Rhoda wife of Dan Griffin of Westford, Vermont

Dan Griffin’s first wife Catherine died in 1821. She is buried in the Brookside Cemetery in Westford, VT with her daughter Julia and son Charles. At some point after her death Dan remarried. Starting in the 1850 census his 2nd wife is identified as Rhoda. Census records place Rhoda’s date of birth in about 1782 born in New York. There is not a documentary trail for Rhoda in Westford. She is present in the 1860 census. Dan died in 1863 and there is no trace of her in a 1870 census. There are some intriguing documents that are found in Michigan for a Rhoda Griffin. In the mortality schedule for the 1870 census taken in Marion, Livingston, Michigan there is a death record for a Rhoda Griffin. The document places her death in October of 1869. It indicates that she was a widow born in 1782 in New York. There is a transcription of a Michigan death record for the same person. The transcription misspells her name as Rody. It gives her date of death as October 5, 1869. It indicates that she was 87 years old, a widow, born in 1782 in New York. It also lists her parents, Isaac and Maryette Serbuer.