Re: Colonel Patrick McGriff & Descendants
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Re: Colonel Patrick McGriff & Descendants
5/22/00
I am the 59 year old son of Chester Arthur McGriff of Camp Springs Alabama, close to Columbia.He is the son of Leroy McGriff who was a rural mail carrier and farmed 600 to 800 acres in that area, it was family land that I understand was left to him.I have seen a copy of his grandfather's will (maybe great-grandfather) where the land was split among several family members and even some slaves had been passed to family.Leroy farmed the land with sharecroppers some of which were at times his children including my father. My sister Sylvia Elizabeth (a clinical psycholigist in Red Bank, N.J.) was born there in 1938.My parents moved to Mobile prior to WWII where I was born in "42".
Leroy's children were Henry Archibald (Jack) McGriff, now in his 90's and living in Dothan but still driving weekly to Columbia for a haircut. Jack farmed the land until he sold it to retire.He sold it to the family that sold their land for the construction of the Farley Nuclear Plant; my father Chester (deceased); Annastasia (Anna) McGriff (Mrs. Pete Peterson) of Mobile and Oscar James (O.J. or James), retired from Alabama Power and about 30 years on the Chilton County Board Of Education, living in Verbena, Alabama.
Leroy had older children from his first marriage all deceased. They were Mark, Roy, Harry and Josie. His first and second wife died in childbirth.He had two children by his second wife but after her death, her parents took the children and changed their name back to the mother's maiden name.I have no information on these two other than I think I recall they were girls.
A daughter of one of these, Charlotte, has an extensive family tree dating from Col. John McGriff (Revolutionary War) of Pennsylvania down to my children's generation.
If I can get this info into an easily transferrable form, I will be glad to share it.
Don McGriff