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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"\""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.\"""
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
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.
Possible Related NamesElizabeth 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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