MR. JOHN J. GRIFFITHS, MANKATO, BLUE EARTH COUNTY, MINNESOTA.
Born at the village of Cricieth, Carnarvonshire, Wales, July 10, 1825. His parents, John and Jane Griffiths, removed when he was six years old to Llanllyfni.At the age of twenty years he left home and spent two years in Conway and vicinity. In the spring of 1847 he emigrated to Boston, Massechusetts, and remained there and at Quincy until fall, when he went to Utica, N. Y., for four months, and then returned to Boston. In the fall of 1848 he removed to Columbus township, Dodge county,Wisconsin,where he purchased a farm. He continued, however, to follow the stone mason trade for a few years after this — working seven summers on the Institute for the Blind at Janesville, Wisconsin, and three years bridge building for the Chicago and Galena Railway at Rockford and Scales Mound, Illinois. He also spent one winter at New Orleans.
November 6th, 1855, at New Diggins, Wisconsin, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Jenkins, of Pontyrwy, Cardiganshire, Wales, who had emigrated to Wisconcin in 1841.
Selling his farm at Columbus he reached Mankato March 15, 1869, and soon settled on a large farm in Judson. In November, 1886, he retired from his farm to Mankato, where he and his good wife now reside in good circumstances and much esteemed for their integrity of character. Their children are: John R., Jane A., wife of F. A. Peterson, of Chicago, William, Edward and Spencer.
Hanes Cymry Minnesota, Foreston a Lime Springs, Iowa.
MR. JOHN J. GRIFFITHS,, MANKATO, BLUE EARTH COUNTY, MINNESOTA.
Mehefin yr 2il, bu farw yr hen frawd John J. Griffiths yn nghartref ei ferch, Mrs. F. A. Petersen, 2726 W. Adams St., yn 89 mlwydd oed.Bu yn gorwedd am ddau fis, a derbyniodd bob gofal oddiar ddwylaw ei ferch a'r teulu.
Ganwyd ef yn Criccieth, sir Gaernarfon, Gorphenaf 10fed, 1824. Bu yn trigianu hefyd am gyfnod yn Ty'nypant, Llanllyfni.
Yn y wlad hon bu yn ymgartrefu yn Mankato, Minnesota, am gyfnod hir. Bu yn briod ddwywaith. Ei wraig gyntaf ydoedd Elizabeth Jenkins, Columbus, Wisconsin; a'r ail, Ann Pritchard o'r un man. O'r briodas ddiweddaf mae pump o blant yn fyw, sef Mrs. F. A. Petersen, Spencer, William, John ag Edward, y ddau ddiweddaf yn trigo yn Mankato, Minnesota.
Gwasanaethwyd yma gan y Parchn. J. C. Jones a John E. Jones a Mr. C. J. Balf. Claddwyd yn Mankato, Minnesota, lle y gwasanaethwyd gan y Parch. Wm. E. Evans. Mae i'r teulu a pherthynasau ein cydymdeimlad llwyraf yn eu profedigaeth.