Year: 1860; Census Place: Jenner, Somerset, Pennsylvania[4]
John O Griffith 53/m, farmer, $2500 $470, PA
Rachel Griffith 32/f, PA
Jerden Griffith 20/m, PA, school
Samuel Griffith 16/m, PA, school
Mary A Griffith 10/f, PA, school
Wesley Griffith 6/m, PA, school
Meneva Griffith 3/f, PA
Sarah J Griffith 1/f, PA
Sometime after April 1865 when John Griffith's second wife Rachel Blough died [5]and before 2 May 1867 Margaret Kring Cole married John Griffith. In May 1867 she is identified in the probate records of George Kring as his daughter married to John Griffith.[6]
In the 1870 census it shows John Griffith and his then wife Margaret's family as:
In the 1880 census in Jenner, Somerset, Pennsylvania, it shows John and Margaret and his daughter Emma Griffith living with them.[8]
On 1 July 1890 Margaret Griffith, shown as widow of William H. Cole gets a pension for his Civil War service. William had served as a Teamster 2 M Dept. usv or usr (can't read the last letter for sure)[9]
↑ Year: 1850; Census Place: Jenner, Somerset, Pennsylvania; Roll: M432_828; Page: 98A; Image: 195; Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C. Ancestry
↑ Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1852-1968; Original data: Marriage Records. Pennsylvania Marriages. Various County Register of Wills Offices, Pennsylvania. Ancestry
↑ Year: 1860; Census Place: Jenner, Somerset, Pennsylvania; Roll: M653_1183; Page: 242; Family History Library Film: 805183; Original data: 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. Ancestry
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWVD-M4V : 16 July 2017), Margaret Griffith in household of John O Griffith, Jenner, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district ED 10, sheet 315A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,195.
U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 for Margaret Griffith. Pension 427809.
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