Introduction

Biography

Amanda was the daugh­ter of Bry­ant Cart­wright and Har­ri­ett Barn­a­by, and wife of John Al­ex­an­der Grif­fith (mar­ried in Mc­Do­nough Coun­ty, Il­li­nois). She had nine child­ren, in­clud­ing twins that died the day they were born. When she was preg­nant with John Arch­ie Grif­fith, her hus­band died.

She had been a teach­er earl­i­er, and re­turned to that ca­reer af­ter her hus­band’s death. She took her ba­by to school with her, and the old­er girls in the one room school would rock him and help care for him while she taught.

She moved from Mc­Do­nough Coun­ty to Den­ver, Co­lo­ra­do, about 1904.