Alonzo Edwin Griffin (1855 - 1934)

Born 15 May 1855 in Governor's Harbour, Eleuthera, Bahamas

Ancestors

Died 24 Dec 1934 at age 79 in Miami-Dade County, Florida

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Alonzo Griffin is part of a Bahamian family.

Biography

Alonzo Edwin Griffin was born about 1855 at Governor's Harbour, Eleuthera, Bahamas to John Thomas Griffin and Ann Eliza Bethell Griffin.

He married Maria Selena Frances "Ida" Smith, daughter of Robert George Smith and Georgina Jamieson Smith. The couple had children - among them Gladys, Edwin Voorheis, Robert Tynes, Millard Owen, and Grace Marie Griffin.

By 1925, the Griffins had moved to Miami to join their children. They were residing with Grace Marie Griffin Pyfrom in 1930.

Alonzo Edwin Griffin died in Miami, Florida in 1934 at 79 years of age.

Sources

Bahamas Births, 1850-1891. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. The birth record of Gladys establishes a marriage between Alonzo and Ida Griffin.

U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 for Alonzo Griffin Florida, Miami, 1925, Miami, Florida, City Directory, 1925.

1930 United States Federal Census for Alonzo Griffin, Florida, Dade, Miami District, 0046.

Florida Death Index, 1877-1998, 1934, Miami for Alonzo E Griffin.

The Bahamas Law Reports: Supreme Court and Magisterial Court Cases : 1900 to 1906 [1] page 8-9