Quote:21. JOSEPH EZEKIEL GRIFFIN was born 1821, and died 1889 in Montgomery County, Texas. He married (1) MARTHA HUGHES. He married (2) ELLEN E. ALLLISON 1858. She was born in Waynesburgh, PA, and died 1859 in Montgomery County, Texas.
Notes for JOSEPH EZEKIEL GRIFFIN:
Joseph E. Griffin was a member of the state legislature of Pennsylvania, from Fayette County, in 1849 and 1850. In 1851 he moved to Montgomery county, Texas, where he died. His first wife also died there, of the yellow fever. He was a soldier in the Civil War for four years or more. Much information of the early history of the family was obtained from Joseph E. Griffin, who
inherited traditions through two lines of descent.
Child of JOSEPH GRIFFIN and ELLEN ALLLISON is:
i. CHARLES BLACK GRIFFIN, b. 1869, Montgomery County, Texas; m. (1) MARY SITTON; m. (2) LEE KENNEDY.
Notes for CHARLES BLACK GRIFFIN:
Charles Black Griffin was born in Montgomery, Texas, and was educated at Waynesburgh, Green County, Pennsylvania. He was the manager of the "Southern Land and Lumber Company", of Shreveport, Louisiana.
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