Griffiths, Elizabeth

GRIFFITHS

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Date: 7/5/2021 at 13:53:15

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.739

GRIFFITHS, ELIZABETH, farmer, Linn Township, Sec. 15; P. O. Norwalk; widow of James Griffiths, who was born Devonshire, England, Dec. 17, 1812, and died April 20, 1879. Mrs. Griffiths, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Hopper, was born July 6th, 1815, in the State of New York, and left there with her parents when quite young, who emigrated to Ohio, and from there to Indiana, where she married her husband, Oct. 19th, 1848; they came from there to this county in March, 1855; she has a family of one daughter living: Clara (now the wife of John Dickey); she was born Oct. 6th, 1850. Mr. Dickey, her husband, is a native of Coshocton county, Ohio, born Dec. 22, 1840; they have two sons and one daughter: Howard, Millard, and Cemency.