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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