Biography of Henry M. Griffin - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 334

Henry M. Griffin (deceased) was born in Calhoun County, Ala., December
4, 1842. His father was Benjamin Griffin, a farmer of that county, who
died in 1856, and his mother was Mary (Moody) Griffin, a native of
South Carolina, who died in 1873. Henry Griffin toiled faithfully and
diligently on the farm through his youth, receiving but a limited
education. He was a youth seventeen years of age, attending school at
Selma, when the war broke out, but he immediately enlisted in the Tenth
Alabama Regiment, and served gallantly for four years. When mustered
out, he was captain of a company of fifty sharp shooters. He made a
crop in 1866, and February 3, 1867, married Rachel A. Bennett, a
daughter of Thomas Bennett, a native farmer of Alabama. Mr. Bennett
came to Craighead County in the latter part of 1866, and located in
Jonesboro Township, where [p.334] he passed the remainder of his life.
His widow, Martha (Rollins) Bennett, a native of Georgia, now resides
with Mrs. Griffin. The seven survivors of their eleven children are all
residents of Craighead County. In 1867 Mr. Griffin located in
Greenfield Township, about one mile east of Dee Station, where he
remained but one year. After trying two other farms he bought forty
acres of his present place, and subsequently adding 120 acres, later
had a farm of 160 acres, and much of it is improved. He was a member of
the Missionary Baptist Church, and also of the Agricultural Wheel.
After a life of patient toil and sterling integrity, he died, January
27, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Griffin were the parents of seven children;
those now living are: John Henry, Benjamin, Jimmie, Belle and Ruthie.
Mrs. Griffin is a pious and charitable lady, and she and her oldest son
are members of the Baptist Church.