Elizabeth Griffin

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Griffin was born on 7 February 1851, in Walsall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Henry Griffin Sr, was 44 and her mother, Maria Allen, was 42. She married John King on 1 November 1868, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 11 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Millville, Cache, Utah, United States for about 30 years. She died on 25 January 1921, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Millville, Cache, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John King
1835–1919
Elizabeth Griffin
1851–1921
Marriage: 1 November 1868
Lydia Eliza King
1869–1890
Elizabeth Sarah King
1871–1937
Rose King
1873–1941
Harriet Louise King
1875–1947
Maryett King
1877–1879
John Hyrum King
1880–1880
Camilla Victoria King
1881–1882
Alice May King
1883–1883
Theodore King Riggs
1883–1931
Jennie Irene King
1887–1968
Grace Evelyn King
1889–1981
Clara Beatrice King
1891–1968
Pearl King
1894–1957

Sources (18)

  • Elizabeth King in household of John King, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Elizabeth Griffin, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Elizabeth Griffin King, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"

World Events (8)

1859 · Logan is Founded

"\""During the end of April, David Reese and his company settled the land north of the Logan River. That area was the second permanent settlement in Cache Valley and the future location of Logan. The city's boundary was drawn by Logan's first bishop, Jesse W. Fox, a government engineer. The name \""\""Logan\""\"" comes from a trapper that used to frequent the area before the pioneers came to the valley.\"""

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

Welsh: from the personal name Gruffin, Griffin, a pet form of Middle Welsh Gruffudd. In the Welsh border counties this name was introduced directly from Welsh, and in the eastern counties of England by Bretons from France who came over with the Norman conquest.

Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Gríobhtha ‘descendant of Gríobhtha’, a personal name from gríobh ‘gryphon’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Bio from findagrave.com

Elizabeth Griffin was born in Perry Barr Staffordshire, England on February 7, 1851 to Henry and Maria Allen Griffin. A convert to the LDS Church, she had recently arrived from England. She and Eliz …

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