Nancy J Griffin 1830

Nancy J Griffin was born in about 1830 the daughter of James N and Jemima Griffin. She like her sister Phebe died as young mothers. There is no death record for Nancy. The hint that she had died comes from the 1850 census, which shows as part of the James N Griffin, age 64, household her two children Nancy J Dix age 2 and Charles A Dix age 7/12. In the same 1850 census Chauncey Dix, joiner, is living in his hometown of Wethersfield as a boarder. My interpretation of this information is that Nancy had passed away and her husband had left her children in the care of her parents. In 1861 there is a listing for Chauncey in the Harford City Directory but he and the two children do not appear in the record books after that date. Their fate remains a mystery. In the records in Clinton we have two references to her marriage to Chauncey B Dix. They married February 25, 1849 his age 23 hers 19 the marriage performed by the Congregational minister E L Huntington. In all of the records Chauncey is identified as a “joiner”. A record of the birth of her son Charles A has also survived. He was born November 30, 1849