Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....Griffin, James P. 1838 - uk
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Author: MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA
JAMES P..GRIFFIN, merchant, Temple, Carroll Co., Ga., son of Charles W.
and Sarah (New) Griffin, was born in De Kalb county in 183S. His paternal,
	grandparent, James P. Griffin, was a native of South Carolina, came to 
Georgia.
	in 1838, and settled in what is now De Kalb county. At that time they 
had to
tramp their wheat out on the floor. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. Mr. 
Griffin's father was born in Abbeville district, S. C., in 1811; came to 
Georgia. With his parents when he was seven years old and was reared on the 
farm originally settled. He followed farming all his life, was a soldier in the 
Indian war 1836 and was a member of the Methodist church. His maternal 
grandparent, Joel New was a native of South Carolina and among the early 
settlers of De Kalb county. Mr. Griffin was reared on a farm in Carroll county, 
where he went with the family when he was eight years old. His father being a 
very poor man, and he the eldest boy of eleven children, had to work very hard, 
and was almost entirely deprived of the school advantages he yearned for.. 
Oftentimes, too, he had to plow through briar patches and his feet would get so 
badly torn he could hardly walk.
After he became of age he "boarded himself" and went to school. In l862 he 
enlisted in Company E (Capt. Blalock), First Georgia cavalry, and during the 
war was in many hard-fought battles, among them Richmond, Ky., Wheeler's Gap, 
Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Resaca, and thence to Atlanta and on to Macon. At 
the time of surrender he was at Greensborough, N. C. He was in numerous minor 
engagements, and during his service had several horses shot from under him, but 
was so fortunate as to escape being wounded or captured. A part of the time he 
acted as orderly-sergeant. After the war Mr. Griffin worked a farm at fifty 
cents a day and taught school. Struggling on, working hard, and saving his 
money, he at last came into the ownership of a 500-acre farm of good land, well 
improved. In 1881 he engaged in a general merchandising business at Temple, 
where he has built up a good and profitable trade and has made and is making 
money. For six years he served as justice of the peace. Intelligent, 
industrious, and economical, in connection with energy and judicious 
enterprise, it may be expected his achieved success will be far exceeded by 
that of the future. Mr. Griffin was married in 1868 to Miss Sarah A. Adams-born 
and
- reared in Carroll county-daughter of Absolom and Elizabeth (Reid) Adams, by 
whom he has had seven children: Joseph, Ryburn, M. E., Bettie M., Lewis, Ella 
and Claudie. Mr. Griffin is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and himself and 
wife and all the children except the baby are members of the Methodist church.


Additional Comments:
“MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA”, Historical and Biographical Sketches
by S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., Published in 1896.  Transcribed by Elizabeth Robertson 
July 2004.


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