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Mt. Hope Pioneer Cemetery ~ Minerva 'Jennie' Griffith
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Griffith, Minerva 'Jennie'
LAST: Griffith FIRST: Minerva MID: 'Jennie'
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE: Miss
BORN: 18 Nov 1865 DIED: 12 Jun 1904 BURIED: 14 Jun 1904
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Marion Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Waldo Hills, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
NOTE: Photo of Jennie Griffith, courtesy of Barbara Geisy;
OBITUARY: 
The unexpected death of Miss Jennie Griffith will cause universal sorrow throughout Marion County, where she has been so well and favorably known for her many kind qualities of heart and sunny disposition. She will be greatly missed in the famous Waldo Hills neighborhood, where she has so long been a central figure in social and educational circles. Always considerate of the wishes of others, helpful in every possible way where assistance was needed, the constant companion of her aged father and mother, and the light of the happy household, she passed away peacefully in the old homestead where she was born thirty-eight years ago. Following so closely the sad death of her sister, Mrs. Robert A. Miller, but one year ago, the afflictions to the family seem the harder to bear. Her friends were as numerous as her acquaintances and it can be truthfully said that “None knew her but to love her, Nor named her but to praise.” [uncited newspaper clipping]

Heart Failure Was Cause of Sudden Death of Miss Jennie Griffith, on Sunday. – Passed Away on Her Father’s Farm, ‘The Lilacs,’ in the Waldo Hills – She Was Noted For Her Skill and Success in Raising Chinese Pheasants. – Miss Jennie Griffith, who lives in the Waldo Hills, ten miles east of Salem, died yesterday morning of heart failure, aged 38 years. Death came very suddenly and was entirely unexpected, although she suffered from heart trouble for several years. She felt badly most of the week, but not until Saturday did the symptoms become alarming, and when she began to sink, no amount of restoratives were effective.
Miss Griffith was one of the best known ladies in Marion County, where she was born and raised. She has become famous on account of her success in conducting a farm for raising Chinese pheasants on a large scale. Hers was the largest and most successful farm of the kind in Oregon. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Griffith, are still living, residing on ‘The Lilacs,’ in the Waldo Hills, and besides she leaves three brothers, Dr. John C. Griffith, dentist of Salem, Dr. L. F. Griffith, of the Asylum, and Carl Griffith, who is studying medicine in Portland, and three sisters Mrs. L. H. McMahan, Salem, Mrs. G. A. Peebles, Weston, and Mrs. A. W. Giesy, Portland. Funeral services will be held at the farm residence in Waldo Hills on Tuesday at 1 o’clock p.m., conducted by Rev. P.S. Knight.
Oregon Statesman 14 Jun 1904 6:4.

Miss Jennie Griffith died at her home in the Waldo Hills Saturday night of heart disease after an illness of less than a week. Deceased was born in Marion County 38 years ago on the home place where she died. For many years deceased had suffered from heart trouble, but was always cheerful and was always known to all of her acquaintances for her sunny disposition. The old homestead in the Waldo Hills was named by her ‘The Lilacs,’ and is one of the landmarks of Marion County. –
The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at the residence, Rev. P. S. Knight officiating.
Capital Journal [undated]

A Tribute of Respect – The Funeral of Miss Jennie Griffith, who died at the family home in the Waldo Hills on Sunday, was held yesterday afternoon at 1 o’clock and after the services at the house the burial took place in the Warren Cemetery, about a mile east. It was one of the largest funerals ever held in Marion County, in point of attendance. There were probably a hundred carriages and buggies in the procession that wended its sorrowful way to the beautiful burial place among the oaks and overlooking one of the grandest nature pictures in all the West, with the foothills of the Cascades in the near background and Hood with its pure white mantle looking down an everlasting sentinel, and with the valley below clothed in its robes of verdure and bloom prophetic of the fruitage of the summer and autumn. The services at “The Lilacs,” the farm home, conducted by Rev. P. S. Knight, were impressive and eloquent with sincerity of feeling. He spoke of the forty years that have sped by since first he became acquainted with the family in the Waldo Hills, with the changes they have wrought. He told of the fact that his own daughter, now gone before, was a schoolmate and seat mate of Jennie Griffith, when they were girls together, and he was consoled with the thought and buoyed with the hope that they are now companions in the realms beyond the marge of the dark river, in the life elysian whose portals we call death. Mrs. Hinges sang at the house and at the grave, and a neighborhood company of singers also joined their voices in melodious tribute to their dead neighbor, friend, companion, and leader. When the graveside was reached and the dear form was lowered and the earth filled in and the mound covered with flowers, the tribute of love and friendship, the whole of the Waldo Hills country was represented in the sorrowing ones gathered there to all a word of comfort or pay a meed of respect and love for the one whose life had been a benediction, who lived in deeds, not in years, in thoughts, not in breaths, in feelings, not in figures on a dial – whose short life was filled up with loving service to family and friends in such measure that she will be missed and mourned as probably no other single one would be in all that beautiful country. And such a memory is a comfort to those left so comfortless. [uncited newspaper clipping]
INSCRIPTION: 
Jennie Griffith
Nov. 18, 1865 - June 12, 1904
SOURCES: 
Hellie, Mader & Rickey
Saucy
SJ 14 Jun 1904 6:4
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