About Superior Court Judge Griffith
Silas Washington Griffith was born in Maryland ca. 1835. He was 49 years old in 1884 when he appeared in the
Amador County Gr. Reg. His daughter Mrs. Thomas Atwell tells That he crossed the plains to California in 1861.
From the Sacramento Union Aug 2 1886 page 4 col 3:
S.W. Griffith, Superior Court Judge of Amador County, died Saturday night {July 31, 1886} from
apoplexy, after an illness of ten days.
See also Amador Dispatch, Aug 7 1886, page 3 col 2
See also Amador Co. Archives:
8279.6 State of California, Executive Department, certification election of S W Griffith as judge of Superior Court,
Amador, for six years, from and after first Monday in January, 1885, signed George Stoneman, Governor;