Brief Life History of Julia Ann
When Julia Ann Griffin was born on 22 April 1876, in Scottsboro, Jackson, Alabama, United States, her father, John Hillard Griffin, was 37 and her mother, Temperance Caroline Evans, was 31. She married David Asbury Morse on 19 February 1896, in Crawford, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Dyer, Crawford, Arkansas, United States for about 30 years and Dyer Township, Crawford, Arkansas, United States in 1940. She died on 9 February 1961, in Arkansas, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Dyer Cemetery, Dyer, Crawford, Arkansas, United States.
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- Julia Griffon in household of John H Griffon, "United States Census, 1880"
- Julia Griffin, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Julia Ann Griffin Morse, "Find A Grave Index"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
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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