Family Group Record |
| Husband: Lewis Lodge Griffin 1 |
| Born: 12 MAR 1833 | Place: Irwin County, Georgia 2, 3 |
| Died: 21 FEB 1905 | Place: probably Cook County, Georgia |
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| Buried: | Place: Woodlawn, Adel, Cook County, Georgia |
| Father: Joshua Griffin |
| Mother: Elizabeth Bradford |
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| Wife: Elizabeth Giddens |
| Born: 24 NOV 1834 | Place: Lowndes now Berrien County, Georgia 4 |
| Died: 29 OCT 1923 | Place: probably Cook County, Georgia |
| Buried: | Place: Woodlawn, Adel, Cook County, Georgia |
| Father: Frederick M. Giddens |
| Mother: Elizabeth Mathis |
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| Child 1 (F): Martha L. Griffin |
| Born: JUL 1868 | Place: Georgia |
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Spouses: Henry M. Giddens |
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HUSBAND NOTES: - !CHILDREN: Tharon Griffin, PIONEER BERRIEN COUNTY FAMILIES, Volume I, 1990. rewritten 1994, page 88 (Tifton Tift County Public Library). !BIOGRAPHY: Lewis Griffin farmed in the Cat Creek area of Lowndes County and later bought land in the River Bend District of Cook County. He served in the CSA on 6 May 1862 in Company E of the 54th Georgia Infantry Regiment commanded by Captain J.D. Evans. He was wounded 22 Jul 1864 in Atlanta, he was granted a pension after the war (Tharon Griffin, THE DESCENDANTS OF JAMES GRIFFIN AND SARAH LODGE, page 11). !CHILDREN: Tharon Griffin, PIONEER BERRIEN COUNTY FAMILIES, Volume I, 1990. rewritten 1994, page 88 (Tifton Tift County Public Library). !BIRTH-SPOUSE-PARENTS-CHILDREN-MILITARY: Tharon Griffin, THE DESCENDANTS OF JAMES GRIFFIN AND SARAH LODGE, Nashville, GA, Craigmiles & Associates, 1993, page 4. !MILITARY: Virgil D. White, INDEX TO GEORGIA CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE PENSION FILES, The National Historical Publishing Company, Waynesboro, Tennessee, 1996. (Washington Memorial Library, Macon, GA) page 402. Cites: Lewis L. Griffin served Company E, 54th Regiment, filed by Elizabeth, widow of, Berrien County, Georgia. !MILITARY: Booklet published by the Berrien Press, 1975, a reprint of a 1928 manuscript compiled by survivors of Company G, K, I of the 29 Regiment from Berrien County on file at the Tifton Tift County Public Library, Tifton, Georgia. L. L. Griffin, private, 6 May 1862, Company E, 54th Regiment. HUSBAND FACTS: TITL CSA: WIFE NOTES: !SPOUSE: Tharon Griffin, THE DESCENDANTS OF JAMES GRIFFIN AND SARAH LODGE, Nashville, GA, Craigmiles & Associates, 1993, page 4. !CENSUS: 1850 Census of Lowndes County, Georgia list Frederick M. Giddens (38) born in North Carolina, with the following in his household: Elizabeth (37), Elizabeth (16), John (15), Thomas (13), Phebe (11), Isban (9), Edmund (7), William (7), Elbert F. (5), Jameson (3), Matthew S. (1). SOURCES: 1Folks Huxford, Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia, Volume IV, Press of the Atkinson County Citizen, Pearson, GA 1960, Book, page 105-106. 2GEDCOM File - Nancy Bradford Young, n1931@gateway.net - 10 Nov 1998, Electronic. 3Folks Huxford, Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia, Volume III, Press of the Atkinson County Citizen, Pearson, GA 1957, Book, page 116. 4Folks Huxford, Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia, Volume IV, Press of the Atkinson County Citizen, Pearson, GA 1960, Book, page 105-106. |
Posted By: Tommy Bargeron 721 West 12th Street Tifton, Georgia 31794 Use this information only as a guide for conducting your own research, not all of the information contained herein is adequatly proven and some family connections have been compiled from secondary sources without verification. Please advise us of any errors so that we may update our files. |