Ogemaw County MI Archives Military Records.....Griffith, William July 12, 1951
Spanishwar Unknown
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Obituary
WILLIAM GRIFFITH AGED PIONEER, PASSES AWAY
Hold Funeral Services Monday With Burial In Selkirk Cemetery
	Death claimed one of the oldest pioneers of Ogemaw County last Friday 
evening when one-hundred-year-old William Griffith passed away at the West 
Branch home of his daughter Mrs. Abbie Hillier.  The aged man had been ailing 
for over a year but his death was sudden and unexpected.  Funeral services 
were held at the Steuernol Chapel at 2:00 p.m. Monday, July 9.  Rev. Warren 
Ware, pastor of the First Methodist Church, was the officiating clergyman.  
Interment was in the Selkirk Cemetery.  Mr. Griffith was born in Blenheim 
Township, Oxford County, Ontario on September 7, 1850 the son of Elizebeth and 
Cyrus Griffith.  When he was 11 years old he and his family moved to 
Colchester and he lived there until he was 28.  On November 20, 1879, Mr. 
Griffith and his brother George came to West Branch.  They bought a farm at 
Campbells Corners and in 1880 their father moved to the same area.  In 1881 
Mr. Griffith bought the farm now owned by Phillip Wangler and a year later 
took his bride, Bertha Underwood, there to live.  They had six daughters, but 
two of them, Elizabeth and Ethel preceded him in death.  Since the death of 
Mrs. Griffith in 1935, Mr. Griffith had made his home with his oldest 
daughter, Mrs. Hillier.  Besides Mrs. Hillier, Mr. Griffith is survived by 
three other daughters, Mrs. Phronia Parliament and Mrs. Byrde Broberg of West 
Branch, and Mrs. Ida Wilber of Detroit.  A sister-in-law, Mrs. Nellie Griffith 
of Rose City, six grand-children and six great grand-children also survive.  
Pallbearers were DeVere Parliament, Guy Fairchild, Paul Keniston, Maynard 
Noris and Ray Coultier, his grandsons, and Edward Cleary, a nephew.


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