When Martha Harriett Griggs was born on 11 December 1867, in Waynesboro, Wayne, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Griggs, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth Cordelia North, was 20. She married Franklin M. Lay on 2 May 1888, in Wayne, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Civil District 4, Wayne, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 1, Wayne, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. She died on 20 September 1928, in Waynesboro, Wayne, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Ray Cemetery, Waynesboro, Wayne, Tennessee, United States.
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English (southeastern): from the Middle English personal name Grig, a pet form of Gregory (compare Gregg ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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