Annabelle Griffin was born on this date in 1887 in St Paul Nebraska - the middle child of three of Ira and Myra (Davis) Griffin.  Ira and Myra had been living in Jackson Missouri according to the 1880 US Census. At some point in the '80's they moved to Nebraska, probably with his older half brother Lewis.

By 1903 Anna and her parents and siblings had moved to Grand Island living at 1401 N. 1st.  By this time Anna's mother had died (1891) and her father Ira had married Sarah Nicholas and their home must have been quite active as now, the 1890's version of the "Brady Bunch" consisted of Sarah's three children and Ira's three children.

The Griffin's moved again in 1904 - this time on W. 1st Street and the City Directory showed Anna working at the Nebraska Mercantile Company - she was 17.

On Sep 17, 1907 Annabelle Griffin married Wilhelm Jacob Adolph Fleischer - an employee of the Union Pacific Railroad.  Anna and William were married in Omaha Nebraska.  Shortly after their marriage they moved to San Bernadino California, where their son Kenneth was born.

William's father, John was experiencing difficult health issues and William and Anna moved back to Nebraska to help his mother Anna.  In 1911 their second child - Leonard was born. They remained in Grand Island until they moved to Columbus Nebraska.  Briefly they lived in Schenectady NY where William was working on a heavy locomotive for the Union Pacific.

Pershing Road must have been a busy place for Grandma and Grandpa Fleischer - they lived right between their two sons and all their grandchildren.  

Grandma Belle died in 1964 and is buried in Grand Island Nebraska at the Grand Island City Cemetery.

On July 5 1782 Abiah Knapp was born to Reverend Eleazer and Statira Knapp, in Whiting Vermont.  Abiah had a couple of sisters - Abigail and Ruth.

Abiah's father Eleazer served in the Revolutionary War - serving with the Connecticut Continental Line.

Abiah and her husband Peleg Austin were the Great Great Grandparents of Annabelle Fleischer Griffin.

The following is something I found on Ancestry.com - it is a write up about Abiah and the man who would become her husband:

 "Abiah was in love with Dr. Wyman in his younger days when he was a medical       student and a bold and adventurous youth who could swear and shoot and had no    money but plenty of brains. Abiah's father was a clergyman and Abiah broke off   the affair as she was instructed to do. As time went on, the parents feared she  would become an old maid. Their hints became too persistent and her quick        temper rose and she said she would marry the first man to ask for her hand.

 That man was Peleg who was described as homely enough to stop a clock,
 uneducated and rough and 8 years older than her, but he had land, some money, 
 and was religious and upright, honest and a hard worker and quite dependable. 
 So the dainty little Abiah, cultured, refined and beautiful married him and 
 bore him 11 or 12 children-pioneered with him from Constable to a new frontier, 
 which is now the northern end of Moira Township. They built a log cabin 
 and then a substantial stone house. Indians came daily to their door and often 
 stole whatever they wanted. The hardships and terror of this life was too much   for Abiah, together with a broken heart, for she never loved Peleg, caused her   to become mentally unbalanced in a mild harmless way. Three of her children were born after this happened. She lived to the age of 86 and died at the home of 
 daughter Ruth McNall and is buried next to Peleg in the old cemetery at Moira."