SENATOR HENRY W. GRIFFITH

                                         

                                         

Senator Henry W. Griffith was born on January 11, 1897, in Palmyra, Wayne County, New York, the son of Senator Frederick W. Griffith (1858 to 1928) and Mary (Adams) Griffith.  He graduated from Palmyra High School in 1914 and in absentia from Hamilton College in 1918.  During World War 1, he was a second lieutenant of field artillery of the U. S. Army.  In 1925 he married Agnes McLouth and they had four daughters.  He published the Palmyra Courier - Journal, a weekly newspaper.

Griffith was a member of New York State Senate from 1939 until 1950.  In 1950 he ran for re-nomination but was defeated in the Republican primary by George R. Metcalf.

He died on July 21, 1956 while on a fishing trip at his lodge in Ontario, Canada of a heart attack.

The top grave stone is Senator Henry W. Griffith's and is in the Griffith Cemetery area.  The second grave tone is of his wife, Agnes McLouth Griffith, but is not located next her her husband's.  Agnes Griffith is buried in the McLouth section of the cemetery - as she requested. 

The third grave stone is their daughter's Agnes E. Griffith  who is still alive as you can see on the grave stone.  There are two of these grave stones - one next to her Father's grave and one next to her Mother's grave.