When Duncan Griffin was born on 25 December 1828, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Thomas Charles Griffin Sr, was 26 and his mother, Nancy Stewart, was 19. He married Mary Susanah Wilson on 22 November 1849, in Henry, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Henry, Alabama, United States in 1850 and Jackson, Louisiana, United States for about 50 years. He died on 21 April 1918, in Ouachita, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Calhoun, Ouachita, Louisiana, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
Welsh: from the personal name Gruffin, Griffin, a pet form of Middle Welsh Gruffudd. In the Welsh border counties this name was introduced directly from Welsh, and in the eastern counties of England by Bretons from France who came over with the Norman conquest.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Gríobhtha ‘descendant of Gríobhtha’, a personal name from gríobh ‘gryphon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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