On Tuesday afternoon Prof. J.W. Griffin, one of Rutherford county’s well known men and a leader in the county’s educational field, passed away at his home on the old Griffin Plantation on Forest City, Route 2.
About a year ago he was stricken with paralysis. His health began failing. Cancer later developed and that, with a complication of other diseases, caused his death.
He began teaching in the county schools at an early age and had made the cause of education his life’s work. He was a teacher in Forest City’s first school and had taught in practically every school in the county as well as in a number of schools in western and central North Carolina.
About 18 years ago he was married to Miss Mary Byers of Ellenboro. She, too, had assisted him in his profession of teaching and was a teacher in the Forest City schools until her husband’s health made it necessary for her to resign a short time ago.
Surviving are his wife, one daughter, Miss Elizabeth, one son, Frank; two sisters, Mrs. C.W. Callahan of Rutherfordton and Mrs. W.E. Fagan of Spartanburg; three brothers, George W. of Forest City, R-2, Lewis W. and J.L. of Spindale, also survive.
The funeral was conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. from Pleasant Grove Methodist Church and he was later laid to rest in the church cemetery.
From the front page of the Forest City Courier, Thursday, Jan. 8, 1925.
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