Anson County NcArchives Obituaries.....Griggs, Sallie Wall 1934
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Newspaper
August 16, 1934 

Mrs. John W. Griggs

Intense sorrow and regret fill my heart as I pay a final tribute of love and 
affection to the memory of a dear friend of a lifetime, Mrs. Sallie Wall 
Griggs, beloved wife of J.W. Griggs, whose death at the Anson Sanatorium on 
the afternoon of August 16, 1934, was a sore grief and shock to her family and 
many devoted friends in different parts of the state. Although a very active 
person, a vital force in her family, and one who had always known how to take 
care of the minutes so that the hours would take care of themselves, Mrs. 
Griggs had for a number of years suffered from acute headaches. They sometimes 
confined her to bed, and over two months ago a rather alarming attack must 
have been the forerunner of a very serious illness that took the form of a 
stroke that rendered her entirely unconscious as she walked alone in her 
garden exactly two weeks before the end came. Three days later she was taken 
to the Anson Sanitorium and remained under the watchful care of her physician 
and a special nurse until apparently much improved. It was my pleasure to 
visit her just a few hours before the sudden termination of her illness, and 
she seemed very happy over the prospects of going home soon, hence it is of 
little wonder that such a complete reversal is oftentimes so bewildering. 

Mrs. Griggs, who was the eldest child of the late Major James M. and Mrs. 
Helen B. Wall, was born April 8, 1869, at her mother's old home in White Store 
township, which was then considered the garden spot of the county, and will 
always be in a class to itself with rugged, beautiful scenery. Mrs. Griggs was 
given good educational advantages and reared among the wholesome environment 
of country life which imbued her with wonderful energy and fitness for such 
surroundings. At the early age of nineteen years she was married to Charles 
Bell Craig, brother of the late J.O.A. Craig, with whom he was associated in 
the mercantile business in Wadesboro at the time. He had an engaging 
personality and made friends wherever he went, but his career was cut short by 
a fatal attack of typhoid fever which brought the grief of widowhood into his 
home and left an infant daughter, now Mrs. C. B. Crawley who resides in 
Charlotte at present, but was here a number of times during her mother's 
illness and for several days after her death. 

After living in Wadesboro for some years our lamented friend was happily 
married March 27, 1902, to John W. Griggs, a man who has always been held in 
the highest esteem by his friends and business associates, and I have seldom 
seen a more devoted, congenial couple. He survives her with an only daughter, 
Mrs. John E. Oden, of Washington, North Carolina, and two sons, James Marshall 
Griggs, who holds a government position in the National Capital, and John W. 
Griggs, Jr, who is at home with his father. Other members of the family who 
mourn their loss are two sisters, Mrs. E.S. Ashe of Wadesboro, and Mrs. Wm. H. 
Craig of Atlanta; also one brother, T.B. Wall of Anson County, three 
grandchildren, and the aged mother, Mrs. James W. Wall, to whom Mrs. Griggs 
had ministered for many years with beautiful and unselfish devotion, as they 
lived together at the family home on the Ansonville road. In such a case it 
cannot be unreasonable to wonder why in the providence of Almight God, they 
should have been separated by such a sudden stroke of fortune. Mrs. Griggs' 
unusual energy played an important part in her home life and was of valuable 
assistance to others. She was very versatile in the line of needlework, 
everything she planted grew, and the fruits of the earth were palatable in 
many ways under her skillful touch. 

She was one of the charter members of the Wadesboro Book Club, the pioneer 
social organization of our town, which held its initial meeting in 1897, and 
dispensed abundant hospitality for over twenty years. She was also affiliated 
with the Worth While Club, the members of which always looked forward with 
pleasure to meetings held at her hospitable country home. Loyal to the 
principles and traditions of the Old South, her name was soon enrolled as a 
member of Anson Chapter, U.D.C. She seldom missed a meeting, while Confederate 
Memorial Day exercises always found her ready to scatter flowers on the graves 
of our heroic dead. 

Mrs. Griggs was born and reared in the Methodist faith, her funeral service 
was largely attended, being held at the home on Friday afternoon by Rev. A.A. 
Kyle, of the Ansonville circuit, who has charge of Salem church. The casket, 
which rested amid a profusion of beautiful flowers, was born by C.S. 
Brasington, Adam Lockhart, Paul J. Kikes, R.E. Little, B.M. Covington, and Lee 
Huntley. The interment followed in the family plot in Eastview cemetery, and 
many friends mingled their tears with those of her loved ones as the sod 
closed over a devoted wife and a wonderful mother. 

E.N.L. 

From unidentified newspaper clipping found in the Griggs family file at the 
public library in Wadesboro, date noted on the clipping

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