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John Kimple Griffith

Birth	:	23 Jan 1853
Death	:	26 Feb 1932
Burial	:	Burwood Cemetery, Escalon, San Joaquin County, USA
Coordinate	:	37.7616997, -120.9593964
Description	:	J.K. GRIFFITH DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Funeral services for J.K. Griffith were held at the home at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon conducted by Rev. E.C. Wolters, Messrs. Fred Cones, Harold Stodard, and J.A. Lett furnished the music and the Odd Fellow lodge had charge of the services at the graveside. Burial was in the Burlingame cemetery. John Kimple Griffith was born in Smicksburg, Pennsylvania, January 23, 1853. His death occurred at his home in Burlingame, Kansas, February 26, 1932, he having but recently reached the age of 79 years. He was the second in a family of eleven children, five... Read More	J.K. GRIFFITH DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Funeral services for J.K. Griffith were held at the home at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon conducted by Rev. E.C. Wolters, Messrs. Fred Cones, Harold Stodard, and J.A. Lett furnished the music and the Odd Fellow lodge had charge of the services at the graveside. Burial was in the Burlingame cemetery. John Kimple Griffith was born in Smicksburg, Pennsylvania, January 23, 1853. His death occurred at his home in Burlingame, Kansas, February 26, 1932, he having but recently reached the age of 79 years. He was the second in a family of eleven children, five of whom survive. In his early youth Mr. Griffith was baptized in the Baptist church and held to that faith. He grew to manhood in Pa. There he attended college and taught school for a year or so, and afterward engaged in farming. In Pa. he also was married to Miss Margaret M. Schall in 1877. In 1880 he came west in company with his brother-in-law, Scott Fitzgerald, and Cyrus Wells, and all three purchased farms around Burlingame and settled here. After a time Mr. Griffith gave up active farming and for a while operated the Burkeville coal shaft east and south of town with D.J. Fair and H.D. Mossbarger. The house on the corner of East Hale Street had been his home for the past 45 years. He was always interested in civic affairs and served on the city council during the administrations of C.F. Varner and W.K. Hanna. For twenty-eight years Mr. Griffith was familiar figure in the rural districts roundabout Burlingame because of the huckster business he carried on, calling upon his farmer friends with a load of groceries and dry goods to exchange farm produce. One has only to hark back to the conditions of country roads in those days and the slow progress to be made with team and wagon to appreciate the hardships he endured to meet his patrons. Failing health compelled him to give up his trips about eleven years ago. Politically Mr. Griffith was always a staunch Socialist and strange to say, many of the views held to be so radical by the early day Socialists have been incorporatedby other political parties since that time. For many years he had been a member of the Odd Fellows lodge and that order performed his burial rites. He wasa good neighbor and a good citizen, kindly disposed to his famiily and friends. Though for many months he had been feeble in health he was given ever care and attention by his wife and daughters. Mr. Griffith is survived by his wife; and two daughters, Miss Vernie Griffith of the home, and Mrs. Beulah Carey; one grandson, John Carey; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Fitzgerald of Kansas City, Kansas, Mrs. Anna Rogers of Denver, Colo.; three brothers, Evan and George of Smicksburg, Pennsylvania, and Phillip Griffith of Cozard, Nebraska. The last named brother was present at the funeral.

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Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Margaret S. Schall Griffith

(1853 - 1942)

Siblings

Phillip Siegler Griffith

(1868 - 1951)

Children

Vernie Griffith Hayson

(1879 - 1954)

Beulah Griffith Carey

(1893 - 1978)

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