My Genealogy Hound

JESSE GRIFFITH, farmer, P. O. Ripley, was born in this township in the year 1817, and is a son of Mason and Winnie (Willoughby) Griffith. They were born in Virginia, and came to Kentucky when single. They were married in Kentucky, where they lived for several years, and about the year 1810 or 1812 he purchased land in this township, on which he resided many years. He then removed to Logan’s Gap, where he purchased land of Gen. Cochran, on which he died in 1854, at the age of about sixty-eight or sixty-nine years. To them were born nine children, of whom only two are living, namely, Harrison and Jesse. The deceased are Willoughby, Harriet, Lucinda, Jane, and Catherine, and two names unknown. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, for which service he received two land warrants. He was a successful man in his business and accumulated a good property. Mrs. Griffith was a member of the Campbellite Church. Our subject was reared on the farm, and was married to Miss Melinda, the daughter of Richard and Mary (Housh) Brown, old settlers in this, county. Our subject has lived in this township all his life, and in 1841 came to where he now lives. He owns twenty-four and one-fourth acres of land on the Ohio River. To Mr. and Mrs. Griffith have been born eight children, namely, Henry, Mary E., Richard, Oliver B., Nancy, Harrison, Reny and Wylie. Mrs. Griffith was born in this township in the year 1822.