Elizabeth Griffith was born on the 11 of April 1842 at Machnletteth [Machynlleth] Montgomeryshire, North Wales. She immigrated from Wales to America and crossed the plains with her parents and pioneers arriving in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was a tall woman and had dark brown hair and blue eyes. She met and married David Price Davis in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. They lived there for a short time then moved to Malad Valley, Idaho. She had seven children. The first born were twin girls, Lucy Ann and Margaret. Maggie died at birth. They were followed by three boys, Edward Henry, Owen Thomas, William Price. Then came another girl, Elizabeth. Their last child was a son named David Griffith after his mother’s brother. 

When David Griffith was one year old they moved to Gwenford, Idaho near the old grist mill. The house was a two room lumber cabin which they later remodeled adding another room and a basement. They carried water from the spring by the mill in buckets. Dave advised his father to bring a barrel from Ogden, Utah to haul water and he made a sleigh to put the barrel on. This helped get water to the house. 

Mother Davis had an average education for those times. She had a strong testimony of the Gospel and always attended her meetings. She was patient, loving, and kind and did all her family’s sewing. In those days families did not have too much to live on and had to share with each other. 

The last eighteen months of her life she had very poor health. She died at the age of forty-two with dropsy. Her youngest child was just seven. She died on the 8th of September 1890. She was buried in the Samaria Cemetery.