Joseph Reid GRIFFIN^[1]

1856 - 1924  (68 years)

• Name	Joseph Reid GRIFFIN
  Born	26 Jul 1856	Sumter District, South Carolina
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	30 Nov 1856	Rev. Edward Reed, pastor of St. Mark's Episcopal Church
  HIST	Proposed Change: Joseph Reid GRIFFIN (I27307) Tree: Singleton and Related Families Link: http://singletonfamily.org//getperson.php?personID=I27307&tree=1 Description: I am the great grand daughter of Joseph Dempsey Griffin and Minnie Groover. and have knowledge of many people that are in the family that are listed only by number in this tree. Let me know if I can help fill in some of this information. dorothy hammond suggs dottiesuggs@gmail.com
  Occupation	Farmer
  _UID	0791A802084640B2A5197E4D5C868BCD458E
  Died	3 Aug 1924	Sumter County, South Carolina
  Buried	Weeks-Griffin Cemetery, Sumter County, South Carolina
  Person ID	I27307	Singleton and other families
  Last Modified	15 Aug 2015

  
  

  Father	Dempsey GRIFFIN,   b. 30 Mar 1788, South Carolina ,   d. 10 Aug 1866, Fulton, Clarendon District, South Carolina  (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Lucinda “Eliza” GRAHAM,   b. 18 Dec 1826,   d. 25 Dec 1906  (Age 80 years)
  Married	2 Feb 1854
  _UID	E59DA55BA76944DA80389A64E67CB38E09E9
  Family ID	F18433	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Virginia H. PARLER,   b. 17 Mar 1861, South Carolina ,   d. 12 Jul 1886, South Carolina  (Age 25 years)
  Married	Abt 1798	South Carolina
  _UID	0C34E4DD1FB94D938F608C84B5DB05F03D64
  Children	1. Oneida Virginia GRIFFIN,   b. 12 Jan 1880, SC ,   d. 4 Jan 1971, SC  (Age 90 years)   2. Clinton Furman GRIFFIN,   b. 26 Apr 1886, SC ,   d. 30 Nov 1936, SC  (Age 50 years)   3. Joseph Dempsey GRIFFIN, Sr.,   b. 25 Sep 1882, South Carolina ,   d. 25 Jun 1950, South Carolina  (Age 67 years)
  Last Modified	24 Sep 2000
  Family ID	F19209	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Sarah Isabella STUKES,   b. 3 Mar 1870, South Carolina ,   d. 19 Jan 1954, Sumter County, South Carolina  (Age 83 years)
  Married	Betw 1886 - 1893	South Carolina
  _UID	41A462EB4478486290C785A62ED1E87C7D55
  Children	1. Ida Ruth GRIFFIN,   b. 26 Mar 1893, SC ,   d. 16 Jun 1949  (Age 56 years)   2. Julian Lafayette GRIFFIN,   b. 3 Aug 1895, SC ,   d. 19 Nov 1958, SC  (Age 63 years)   3. Henry Flynn GRIFFIN, Sr.,   b. 19 Aug 1900, South Carolina ,   d. 3 Jul 1974, South Carolina  (Age 73 years)   4. Eugene Lamar GRIFFIN,   b. 1 Apr 1904, SC   5. Ellen Murry GRIFFIN,   b. 19 Apr 1906, SC ,   d. SC   6. Edwin Benjamin GRIFFIN,   b. 8 May 1908, SC ,   d. 11 Nov 1913, SC  (Age 5 years)   7. Virginia GRIFFIN,   b. 10 Jan 1910
  Last Modified	15 Aug 2015
  Family ID	F19256	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Joseph's Godparents were Mrs. E. P. Manning, Mr. R. I. Manning and Mrs. P. A. Belser (parish records). Joseph's Godparents were the "Pillars" of the church: Elizabeth Peyre Manning, Richard I. Manning and Priscilla Ann Spring Belser, wife of Junius J. Belser. The Belsers were fairly close neighbors of the Griffins. Joseph was enumerated at home with his parents in 1860 and with his widowed mother on the 1870 Census. On the 1880 Clarendon Census, Joseph Griffin, a farmer, was the head of household #223 Calvary Twp. next to his mother. Joseph ran a "3 or 4 horse farms", ginned cotton, ground corn and cut lumber in the Pinewood area. "He had little formal education but was a self-made man. He was quite an important person in the little town of Pinewood. He was very active in the Methodist Church. He was a steward and superintendent of the Sunday School for a number of years. He was a trustee for the Pinewood School and was instrumental in seeing that a large two story school building was built. This was torn down only a few years ago. He organized the Bank of Pinewood and served as its first President. He saw to it that almost all of his children had a college education." Joseph's first wife was Virginia H. Parler. Virginia was his first cousin, the daughter of his mother's sister Margaret Graham and Edward Parler. His 2nd wife was Sarah Isabella Stukes, the daughter of John Lafayette and Sarah Caroline Stukes Stukes. She was Joseph's cousin through his maternal grandmother Rebecca Helen Stukes Graham.

  
  

• Sources

  [S68] Cochran Gedcom File.