This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Griffin, McDade, Wallace, Hampton, Scott, Crawford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iJB.2ACE/398.1 Message Board Post: My name is Jacqueline and I am looking for my Griffin roots as well. My great-great grandfather married an Emma Cowen March 1869 after they were freed in Ripley, Ms. I was looking at the 1850 census of Tippah county and found that Daniel Griffin had a child named Ira D Griffin, but there is also another Ira Griffin on the same census. I hope this helps.