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William D "Will" Griffith

1855 – 4 Jan 1890

Birth	1855
Death	4 Jan 1890
Cemetery	Alum Creek Cemetery Alum Creek , Bastrop County , Texas , USA
Added by	Michael Griffith on 26 Oct 2020
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/217719549

Gravesite details

There are no records or markers to prove that Will Griffith is buried here; however, the many other family graves here make it likely that he is.

Bio

WILLIAM D. (“WILL”) Griffith (1855 – 1890) Will Griffith was born in Georgia in 1855, the oldest of nine children of Benjamin Franklin Griffith and Lucinda Elizabeth Latimer. Ben and Lucinda and their first four children moved from Georgia to Washington County, Texas (near Brenham) in the 1860s, around the end of the Civil War. Will Griffith married Mary Ann Rolsten on November 16, 1881. Will was shot and killed on January 4, 1890 at the age of 35 in what we believe to be Lee County. His untimely death left Mary Ann a widow at the age of 30, with four children under the age of seven. Mary Ann continued farming in Alum Creek after Will’s death, initially assisted by her brothers Robert Rolsten and Thomas Rolsten and later by her two youngest sons, Edgar Wayne Griffith and Benjamin Franklin Griffith II. In the final years of her life, she lived with her oldest son Charles Eugene Griffith and his family.

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Family

Parents

• Lucindy Latimore Griffith 1835–1900 FaG

Spouse

• Mary Ann Rolsten Griffith 1860–1931

Siblings

• Leola Griffith Smith 1859–1930 FaG
• Lena Griffith Bennett 1861–1946 FaG
• Alice M Griffith Carlin 1864–1935 FaG
• John Donald Griffith Sr 1866–1939 FaG
• Charles Monroe Griffith 1869–1942 FaG
• Amanda L "Mandy" Griffith 1872–1958 FaG
• Thomas M Griffith 1875–1962 FaG

Children

• Cora Lou Griffith Claiborne 1883–1907
• Charles Eugene "Gene" Griffith 1884–1973
• Edgar Wayne Griffith 1887–1946
• Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Griffith 1889–1972

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