. History of Clayton County, Iowa : from the earliest historical times down to the present : including a genealogical and biographical record of many representative families, prepared from data obtained from original sources of information. Revolution. Mrs. Nancy(Golden) Griffith was a daughter of John Golden, and her maternalgrandfather, James Eaton, was, with his family, among the fewsurvivors of the historic Indian massacre at Wyoming, Pennsylva-nia. David G. Griffith was the only child of his parents, and afterthe death of his mother his father contracted a second marriage,the one child of
. History of Clayton County, Iowa : from the earliest historical times down to the present : including a genealogical and biographical record of many representative families, prepared from data obtained from original sources of information. Revolution. Mrs. Nancy(Golden) Griffith was a daughter of John Golden, and her maternalgrandfather, James Eaton, was, with his family, among the fewsurvivors of the historic Indian massacre at Wyoming, Pennsylva-nia. David G. Griffith was the only child of his parents, and afterthe death of his mother his father contracted a second marriage,the one child of this union being a daughter Frances, who becamethe wife of Rensaeller D. Hubbard, of Mankato, Minnesota. DavidGolden Griffith was not yet nine years old at the time of his mothersdeath and thereafter he lived mainly with her kinsfolk, at Utica,New York, until the autumn of 1861. In the meanwhile he profitedfully by the advantages afforded in the Utica schools and there hadfinally entered upon a practical apprenticeship to the printers the 25th of October, 1861, about two weeks after he had cele-brated his sixteenth birthday anniversary, he enlisted for serviceas a soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He became a private. DAVID G. GRIFFITH ^HIBIP I l||rii« IHL N
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