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
Married: Place:
Buried: Place: Woodlawn, Adel, Cook County, Georgia
Father: Joshua Griffin
Mother: Elizabeth Bradford
Other Spouses:
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
Other Spouses:
Children

Child 1 (F): Martha L. Griffin
Born: JUL 1868 Place: Georgia
Died: Place:
Buried: Place:
Spouses: Henry M. Giddens
HUSBAND NOTES:
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!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.



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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

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