George Griggs Sr. Bible Records

[from the Morrison Papers]

Family Records in the George Griggs, Senr. Family bible, bring a Bible published by the American Bible Society, New York in 1816 – this Bible is in a well preserved condition, but shows that at one time it had gotten immersed in muddy water, and there is written in it in pencil “This Bible as brought by George Griggs, Senr. and Martha his wife, when they were young and on their way to Tennessee. Aunt Martha told Cordelia (John Grigg’s wife) that they swam across the Ohio River on horseback with their things in sacks thrown across the horses’ backs. This Bible got somewhat wet and that was why it is soiled as it is. Above written by Lucas North, June 1928″ This old Bible is now [1957] in the possession of Cicero F. Griggs, R. F. D. #2, Waynesboro, Tenn.

MARRIAGES
John Griggs and Cordelia North was married Sept. the 26, 1866
Mattie Griggs and Frank Lay married May 21st, 1888
Cicero F. Griggs married to Belle Nowlin Dec. 28th, 1892
Sarah Francis Griggs married Sherman Phillips Dec. 1st 1901
J. W. H. Griggs and O. E. Morrison married April 23, 1905
G. I. Griggs and Sarah Long married Sept. 7, 1902

BIRTHS
William Griggs born July 2nd, 1817
Thomas W. Griggs born Feby. 15th, 1819
Fanny Griggs born January 5, 1821
Sarah Griggs born Oct. 12, 1823? (2)
George Griggs born July 8th, 1824
Jeremiah Griggs born May 7th, 1826
Martha Griggs born June 17, 1828
John Griggs born May 18, 1830
Adline Griggs born April 7, 1832
Nancy Griggs born March 29, 1834
Samuel Griggs Born Sept. 2, 1835
James D. Griggs Born July 2, 1838
Cordelia North, was born Jan 9, 1847

DEATHS
William Griggs died July 2, 1919
Fanny Griggs died August 24, 1824
Sarah Griggs Died Aug. 1824
Cordelia Griggs died Dec. 25, 1937
George Griggs, Died July 1, 1857
Martha Griggs, Died Oct. the 8, 1877

(John and Cordelia Griggs‘ children:)
Martha Harriette Griggs born Dec. 11, 1867
Cicero Franklin Griggs born May 10, 1872
Sarah Frances Griggs born May 29, 1874
George Ira Griggs born Aug. 13, 1876
William Lucas Griggs born July 5, 1879
Joseph Walter Harrison Griggs born Sept. the 19, 1882
Martha Harriet Lay died Sept. 20, 1925
Joseph Walter Harrison Griggs Died Oct. 8, 1930
George Ira Griggs Died May 19, 1942
William Lucas Griggs died Feb. 12, 1946

(Notes: John Griggs was born May 18, 1830 in Wayne Co., Tenn. died Jan 28, 1917 in Wayne Co., Tenn., buried Ray Cemetery on upper Hardins Creek in Wayne Co., Tenn. Cordelia (North) Griggs was born Jan. 9, 1847 in Lawrence Co., Tenn., died Dec. 25, 1937 in Wayne Co., Tenn., buried Ray Cemetery on upper Hardins Creek in Wayne Co., Tenn.

(In this same bible was a separate loose sheet of paper showing the following records, written in pen and ink:)
S. J. Nowlin born May 11, 1836
Elizabeth E. Nowlin, born Sept. 20, 1839
W. T. Nowlin Born July 8, 1857
B. G. Nowlin born Feb. 2 1859
J. S. Nowlin Born Jan. 23, 1861
I. W. Nowlin Born July 10, 1867
Joe Annie Nowlin Born April 3, 1870
Sarah B. Nowlin born Dec. 20, 1872
Adah E. Nowlin Born July 16, 1875
Ella T. Nowlin Born Mar. 13, 1878
J. E. S. Nowlin born Nov. 23, 1880
C. F. Griggs was born May 10, 1872
S. J. Nowlin Died May 2, 1904
Elizabeth E. Nowlin died Dec, 25, 1924
W. T. Nowlin Died Sept. 9, 1942
Joe Annie Adams Died July 11, 1943

Copied May 5, 1957
John F. Morrison, Jr.
Lawrenceburg, Tenn.

Notes: Cicero F. Griggs and his wife, Sarah Belle (Nowlin) Griggs also gave the following additional information:
Cicero F. Griggs, b. May 10, 1872,
m. Dec 28, 1892 in Wayne Co., Tenn by Joe Nin Gallaher, M.G.
Sarah Belle Nowlin, b. Dec 20, 1872
Children include
Carmel Griggs, b. Dec 25, 1895, m. Lillian Lay, dau. of William N. Lay and they have one child.
Edwin Hugh Griggs, b. June 16, 1902, married Jesse Lee Emma Walker, daughter of Jesse Gray Walker.

John W. Griggs who married Martha C. (Mattie ) Clay, was son of Jeremiah Griggs
Neill S. Griggs who married Sarah Malissa Parlee Clay was the son of James D. Griggs

Jeremiah Griggs married Nancy Surratt 24 Jan 1857, she was born in 1838, died in 1878.

Jeremiah Griggs died in 1877