Dr. Emery Fremont Griffith (1942)

GREENMAN, GRIFFITH, MCKEE, RAY, SUMMERS, TINKHAM

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 9/14/2006 at 17:07:27

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, November 18, 1942

DR. E. F. GRIFFITH 81, OF PERU, DIES

Had Practiced Medicine in Peru for More Than Half Century

Dr. Emery F. Griffith, a practicing physician at Peru for more than half a century, died at his home there Nov. 9. He was 81 years of age.

Doctor Griffith was born at Lineville on Sept. 19, 1861, the son of Margaret Summers and John S. Griffith. His early life was spent there and at Cleopatra and Trenton, Mo., where he attended the public schools and worked in his father's brickyard.

He received his medical degree from the Keokuk College of Medicine and Surgery in 1887. He practiced at Lucerne, Mo., for one year, then at Duncombe, Ia., for six months, before coming to Peru in July of 1892.

On March 27, 1889, he was married to Louella Tinkham of Powersville, Mo. They were the parents of two daughters, Esther, who survives, and Amy, who died last January. In his home also was reared a niece, Hilda Maxwell McKee, who died in 1926. Several other nieces and nephews also made temporary residence with his family.

In addition to the one daughter living, he is survived by a grandson, Robert Ray of Peru, and one sister, Mrs. Mary Greenman of Metzger, Ore.

Funeral services were held last Wednesday from the Peru Methodist church, in charge of the pastor, the Rev. James Walls. Burial was made in the Peru cemetery.
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Coordinator's note: Middle name taken from daughter Amy's obituary.

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