John M. Griffith and Mary Lyle Smith

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Husband John M. Griffith ¹

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           Born: 17 Mar 1842 - Mt. Pleasant Twp, Washington Co, PA 2
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         Father: Isaac Griffith (1800-1867) 3 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Esler (      -1857) 1 4

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       Marriage: 22 Oct 1863 2

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Wife Mary Lyle Smith ²

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           Born:  - Smith Twp, Washington Co, PA
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         Father: Ebenezer Smith (      -Bef 1893) 5
         Mother: Margaret Lyle (      -Bef 1893) 5

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Children

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1 F Maggie Venalla Griffith ²

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2 M Edwin Smith Griffith ²

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General Notes: Husband - John M. Griffith

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He was born in Mt. Pleasant township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and was educated in the schools of Hickory, attending also six weeks at the normal school; he afterward taught school several terms in Washington county. He married and they began life on a farm, which contained 140 acres of well-culti-vated land, where they conducted a profitable dairy business, milking an average of eighteen cows per day. He built a residence in 1862, and remodeled it in 1892. In politics Mr. Griffith was first a Republican, but later a zealous Prohibitionist, and he cast the first Prohibition party vote in his township; in 1888 he was nominated for the State Legislature on the Prohibition ticket. He and his wife were connected with the Mt. Pleasant United Presbyterian Church at Hickory, in which he was a ruling elder.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 728, 1326.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1327.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 728.

4 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1055.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 49, 1327.