P O R T R A I T S
Ursula, Genevieve
Vincent
Edwin Earl & Evelyn
Children of Edwin and Jane Rennell Griffitts. My grandfather is seated in the front row next to Evelyn.
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My great grandparents, Edwin Snively and Jane Rennell Griffitts. Photo taken on their wedding day in 1893, Alameda, California.
Born in 1873, Edwin Snively Griffitts
carved replicas of the twenty-one
California Missions. His woodcarvings
were exhibited at the 1939-1940 San
Francisco International Expo at Treasure
Island.
Edwin was a butcher by trade. He was a
free spirit. This led him to traveling the
West where he worked as a prospector in
the gold mines and fished for salmon in
Alaska.
Edwin lived an extremely simple
lifestyle which continued into his later
years and was necessitated in part by
his divorce from his wife, Jane. Edwin
passed away in 1942.
© 1999 Laura Campbell
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