Individual Details

This child was found as Minerva when she first appeared in a census. Family tradition, obits, etc. give her name later as Emma. In 1900, she was listed as Emily J. Allen. The 1910 census indicates her birth year as 1875, matching earlier censuses, and makes it seems likely Minerva and Emma were one and the same. She was likely named for her grandmother whose name was Emilia or Emily Minerva.
In 1910, Emma stated that she had been married 4 years, had 3 children, 3 living.
Beaver Twp, Haskell Co, OK
George W. Griffith, 29, married 2 times, this time for 4 years
Emma, wife, 35, married 1 time for 4 years, 3 children
Lonnie, son, 9
May, dau, 7 (Lonnie & May were not Emma's children)
Clyde, son 1 years, 7 month
Audie, son, 2 months old
Maudie, dau, 2 months old

1920 Census. Checotah, McIntosh Co, OK, Hh 29
George W. Griffith, 39, b. MO
Minerva E. J., wife, 45, b. AR
Lonnie R., son, 19, b. MO
Cloddy M., dau, 16, b. MO
Clyde W., son, 11, b. OK
Auda F., son, 9, b. OK
Maudie F., dau, 9, b. OK
Edgar L., son, 6, b. OK

In 1926, in Porter Allen's obituary, there is mention of a daughter, Mrs. George W. Griffith and grandchildren, Clyde, Audy, Maudie & Edgar Griffith. Apparently Edgar was born after 1910.

1930 Census. Vineland Prec, Kern Co, CA, Hh 24
Emma Griffith, 55, married at age 31, b. AR
Clyde, son, 21, b. OK
Audie, son, 20, b. OK
Edgar, son, 17, b. OK
Apparently George was not living with the family - he wasn't deceased. The sons were all working as farm labor.

Buried Union Cemetery, Bakersfield, Kern, CA.

Birth	Nov 1874	Arkansas
Marriage	1906	George Washington Griffith
Death	1937	Kern County, California

Spouse	George Washington Griffith (1880 - 1957)
Child	Clyde Washington Griffith (1908 - 1989)
Child	Audie Franklin Griffith (1910 - 1967)
Child	Maudie Frances Griffith (1910 - 1976)
Child	Edgar Lee Griffith (1913 - 1976)

Father	Peter B. P. "Port" Allen (1846 - 1926)
Mother	Mary F. Dunagan (1846 - 1912)
Sibling	Edward\Edwin Franklin Allen (1869 - 1953)
Sibling	Charles Henry Allen (1872 - 1926)
Sibling	Myron Marshall Allen (1882 - )
Sibling	Porter Emett Allen (1885 - )
Sibling	Mary Etta Allen (1889 - 1931)