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Surnames: Griffith, Breeding
Classification: Query
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Message Board Post:
Hi, Cody... guess I should have read the Clay Co Message Boards before I emailed you.
Carol, you and I have briefly exchanged messages before. I am in the first week at home
following colon surgery, the computer is in the basement and so things are going to be a
bit slow for me for a while. I recently received Charity Griffith Breeding's death
certificate from the State of MO. I've not had much time to sort through the smaller
details, but she is listed as the daughter of Joshua Griffith, b. IN and Mary Daulton. I
have great reason to believe that should be Dalton. The reason I came across Charity
Breeding as being a family member of mine is from a land sale in Clay Co IN where lots of
Phipps, Daltons and Griffiths were listed. I noted that some of the principals in the
sale were not the children of the fellow whose land it was. This might mean that the
others listed got their share of the land by being related in some other way. There was
one other name that I cou!
ld not get right either. One, Sarah E Denny. These girls are found in various houses of
other family surnames in the 1850 Census of Clay Co. Using Carol's hint as to Charity
being in Sullivan Co, MO when she died in 1912, and some other marriage information that I
had, I found both Charity (widowed through the 1910 census) and a Elizabeth Norman (who
had been married twice still living with her husband, Jacob in 1920). After digging far
enough, I found that Elizabeth died in 1934 and on a long shot asked for her death
certificate as well. It lists her father by his surname only, Griffith) and her mother as
Mary Dalton. So my suspicion is that the two are sisters. I have not seen the name
Joshua Griffith before in this family, but there is one son in a much older generation who
is unaccounted for and seems to have died before 1850. I have tried and tried to get
Charity and Sarah Elizabeth to fit into early census of the other Griffiths of Clay Co
without success. So,!
maybe this is a lead. I do know, that this is as long as I can sit here tonight, I have
left a lot out of the story, especially about how it ties to me, but that will have to
come at a later time
Bill Strahle