This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Griffin/Freeman/Jones/Means Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4R.2ADE/1265.1.1 Message Board Post: I am researching Millard Randolph Griffin who may have also been called James Millard Griffin born about 1858 in Barbour County. His youngest son, Benjamin Clifton Griffin left behind a delayed birth certificate stating that his father was born in Evergreen, Conecuh County, AL. It's strange that you mention Jones because a daughter-in-law of Millard's only girl, Mattie Lou, said that the only name she ever really heard mentioned was that Millard would talk about old Jones. The only thing that fits the family story is that Millard's mother died young, his father never returned from the war and presumably he was raised by relatives. He was located in Decatur, Morgan County, from 1880 to 1925. I'm pretty sure that his wife Sarah Jane Freeman was related to the Jones' family. If Millard or James was raised by relatives, he may have been sent to Conecuh and then from there moved to Morgan County. There are a number of Jones' there. Sandy hair or rusty hair is common in t! his family so much so that "Rusty" was a nickname for one of Millard's sons and grandsons. So far, our genealogy stops with Millard although I suspect that his parents were James B. Griffin and Sarah Justice (see 1860 census for Barbour County, Midway).