Greenville County ScArchives Marriages.....Griffith, Matilda - Grant, John July 1869
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"The Abbeville Press"
Abbeville, South Carolina

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, JULY 16, 1869

MARRIAGE AFTER THIRTY-THREE YEAR ENGAGEMENT

On Sunday last, Miss Matilda GRIFFITH, who has long been a respected 
resident of Greenville, and Mr. John GRANT Of Ireland, were married at the 
residence of the former by Rev. E.T. Buist. The Greensville, S.C. Enterprise 
says:

The incident is a pleasing one; a romantic history attaches. Thirty-three 
years have fled since the parties became engaged, nor have they seen each 
other in that time and during a long portion of it, were ignorant of each 
other's whereabouts. They were both attached, when mere children in their 
native Ireland; but when the engagement became known, the families of both 
were opposed to it from opposive religious views and the family of Miss 
Griffith, contrived to send her against her will to the United States.

Mr. Grant, all disconsolate, enlisted in the British Army, not being aware 
of first whither the lady had gone. His career as a soldier continued 
twenty-six years; in the meanwhile, he fought through the terrible Sepoy 
rebellion in India, making as many hair-breadth escapes in the imminent 
deadly beaches of Othello. He returned to England some three or four years 
ago and having in the meantime had some correspondence with the lady by 
letter, for his devotion never faltered, he sailed for this country. She was 
on her voyage at the same time to old Ireland, and the ships passed each 
other.

He found his way to the great West, and having been prostrated by cholera, 
and losing the means brought with him, he went to Montana. Last Friday he 
arrived by the cars in Greenville, suddenly and unheralded and sought the 
house of Miss Griffith, who knew him instantly on sight, but he did not 
recognize her in the same manner, for she had changed from a fragile girl to 
the mature woman. Of course she was agitated and overjoyed as he was, and 
there being no longer any impediment, an immediate marriage was determined 
on. The result was their union on Sunday, as before stated."

Additional Comments:
1870 Census - Ward No. 1, in Greenville, Greenville Co., SC; pg. 622B
HH as of June 1, 1870 - Enumerated Aug. 1, 1870

#40-43
John Grant, 54, M W, Armourer, $200 / $100, Ireland, father & mother of foreign 
birth
Matilda Grant, 52, F W, Dress-maker, Ireland, father & mother of foreign birth
Matilda Griffith, 5, F W, SC
Margaret Flemming, 18, F B, house servant, SC
Anne P. Flemming, 7 mos, F M, SC, b. Nov

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