Allegheny County PA Archives Obituaries.....GRIFFITHS, Jabez January 18, 1898
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  Patricia Strawmyer pstrawmy@hotmail.com December 26, 2006, 3:50 pm
  
  McKeesport Daily News
  Capt. Jabez Griffiths died at 2:15 o'clock this morning at the family 
  residence, 313 Penny avenue, aged 52 years.
  
  He had been ailing for the past six months. Last fall he spent eight days at 
  the South Side hospital, Pittsburgh, where an operation was to have been 
  performed, but upon investigation it was considered unwise and the patient 
  returned home.  Since then he has been confined to his home a great sufferer 
  and his condition gradually becoming worse.
  
  This morning the doctor held an autopsy and ascertained that Capt. Griffiths' 
  death was cuased by a cancer.
  
  Captain Griffiths spend his whole life in this vicinty, living for many years 
  at Camden.  He was a riverman all his life and was well known in Louisville, 
  Cincinnati and in most of the river towns.  He was a member of the Masters' 
  and Pilots' association of Pittsburgh and of Allegheny Lodge No. 375. F & A 
  Masons and Vigilant circle, No. 141, Protected Home Circle.  He is survived by 
  a wife, one sone, John S. and four daughters, Sadie, (Mrs. William Menke, of 
  Homestead), Laura, Minnie and Mabel.
  
  Funeral services will be held at the First M. E. church, Thursday afternoon at 
  2:30 o'clock.  Rev. Eaton and hatch officiating. The interment will be in 
  Richland cemetery, Dravosburg.  Friends and relatives are respectfully invited 
  to attend the funeral.
  
  Additional Comments:
  Capt. Jabez Griffiths was one of the six Union soldiers that carried President 
  Abraham Lincoln's body from Ford's Theater to the Peterson House, after 
  President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth.
  
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