My Genealogy Hound

HARRISON GRIFFITH, farmer, P. O. Ripley, was born where he now lives, October 12, 1812, and is a son of Mason Griffith, who came from Virginia and located where our subject lives in 1812, and where he bought eighty acres of wild land; he died in 1855, aged upward of sixty years; his wife died in 1870, aged eighty-seven years. Our subject was married in 1844 to Miranda Thompson, by whom he has had ten children, viz., Mason, Frances, Mary E., Andrew T., Amanda J., Alexander W., Jesse, Lou, Emma, William T. S., and Susan B., deceased. Mr. Griffith owns seventy-three acres of land He and wife have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years. Hezekiah and Eliza (Bennett) Thompson, parents of Mrs. Griffith, were natives of Maryland, and settled in Kentucky in 1821. In 1824, Mr. Thompson died, when his wife, with her four children, settled in this township for one year, then went to Ripley. She died in 1871, aged seventy-one years. Mrs. Griffith is the only one of her children living.