Lizzie was the daughter of Jeddediah and Sarah Griffith. When Jedediah died in 1849, Sarah married Kemuel S. Holbrook, a widower with two sons. K.S. Holbrook was a lumberman, and moved his family along with Sarah's widowed mother, Sarah Arms, to Winona. Lizzie took her step-father's name.
According to her obituary in the Winona Republican, Lizzie was "naturally of a delicate constitution," and "her health utterly gave way under the strain to which it was subjected by her unremitting devotion and attention to her father during a long sickness which finally resulted in his death some six weeks ago."
According to her obituary in the Winona Republican, Lizzie was "naturally of a delicate constitution," and "her health utterly gave way under the strain to which it was subjected by her unremitting devotion and attention to her father during a long sickness which finally resulted in his death some six weeks ago."
Lizzie was the daughter of Jeddediah and Sarah Griffith. When Jedediah died in 1849, Sarah married Kemuel S. Holbrook, a widower with two sons. K.S. Holbrook was a lumberman, and moved his family along with Sarah's widowed mother, Sarah Arms, to Winona. Lizzie took her step-father's name.
According to her obituary in the Winona Republican, Lizzie was "naturally of a delicate constitution," and "her health utterly gave way under the strain to which it was subjected by her unremitting devotion and attention to her father during a long sickness which finally resulted in his death some six weeks ago."
According to her obituary in the Winona Republican, Lizzie was "naturally of a delicate constitution," and "her health utterly gave way under the strain to which it was subjected by her unremitting devotion and attention to her father during a long sickness which finally resulted in his death some six weeks ago."
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