Person:Silas Griffith (1)

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 Text: About Superior Court Judge Griffith

Silas Washington Griffith was born in Maryland ca. 1835. He was 49 years old in 1884 when he appeared in the

Amador County Gr. Reg. His daughter Mrs. Thomas Atwell tells That he crossed the plains to California in 1861.

From the Sacramento Union Aug 2 1886 page 4 col 3:

S.W. Griffith, Superior Court Judge of Amador County, died Saturday night ‎{July 31, 1886}‎ from

apoplexy, after an illness of ten days.

See also Amador Dispatch, Aug 7 1886, page 3 col 2

See also Amador Co. Archives:

8279.6 State of California, Executive Department, certification election of S W Griffith as judge of Superior Court,

Amador, for six years, from and after first Monday in January, 1885, signed George Stoneman, Governor;

Griffith documents

1.   Cleveland, Edmund Janes, and Horace Gillette Cleveland. The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: an attempt to trace, in both the male and the female lines, the posterity of Moses¹ Cleveland who came from Ipswich, County Suffolk, England, about 1635, was of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; of Alexander Cleveland of Prince William County, Virginia; and of ancient and other Clevelands in England, America and elsewhere; with numerous biographical sketches; and containing ancestries of many of the husbands and wives; also a bibliography of the Cleveland family and a genealogical account of Edward Winn of Woburn and of other Winn families. (Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1899)
   Vol. II, 1899.
2.   Amador Co., in 1870 CA Census.
3.   http://paulyfamily.org/individual.php?pid=I2147483730&ged=paulyrockwell.ged, in Pauly Rockwell Cleveland Boncquet and allied families.