When Ellen Aretta McNabb was born on 29 December 1855, in Iowa, United States, her father, Phillip McNabb, was 24 and her mother, Missouri Myers, was 19. She married Francis Marion Griffin on 24 March 1886, in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Morrow, Oregon, United States in 1910 and Ione, Morrow, Oregon, United States in 1920. She died on 18 February 1920, in Oregon, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in High View Cemetery, Ione, Morrow, Oregon, United States.
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Scottish and northern Irish: variant of McNab .
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