Notes for Maryette GRIFFITH
http://www.centerplace.org/history/ch/v4ch40.htm
The Autobiography of John H. Lake
"In November, 1858, I was married to Miss Maryette Griffith. We left Iowa and went to Missouri, and commenced keeping house in Etna, Scotland County, Missouri, and I worked at carpentering.
The spring of 1860 my wife's father, Duty Griffith, was living with us. His wife was dead, and he had been living with his son. Up to this date I had never made any profession of religion, though I had been raised by religious parents. Father and his folks were Methodists; and mother's people were of the Baptist faith. Mother was baptized in New York State when she was a young lady. But I never heard any system of religion that suited me, and never expected to do so. I did not know what kind of religion I wanted. But I knew what I had heard did not suit me. I had been so foolish as to say I expected to live and die dancing; it was good enough a religion for me. I was bound to have a good time in this life, and leave the result with the power that ruled the future."
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