OBIT: Stanley GRIFFITH, 1915, Jenners Cross Roads, Somerset County, PA

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Griffith, Stanley

JENNERS MAN COMMITTS SUICIDE.  Within sight of his two month old baby daughter, 
Stanley Griffith, 27 years old, shot and killed himself about 10 o'clock Tuesday 
morning in his home at Jenners Cross Roads. The fatal shot frightened the baby, 
and its screams attracted the mother, who was working at the home of her sister, 
Mrs. Lloyd Maust, only a short distance away. When the mother and others reached 
the Griffith home, they found Mr. Griffith lying close to the baby with a rifle 
near him and blood coming from his nose and from a hole in the forehead. The 
unfortunate man had used a 22 caliber rifle. Alcoholism is given as the cause of 
the rash deed. Mr. Griffith had been employed in the mines at Jenners No. 2, but 
had not been working for several days. Besides his wife and two children, the 
man is survived by his mother, Mrs. Jesse Griffith, and by these brothers and 
sisters: Dibert, John, Marsh, James and Chester; Mrs. Lloyd Maust, Mrs. Frank 
Shaffer and Mrs. Harry Mowery, all of that locality except James who is in the 
West.

Meyersdale Commercial, Sept. 2, 1915