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Book Title: History Of Clarke County

THE GRIFFINS

    The Griffins who were killed in the Bashi skirmish have many relatives still
living in this county. In response to a written inquiry as to these brave
pioneers, W. H. Griffin, of Campelle, says as follows:

    "The two Griffins who were killed in the Bashi skirmish were brothers, and
one of them was my grandfather's father. He was killed when my grandfather was a
baby. It was three miles this side of Wood's Bluff, on the Bigbee river. The
last time they were seen the Indians had killed one of them and the other was on
his knees shooting at them, and that was the last ever seen or heard of them. My
grandfather was William Griffin. He married a Miss Drinkard and had three
children, two boys and one girl. My father was the oldest, and his name was Ivy
Thomas Griffin. The next was a sister, who married twice. She had one child by
her first marriage, who married Door White, of Thomasville, and she had two sons
by her last marriage - J. W. Reid, of Campelle, and J. T. Reid, of Opine. The
third child was John Griffin, who lived nearly all his life near Bashi and
Choctaw Corner. He married a Miss Dunning, of Dixon's Mills, and they had a
large family. My father married a Miss Holland, and they had seventeen children.
Most of them are dead. Our oldest brother, T. W. Griffin, died in Thomasville
about three years ago. There are four brothers living-William Griffin, J. G.
Griffin, F. F. Griffin and A. B. Griffin, and one sister, Mrs. J. B. White, of
Aliceville, Ala."

    The next conflict that occurred between the whites and the Indians took
place in the northern part of the county, near Bashi, called the "Bashi
Skirmish," which we also take from Pickett's History, and is as follows:


Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CLARKE COUNTY 
BY JOHN SIMPSON GRAHAM

Press of
BIRMINGHAM PRINTING COMPANY
Birmingham, Ala.
1923


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