Texas Family Group Sheet for the Henry Griggs Family

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Submitted by: Patricia Griggs Stricklin
Email address: spstrick@otelco.net


Husband: Henry GRIGGS
Birthdate:  18 Dec. 1793
Birthplace: Greene County, Ga. 
Death date: 27 Dec. 1871
Place of death: Navarro County, Texas
Burial: Chatfield Cemetery
Father: William Griggs
Mother: Leonard "Linnah" Wallas/Wallis

Marriage date: 30 Oct. 1816
Marriage place: Hancock County, Georgia

Wife: Nancy A. STURDIVANT
Name: Nancy Anne/Ann G. Sturdivant
Birthdate: 26 Oct. 1798
Birthplace: Sparta in Hancock County, Ga.
Death date: 1868
Place of death: Navarro County, Texas
Burial: Chatfield Cemetery
Father: John Sturdivant (Rev. War Soldier)
Mother: 


CHILDREN

Child No. 1: John William "Bill" Griggs
Sex: m
Birthdate: ca 1823
Birthplace: Georgia
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Marriage date: 14 May 1862
Marriage place: Navarro County, Texas
Spouse's name: Isidora Hogan

Child No. 2: Mary M.
Sex: f
Birthdate: ca 1827
Birthplace: Georgia
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Marriage date: ca 1846
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Spouse's name: Joseph B. Thorpe

Child No. 3: Francis Marion Griggs
Sex: m
Birthdate: 1834-1837
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Child No. 4: Martha A. Griggs
Sex: f
Birthdate: ca 1840
Birthplace: Georgia
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Child No. 5: Green Griggs
Sex: m
Birthdate: ca 1843
Birthplace: Georgia
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 Documentation: Henry was born on the 18th Dec. 1793 in Greene County,
Ga. which later probably became Hancock County, Ga. He married Ann
Sturdivant on the 30th Day of Oct. 1816 in Hancock County, Ga. They lived
in Green's Militia District in Jones County, Ga. in 1820 & 1821 but he
was in Militia District 470 in Upson County, Ga. in 1832 & had went there
prior to 1827; they remained there until he went to Grimes County, Tx.
prior to 1850. They remained there until 1860. Sometime during the war of
1860 he removed to Navarro County, Texas and he was one of many early
pioneer settlers of that county. (Henry was a veteran of the War of
1812). He was living in the household of his son Bill Griggs in 1870 &
died on the 27th of Dec. 1871; was buried beside his wife in the
Chatfield Cemetery in Navarro County, Tx.
SOUCRES: Ga. Marriages: 1801-1825, by Liahona Research, Inc., 1820 Land
Lottery of Ga., 1830 Census for Upson Co., Ga., the 1832 Cherokee Land
Lottery of Ga., 1850 & 1860 Census for Grimes County, Tx., 1870 Census
for Navarro County, Tx., C.p. 36, Arrival of Early Pioneers in Navarro
Co., Tx. (from the internet), the Navarro County Cemetery Records, Vol.
III, the Corsicana Daily Sun (Sept. 13, 1970), Old Northwest Texas, Vol.
I-B, compiled by Nancy Samuels & Barbara Knox, the LWT of William Griggs
from Hancock County, Ga. Will Bk. J, pp. 24-28, LWT dated 18 Aug. 1817,
the Barnes Family Bible Record (from the Internet), Some Descendants of
Thomas Griggs of Lancaster County, Va. by Nancy Carr Royce, (1991), &
many other records. NOTE: Henry Griggs was the brother of my Grt. Grt.
Gt. grandmother Mary "Polly" Griggs.