Andrew J. McConkey

    Andrew J. McConkey, is a representative of one of the old pioneer families of this part of Indiana, and was born in Washington Township, Blackford County, 31 July 1848, where he was reared on the home farm, and educated in the schools of his neighborhood. He has always lived in his native county, and has seen it change from a wilderness into its present flourishing condition of well cultivated fields and prosperous towns and villages.

    He was united in marriage 17 April 1886, to Miss Elizabeth Griffith, who was born 17 July 1859, in Washington Township, Blackford County, where she was reared to womanhood, a daughter of John A. and Mary A. (Crandel) Griffith. Her father was born 27 May 1838, and when a babe brought by his parents to Wells County, Indiana, where he was reared and married, and is still making his home in this county. The mother of Mrs. McConkey who was born 24 October 1839, is also living. Mr. and Mrs. Griffith have had born to them three children -Mrs. McConkey; Alice E., who died in 1872, at the age of eleven years, and Ossian B., who died in 1870, aged seven years.

Source: Biographical and Historical Record of Jay and Blackford Counties, Indiana by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887.