article_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton great-grandmother 
article_snippet.sent: Mary Griffiths was born in Merthyr Tydfil in the Welsh Valleys, and from an early age supported Mrs Clinton's great-grandmother Mary Griffiths widowed mother.
article_snippet.sent: Official records show Mrs Clinton's great-grandmother Mary Griffiths was working as a servant by the age of 12 but in reality Mrs Clinton's great-grandmother Mary Griffiths may have been working even earlier.
article_snippet.sent: Fatherless by the age of one, Mrs Clinton's great-grandmother Mary Griffiths had already been dealt a tough hand.'
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Clinton's great-grandmother Mary Griffiths went on to marry William Jones, a coal miner from Neath, in 1871 and the couple settled in Ystradyfodwg.
article_snippet.sent: Hannah Jones grandparents Hannah Jones (left) and Hugh Rodham eloped to wed in Binghampton, New York, and are pictured with their granddaughter, former First Lady Hillary Clinton .
article_snippet.sent: But the circumstances of Hannah Jones - who was to become Mrs Clinton's grandmother - met Hugh Rodham, part of the Rodham family who had travelled to America two years earlier from Northumberland marriage reveal the poverty the Hannah Jones family endured and the wide social gulf between the Rodhams and Joneses at that time.
article_snippet.sent: And if [Mrs Clinton Mrs Clinton recalls Mrs Clinton grandmother Hannah as a strong-willed woman who “ruled everyone within Mrs Clinton reach,” it may have been a reflection of Mrs Clinton determination to escape the circumstances that left Mrs Clinton the sole survivor of Mrs Clinton birth family of 16 by Mrs Clinton early forties.'
article_snippet.sent: Hannah Jones Rodham, frequently described by Mrs Clinton as a 'strong willed woman' gave birth to Mrs Clinton father Hugh E Rodham in 1911 and died in 1952 when Mrs Clinton was just five.
highlights_snippet.sent: Family emigrated to Pennsylvania where Hillary Clinton grandmother Hannah Jones was born - one of four children out of 14 born to survive .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Hannah Jones then eloped with Hugh Rodham - Mrs Clinton's grandfather - to marry because Hugh Rodham - Mrs Clinton's grandfather - to marry