TBD

While much was revealed with this new research, not all was resolved. As a result, some mysteries and inconsistencies remain for future Griffith biographers to explore, chief among them:

Birthdate/immigration. No birth certificate exists among the Griffith Family Papers to confirm Griffith’s claim of being born on January 4, 1850, and British censuses are not definitive as several young Griffith Griffith’s are recorded around that time. Griffith also wrote that he first arrived in America in the winter of 1866 aboard the “City of London” steamship, but no records have been found to confirm that.

Mexico mine investment. It’s clear that Griffith traveled at least twice to Chihuahua, once with his wife and son, and that he had invested in a silver mine there, but which and for how much are not known.

Briswalter property transactions. While newspaper records show Tina inherited two Briswalter lots, how Griffith subdivided them and then how much they sold for are not completely clear. Neither is it clear what other properties Griffith bought with the sales of Briswalter land.

Stepmother’s gravesite. Griffith bought a large plot at Hollywood Cemetery in 1902 and it was reported that when his stepmother died she would be buried there, but her name does not appear on any headstone and the current cemetery owners have no record of her being buried there.