Marcus Griffin

Marcus Griffin

• Father: Jay Griffin b. circa 6 August 1810, d. 29 October 1851
• Mother: Sarah Bennett b. circa 6 September 1815, d. 8 January 1880

• Marcus Griffin was born circa 1847 in New York.
• Jay Griffin and Sarah Bennett appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Philipstown, Putnam County, New York, enumerated near the household of widower Benjamin Odell. Other members of the household included Marcus Griffin, Jacob N. Griffin and Bennett A. Griffin. Also in the household were children Phebe A. (age 16), Martha J. (11), John W. (7), George R. (5) and Annie (4 months.)
• Benjamin Odell and Sarah Bennett appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Philipstown, New York, enumerated near the household of Sarah's son Jacob Griffin.. Other members of the household included Marcus Griffin, Benjamin Odell Jr., Sarah Frances Griffin, Ellen Odell and Eunice Odell.
• Sarah Bennett appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Philipstown, New York, enumerated next to the household of her son Jacob.. Other members of the household included Marcus Griffin, Bennett A. Griffin, Sarah Frances Griffin, Ellen Odell and Eunice Odell.
• The following appeared on 5 June 1897 in the Putnam County Republican: Mrs. Amy Wanless, wife of Richard Wanless, died at her home in Asbury Park, N. J., on Tuesday of last week, from apoplexy, after a brief illness. Mrs. Wanless was born in Philipstown, Putnam Co., in 1850, and after her first marriage to William Rolfe, resided in Peekskill until the death of her husband in 1885. In 1892 she was married to Mr. Wanless and went to reside in New Jersey. The deceased is survived by two children by her first husband, Charles Rolfe, a carpenter, who resides in Peekskill, and Mrs. Frred. Hyatt, of New Canaan, Conn., and her husband, three brothers, John, Marcus and Jacob N. Griffin of Putnam Valley, and also Mrs. Willian Woolcock, of Sterlington. Mrs. Wanless' father, two brothers, Willian Henry, George and Mrs. Elvin Chase, all died from the same complaint, apoplexy. The remains were brought to Peekskill on Thursday and the funeral services were held from the residence of Mr. Edward Woolcock on Depew St. Interment at.
• The following appeared on 2 October 1897 in The Highland Democrat: (Peekskill) The funeral services of Sarah F. Woolcock, wife of William T. Woolcock, of Sterlington, Rockland county, N. Y., were held in this village on Tuesday afternoon, the remains interred at Van Courtlandtville. She died at her home in Sterlington of paralysis, after a brief illness on Saturday last. She was the daughter of the late Jay and Sarah F. Griffin, and was born in Philipstown, Putnam county, on June 13, 1852, and was 45 years, 3 months and 14 days old. About twenty years ago she joined the South street M. E. church. She was a sister of Jacob Griffin, of Oregon, John Griffin and Marcus Griffin of this place and a half sister of Mrs. Edwin Woolcock of Depew street. She leaves a husband and seven children, five sons, Edward, Charles, Richard and George [and] McGrane, and two daughters, Ella and Addie.
• Marcus Griffin died on 24 February 1908.
• He was interred at Hillside Cemetery, Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County, New York.

• Last Edited: 5 Feb 2015