When Griffith Jenkins Griffith was born on 4 January 1850, in Bettws, Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, Griffith Morgan Griffiths, was 19 and his mother, Margaret Jenkins, was 20. He married Mary Agnes Christina Mesmer on 27 January 1887, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 6 July 1919, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.