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Radford Ellis "Rad" Griffin

14 Nov 1860 – 5 Dec 1932

Birth	14 Nov 1860
Death	5 Dec 1932
Cemetery	Menard Chapel Cemetery Segno , Polk County , Texas , USA
Added by	Daniel Bode on 18 Sep 2014
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8357723

Gravesite details

The tombstone states Rad was born in 1859, but the actual year of his birth is 1860.

Bio

Radford Griffin married Dorcas Elvira "Aunt Missie" Smith on December 18, 1884, in Wise County, Texas. Uncle Rad and Aunt Missie Griffin lived most of their married life in Polk County. The death certificate of their oldest daughter says Exer was born in 1886 in Madison County. Emma Jane Griffin Hilton said her parents and family lived in Oklahoma for a year in what is now Love County where Aunt Missie's brother, Seaborn Smith, lived. The Polk County Deed Records show that on January 30, 1899, Rad and Missie Griffin purchased 100-acres of land in southern Polk County, and on December 4, 1905, Rad and Missie purchased 50-acres of the Bird Griffin Estate from Rad's mother, Mary Gray. ************************************************************************************ My grandmother, the late Johnnie Oates Robinson, who was a grand-niece of Aunt Missie Griffin, shared her memories of Uncle Rad Griffin: Uncle Rad built a split-log rail fence around his yard to keep the newly-fangled automobiles from ruining the dirt in his yard. Uncle Rad would go fishing in Menard Creek, and he would have the youngsters to catch lizards for him to use as fish bait. The youngsters would do it because they were more afraid of Uncle Rad's sharp voice than the lizards. Uncle Rad would also pour bacon grease from the skillet into his coffee in the mornings.

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Family

Parents

• Bird Griffin 1828–1880 FaG
• Mary Moore Gray 1839–1925 FaG

Spouse

• Dorcas Elvira "Missie" Smith Griffin 1861–1933

Siblings

• Olivia Griffin Morrison 1856–1940 FaG
• Samuel William Griffin 1858–1916 FaG
• Mary Charlotte Griffin Purvis 1865–1949 FaG
• Robert H. Griffin 1867–? FaG
• James Benjamin "Dash" Griffin 1870–1962 FaG
• Kirk Young Griffin 1872–1914 FaG
• John Lindsey Griffin 1874–1963 FaG
• Bonner Griffin 1876–1894 FaG

Children

• Exer Griffin Walters 1886–1960
• Barbara Griffin Collins 1889–1946
• Ether Griffin Eckersley 1891–1980
• Boyd "Pappy" Griffin 1894–1983
• Emma Jane Griffin Hilton 1898–1988
• Willie Griffin 1900–1905
• Elva Griffin Collins 1903–1972

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