Brief Life History of Catherine
When Catherine Griffith was born on 4 July 1855, in Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Edward Griffiths, was 50 and her mother, Catherine Lloyd, was 41. She married Edward Francis Evans on 7 April 1876, in Meifod, Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1861. She died on 15 January 1895, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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- Catherine Griffiths in household of Edward Griffiths, "England and Wales Census, 1861"
- Catharine Griffith, "Arizona, Birth Certificates and Indexes, 1855-1930"
- Catherine Evans, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863
Arizona Territory
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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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