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/DMB.2ACI/255.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Where are you? You will need to clean up the typos that will follow. If you have any other questions I will try to answer them. I have a little more info. Also the "Refuge" house is on the National Register. It is right at the Bridge across the Mississippi river. I have a picture if you would like me to send it. from Mississippi By Rowland page 288 --picture of william Griffin William Griffin, lawyer and planter of Greenville, is a descendant of one of the old fioner families of Mississippi. His great grandfather Jeremiah Joshiah Griffin cme to the state from South Carolinaat an early day, grining his slaves and stock down the Mississippi river in flatboats. He settled in Warren county not far from vicksburg which he called "magnolia.'Francis Griffin,the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was in the War of 1812, althought had not at that time attained his majority. after the war he returned to Mississippi, locating in Wshingtoon county and became extensive cotton planter, bothe in Mississippi and Arkansas. He made his residence , however on one of his plantations, called "Refuge," overlooking the Mississippi river,and it was there that John Griffin , the father of William was born. and passed the early uears of his life. He married Sarah Lane, a native of shelbyville, Kentucky, whose grandfather Dr. John Knight, was with William Cra! wford in the expedition sent out gy General Washingotn against the indians abouth the year 1782m and was forced to witness the burning of Cononel Crawford at the stake by trhe savages, being spared a similar fate only through accident. after his escape from the Indians, Dr. Knifht returned to his home in Virginia and married a niece of Colonel Crawford, a young lady named Livingston. William Griffin was born in Louisville, Ky, in November, 1856, but a good part of his boyhood was spent on his grandfather's "Refuge," previously mentioned. He now operates two plantations, and as a lawyer has an extensive practice. Politically he isa Democrat and has held the office of city attorney of Greenville since 1895, with the exeption of two years. He is a member of the woodmen of the World, Knights of Honor, and the Elysian club of Greenville, and is deservedly popular in all these organizations. on October 22, 1890, he led to the alter Miss Corinne, Daughter of William and Elean! or Corrinne (Miller) Urquhart, of New Orleans, La. to that union have been born three children william, George and Sarah Lane.