Edgar Cowan Griffith and Sarah Jane Lenhart

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Husband Edgar Cowan Griffith ^{1 2 3}

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            AKA: Edward Griffith 4
           Born: 27 Aug 1852 - Westmoreland Co, PA 2 5
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         Father: Hugh C. Griffith (1829-1913) 1 2 6
         Mother: Isabel Lewis (1832-1915) 1 2 5

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Wife Sarah Jane Lenhart ^{2 6}

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           Born:  - Westmoreland Co, PA
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         Father: Peter Lenhart (      -      ) 7
         Mother: Margaret Gongaware (      -      ) 7

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Children

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1 F Jennie Griffith ^{2 5}

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         Spouse: R. Spencer Ward (      -      ) 5

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2 M Robert E. Griffith ^{2 6}

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           Born: 2 Sep 1875 - Westmoreland Co, PA 6 8
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         Spouse: Mary A. Felgar (      -      ) 6 8
           Marr: 26 Sep 1900 4

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General Notes: Husband - Edgar Cowan Griffith

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He was ten years of age when his parents moved to Adamsburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was graduated in the public schools, and until eighteen years of age worked at farming. He then taught school for a time, after which he spent several years in the West. He returned to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1890, and spent four years in the real estate and insurance business with the firm of Gay, Bair & Lane. In 1894 he opened a real estate and insurance office in Jeannette, Westmoreland County, which he conducted five years. In 1899 he located in Greensburg, where he then was engaged in the real estate and insurance business. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Besides the two children listed, he and his wife had two other children who died in infancy.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 92.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 56.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 88.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 768.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 89.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 89, 768.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 260.

8 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 57.