MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - Andrew J. Griffis
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ANDREW J GRIFFIS, senior member of the firm of Griffis & Bro., of Robertson
Fork, Tenn., is a son of T.M. and Nancy E. (Carner) Griffis, natives of
Tennessee, where they grew to manhood and womanhood and were married. They
spent the greater part of their lives in what is now Marshall County, and
here raised their family of ten children. They were members of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and in politics the father was a
Democrat.  He served a short time during the late war and is now a
prosperous farmer. The mother died in 1879.  Andrew is of
Irish-French descent and was born in Marshall County, July 22, 1847. He
received a very limited education in his youth, but on reaching manhood he
attended Cumberland University and afterward taught school a short time. He
then began the merchantile business with A. D. Wallace.  Since 1872 he and
his brother have been in business together, and in connection with their
store operate a large farm. Six children were born to his marriage
with  Bettie E. Tucker, which occurred in 1878. They are members of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and he is a
Democrat politically.

Surnames: Carner, Griffis, Tucker, Wallace
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."