Brief Life History of Lydia Jane
When Lydia Jane Griffith was born on 4 October 1885, in Tupper Creek, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, her father, Daniel Alexander Griffith, was 33 and her mother, Malinda Jane Jordan, was 30. She married William Wesley JOPLING on 18 September 1902, in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. She lived in Poca District, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years and Sissonville, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States in 2005. She died on 8 February 1968, in Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Sissonville, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States.
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- Lyda J Gibson in household of Aleck Gibson, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mrs. Lottie J. Jopling - Government record: Census record: birth: 1886; West Virginia, United States
- Lyda Jane Griffith, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1907 · Not for profit elections
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
Name Meaning
Welsh (Carmarthenshire and western England): from the Old Welsh personal name Gruffudd, Old Welsh Grip(p)iud, composed of the elements grip, of uncertain significance, + iud ‘chief, lord’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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