Obituaries
GEORGE FLETCHER GRIFFITH
A GREENE CO, IN. NEWSCLIPPING, 1924
FOUND DEAD IN A CHAIR
CIVIL WAR BIBLE TREASURED THROUGHOUT LIFE.
BORN IN COUNTY OF GREENE
The funeral of George Fletcher Griffith, 83 years of age, who died Friday, brought to Worthington Sunday afternoon mourning friends, relatives from town and country, who filled the Methodist Episcopal church in the afternoon.Burial was in Worthington cemetery, where the local lodge of Odd Fellows to which he belonged, conducted services.The lifeless body was found in a chair at the home of a daughter, Mrs. George Secrest, with whom he had lived for the last 12 years.He had been ill but a few days. On the night before he had told members of the family he felt better and for them to retire.On going into Mr. Griffith's room the following morning, George Secrest found Mr. Griffith's body seated in a chair. His head drooped on his chest. Dr. J. W. Clifford was summoned and found life had been extinct for several hours. Mr. Griffith, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Adams Griffith, was born in Greene county, on May 4, 1841.All of his life, he was a resident of Greene county. During the Civil war he served three years and nearly six months with the Union forces. His honorable discharge is dated April 1865.In November of the third year after completing his army service, Mr. Griffith married Catherine Myers.He joined the Methodist Episcopal church at the old Point Commerce church when a young man. The Bible interested him in the remaining days of his life. A Testament, which he carried through his war experiences was treasured and used as long as he was able. His last reading is believed by relatives to have been a passage from St. Matthews:"Servant of God, well done. Rest in the peace of a long and useful life.""His wife died in 1900 and for 12 years, his daughter, Gertrude kept house for him. Following her marriage in 1912 he made his home with her.At the funeral the address was delivered by Rev. Chas. A. McCullough local Methodist pastor. Songs were sung by two quartets; one with C. E. Hines, Mrs. C. L. Ingersoll, Mrs. Charles Myers and Rev. McCullough, as members and the other composed of Julian Moreland, David and Paul McKinney and Boyd Mitten. Mrs. T. C. Love was organist.He is survived by the daughter, Mrs. Secrest; two sons, Raleigh Griffith, Los Angeles; John H. Griffith, Carrier Mills, Ill., a brother, John Griffith and five sister, Mrs. Anna Danely, Mrs. Prescilla Irions, of Wharton, New Jersey; Mrs. Martha Coultern, Mrs. Amanda Switzer and Mrs. Laura Yockey of Buena Vista, Colo.
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