OBIT:   GRIFFITH, Edward; 1908; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 21 Aug 1908
Volume 42, Number 32


The Death of Edward Griffith 
After Much Suffering Venerable Ebensburger Finally Succumbs

Edward Griffith, one of the most highly respected citizens of this place, after weeks of 
suffering, died at his residence on High street on Sunday morning last in the sixty-ninth 
year of his age.

Mr. Griffith was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Griffith and was born in Cambria 
Township.  When about fifteen years of age he sustained an injury to his left leg by the 
bursting of a fly wheel of a horse-power wood-sawing machine he was helping to 
operate and for years, this hurt was the cause of much suffering until finally last fall he 
had Dr. F. C. Jones of this place amputate the leg near the knee.  The operation was 
successful but as he had about recovered from the operation, he contracted a cold 
which settled on his lungs from which congestion followed and after weeks of suffering, 
his robust constitution at last succumbed to the ravages of the disease.

Mr. Griffith was married about forty years ago to Miss Catharine Evans and followed the 
vocation of a farmer until about 1880 after which he moved to Ebensburg and carried on 
the grocery business until about three years ago when he retired.

Besides his wife, Mr. Griffith is survived by one sister, Mrs. Sarah Davis of Wilkesbarre 
and his nieces, Mrs. Mattie Kerbey and Mrs. J. G. Lloyd of this place.

The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon after services in the Congregational church in 
this place and an eloquent sermon by the pastor, Rev. J. Twyson Jones, eulogistic of the 
character of the deceased as a man, a neighbor, a husband and a Christian, after which 
interment was made in Lloyd's cemetery, the large concourse of relatives and friends in 
attendance at the funeral being ample testimony of the esteem in which the deceased 
was held in the community.

Mrs. Sarah Davis, a sister of the deceased and the only surviving member of the family 
and her son, Wallace, of Wilkes-Barre (sic) and Howard Evans, a nephew whom Mr. 
Griffith and his wife raised from childhood, who now resides in Pittsburg and his wife 
were also present at the funeral.