
2 CONC Estella
2 CONT intermarried to G.W. Evans.
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH: date given in a letter from Alice Finley Griffith to Edward
2 CONC Tyson, dated
2 CONT 7 Jun 1940.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 DEC 1800
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 MAR 1890
2 PLAC White Twp., Indiana, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 26 MAR 1890
2 PLAC Greenwood Cem., Indiana, PA
1 FAMC @F34@
0 @I371@ INDI
1 NAME Eve /Griffith/
2 GIVN Eve
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID DEEEE6773F9028448E817A3B6FCDFA0C6AA6
1 NOTE From Mabel R. Griffith pedigree charts, Indiana Historical Society
1 FAMC @F34@
0 @I372@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca /Griffith/
2 GIVN Rebecca
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID D076921CFFD01E498174C0D673EF1DF12599
1 NOTE From Mabel R. Griffith pedigree charts, Indiana Historical Society
1 FAMC @F34@
0 @I373@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Griffith/
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 3D1B3BD91E235F4EB1A6518D9D6E10AE5846
1 NOTE From Mabel R. Griffith pedigree charts, Indiana Historical Society
1 FAMC @F34@
0 @I374@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret /Griffith/
2 GIVN Margaret
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID B230CEA7AB8AC143948DB26F78DB969E5993
1 NOTE From Mabel R. Griffith pedigree charts, Indiana Historical Society.
1 FAMC @F34@
0 @I375@ INDI
1 NAME Walter Daniel Eli /Griffith/
2 GIVN Walter Daniel Eli
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 5E0E2B0FCC178A46AAA3524561558DA52582
1 NOTE Dates from an SAR index, #4708
2 CONT
2 CONT He was career Army, rank General.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 SEP 1896
2 PLAC , Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 DATE 16 JUL 1983
2 PLAC Grandview Cem., Johnstown, PA
1 FAMC @F46@
0 @I376@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Hare/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Hare
1 SEX F
1 _UID 706CD0D260F44E429423B27AD9B08F9CF909
1 NOTE Unverified wife of Levi, name from an obituary for Matthew Stewart
2 CONC Griffith
2 CONT which states his parents were Levi and Paula (Hair) Griffith. Since
2 CONC Levi is
2 CONT buried in Hopewell Cem. and Matthew Stewart Griffith was also interred
2 CONC there,
2 CONT this is an assumption on parenthood. Other sources indicate Levi's
2 CONC wife was
2 CONT Mary Hare and he is buried with Mary H.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: DAR papers #473579 Lois G. Bittner
2 CONT
2 CONT !BIRTH-DEATH-MARRIAGE: Certified copies of the Levi Berkey Family
2 CONC Bible, on file
2 CONT at DAR Headquarters, Washington, DC. (John Owen Vertical File.)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 AUG 1817
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 MAY 1860
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F104@
0 @I377@ INDI
1 NAME Matthew Stewart /Griffith/
2 GIVN Matthew Stewart
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 5A64E9E0DE1EDC47AC7996D7EBEF53FB60E3
1 NOTE Obit dated 1953 reads: MATTHEW STEWART GRIFFITH died April 21, at
2 CONC 12:00 noon,
2 CONT at the home of his son, Geary Griffith, at Derry. Born in Jenner
2 CONC Township, PA,
2 CONT October 2, 1852, a son of the late Levi and Paula (Hair) Griffith. He
2 CONC was a
2 CONT retired farmer and a member of the Derry Methodist Church. His wife,
2 CONC Eliza Jane
2 CONT Griffith preceded him in death in 1938. Survived by the one daughter,
2 CONC Mrs. Lilly
2 CONT C. Ulerieth and one son, Geary R. Griffith of Derry, three
2 CONC grandchildren, seven
2 CONT great grandchildren and seven great greatgrandchildren. Funeral will
2 CONC be held
2 CONT from the T.P. Dripps residence at West Fourth Street, Derry, Thursday
2 CONC evening
2 CONT at 8:00 pm, Rev. L.M. Bonner, pastor of the Derry Methodist Church
2 CONC will
2 CONT officiate. Interment in Hopewell Cemetery, Somerset County, Friday
2 CONC afternoon.
2 CONT Ferguson Funeral Home, Blairsville, in charge.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 OCT 1852
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 21 APR 1953
2 PLAC Derry, , PA
1 FAMC @F104@
0 @I378@ INDI
1 NAME Larry /Smith/
2 GIVN Larry
2 SURN Smith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 8D4283C1F581EF4BBF90EB165E073A6012DE
1 FAMS @F105@
0 @I379@ INDI
1 NAME Gary /Lourance/
2 GIVN Gary
2 SURN Lourance
1 SEX M
1 _UID A71DA4B39EE3CD4D9573B06DEF1163E927BE
1 FAMS @F106@
0 @I380@ INDI
1 NAME Terry /Hollis/
2 GIVN Terry
2 SURN Hollis
1 SEX M
1 _UID BA8078D216D3674BBB4E531D901810045445
1 FAMS @F107@
0 @I381@ INDI
1 NAME Rachel /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Rachel
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX F
1 _UID 30BEF7D68A52914294A014B83AC7856A5A3D
1 NOTE SOURCE: Minutes from Dunning Creek Meeting:
2 CONT 11/22/1815 Thomas, s/o Jesse & Lydia Vore, St. Clair Twp. married
2 CONC Rachel, d/o
2 CONT Anthony & Mary Blackburn.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: BLACKBURN, page 132: Rachel (Blackburn) Vore died shortly
2 CONC after the
2 CONT birth of her daughter, Rachel. After her death, Thomas Vore took his
2 CONC infant
2 CONT daughter and went to live with his parents. Young Rachel was raised by
2 CONC her
2 CONT grandparents, Jesse and Lydia Vore, who were members of Dunning's
2 CONC Creek Mtg. in
2 CONT Bedford County. When they moved to Indiana in 1828, granddaughter
2 CONC Rachel
2 CONT accompanied them. Their certificates of removal from Dunning's Creek
2 CONC Mtg. were
2 CONT received at Whitewater Mtg. in December, 1828.
1 BIRT
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F33@
0 @I388@ INDI
1 NAME Samuel /Wright/
2 GIVN Samuel
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX M
1 _UID 88C9DEDFE6B37E4A91E3F812D3FD44E3E452
1 NOTE Thomas Griffith will dated 28 Feb 1826 lists Samuel as child of my
2 CONC sister Ann.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: MARRIAGE, Menallen Monthly Meeting record, reads in part:
2 CONT 28th of 3rd mo 1804. Whereas Samuel Wright son of John and Ann Wright
2 CONC of
2 CONT Monallen Township Adams County in the State of Pennsylvania and
2 CONC Rebekah Harris
2 CONT Daughter of Benjamin Harris and Rebekah Harris of the Township County
2 CONC and State
2 CONT aforesaid...this twenty eight day of the third month Eighteen hundred
2 CONC four...at
2 CONT Monallen. WITNESSES: Jane Mickle, Eliza Wright, Eli Thomas, William
2 CONC Wright,
2 CONT Anna Harris, Elizabeth McGrail, William Bateman, Nathan Wright, Joseph
2 CONC Thomas,
2 CONT Jacob Bateman, Nathan Harris, Abel Thomas, Sarah Mickle, Samuel
2 CONC Wright, William
2 CONT Wright, Levi Hutton, Ruth Hammond, Isaac Thomas, Isaac Thomas Jr,
2 CONC Nathan
2 CONT McGrew, Jane Bateman, Rebekah Bateman, Rachel Bateman, mary Bateman,
2 CONC Stephen
2 CONT Hendricks, Sarah Hendricks, Ruth Regin, Daniel Ragin, Rebekah Thomas,
2 CONC John
2 CONT Owen, Thomas Wright, (Groom) Samuel Wright, (Bride) Rebekah Wright,
2 CONC John
2 CONT Wright, Ann Wright, Benjamin Harris, Rebecca Harris, Jacob Harris,
2 CONC Mary Wright,
2 CONT Elizabeth Harris, Sarah Harris, Barbara harris, Abel Thomas, Ellin
2 CONC Thomas, John
2 CONT Wright, Benjamin Wright, Finly McGrew, Abner Thomas, Benjamin Harris
2 CONC Jr.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 SEP 1782
2 PLAC Menallen, York, PA
1 FAMC @F67@
0 @I389@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Wright/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX M
1 _UID C537C48FF624F84B83F9BAEEA71E8FF014D8
1 NOTE Menallen Monthly Meeting records list children of Thomas and Anna
2 CONC Harris
2 CONT Wright:
2 CONT Israel Pemberton b. 27th, 8 mo. 1808;  Leah b. 23rd, 2 mo. 1810; Lydia
2 CONC b. 16th,
2 CONT 7 mo. 1812; Lucy b. 23rd, 11 mo. 1814; Harris b. 23rd, 2 mo. 1817;
2 CONC Hanson
2 CONT b. 12th, 9 mo. 1818, Charles Osborn b. 27th, 1 mo. 1821, d. 16th, 8
2 CONC mo.
2 CONT 1821. Anna, Julia, and Isaac are three additonal children indicated in
2 CONT IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS by Albert Cook Myers.
2 CONT
2 CONT Thomas Griffith will dated 28 Feb 1826 lists Thomas as child of my
2 CONC sister Ann.
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH: Menallen Monthly Meeting records.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 AUG 1784
2 PLAC Menallen, York, PA
1 FAMC @F67@
0 @I390@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Wright/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX F
1 _UID 03370E4B3ABA0549960CAA2082C3BF529736
1 NOTE Thomas Griffith will dated 28 Feb 1826 lists Mary, wife of Jacob
2 CONC Harris
2 CONT as child of my sister Ann.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: MARRIAGE record in Menallen Monthly Minutes, reads in part:
2 CONT 27th of 5th mo 1807. Whereas Jacob Harris son of Benjamin Harris of
2 CONC Monallen
2 CONT Township Adams County in the State of Pennsylvania and Mary Wright
2 CONC Daughter of
2 CONT John Wright and Ann Wright of the Township County and State
2 CONC aforesaid...this
2 CONT twenty seventh day of the fifth month Eighteen hundred seven...at
2 CONC Monallen.
2 CONT WITNESSES: Elizabeth Bateman, Elizabeth Thomas, Isaac Thomas Jr, Abel
2 CONC Russell,
2 CONT Lydia Thomas, Rebekah Thomas, Eli Thomas, Joseph Thomas, Martin
2 CONC Machey, Mary
2 CONT Wilson, Sarah Wilson, George Wilson, Mary McGrew, Mary McGrew, Ruth
2 CONC Hammond,
2 CONT Eliza Wright, Daniel Reagon, Ruth Reagon, Finley McGrew, Nathan
2 CONC McGrew, Stephen
2 CONT Hendricks, Sarah Hendricks, Benj Wright, Jane Wright, John Wright,
2 CONC Elizabeth
2 CONT Wright, Wm Wright, Rachel Wright, Abel Thomas, Ellin Thomas, Isaac
2 CONC Thomas,
2 CONT William Bateman, John Garretson, Rebekah Garretson, Amos Garretson,
2 CONC Josiah
2 CONT Garretson, Joael Garretson, John Bateman, Hannah Bateman, Hannah
2 CONC Garretson,
2 CONT Rachel Bateman, Amos Griest, Mary Wright, (Groom) Jacob Harris,
2 CONC (Bride) Mary
2 CONT Harris, John Wright, Ann Wright, Benjamin Harris, Rebecca Harris,
2 CONC Sam'l Wright,
2 CONT Rebecca Wright, Jacob Wright, Thomas Wright, Anna Wright, William
2 CONC Wright, Sarah
2 CONT Harris, Elizabeth Harris, Barbara Harris, Nathan Harris, Benjamin
2 CONC Harris Jr,
2 CONT John Wright, Rachel Wright, Sarah Mickle, Samuel Wright
2 CONT
2 CONT RESIDENCE: Menallen Monthly Meeting records: 3-19-1834, requested
2 CONC certificate
2 CONT to Salem Monthly Meeting, Ohio with husband Jacob and 7 children.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 JUN 1786
2 PLAC Menallen, York, PA
1 FAMC @F67@
0 @I391@ INDI
1 NAME William /Wright/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX M
1 _UID 9DC80EAD9D9C884F8FD6FE672405204D90B1
1 NOTE SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF THE IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA by Albert
2 CONC Cook Myers
2 CONT Indicates that William Wright married Phebe Wierman, daughter of
2 CONC William and
2 CONT Hannah (Griest) Wierman at Huntington Mtg., 11 mo. 7, 1817. Phebe was
2 CONC born 2 mo.
2 CONT 8, 1790 and died 1 mo 30, 1873. They were both buried near their
2 CONC ancestors, in
2 CONT the graveyard at Huntington Friends' Meeting House, near York Springs,
2 CONC Adams
2 CONT Co., Pa. William Wright and his wife were probably the most active and
2 CONT prominent agents of the Underground Railroad in Adams County, and
2 CONC hundreds of
2 CONT slaves fleeing from southern masters found rest and shelter in their
2 CONC hospitable
2 CONT home until forwarded over the Underground Railroad to the promised
2 CONC land of
2 CONT Canada. Two interesting oil paintings of William and Phebe, his wife,
2 CONC are
2 CONT (1902) in possession of the only surviving child, Mrs. Annie Phillips,
2 CONC of
2 CONT Lancaster, Pa. Children of William and Phebe Wierman Wright were:
2 CONC General
2 CONT William Wierman Wright, b. 7 Mo. 27, 1824, died 3 Mo. 9, 1882,
2 CONC unmarried, buried
2 CONT beside his parents; Mrs. Rachel W. Day, b. 4 Mo. 9, 1822, died 1901;
2 CONC Mrs. Hannah
2 CONT Mifflin, b. 10 Mo., 16, 1818, died 1901; Mrs. Annie Phillips, b. 8 Mo.
2 CONC 25,
2 CONT 1826; John Wright, b. 6 Mo. 23, 1820; Isaac Wright, b. 12 Mo. 1, 1828.
2 CONT
2 CONT Thomas Griffith will dated 28 Feb 1826 lists William as child of my
2 CONC sister Ann.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: MARRIAGE, Menallen Monthly Meeting records.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 DEC 1788
2 PLAC Menallen, York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 OCT 1865
1 BURI
2 PLAC Huntington Fr., nr York Springs, Adams, PA
1 FAMC @F67@
0 @I392@ INDI
1 NAME Ann /Wright/
2 GIVN Ann
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX F
1 _UID 9B137785E64F3A45885620B70D6D5B1B0327
1 NOTE SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF THE IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA by Albert
2 CONC Cook Myers
2 CONT
2 CONT DEATH: Dr. George Forrest Wright, 501 Spyglass Lane, Vero Beach, FL
2 CONT 32963-4359.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 MAR 1791
2 PLAC Menallen, York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 AUG 1797
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., York (now Adams), PA
1 FAMC @F67@
0 @I393@ INDI
1 NAME John /Wright/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX M
1 _UID DCC9B6F700253A49A126705AB82AC5356703
1 NOTE SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF THE IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA by Albert
2 CONC Cook Myers
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Dr. George Forrest Wright, 501 Spyglass Lane, Vero Beach,
2 CONC FL
2 CONT 32963-4359.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 APR 1793
2 PLAC Menallen, York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 JUL 1807
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., Adams, PA
1 FAMC @F67@
0 @I394@ INDI
1 NAME Rachel /Wright/
2 GIVN Rachel
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX F
1 _UID 35EA41EC56C4E3468634D90CF6678C99B004
1 NOTE SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF THE IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA by Albert
2 CONC Cook Myers
2 CONT Indicates she married John Farquhar and had children: Augustus, Sarah,
2 CONC Ann,
2 CONT Angeline and Caroline.
2 CONT
2 CONT Thomas Griffith will dated 28 Feb 1826 lists Rachel wife of John
2 CONC Farquhar
2 CONT as child of my sister Ann.
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH: Menallen Monthly Meeting records.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 MAR 1796
2 PLAC , York, PA
1 FAMC @F67@
0 @I395@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Wright/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX M
1 _UID B6EEAD484F73C34EAC7C0B5E660BBB2A53A6
1 NOTE SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA by Albert Cook
2 CONC Myers
2 CONT indicates he was agent to the Cherokee Indians in Mississippi.
2 CONT
2 CONT Warrington M.M. records indicate that 14th of 6th mo, 1790 Jonathan
2 CONC Wright
2 CONT placed his son Thomas out to an apprenticeship and a certificate of
2 CONC removal was
2 CONT issued to York Monthly Meeting for Thomas. Jonathan returned to
2 CONC Menallen M.M.
2 CONT in 1792.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Ohio marriages.
1 FAMC @F57@
0 @I396@ INDI
1 NAME Rachel /Wright/
2 GIVN Rachel
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX F
1 _UID B3D5C776402A9A41A6B1FBE9ED2BFB308877
1 NOTE SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA by Albert Cook
2 CONC Myers
2 CONT indicates she married Benjamin Farquhar
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Marriage record, Menallen Monthly Meeting records, reads in
2 CONC part:
2 CONT 14th of 5th mo. 1794. Benjamin Farquhar son of Alen Farquhar of
2 CONC Frederick
2 CONT County and State of Maryland and Phebe his wife and Reachel Wright
2 CONC daughter of
2 CONT Jonathan Wright of York County State of Pennsylvania and Susanna his
2 CONT wife...this fourteenth day of the fifth month One thousand seven
2 CONC hundred ninety
2 CONT four...at Monalon. (Groom) Benjamin Farquhar (Bride) Reachel Farquhar.
2 CONT WITNESSES: Elizabeth Wright, John Wright Sr., Samuel Mickle, John
2 CONC Wright, Moses
2 CONT Wright, Jese Wright, Martha Wright, Elizabeth Wright, Ruth Wright,
2 CONC Aron
2 CONT Hibberd, Jane Wright, Joseph Elgar, Margaret Elgar, Joseph Elgar Jr,
2 CONC Finly
2 CONT McGrew, Benjamin Wright, John Wright Jr, Wm Wright, Mary John, Ann
2 CONC Wright,
2 CONT Stephen Hendricks, Alen Farquhar, Jonathan Wright, Susanna Wright,
2 CONC Joel Wright,
2 CONT Thomas Wright, Wm Farquhar, Alen Farquhar Jr, Hannah Farquhar, Caleb
2 CONC Farquhar,
2 CONT Jane Hibberd, Alice Hendricks.
1 FAMC @F57@
0 @I397@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Wright/
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX F
1 _UID 31385E4082EF794282C97610B6AA5D04C55C
1 NOTE SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA by Albert Cook
2 CONC Myers
2 CONT indicates she married John Shaw
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Dr. George Forrest Wright, 501 Spyglass Lane, Vero Beach,
2 CONC FL
2 CONT 32963-4359.
2 CONT
2 CONT BIRTH-DEATH: Clarence V. Roberts, EARLY FRIENDS OF UPPER BUCKS;
2 CONC Published by
2 CONT the compliler, 1925. (Assisted by Warren S. Ely, Librarian of The
2 CONC Bucks County
2 CONT Historical Society.) Page 522.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 DEC 1777
2 PLAC , York co., PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1 JAN 1857
2 PLAC , , IN
1 FAMC @F57@
0 @I398@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Wright/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX F
1 _UID F07BEB7CD5DD444FACA553304FE322EC2B1F
1 NOTE SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA by Albert Cook
2 CONC Myers
1 FAMC @F57@
0 @I399@ INDI
1 NAME Jonathan /Wright/
2 GIVN Jonathan
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX M
1 _UID DD7C63B52AAFC346A6F8BA0F825A8728452B
1 NOTE SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA by Albert Cook
2 CONC Myers
2 CONT indicates he married Susan Jones
2 CONT
2 CONT Possibly married a second time to Mary ???.
2 CONT
2 CONT RESEARCHER: Dr. George Forrest Wright, 501 Spyglass Lane, Vero Beach,
2 CONC FL
2 CONT 32963-4359.
2 CONT
2 CONT CENSUS: 1850, Napier Twp., Bedford co., PA: Susan Wright 50, Eliza 17,
2 CONC Mary A.
2 CONT 15, Caroline 13, Jeremiah 10, Wesley J. 1.
2 CONT
2 CONT CENSUS: 1860, not found.
2 CONT
2 CONT CENSUS: 1870, Susannah Wright 72, Caroline 30 (keeping house).
1 FAMC @F57@
0 @I400@ INDI
1 NAME Joel /Wright/
2 GIVN Joel
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX M
1 _UID 3CD06F110B195F4A80AC478666F2895E91A0
1 NOTE SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA by Albert Cook
2 CONC Myers
1 FAMC @F57@
0 @I401@ INDI
1 NAME Phebe /Wright/
2 GIVN Phebe
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX F
1 _UID 03F335EEE365D643BA478B6F2F5BA341E39D
1 NOTE SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA by Albert Cook
2 CONC Myers
2 CONT indicates she married Oliver Mathews
1 FAMC @F57@
0 @I402@ INDI
1 NAME Susanna /Wright/
2 GIVN Susanna
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX F
1 _UID ECE6B3864181AF41932EF6D6CFD48DFB7521
1 NOTE SOURCE: IMMIGRATION OF IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA by Albert Cook
2 CONC Myers
1 FAMC @F57@
0 @I403@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca /Wright/
2 GIVN Rebecca
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX F
1 _UID D50440B7B45B624FB5CAC7B65AABE28E016C
1 NOTE RESEARCHER: Dr. George Forrest Wright, 501 Spyglass Lane, Vero Beach,
2 CONC FL
2 CONT 32963-4359.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Ohio Marriages.
1 FAMC @F57@
0 @I442@ INDI
1 NAME Edward /Griffith/
2 GIVN Edward
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID CDC7FF608D26D749A5892CE9FE55FEED47DC
1 NOTE SOURCE: 1860 Census, Jenner Twp., Somerset County, PA, p. 219-263.
2 CONC Almost
2 CONT illegible. Lists Edward as 12 years, son of Levi Griffith.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1847/48
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F104@
0 @I443@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas M. /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Thomas M.
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX M
1 _UID E44B3E396EA24044945694093680B481ACD0
1 NOTE Listed as child of sister Mary Blackburn in Thomas Griffith will dated
2 CONC 28 Feb
2 CONT 1826.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: Marriage, Menallen Monthly Meeting records, reads in part:
2 CONT 2nd of 12th mo. 1801. Whereas Thomas Blackburn of St. Clair Township
2 CONC Bedford
2 CONT County and State of Pennsylvania son of Anthony Blackburn of the same
2 CONC place and
2 CONT Mary his wife and Elizabeth Bowen daughter of Jonathan Bowen of the
2 CONC Township
2 CONT County and State aforesaid and Anne his wife...this second day of the
2 CONC twelfth
2 CONT month Eighteen hundred One...in their meeting house at Dunnings Creek.
2 CONT WITNESSES: Anthony Blackburn, Jonathan Bowen, Mary Blackburn, Jesse
2 CONC Griffith,
2 CONT Alice Bowen, thomas Bowen Jr, Margaret Blackburn, Susanna Bowen, Wm
2 CONC Griffith,
2 CONT Jesse Blackburn, Benjamin Bowen, Thomas Bowen, Nathan Hammond, Hannah
2 CONC Penrose,
2 CONT Anne Penrose, Hannah Addams, William Garretson, John Harbaugh, Peter
2 CONC Rouzer,
2 CONT Sarah Hancock, Sophia Penrose, Amos Penrose, Lydia Thomas, Ruth
2 CONC Kenworthy,
2 CONT (Groom) Thomas Blackburn, (Bride) Elizabeth Blackburn, Eve Griffith,
2 CONC Lydia
2 CONT Kenworthy, Mary Fisher, Thomas Penrose Jr, Robert Miller, George
2 CONC Gordon, Isable
2 CONT Bowen, Wm Blackburn, Amos Edwards, John Thomas, Jane Thomas, Thomas
2 CONC Griffith.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1773
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., York (now Adams), PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1828
2 PLAC St. Clair Twp., Bedford, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Spring Hope B.G., Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F33@
0 @I444@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX F
1 _UID E8C82A1B6E6473449EC92EEBF0C44F3F403C
1 NOTE Listed as child of sister Mary Blackburn in Thomas Griffith will dated
2 CONC 28 Feb
2 CONT 1826.
2 CONT
2 CONT Women's Minutes, Menallen Monthly Meeting, 4-24-1800: "Elizabeth
2 CONC Rowzer
2 CONT (formerly Blackburn) of Dunnings Creek Mtg. hath accomplished her
2 CONC marriage by a
2 CONT magistrate to one not a member." 6-19-1800: "Elizabeth Rouser's case
2 CONC submitted
2 CONT to men Friends to testify against her."
2 CONT
2 CONT 1820 Census, Napier Twp., Bedford County, PA, Elizabeth Rouser appears
2 CONC as a
2 CONT widow, head of household with one daughter under age 10, one son and
2 CONC one
2 CONT daughter age 10-16, and two daughters age 16-26.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1779
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1853
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F33@
0 @I445@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Margaret
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX F
1 _UID 8DAAAEB02AB5364BBF3A34DE303914F8755F
1 NOTE Listed as child of sister Mary Blackburn in Thomas Griffith will dated
2 CONC 28 Feb
2 CONT 1826.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Dunnings Creek Meeting records. 4-13-1808, Margaret Sink,
2 CONC formerly
2 CONT Blackburn, married by a Magistrate.
1 FAMC @F33@
0 @I446@ INDI
1 NAME Jesse /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Jesse
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX M
1 _UID 19EF7AF19E714F46993217383EE57303CAA1
1 NOTE Listed as child of sister Mary Blackburn in Thomas Griffith will dated
2 CONC 28 Feb
2 CONT 1826. Also listed in his father's will.
2 CONT
2 CONT Married his 1st cousin.
2 CONT
2 CONT Died intestate.
2 CONT
2 CONT Daughter of Esther (Blackburn) Brollair, Emma Brollair, born about
2 CONC 1846, was
2 CONT raised by Jesse and Margaret Blackburn, sister of Esther, after Esther
2 CONC died.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1785
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Napier Twp., Bedford, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Spring Hope B.G., Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F33@
0 @I447@ INDI
1 NAME Ann /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Ann
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX F
1 _UID 17D38D5BA05C5F4F9F21478D8323FB48F910
1 NOTE Listed as child of sister Mary Blackburn in Thomas Griffith will dated
2 CONC 28 Feb
2 CONT 1826.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: BLACKBURN AND ALLIED DESCENDANTS OF JOHN BLACKBURN, SR., who
2 CONC came from
2 CONT ireland to Pennsylvania in 1736, Evelyn D. Gibson, Arbor Printing Co.,
2 CONC Lincoln,
2 CONT NE, 1978, page 132-133.
2 CONT
2 CONT Jesse and Ann (Blackburn) Vore, both devout Quakers, lived in Bedford
2 CONC Co., PA,
2 CONT where they were members of Dunning's Creek Mtg. About 1828 they moved
2 CONC to
2 CONT Jefferson Co., Ohio and were affiliated with Plymouth-Smithfield Mtg.,
2 CONC but
2 CONT removed from there in 1831 and moved to Knox Co., Ohio. While there,
2 CONC they
2 CONT attended Alum Creek Mtg. in Delaware Co.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Dunnings Creek Meeting records. 9-23-1818 Jesse, son of
2 CONC Jesse, Sr. &
2 CONT Lydia Vore of St. Clair Twp. married Anne, daughter of Anthony & Mary
2 CONT Blackburn.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1792/93
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 NOV 1863
1 BURI
2 PLAC Middlebury, , OH
1 FAMC @F33@
0 @I448@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Sarah
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX F
1 _UID 47C5573BA46C10489B078CC0320BC464591E
1 NOTE Listed as child of sister Mary Blackburn in Thomas Griffith will dated
2 CONC 28 Feb
2 CONT 1826.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1794
2 PLAC St. Clair Twp., Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1863
1 FAMC @F33@
0 @I449@ INDI
1 NAME Moses /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Moses
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX M
1 _UID 17DDE845CDD5E64D97DCB81D141264975F8A
1 NOTE RELATIONSHIP: Will of Thomas Griffith dated 28 Feb 1826 lists "heirs
2 CONC of Moses
2 CONT Blackburn" as
2 CONT one of the "heirs of my sister Elizabeth dec'd. wife of Thos.
2 CONC Blackburn decd."
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: BLACKBURN AND ALLIED DESCENDANTS OF JOHN BLACKBURN, SR., who
2 CONC came from
2 CONT Ireland to Pennsylvania in 1736, Evelyn D. Gibson, Arbor Printing Co.,
2 CONC Lincoln,
2 CONT NE, 1978, page 109.
2 CONT "Since Moses Blackburn was the only Blackburn of that Christian name
2 CONC in Bedford
2 CONT County in 1810, it can safely be assumed he was the same Moses
2 CONC Blackburn who,
2 CONT with his wife, was enumerated there in St. Clair Twp. in the 1810
2 CONC census with
2 CONT one male and one female, both under age 10. Two more sons were born in
2 CONC the
2 CONT ensuing five or six years.
2 CONT
2 CONT RELATIONSHIP: Moses was mentioned in his father's will, written in
2 CONC 1818 and
2 CONT probated in 1822,
2 CONT in a bequest "...to my Son Moses Blackburn's three sons namely John,
2 CONC Moses and
2 CONT Thomas one Thousand Dollors to be Eaquelly Devided to them or the
2 CONC surviver or
2 CONT survivers of them to be paid when the(y) Arive at the Age of twenty
2 CONC one years
2 CONT with what Intrust it may Bring, the one third of the Intrust of the
2 CONC Above Sum
2 CONT to be paid to their mother as Long as She Continues a Widow."
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: 2 September 1815. Letters of Administration granted to Thomas
2 CONC Blackburn
2 CONT & Anthony Blackburn, estate of Moses Blackburn, St. Clair Twp., dec'd.
2 CONT Sureties: John Blackburn and Joseph Vore.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1783
2 PLAC , York (now Adams), PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1815
2 PLAC St. Clair Twp., Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F31@
0 @I450@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Mickle/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Mickle
1 SEX M
1 _UID 291F0A7C81DD2A46AEFC1BE84BF72850030D
1 NOTE Will of Thomas Griffith dated 28 Feb 1826 lists "to Thomas Mickle only
2 CONC child of
2 CONT my late sister."
2 CONT
2 CONT Thomas also died in 1826, no will, Letters of Admin. filed 4/10/1826.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1773
2 PLAC , York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1826
1 FAMC @F55@
0 @I451@ INDI
1 NAME Eve /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Eve
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX F
1 _UID 577048930A91BB44992006661D9BA070298B
1 NOTE Will of Thomas Griffith dated 26 Feb 1826 lists "in trust for use of
2 CONC Eve
2 CONT Blackburn dau. of my sister Mary." Also listed in her father's will,
2 CONC where he
2 CONT makes special provisions for her.
2 CONT Never married.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1776
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., York, PA
1 DEAT
2 PLAC St. Clair Twp., Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F33@
0 @I457@ INDI
1 NAME Hannah /Griffith/
2 GIVN Hannah
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 399013D6377BAB4EB16F50AF90604DE099E7
1 NOTE MARRIAGE: from Chester Monthly Meeting records.
2 CONT
2 CONT 1770 removed from Chester to Concord Monthly Meeting.
2 CONT 1773 removed from Concord to Darby Monthly Meeting.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 DEC 1738
2 PLAC , Chester, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2 OCT 1777
2 PLAC , Chester, PA
1 FAMC @F69@
0 @I458@ INDI
1 NAME Amy /Griffith/
2 GIVN Amy
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID B3A8BA072881454E949564FC4FB8496C9DC3
1 NOTE From the letter her father wrote to John Pemberton, we can deduce that
2 CONC she died
2 CONT sometime in the latter part of 1766 and that she was married at the
2 CONC time of her
2 CONT death, although to whom has not been discovered as yet.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 JAN 1741/42
2 PLAC , Chester co., PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1766
2 PLAC , Chester co., PA
1 FAMC @F69@
0 @I459@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Griffith/
2 GIVN Sarah
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 94872022670323488F5189CB18834AC30E9A
1 NOTE Information from father's JOURNAL.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 MAR 1743/44
2 PLAC , Chester co., PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2 SEP 1746
2 PLAC , Chester co., PA
1 FAMC @F69@
0 @I460@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca /Griffith/
2 GIVN Rebecca
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 27AF8311AF111344BC016E57D90F7476D5E6
1 NOTE In her father's letter to John Pemberton, dated 1767,
2 CONT it would appear that Rebecca did not have use of her arms. Her
2 CONT father says "as my daughter Hannah has I hope a good husband to take
2 CONC care of
2 CONT her and the perfect use of both her arms; tho she has as great share
2 CONC in my
2 CONT affections as any; yet I think considering the condition of my poor
2 CONC daughter
2 CONT Rebecca that she ought to have much the greatest part..."
2 CONT
2 CONT Rebecca was under the care of her aunt and uncle, Mary and Micajah
2 CONC Speakman of
2 CONT Concord Monthly Meeting and we find her as a witness to several
2 CONC weddings at
2 CONT Concord: 1766, Isaac Larken and Sarah Brinton; 1769, James Moore and
2 CONC Ann Newlin
2 CONT (widow); 1771, William Temple and Esther Newlin; 1771, Jacob Taylor
2 CONC and Edith
2 CONT Grubb; 1774; Joseph Brinton and Mary Martin; and 1775, John Humphreys
2 CONC and Mary
2 CONT Hatton. Surprisingly, she does not show up on the witness list for
2 CONC Thomas
2 CONT Speakman's marriage. Thomas was her first cousin and she would have
2 CONC probably
2 CONT been living with the Speakmans at that time.
2 CONT
2 CONT ESTATE: "To my uncle, Micajah Speakman, a silk purse with gold twist
2 CONC on it. To
2 CONT cousin Thomas Speakman, a bond of L50 which I hold against him. To
2 CONC cousin Amy
2 CONT Speakman, wearing apparel."
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 SEP 1746
2 PLAC , Chester co., PA
1 FAMC @F69@
0 @I461@ INDI
1 NAME John /Griffith/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 4472E3C8BCD14D4BB237D91A989AE2ED6378
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 MAR 1754
2 PLAC Chelmsford, Essex, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 21 MAR 1754
2 PLAC Chelmsford, Essex, England
1 FAMC @F59@
0 @I462@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Griffith/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID F32FC17CAA4A8945B1EE01D52E60485FCBB8
1 NOTE SOURCE: 1860 Census, Jenner Twp., Somerset County, PA, p. 219-263.
2 CONC Almost
2 CONT illegible. Lists Mary, age 4.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1856
2 PLAC Jenner, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F104@
0 @I466@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX F
1 _UID 41C7EB0BEF33E3469D30927E1756E6259E44
1 NOTE Mary was born during the time her parents were on certificate from
2 CONC Menallen
2 CONT Meeting to Pipe Creek Meeting in Maryland. It is not known whether
2 CONC they had
2 CONT moved to Maryland or were just part of that meeting because of
2 CONC convenience. The
2 CONT dates were 5-14-1781 to 5-16-1782.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1781/82
1 FAMC @F33@
0 @I467@ INDI
1 NAME Susan /Blackburn/
2 GIVN Susan
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX F
1 _UID 250F8E80F4793E4AB934CAC91B1629AABBA5
1 NOTE SOURCE: BLACKBURN AND ALLIED DESCENDANTS by Gibson, 1978.
2 CONT
2 CONT MARRIAGE: Dunnings Creek Meeting records. 6-15-1808 Preparative
2 CONC Meeting informs
2 CONT that Susannah Griffith, formerly Blackburn, married by a Magistrate.
1 FAMC @F33@
0 @I468@ INDI
1 NAME John /Blackburn/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Blackburn
1 SEX M
1 _UID CA71CDFE70DD274D83D3373CFD5023D6D6A8
1 NOTE SOURCE: BLACKBURN AND ALLIED DESCENDANTS by Gibson, 1978.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1790
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1810
2 PLAC , Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F33@
0 @I476@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Speakman/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Speakman
1 SEX M
1 _UID 576D8A8277AC3C44B0FF5BD22E40044B0C2D
1 NOTE MARRIAGE: Concord Monthly Meeting, page 316. Thomas Speakman (son of
2 CONC Micajah
2 CONT Speakman) of the Township of Concord in the County of Chester and
2 CONC Province of
2 CONT Pensylvania and Abigail Newlin (Daughter of Natha: Newlin of the
2 CONC Township of
2 CONT Concord Aforesd. decd.)...26, 7 mo, 1775...at their meeting House in
2 CONC Concord.
2 CONT Witnesses: Benjm. Hawley, Jos. Gibbons, Phebe Trimble, Peter Hatton,
2 CONC John
2 CONT Thatcher, John Brinton, Danl. Trimble, Rachel Gibbons, Hannah Hatton,
2 CONC Margaret
2 CONT Brinton, Sarah Thatcher, Rachel Ring, Rachel Trimble, Sarah Baldwen,
2 CONC John
2 CONT Baldwen, Nathan yarnall Jur, Phebe Yarnall, Ann Trimble, Jacob
2 CONC Gibbons, John
2 CONT Peirce, Cyrus Newlin, Nicholas Newlin, Ann Newlin, Mary Hatton, Rachel
2 CONC Harvey,
2 CONT Hannah Hatton, Ann Parker, John Speakman, Thomas Speakman [groom],
2 CONC Abigail
2 CONT Speakman [bride], Micajah Speakman, esther Temple, Natha. Newlin,
2 CONC Martha
2 CONT Newlin, Tabitha Newlin, Amy Speakman, Rachel Walter, Joanna Newlin,
2 CONC Wm. Walter,
2 CONT Thos. Newlin, John Humphreys, Thos. Newlin, Mary Speakman
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 JUL 1754
2 PLAC Concordville, Chester, PA
1 FAMC @F70@
0 @I477@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca J. /Griffith/
2 GIVN Rebecca J.
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 059FB33B5AB62F4DA40A8AFA581DB7229ECA
1 NOTE !BIRTH-DEATH-MARRIAGE: Certified copies of the Family Bible of Levi
2 CONC Berkey, on
2 CONT file at DAR Headquarters, Washington, DC.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 OCT 1842
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 JAN 1923
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F104@
0 @I486@ INDI
1 NAME Amy /Speakman/
2 GIVN Amy
2 SURN Speakman
1 SEX F
1 _UID 651CE3ABA8218B44A6095ACC889677152696
1 NOTE Died young.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1753
2 PLAC Concord, Chester, PA
1 FAMC @F70@
0 @I487@ INDI
1 NAME John /Speakman/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Speakman
1 SEX M
1 _UID 5D826F4F1A8E984AB5C2A475B9E95EBE758F
1 FAMC @F70@
0 @I490@ INDI
1 NAME Jane /Mickle/
2 GIVN Jane
2 SURN Mickle
1 SEX F
1 _UID 9946A0E890A6B9428E9A8652A43705027A45
1 NOTE Probably died before 1826 as the Thomas Griffith will lists her
2 CONC brother Thomas
2 CONT Mickle as only child.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1775
2 PLAC , York, PA
1 FAMC @F55@
0 @I491@ INDI
1 NAME Eve /Mickle/
2 GIVN Eve
2 SURN Mickle
1 SEX F
1 _UID 576A6CD7C8CCB542AF26DE4ECE2CEA3FB30C
1 NOTE Probably died before 1826 as the Thomas Griffith will lists her
2 CONC brother Thomas
2 CONT Mickle as only child.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1780
2 PLAC , York, PA
1 FAMC @F55@
0 @I492@ INDI
1 NAME Griffith /Mickle/
2 GIVN Griffith
2 SURN Mickle
1 SEX M
1 _UID 2417256DB77CCF40A4480CC8B91DFD7C1E5F
1 NOTE Disowned, Menallen, 3/23/1803 for attending muster.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: From the Records of J. Warren Mickle, 3615 Rutherford St.,
2 CONC Harrisburg,
2 CONT PA, revised by: Robert L. Cable, 689 Wyndamere Road, Lewisberry, PA
2 CONC 17339.
2 CONT Griffith lived on a tract of land near Nelson's Mill, Cessna, St.
2 CONC Clair
2 CONT Township, Bedford County, PA which he inherited from his father,
2 CONC Samuel Mickle.
2 CONT This tract of 184 acres was known as "Union" and was bought by Samuel
2 CONC on April
2 CONT 10, 1793 from Robert and Nancy Tate. Warrant from Proprietaries to
2 CONC Francis
2 CONT Campbell on May 31, 1763. Part of the tract was sold to John
2 CONC Wisegarver, Sr. of
2 CONT St. Clair Township.
2 CONT
2 CONT Griffith was an edge-tool and auger maker.
2 CONT
2 CONT In his later years, Griffith lived with his son John in Washington,
2 CONC Iowa (Hood
2 CONT River section), where he died.
2 CONT
2 CONT Listed as an original member (1833) of the Schellsburg Presbyterian
2 CONC Church
2 CONT along with Rebecca Mickel who may have been his wife.
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Washington, , IA
1 FAMC @F66@
0 @I493@ INDI
1 NAME John /Mickle/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Mickle
1 SEX M
1 _UID F938A4EA55058E4C837000FC55545B6B51A2
1 NOTE Disowned, Menallen, 4/20/1809, for attending muster.
1 FAMC @F66@
0 @I494@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Mickle/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Mickle
1 SEX F
1 _UID 93CD2A7071EF7948A5345D3CFE5B88309E39
1 NOTE Moved to Georgetown, Brown County, OH after marriage.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mary disowned by Menallen for dancing 5/21/1806.
1 FAMC @F66@
0 @I495@ INDI
1 NAME Jean /Mickle/
2 GIVN Jean
2 SURN Mickle
1 SEX F
1 _UID 557805224E354E4E98786911FF447A57B1F7
1 NOTE Jean disowned by Menallen for dancing 5/21/1806.
1 FAMC @F66@
0 @I496@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Mickle/
2 GIVN Sarah
2 SURN Mickle
1 SEX F
1 _UID 5A5C15B1FEF3A042AE2B66EE5D5484C677F7
1 NOTE Note at Menallen says "possibly buried at Bendersville."
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 AUG 1803
2 PLAC , Adams, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 OCT 1868
2 PLAC , Adams, PA
1 FAMC @F66@
0 @I497@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Mickle/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Mickle
1 SEX M
1 _UID 9431CD9A31B2E94FA2AAC12A6DC8235C32B6
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1792
2 PLAC , York, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 APR 1826
2 PLAC Straban Twp., Adams, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Old Menallen Cem, Adams, PA
1 FAMC @F66@
0 @I498@ INDI
1 NAME Eve /Mickle/
2 GIVN Eve
2 SURN Mickle
1 SEX F
1 _UID E72B733C2359194FA28DBB2D37DFDD06B5EA
1 NOTE Disowned by Menallen for "joining some other religion."
1 FAMC @F66@
0 @I499@ INDI
1 NAME Samuel /Mickle/
2 GIVN Samuel
2 SURN Mickle
1 SEX M
1 _UID 90B579D3DD312640ADA7C4C1255A9C8F88E2
1 NOTE Disowned by Menallen for joining some other religion.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: From the Records of J. Warren Mickle, 3615 Rutherford St.,
2 CONC Harrisburg,
2 CONT PA, revised by: Robert L. Cable, 689 Wyndamere Road, Lewisberry, PA
2 CONC 17339.
2 CONT Samuel Mickle (Mickel), Jr. lived between Hunterstown and Newchester
2 CONC on a small
2 CONT farm which was a part of a larger tract owned by his father. Entire
2 CONC family
2 CONT buried at Rock Chapel, a Methodist Church built in 1773 and located
2 CONC 1/2 mile
2 CONT north, off Route 15 between York Springs and Heidlersburg (Adams
2 CONC County).
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1789
2 PLAC , York (now Adams), PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 27 JAN 1870
2 PLAC , Adams, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Rock Chapel Meth, Adams, PA
1 FAMC @F66@
0 @I500@ INDI
1 NAME Robert /Mickle/
2 GIVN Robert
2 SURN Mickle
1 SEX M
1 _UID 9BE76407C3A4824BA7568EFA25769F8A6A79
1 NOTE Disowned at Menallen 5/17/1820 for joining another religion, page 103
2 CONC Menallen
2 CONT Minutes. Robert went to Bedford County, PA.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: From the Records of J. Warren Mickle, 3615 Rutherford St.,
2 CONC Harrisburg,
2 CONT PA, revised by: Robert L. Cable, 689 Wyndamere Road, Lewisberry, PA
2 CONC 17339.
2 CONT Robert Mickle moved from Adams County to Bedford County about 1834. He
2 CONC located
2 CONT on the Lucas place near the Riseling "Fulling Mill," near Spring Hope
2 CONC and then
2 CONT moved to the "Wine" Miller property near Helixville, then Millertown,
2 CONC where he
2 CONT resided at the time of his death. Robert Mickle was one of the first
2 CONC teachers
2 CONT of the free schools in this part of the county. His widow, Jane Gorley
2 CONC Mickle,
2 CONT then lived with various relatives and older children. While living
2 CONC with her
2 CONT daughter, Mary, she fell on the attic stairs and injured her head so
2 CONC badly she
2 CONT died in a few days. Both are buried in the Schellsburg Cemetery but
2 CONC the burial
2 CONT site is unknown.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 OCT 1804
2 PLAC , Adams, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 MAY 1855
2 PLAC Millerstown, Bedford, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Chestnut Ridge, Schellsburg, Bedford, PA
1 FAMC @F66@
0 @I501@ INDI
1 NAME Aaron /Berkey/
2 GIVN Aaron
2 SURN Berkey
1 SEX M
1 _UID 5C9F909846ADF1458FCF4354F3D37CE86BB3
1 NOTE SOURCE: 1850 Census, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA. Page 195,
2 CONC Family
2 CONT 236, age listed as 19 years, occupation: laborer.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1831
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F48@
0 @I502@ INDI
1 NAME Susan /Berkey/
2 GIVN Susan
2 SURN Berkey
1 SEX F
1 _UID 9328B41FB4D5C74C99BDB0CF3B5DC5BD1964
1 NOTE SOURCE: 1850 Census, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA. Page 195,
2 CONC Family
2 CONT 236, age listed as 18 years.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1832
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F48@
0 @I503@ INDI
1 NAME Rash /Berkey/
2 GIVN Rash
2 SURN Berkey
1 SEX M
1 _UID BFF8D1BDB7D0804E9DE40CEA34F5E600203A
1 NOTE SOURCE: 1850 Census, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA. Page 195,
2 CONC Family
2 CONT 236, age listed as 16 years.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1834
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F48@
0 @I504@ INDI
1 NAME Jacob /Berkey/
2 GIVN Jacob
2 SURN Berkey
1 SEX M
1 _UID 1E42D462A7F67B4D887D90458BAB0C29400B
1 NOTE SOURCE: 1850 Census, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA. Page 195,
2 CONC Family
2 CONT 236, age listed as 13 years.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1837
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F48@
0 @I505@ INDI
1 NAME Ann E. /Berkey/
2 GIVN Ann E.
2 SURN Berkey
1 SEX F
1 _UID 070C2BD9F6BE584FB9AB970DA694867DB789
1 NOTE SOURCE: 1850 Census, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA. Page 195,
2 CONC Family
2 CONT 236, age listed as 6 years.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1844
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F48@
0 @I506@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah /Berkey/
2 GIVN Sarah
2 SURN Berkey
1 SEX F
1 _UID 052D271E38C80A43A753E8E52B46FE2E28A0
1 NOTE SOURCE: 1850 Census, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA. Page 195,
2 CONC Family
2 CONT 236, age listed as 4 years.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1846
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F48@
0 @I507@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Berkey/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Berkey
1 SEX F
1 _UID B49F0EAFFD066740986C7BE2C89671806AE0
1 NOTE SOURCE: 1850 Census, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA. Page 195,
2 CONC Family
2 CONT 236, age listed as 4/12 of a year.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1850
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F48@
0 @I508@ INDI
1 NAME Jonathan /Griffith/
2 GIVN Jonathan
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 05BFBF33EECFA04495FC5A95A4DE1836A75C
1 NOTE 1850 Census, Jenners Twp., Somerset County, page 187, family 178,
2 CONC listed as 12
2 CONT year old.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1838
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F21@
0 @I509@ INDI
1 NAME Nancy /Griffith/
2 GIVN Nancy
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID ADEF983B7DE00845B458D60DFCCCF6CC92B2
1 NOTE 1850 Census, Jenners Twp., Somerset County, page 187, family 178,
2 CONC listed as 9
2 CONT year old.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1841
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F21@
0 @I510@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Ann /Griffith/
2 GIVN Mary Ann
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 80F372DE1019E14EA51903C785800CB56947
1 NOTE BURIAL: Inscription reads: In Memory of / Mary A. / wife of / Jesse
2 CONC Griffith /
2 CONT died / Oct. 10, 1865 / aged 52 years. 9 / months.
2 CONT
2 CONT SOURCE: OLD AND NEW WESTMORELAND, Vol. III, page 1151.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 JAN 1813
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 OCT 1865
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Baptist Ch. Cem., near Boswell, Somerset, PA
1 FAMS @F134@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I545@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Ann /Reighart/
2 GIVN Mary Ann
2 SURN Reighart
1 SEX F
1 _UID 70E9CBA6EB0BDE4BBF817E87923F9EB65308
1 NOTE Came to Johnstown 1857 to earn her living as a seamstress; died at her
2 CONC home on
2 CONT South Side of dropsy.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1833
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 3 OCT 1883
2 PLAC Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Sandyvale Cem., Johnstown, Cambria, PA
1 FAMC @F142@
0 @I546@ INDI
1 NAME Nancy /Reighart/
2 GIVN Nancy
2 SURN Reighart
1 SEX F
1 _UID 9824FC5C3BE232488A54A31D540C433A2639
1 FAMC @F142@
0 @I554@ INDI
1 NAME William A. /Johnston/
2 GIVN William A.
2 SURN Johnston
1 SEX M
1 _UID FD7D2A64A7BDD44698EAD7138FC2078DD7E0
1 NOTE SOURCE: Richard M. Rupert, 109 Lisa Lane, St. Marys, GA  31558.
2 CONT Civil war service, lost an arm.
2 CONT
2 CONT 1850 Census, listed as 7 year old.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 APR 1837
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 APR 1943
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I555@ INDI
1 NAME Martha Jane /Johnston/
2 GIVN Martha Jane
2 SURN Johnston
1 SEX F
1 _UID 1D492F94371AAC49834C4ABF951452BF01BE
1 NOTE SOURCE: Richard M. Rupert, 109 Lisa Lane, St. Marys, GA  31558.
2 CONT
2 CONT Listed as a 1 year old in 1850 Census for Jenner Twp., Somerset
2 CONC County. This
2 CONT conflicts with information received for her birthdate from Rick
2 CONC Rupert.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 JUN 1844
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 JUN 1851
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I556@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Louise /Johnston/
2 GIVN Mary Louise
2 SURN Johnston
1 SEX F
1 _UID B090DC715E6BEF4B9892D5364E8E950A400F
1 NOTE SOURCE: Richard M. Rupert, 109 Lisa Lane, St. Marys, GA  31558.
2 CONT
2 CONT 1850 Census listed as 5 year old.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 JUN 1845
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE MAR 1929
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I557@ INDI
1 NAME Samuel /Johnston/
2 GIVN Samuel
2 SURN Johnston
1 SEX M
1 _UID 5B32E1FB032D8548A84DC83ED4AD04684E80
1 NOTE SOURCE: Richard M. Rupert, 109 Lisa Lane, St. Marys, GA  31558.
2 CONT
2 CONT Listed in 1850 Census as 3 year old.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 DEC 1846
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2 JUL 1856
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I558@ INDI
1 NAME George Wagner /Johnston/
2 GIVN George Wagner
2 SURN Johnston
1 SEX M
1 _UID 49175358C39048478A9F87AED9B7106752D7
1 NOTE SOURCE: Richard M. Rupert, 109 Lisa Lane, St. Marys, GA  31558.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 JUL 1850
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1924
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I559@ INDI
1 NAME Leisure B. /Johnston/
2 GIVN Leisure B.
2 SURN Johnston
1 SEX M
1 _UID B63E9B1BDB157D4C83E6114EF8506BD4B25C
1 NOTE SOURCE: Richard M. Rupert, 109 Lisa Lane, St. Marys, GA  31558.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 JUL 1852
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1 APR 1951
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I560@ INDI
1 NAME Dibert /Johnston/
2 GIVN Dibert
2 SURN Johnston
1 SEX M
1 _UID 566D6295A5A20E4CA8EBBCAEDA745F6D7204
1 NOTE SOURCE: Richard M. Rupert, 109 Lisa Lane, St. Marys, GA  31558.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 MAY 1854
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1 APR 1855
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I561@ INDI
1 NAME Alda /Johnston/
2 GIVN Alda
2 SURN Johnston
1 SEX F
1 _UID E8EBB5317383F04AB3A11F05D495C0F37DFB
1 NOTE SOURCE: Richard M. Rupert, 109 Lisa Lane, St. Marys, GA  31558.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 APR 1856
1 DEAT
2 DATE NOV 1933
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I562@ INDI
1 NAME Eli /Johnston/
2 GIVN Eli
2 SURN Johnston
1 SEX M
1 _UID 6B3E8B79776DCE44B4D852746539A22E632D
1 NOTE SOURCE: Richard M. Rupert, 109 Lisa Lane, St. Marys, GA  31558.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 JAN 1859
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 JAN 1859
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I563@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Johnston/
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 SURN Johnston
1 SEX F
1 _UID CF50751F3511B94A94FDAF7FD395E2393ECC
1 NOTE SOURCE: Richard M. Rupert, 109 Lisa Lane, St. Marys, GA  31558.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 FEB 1860
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 APR 1863
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I564@ INDI
1 NAME Robert /Johnston/
2 GIVN Robert
2 SURN Johnston
1 SEX M
1 _UID ED1E7267949D684BAF95BE71A2B376C1C7ED
1 NOTE SOURCE: Richard M. Rupert, 109 Lisa Lane, St. Marys, GA  31558.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 JAN 1862
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 SEP 1868
1 FAMC @F49@
0 @I565@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah A. /Griffith/
2 GIVN Sarah A.
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID AD1C08A612658348A858C8906AD485DCB059
1 NOTE SOURCE: 1850 Cenus, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA. Page 193,
2 CONC Family
2 CONT 221. Listed as a 15 year old.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1835
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F134@
0 @I566@ INDI
1 NAME Mason /Griffith/
2 GIVN Mason
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID A2389223E2E3194FBC7E5C7C61D71E91B501
1 NOTE SOURCE: 1850 Cenus, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA. Page 193,
2 CONC Family
2 CONT 221. Listed as a 13 year old.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1837
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F134@
0 @I567@ INDI
1 NAME Mary J. /Griffith/
2 GIVN Mary J.
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID E6299DC6CCB8144594A2067FED35ADCCA53E
1 NOTE SOURCE: 1850 Cenus, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA. Page 194,
2 CONC Family
2 CONT 221. Listed as a 10 year old.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1840
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F134@
0 @I568@ INDI
1 NAME Maria /Griffith/
2 GIVN Maria
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 020913B87008BD4999915B2CA02141E2E998
1 NOTE SOURCE: 1850 Cenus, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA. Page 194,
2 CONC Family
2 CONT 221. Listed as a 7 year old.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1843
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F134@
0 @I569@ INDI
1 NAME Josiah /Griffith/
2 GIVN Josiah
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID D728A7251CE71D498A3B28767F5C1D49D879
1 NOTE SOURCE: 1850 Cenus, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA. Page 194,
2 CONC Family
2 CONT 221. Listed as a 4 year old.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1846
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F134@
0 @I570@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Griffith/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 08BFFBC3CA55C14EB2187ECCE137A51A9E6E
1 NOTE SOURCE: 1850 Cenus, Jenners Township, Somerset County, PA. Page 194,
2 CONC Family
2 CONT 221. Listed as a 1 year old.
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1849
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F134@
0 @I582@ INDI
1 NAME Jesse /Griffith/
2 GIVN Jesse
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID ABFAF8CBA991EC49B8BB38C61A753F8AA0FF
1 NOTE BURIAL: Inscription reads: Jesse son of Abner / Griffith, Sen. died /
2 CONC Oct. 27th
2 CONT / 1820.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 27 OCT 1820
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I583@ INDI
1 NAME Rachael /Griffith/
2 GIVN Rachael
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 263174A7F8F0D740AC34DEF1D6550FC11B93
1 NOTE BURIAL: Inscription reads: Rachael daughter of / Wm. Griffith of A. /
2 CONC died May
2 CONT 27th / 1832.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 27 MAY 1832
2 PLAC , Somerset, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Jenner Twp., Baptist Church, Somerset, PA
1 FAMC @F21@
0 @I594@ INDI
1 NAME Linda /Schenker/
2 GIVN Linda
2 SURN Schenker
1 SEX F
1 _UID 0ED6F902DC3F6D46B223BDEA9C766F741E88
1 FAMS @F148@
0 @I595@ INDI
1 NAME John Paul /Griffith/
2 GIVN John Paul
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 6CBECCFBC8E1C74F8002A964017CE2A8463D
1 FAMC @F148@
0 @I596@ INDI
1 NAME Julie /Griffith/
2 GIVN Julie
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX F
1 _UID 769BDA6E0C15B6459BBE6AEE381091323187
1 FAMC @F148@
0 @I597@ INDI
1 NAME Mark /Grimslid/
2 GIVN Mark
2 SURN Grimslid
1 SEX M
1 _UID 30B35981EAE0F54083ED69085893D884E4D0
1 FAMS @F149@
0 @I598@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah Ellen /Grimslid/
2 GIVN Sarah Ellen
2 SURN Grimslid
1 SEX F
1 _UID A1943ED96D137F48B328116183E5561DBB0F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 FEB 1991
1 FAMC @F149@
0 @I599@ INDI
1 NAME Jennifer Nicole /Grimslid/
2 GIVN Jennifer Nicole
2 SURN Grimslid
1 SEX F
1 _UID F90F396CA044004EB07F6326CD743D6E83B6
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 MAR 1993
1 FAMC @F149@
0 @I600@ INDI
1 NAME Karen Elizabeth /Koch/
2 GIVN Karen Elizabeth
2 SURN Koch
1 SEX F
1 _UID DEB23E1A02A19A468FF75817C473D9DF4F37
1 FAMS @F150@
0 @I601@ INDI
1 NAME Donald Craig /Winning/
2 GIVN Donald Craig
2 SURN Winning
1 SEX M
1 _UID 66668CB26C68F845B8BE5FED6B4CC62D87C7
1 FAMS @F151@
0 @I602@ INDI
1 NAME Ryan Douglas /Winning/
2 GIVN Ryan Douglas
2 SURN Winning
1 SEX M
1 _UID 55D15E91394753488607DD2F447DAD154CFF
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 OCT 1984
2 PLAC , , PA
1 FAMC @F151@
0 @I603@ INDI
1 NAME Nathan Randal /Winning/
2 GIVN Nathan Randal
2 SURN Winning
1 SEX M
1 _UID 70641EC0EE67B54F998ABCB5C61BB7366D3A
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 MAR 1987
2 PLAC , , PA
1 FAMC @F151@
0 @I604@ INDI
1 NAME Ethan Charles /Winning/
2 GIVN Ethan Charles
2 SURN Winning
1 SEX M
1 _UID 8244F02C5BB24942950C10CBA8B184B98C55
1 BIRT
2 DATE 3 DEC 1990
2 PLAC , , PA
1 FAMC @F151@
0 @I605@ INDI
1 NAME Collin Phillip /Winning/
2 GIVN Collin Phillip
2 SURN Winning
1 SEX M
1 _UID 497D9CC5AAF6574291C485957EFE2BDE54BF
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 APR 1993
2 PLAC , , PA
1 FAMC @F151@
0 @I609@ INDI
1 NAME Arthur /Griffith/
2 GIVN Arthur
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 5C2288C27EC9BB4FBCCB0F184C3D2AD34DF5
1 NOTE BURIAL: Inscription reads: Arthur / son of / I.E. & Ida B. Griffith /
2 CONC Born July
2 CONT 6 1889 / Died Sept. 22 1889.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 JUL 1889
2 PLAC N. Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 SEP 1889
2 PLAC N. Braddock, Allegheny, PA
1 BURI
2 PLAC Braddock Cem., Allegheny, PA
1 FAMC @F11@
0 @I656@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca /Wright/
2 GIVN Rebecca
2 SURN Wright
1 SEX F
1 _UID 5B388AEA0A26AC499F7F9A89A2DD663E90AC
1 NOTE RESEARCHER: Dr. George Forrest Wright, 501 Spyglass Lane, Vero Beach,
2 CONC FL
2 CONT 32963-4359.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 JUN 1789
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., York (now Adams), PA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 JUN 1799
2 PLAC Menallen Twp., York (now Adams), PA
1 FAMC @F67@
0 @I967@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph /Griffith/
2 GIVN Joseph
2 SURN Griffith
1 SEX M
1 _UID 89682EC110929947B7BE4ED22B325D5D0EA9
1 FAMC @F34@
0 @F1@ FAM
1 HUSB @I2@
1 WIFE @I1@
1 CHIL @I3@
1 MARR
2 DATE 11 DEC 1969
2 PLAC San Diego, San Diego, CA
1 DIV
2 DATE 7 JUN 2002
2 PLAC Hendricks Co., IN
0 @F2@ FAM
1 HUSB @I5@
1 WIFE @I4@
1 CHIL @I1@
1 MARR
2 DATE 19 NOV 1938
2 PLAC PA.
2 NOTE Marriage announcement:
3 CONT
3 CONT Wilkinsburg Nuptial Scene - Former California Girl Becomes Bride Here
3 CONT    A former California resident who has made Pittsburgh her home for
3 CONC the past three years, became a bride here yesterday. She is the former
3 CONC Miss Lucile L'Hommedieu, who was married to E. Marshall Griffith, son
3 CONC of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar A. Griffith of Hampton Ave., Willkinsburg.
3 CONT    The ceremony took place at the home of the bride's uncle and aunt,
3 CONC Dr. and Mrs. A.C. Young of Hill Ave., Wilkinsburg. Rev. James Best of
3 CONC the First United Presbyterian Church read the service, which was
3 CONC attended by the bride's father, W.P. L'Hommedieu, and Mrs.
3 CONC L'Hommedieu, of Piedmont, Cal.
3 CONT    The bride's sister, Annalene Hervey Harper, of Los Angeles, played
3 CONC the ceremonial music.
3 CONT    The bridal gown of eggshell brocaded taffeta was fashioned with
3 CONC long sleeves with modified leg o'mutton shoulders, square neckline,
3 CONC short tightly-fitted waistline and a long skirt with a suggestion of a
3 CONC train. Her three-quarter length veil was draped from a cap of tulle
3 CONC with orange blossom trimming at the back.
3 CONT    As maid-of-honor, Miss Betty Pratt, of Wilkinsburg, was dressed in
3 CONC a gown of sapphire blue taffeta styled with sweetheart neckline, short
3 CONC puffed sleeves and a flared skirt. Miss Miriam Griffith, sister of the
3 CONC bridegroom, bridesmaid, was similarly dressed with her gown a deeper
3 CONC shade of blue. Each wore gold slippers and had gold ostrich tips in
3 CONC their hair. They carried Colonial bouquets of golden pompons and
3 CONC talisman roses. Her cousin, junior bridesmaid, Betty Young, appeared
3 CONC in a still deeper shade of blue contrasted by gold. William Rochester
3 CONC of Altoona was best man. Robert Lennon and Robert W. Philips ushered.
3 CONC After the reception at the Young home, the bridal couple left for a
3 CONC southern motor trip. They will be at home in Westmont, 1141 Luzerne
3 CONC Street, Johnstown, PA.
1 SLGS
2 DATE 5 DEC 1979
2 TEMP LANGE
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