Avis (Towner) Griswold (bef. 1800 - 1868)

Ancestors

Wife of Morgan Griswold — married [date unknown] in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Biography

Avis was born before 9/14/1800 and was christened on 9/14/1800 in Oxford Congregational Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT, USA. She is the daughter of Joseph Towner and Mary Bronson.

Avis married Morgan Griswold.

She passed away in 1868. Burial was in the Southford Cemetery in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut.^[1] Her tombstone states she was the wife of Morgan Griswold.

Sources

1. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKZ-VFHD : 11 July 2016), Avis Towner Griswold, 1868; Burial, Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Southford Cemetery; citing record ID 43687045, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• 1850 Oxford Census.

• 1860 Oxford Census.

• Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 45. "GRISWOLD, Marvin, of Litchfield, m. Avis TOWNER, of Oxford, [ ], by Rev. Abraham Brown, Recorded Nov. 22, 1834."

• James William Towner, A Genealogy of the Towner Family; The Descendants of Richard Towner, Who Came From Sussex County, Eng., to Guilford, Conn., before 1685, Los Angeles, Cal.: Times-Mirror Prtg. and Binding House, 1910. http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogyoftowne00town/genealogyoftowne00town_djvu.txt.

• W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 27. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/027.html.

• Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Southford Cemetery (Southford Cemetery), p. 31. http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan31.html.

• Southford Cemetery Photograph - Oxford CT. http://oxfordpast.net/cem11362.html.

• Compiled by Carole Magnuson, Barbour Collection - Oxford, p. 76. " ... by Rev. Abraham Brown."