Elizabeth Corbin Griffin Stewart
(1779?–1853)
BIRTH
1779 (?)
PLACE
NAME
Elizabeth Corbin Griffin
DEATH
1853
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Samuel Griffin
(1746-1810)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elizabeth Corbin Griffin Gatliff Campbell Stewart (c.1779–1853), daughter of Samuel Griffin and Elizabeth Braxton, married English merchant Samuel Gatliff at seventeen. Before thirty she was widowed with four children. Gilbert Stuart painted her holding her eldest daughter Elizabeth around 1798. She later married Ferdinand Campbell Stewart. Their son, physician Ferdinand Campbell Stewart, bequeathed the portrait to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
EARLY LIFE
Elizabeth Corbin Griffin is tentatively dated to 1779 in matched biographical accounts. She was a daughter of Samuel Griffin and Elizabeth Corbin Braxton, daughter of Carter Braxton. Her later married names included Gatliff and Campbell-Stewart. Colonial Williamsburg’s property history documents Elizabeth Gatlief living in Griffin’s house in 1809, supporting the family identity.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Corbin Griffin Gatliff Campbell Stewart is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth Corbin Griffin Gatliff Campbell Stewart died in 1853. Elizabeth Corbin Griffin Gatliff Campbell Stewart, daughter of Samuel Griffin and Elizabeth Braxton, married English merchant Samuel Gatliff at seventeen. Before thirty she was widowed with four children. Gilbert Stuart painted her holding her eldest daughter Elizabeth around 1798. She later married Ferdinand Campbell Stewart. Their son, physician Ferdinand Campbell Stewart, bequeathed the portrait to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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