Margaret (Kring) Griffith (abt. 1827)

Born about 1827 in Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Wife of William Harrison Cole — married about 1847 in Somerset, Pennsylvania [uncertain]

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Margaret or Margarette Kring was born about 1827 in Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of George Kring and Magdalene Stump. .^[1]

Her husband's name was shown as Harrison Cole on the 1850 census. (Other records show his names was William Harrison Cole.) Harrison Cole was born in 1824 in Pennsylvania and in 1850 lived in Jenner, Somerset, Pennsylvania with his wife Margaret, sons Jeremiah and George W. and his brother George W. all born in Pennsylvania. On the 1850 census their entry is right above the entry for her parents:

• George Kring 61
• Madeline, 53
• Sally, 17
• Rosann, 12
• Sophia, 9 ^[2]

Children and Parents from the Zion (Hoffman Lutheran Church at Jenners Cross Road, Somerset Co., Pennsylvania show:

• 1. Born 1848; christened 1851. - Jeremiah - Wm. H. Cole and Margarette
• 2. Born 1849; christened 1851 - George Washington - Wm. H. Cole and Margarette
• 3. Born 1858; christened 1851 - Sarah Sophia - Wm. H. Cole and Margarette
• 4. Born 1853; christened 1854 - Franklin Pearce - Wm H. Cole and Rebecca (This is their child as there are papers on him later)
• 5. Born 1856; christened 1856 - Rosabella - W. H. Cole and wife
• 6. Born 1860; christened 1861 - Mary Magdalena - W. H. Cole and wife Margaret
• 7. Born 1862; christened 1863 - Harrison and wife Margaret Ann. Witness was mother - father in the Army

Christenings of her children show her name to be Margaret, Marget, or Margarette. ^[3]

Her given name is Mary Margaret on the death certificate of her daughter, Rose Bell Cole Claycomb, ^[4] and her birth surname is shown as Kring. Her birth surname Cring is from the death certificate of Mary Cole Bealman, her daughter.^[5]

Sometime after April 1865 when John Griffith's second wife Rachel Blough died ^[6]and before 2 May 1867 Margaret married John Griffith. In May 1867 she is identified in the probate records of George Kring as his daughter married to John Griffith.^[7]

In the 1870 census it shows John Griffith and his then wife Margaret's family as:

• Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
• John O Griffith Male 66 Pennsylvania
• Margaret Griffith Female 41 Pennsylvania
• Wesley Griffith Male 16 Pennsylvania
• Minerva Griffith Female 14 Pennsylvania
• Sarah J Griffith Female 9 Pennsylvania
• Emma L Griffith Female 8 Pennsylvania
• Margaret Cole Female 9 Pennsylvania^[8]

In the 1880 census in Jenner, Somerset, Pennsylvania, it shows John and Margaret and his daughter Emma Griffith living with them.^[9]

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)^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ Orphan's Court of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 02 May 1867
2. ↑ United States Census, 1850
3. ↑ Zion (Hoffman) Lutheran Church Jenner cross Road, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Register 1814-1863.
4. ↑ Pennsylvania Death Certificates 1906-1964
5. ↑ Delaware Death Records 1811-1933
6. ↑ findagrave.com.
7. ↑ Orphan's Court of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 02 May 1867
8. ↑ United States Census, 1870
9. ↑ United States Census, 1880
10. ↑ U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M4C1-7WM : accessed 24 February 2016), Margaret Cole in household of Harrison Cole, Jenner, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family 54, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• Delaware Death Records 1811-1933, Mary M. Bealman died 19 Nov 1926 in Greenwood, Sussex, Delaware, United States. Her parents were Harrison Cole and Margaret Cring. .

• Pennsylvania Death Certificates 1906-1964: Rose Bell Claycomb; father W. H. Cole; mother Mary Margaret Kring.

• Zion (Hoffman) Lutheran Church Jenner cross Road, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Register 1814-1863. Family History Library film 908981.

• findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55829200/rachel-griffith.

• Orphan's Court of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 02 May 1867

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ2D-2FG : 13 June 2019), Margaret Griffith in entry for John O Griffith, 1870.

• "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.

• www.findagrave.com,findagrave.com,

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MWVD-M4V : 11 August 2016), 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.), roll 1195; FHL microfilm 1,255,195. .