Have you looked at the Brushy Creek Church Cemetery? -----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com [mailto:gc-gateway@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of caseyblane@hotmail.com Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 10:15 AM To: GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GAIRWIN] Re: WANTED !! Any Info on ancestor ..James Griffin RS Irwin Co. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/528.2 Message Board Post: There is a book called the descendants of James Griffin and Sarah Lodge. I don't have a copy but my grandfather does. I'm not at home so I don't remember the dates to know if he is your James Griffin too. What does the RS after the name stand for? According to the book, our James Griffin is buried South of Ocilla and there was a monument there from the Daughters of the American Revolution placed there in the 30s and 40s. I'm looking for someone who can tell me how to get to the spot. There are directions in the book, but when I went there it wasn't clear enough for me to find it. ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== Thank you all Irwin County Volunteers and Contributors for your help throughout the years....1996-2004 Gloria Holback ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx

"but she had to worry them for about 3 years before they granted her petitions. I truly think that they thought if they drug their feet long enough that she would die, but she was determined, and she received all that was due her (back pension) until her death in August of 1853. Her application for continuance of Pension was allowed and executed on June 4, 1845." I was going on memory about the length of time it took for Sarah to get her applications for continuance of Pension approved. She had to have worked at this for considerably longer than 3 years since James griffin died in 1836, and she finally got approval in 1845..... All I really know is that this was one very determined lady and that I believe she was not one that you might want to tangle with.....Bravo for her!! Please excuse my shortcomings, Mike Outgoing mail is certified as being virus free...Using Norton's Anti-Virus and Norton's Internet Security Researching......SAWYER/HALSTEAD/GRIFFIN/WILKES/HOWELL/LIGHTSEY/ZEIGLER and ABRAMS/POWELL/BLEDSOE/HOLMES/HILL.....

Good Morning everyone! The recent flurry of posts about my ancestor, James Griffin, RS has finally prompted me to write an e-mail to the list for all who are interested. James Griffin and his wife, Sarah Lodge were married in Edgecombe County, NC on April 1, 1780, at the home of Thomas Mercer, by the Reverend John Thomas, who was a Baptist Minister. James Griffin shows up in the 1790 Census...in Edgecombe County, Halifax District. James's War Pension application was executed in Irwin Co., Ga. Book E, Volume 6, Page 91...on august 11, 1828. He continued to draw an annual pension of 88 dollars until his death on December 19, 1836. He was, according to a legal affidavit, born in Edgecombe County, NC in the town (or what was just a small settlement at the time) of Tarboro. The Griffin, Hall, and Bradford families all knew each other and moved together from NC to Georgia in about 1805, first settling in Montgomery County, then onward to Irwin County. James and Sarah had a total of 9 children, but only 7 grew to maturity. The other two children's names are unknown. Here is the children's names in order of oldest first, and their dates of birth: NOAH GRIFFIN --- June 7, 1783 JOSHUA GRIFFIN --- March 22, 1785 THOMAS GRIFFIN --- December 4, 1787 RHODA GRIFFIN --- October 11, 1790 Married: 1812 to John R. Hall SHADRACK GRIFFIN --- October 12, 1792 SOLOMON GRIFFIN --- October 20, 1794 ELIZABETH GRIFFIN --- July 28, 1803 Married: March 28, 1819 to William Bradford Daughter Elizabeth, later married William Bradford, March 28, 1819. William Bradford was at one time an Inferior Court Judge, and wrote up different affidavits for Sarah Lodge Griffin, after James Griffin's death. Fact was, that since James had died, the government stopped the pension that James was getting. Sarah, now a widow and being elderly, worked tirelessly and continued to worry the "powers that be" until they gave up and allowed her to receive James's back pension, but she had to worry them for about 3 years before they granted her petitions. I truly think that they thought if they drug their feet long enough that she would die, but she was determined, and she received all that was due her (back pension) until her death in August of 1853. Her application for continuance of Pension was allowed and executed on June 4, 1845. Sarah lived with her daughter and Son-In-Law, Elizabeth (Griffin) and William Bradford in her later years. Sarah Griffin was living with them in Lowndes County in 1847. Sarah Lodge was born October 23, 1766. Sources: All dates and information comes from James Griffin's Full Pension File # W-7586, National Archives, Washington, DC. These facts are abstracted from several different documents within that file in my possession. Regards, Michael R. Sawyer, CST (5th Gr-Grandson of James Griffin) Aiken, SC Outgoing mail is certified as being virus free...Using Norton's Anti-Virus and Norton's Internet Security Researching......SAWYER/HALSTEAD/GRIFFIN/WILKES/HOWELL/LIGHTSEY/ZEIGLER and ABRAMS/POWELL/BLEDSOE/HOLMES/HILL.....

RS = Revoluntionary Soldier??? Or that is what I would think. Winnette I found the data below on this site. http://www.geocities.com/mbrodgers/wga49.html Griffin, James (1753 - 1836) - male b. 1753 in North Carolina d. 19 DEC 1836 in Coffee county, Georgia spouse: Lodge, Sara (1760 - >1850) - m. BEF. 1785 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina? (v1-100) ----------child: Griffin, Noah (1783 - 1859) ----------child: Griffin, Rhoda (1790 - >1854) ----------child: Griffin, Shadrack (1792 - ) ----------child: Griffin, Solomon (1794 - ) ----------child: Griffin, Elizabeth (1803 - ) John Hall, a son of Enoch Hall, R.S. (Vol.I), was born in RobersonCounty, N.C., in 1785. He came with his parents to Georgia in childhood,and grew up in Montgomery, Tattnall and Telfair counties during hisparents successive residence in those counties. He married about 1812,to Rhoda, daughter of James Griffin, R.S., (VolI); she was born inEdgecombe County, N.C., Oct. 11, 1790. They had eight children. Mr Hall Moved to Lowndes County the same time his widowed mother andothers of the family came (about 1825), locating in the Morven districtin that part of Loundes that was cut into Brooks in 1858. He waspostmaster at "Sharpe's Store" (later named Moven), 1836-1837. He wascommissioned 2nd Lieut., of the militia in the 660th district, Nov 14,1831. serving two years. About 1845, he sold out and moved north abouttwenty-five miles, locating in the-then southern part of Irwin County(section cut into Berrien). Gaskins farm in northern Berrien County. Helived there until about 1851, when he moved back to Lowndes for a briefstay. locating near the present railroad point known as Mineola. He soonafter moved on to Marion County, Fla., where his son. Wm G. Hall, hadalready moved. He died there in 1854, and his son. Wm.G. was appointedadministrator on his estate there, July 22. 1854 Mrs. Hall died there afew years later. source: Census 1820 Telfair; 1830, 1840 Lowndes; 1850 Irwin; Pioneers of Wiregress Georgia (Vol 3) pages 125-126 ----- Original Message ----- From: <caseyblane@hotmail.com> To: <GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 10:14 AM Subject: [GAIRWIN] Re: WANTED !! Any Info on ancestor ..James Griffin RS Irwin Co. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/528.2 Message Board Post: There is a book called the descendants of James Griffin and Sarah Lodge. I don't have a copy but my grandfather does. I'm not at home so I don't remember the dates to know if he is your James Griffin too. What does the RS after the name stand for? According to the book, our James Griffin is buried South of Ocilla and there was a monument there from the Daughters of the American Revolution placed there in the 30s and 40s. I'm looking for someone who can tell me how to get to the spot. There are directions in the book, but when I went there it wasn't clear enough for me to find it. ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== Thank you all Irwin County Volunteers and Contributors for your help throughout the years....1996-2004 Gloria Holback ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx

The RS stands for Revolutionary Soldier

Welcome to the Irwin County Mail List: There are other Griffin descendants on this list who will be happy to share information with you regarding your ancestor. In fact some of the material is online thanks to Mike Sawyer, a direct descendant of James Griffin and Shadrack Griffin. Please visit the site below to view the transcriptions made by your cousin, Mike Sawyer, Mike is a long time subscriber of this list. I took the liberty of copying this email direct to Mike so he would not miss seeing your request posted to the Irwin County Mail List. http://home.comcast.net/~gholback/irw_mil_doc_grif2.htm http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/topic/military/argeorgia/griffin_james_doc_1.htm Kind Regards, Gloria "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/795 Message Board Post: My grandfather has the book by Tharon Griffin which describes where James Griffin is buried and the book says that there was a monument erected there by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Is there anyone who knows how to get to the spot and could give me updated directions? Thanks, Casey

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/528.2 Message Board Post: There is a book called the descendants of James Griffin and Sarah Lodge. I don't have a copy but my grandfather does. I'm not at home so I don't remember the dates to know if he is your James Griffin too. What does the RS after the name stand for? According to the book, our James Griffin is buried South of Ocilla and there was a monument there from the Daughters of the American Revolution placed there in the 30s and 40s. I'm looking for someone who can tell me how to get to the spot. There are directions in the book, but when I went there it wasn't clear enough for me to find it.

Thank you! These were great! Greta in Lake Placid, Florida ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gloria Holback" <gholback_1999@yahoo.com> To: <GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 2:05 PM Subject: [GAIRWIN] Wishing All A Perfect Thanksgiving Day > > If you get a bit blue during the holiday season here are a couple of sites that will bring a smile to your face and a warm feeling inside. Your Mail List Mom, Gloria > > http://www.castlemountains.net/flashmar/A_Cup_Of_Joy.swf > > http://media.euniverse.com/funpages/cms_content/1956/squirrel_revival1.swf > > > > "What good is knowledge if not shared?" > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Discover all that's new in My Yahoo! > > > ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== > A Gathering Place For Irwin County Family Members and Friends To Discuss Our Family Histories. A Place To Share Stories About The History Of Irwin County. If New To This List Please Introduce Yourself And Tell Us What Surnames That Your Researching. And A Big Welcome From Each Of US. > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >

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Tracy, If you do not click on the link and go to the Ancestry Board to respond to Marcie' message, she will never know you did. The message was gatewayed from the Board to the list. You cannot just send your response to the GAIRWIN list. Hope's this helps. Winnette ----- Original Message ----- From: <Marciemrc2@aol.com> To: <GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 1:16 PM Subject: [GAIRWIN] Re: Land Graves This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/27.393.416.1 Message Board Post: I have been searching for info on these graves as the owners of the plantation they are buried on would like to erect a plaque commemorating them and clean up around the cemetary. I know exactly where these graves are located.

What would really be done to the graves or whats going to happen around the graves? (cows graze, or crops planted, or ect.)? ----- Original Message ----- From: <Marciemrc2@aol.com> To: <GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 1:16 PM Subject: [GAIRWIN] Re: Land Graves > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/27.393.416.1 > > Message Board Post: > > I have been searching for info on these graves as the owners of the plantation they are buried on would like to erect a plaque commemorating them and clean up around the cemetary. I know exactly where these graves are located. > > > ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== > A Gathering Place For Irwin County Family Members and Friends To Discuss Our Family Histories. A Place To Share Stories About The History Of Irwin County. If New To This List Please Introduce Yourself And Tell Us What Surnames That Your Researching. And A Big Welcome From Each Of US. > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > >

You still did not answer my question? Where and What Plantation? I've done my own research, blood and sweet not to mention thorns and mud and what ever else but your talking about my land too, and I would like to know where and what land? In another words theirs been alot of land covered so witch are you covering and who's plantation? and is their any one who is concerned???????Because this person never specified who they were or who their looking for??? HHHHMMMMM Sounds like a Constructive Co. Does it not? " I have been searching for info on these graves as the owners of the plantation they are buried on would like to erect a plague commemorating them and clean up around the cemetery. I know exactly where these graves are located." And this person will still not tell us what location they are in or where there from. So are the people your "digging" for dead or is this a political thing? Or is their some construction going in that everyone needs to know about? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy Daniel" <tracy113@bellsouth.net> To: <GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [GAIRWIN] Re: Land Graves > What graves and what Plantation owners would you be refering to? In Irwin? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Marciemrc2@aol.com> > To: <GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 1:16 PM > Subject: [GAIRWIN] Re: Land Graves > > > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > > > Classification: Query > > > > Message Board URL: > > > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/27.393.416.1 > > > > Message Board Post: > > > > I have been searching for info on these graves as the owners of the > plantation they are buried on would like to erect a plaque commemorating > them and clean up around the cemetary. I know exactly where these graves > are located. > > > > > > ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== > > A Gathering Place For Irwin County Family Members and Friends To Discuss > Our Family Histories. A Place To Share Stories About The History Of Irwin > County. If New To This List Please Introduce Yourself And Tell Us What > Surnames That Your Researching. And A Big Welcome From Each Of US. > > > > ============================== > > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > > > > > > > > ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== > Thank you all Irwin County Volunteers and Contributors for your help throughout the years....1996-2004 Gloria Holback > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Turner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Tc.2ADI/794.1 Message Board Post: Tattnall Co Ga Marriage James Benefield married Mary Easters in 1806 & not shown on 1820 Census for Tattnall Co. Ga

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Tc.2ADI/794 Message Board Post: am looking for the parents of James Benefield born 1780 in Tattnal Co. He married Mary easters. Thanks! Nichole

I am unaware of any Richarson Methodist Church in what is now Irwin County. The original Irwin County went all the way to the Florida/Georgia Line. There are no burials of Matchetts listed in the Irwin County Cemetery book. However, there are more than a dozen Matchetts listed for the Valdosta, Lowndes County, Ga. Social Security Index---which leads me to believe that you may find this church in that vicinity. June Harper ----- Original Message ----- From: <kgsolomon971@hotmail.com> To: <GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 11:17 AM Subject: [GAIRWIN] Richardson Methodist Chruch > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Matchett/Akin/Solomon > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/793 > > Message Board Post: > > Looking for Richardson Methodist Chruch E-mail address , or someone to do a look-up for a 1800's member Jacob Matchett. He was a Deacon. Would like any information. > Thank You. > > > ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== > A Gathering Place For Irwin County Family Members and Friends To Discuss Our Family Histories. A Place To Share Stories About The History Of Irwin County. If New To This List Please Introduce Yourself And Tell Us What Surnames That Your Researching. And A Big Welcome From Each Of US. > > ============================== > New! OneWorldTree. Building Trees. Connecting Families. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13970/rd.ashx > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/793.1.1 Message Board Post: Dear George, Thank You for your response. I am Looking for "Matchett." My G/G/Gran-father (William Solomon) was a ward of Jacob & Mary Matchett, and they were members of Richardson Methodist Chruch. I was hoping for old Chruch Records to help Me in my genealogy search for William Solomon.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Turner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/793.1 Message Board Post: 1850 Census Irwin Co Ga. Jacob Marchant 22 Ga, Isaac Marchant 84 NC, Rachel Marchant 80 NC,Willis Marchant 20 Ga, John Marchant 16 Ga, Evaline Marchant 12 Ga. This is for household #190. History of Irwin Co Page 95,97,98, 175 the name Jacob Marchant comes up. George Turner

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Matchett/Akin/Solomon Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/793 Message Board Post: Looking for Richardson Methodist Chruch E-mail address , or someone to do a look-up for a 1800's member Jacob Matchett. He was a Deacon. Would like any information. Thank You.

What graves and what Plantation owners would you be refering to? In Irwin? ----- Original Message ----- From: <Marciemrc2@aol.com> To: <GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 1:16 PM Subject: [GAIRWIN] Re: Land Graves > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/27.393.416.1 > > Message Board Post: > > I have been searching for info on these graves as the owners of the plantation they are buried on would like to erect a plaque commemorating them and clean up around the cemetary. I know exactly where these graves are located. > > > ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== > A Gathering Place For Irwin County Family Members and Friends To Discuss Our Family Histories. A Place To Share Stories About The History Of Irwin County. If New To This List Please Introduce Yourself And Tell Us What Surnames That Your Researching. And A Big Welcome From Each Of US. > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > >