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by flowering currant at Hutchinson House - married John Hutchinson (9/13/50-3/7/41)
Arvilla was the daughter of William H. Griffith/s(b. in NY in 1825) and Sophronia Swinning.last surviving member of the family of John and Roxana, her father being a British soldier in the War of 1812. Sophronia came "to the United States with her parents as a small child. Her girlhood was passed in the home of an aunt near the Cedars at Black Lake where she united with the [Lutheran] church of which she was a member at the time of her death, although for many years she was identified with the Methodist church of this village, her children being reared in the Methodist faith." (Ogdensburg Journal obituary). "Sopronia and William lived in Morristown all their married life with the exception of a few months in Alexandria Bay. "Mrs Griffiths has been closely connected with our village. In her younger days, before the advent of the trained nurse, she it was who responded to all calls of humanity. Not being a "trained nurse," she was a "born nurse" having the willing hand and sympathetic heart for all suffering. No night was too dark, no day too stormy to deter her from answering the call of the afflicted. In case of contagion, when others held aloof, a striken family always knew upon whom they could depend. She dressed our babies, cared for our sick, and prepared our dead for the grave. Very few of the older people of our village, but what can look back to the years that have gone, and recall some deed of kindness they received at her hand. Her children were all with her at the last, but Mrs. Dielo, who is caring for the aged father, who is very ill at her home in Canisteo, NY. Thus has the town lost one of its most respected citizens, and we know that while her life here was one of trial and sorrow, a brighter day has dawned for 'He giveth his beloved rest.' [Ogdensburg Journal - Morristown, October 7, 1907]
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