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 1868 - 1934

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• Birth	2 Jan 1868	, , Florida
  Gender	Male
  _UID	FA0DBEFB365ED711B41EFEBA3610BF3702DC
  Died	27 Sep 1934	Auburndale, Polk, Fla., USA
  Buried	Collins Cem, Lakeland, Polk, Fla.
  Person ID	I270	Joseph D Cash Family Tree
  Last Modified	18 Nov 2008
  Father	George Washington GRIFFIN,   b. 7 Jan 1844, Ga. ,   d. 21 Apr 1906, Auburndale, Polk, Fl
  Mother	Narcissa BLACK,   b. 5 Feb 1842, , Coffee, AL ,   d. 29 Jan 1925, Auburndale, Polk,FL.
  Married	16 Feb 1865	, Sumter, Florida
  _UID	C10CBEFB365ED711B41EFEBA3610BF37C83D
  Family ID	F113	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Ella Lee WHIDDEN,   b. 24 Jan 1872, Auburndale, Polk, Fla., USA ,   d. 25 Apr 1909, Auburndale, Polk, Fla., USA
  Married	1 Apr 1891	Auburndale, Polk, Fla., USA
  _UID	730CBEFB365ED711B41EFEBA3610BF377A5D
  Children	1. George Leslie GRIFFIN,   b. 4 May 1892, Auburndale, Polk, Fla., USA ,   d. Aug 1965, Auburndale, Polk, Fla., USA   2. Ella Pearl GRIFFIN,   b. 13 Aug 1893, Auburndale, Polk, Fla., USA ,   d. 26 Nov 1989, Auburndale, Polk, Fla., USA   3. John Howard GRIFFIN,   b. 23 Dec 1894, Auburndale, Polk, Fla, USA ,   d. 26 Dec 1925, Sale City, Ga., USA   4. Ester Lois GRIFFIN,   b. 3 Dec 1897, Auburndale, Polk, Fla., USA ,   d. 8 Apr 1974, Lakeland, Polk, Fla., USA   5. Annie Mae GRIFFIN,   b. 24 Jan 1901, Auburndale, Polk, Fla., USA ,   d. Abt 1991, Lakeland, Polk, Fla., USA   6. Maude Leola GRIFFIN,   b. 4 Mar 1904, Auburndale, Polk, Fla, USA ,   d. 12 Apr 2001   7. Robert Forrester GRIFFIN,   b. 15 Mar 1906, Auburndale, Polk, Fla., USA ,   d. 26 Jan 1940, Lakeland, Polk, Fla., USA
  Family ID	F74	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Effie DEWITT,   b. 1891,   d. 29 Sep 1983, Lakeland, Polk, Florida
  Married	5 Sep 1916	, Hillsborough, Florida
  _UID	750CBEFB365ED711B41EFEBA3610BF377C7D
  Children	1. Rhoda Minerva GRIFFIN   2. Jesse Merrill GRIFFIN,   b. 9 Jan 1920, Auburndale, Polk, Fla., USA ,   d. 15 Jan 2004, Auburndale, Polk, Florida   3. Charles Emmett GRIFFIN,   b. Feb 1922, Auburndale, Polk, Fla., USA ,   d. 22 Sep 1985   4. Virgil Oveda GRIFFIN,   b. 28 Nov 1923, Auburndale, Polk, Fla, USA ,   d. 4 Jan 2006, Auburndale, Polk, Florida
  Family ID	F75	Group Sheet

• Photos	G-Pa Jesse Griffin.jpg

• Notes

  !The shotgun that Jesse Griffin is holding here was won from a punch board at a small country store near Moore Haven Fl. Jesse ( MAN ) Griffin, the son of Jesse Mercer, told me the story when I went to visit him a couple of years before he died. Man said that his father stopped at this store when on the way to the Labelle area where Fed Crawford lived. Jesse always went ther in the hunting season to hunt and fish with Fed. Fed's name was Jesse Emanuel Crawford and there were several of that name in the family so I'm supposing that he took a nick name to separate them. Man Griffin said his name was Fed but others say it was Fred. ( Uncle Man ought to know though from first hand info.) I called him Fred and Man corrected me. He said that his dad would stay a couple of weeks or so and hunt and fish and bring it home. Aunt Maude Palmer, Jesse (Man's ) half sister, told me the same about the hunting and fishing. I believe one of the censuses list him as Fred. Fed had a son, Bascomb and he couldn't speak plain. Uncle Man told me that Basconb drank a bottle of stricknine and it paralyzed his tongue and that is why he seemed tongue tied. Fed was the son of Jesse Emanuel Crawford and Martha Whidden, ( or some indicate Emanuel Jesse ), they had another son. Willian Hardy Crawford and he married Mary Ann Griffin, the dau. of Caleb Griffin, who was Jesse Mercer Griffin's grandfather and so Mary ann was his auntand she and Wm. Hardey Crawford had a son named Jesse Emanuel also. Getting confusing. SO! there were connections between Jesse Mercer Griffin and Fed Crawford. !Jesse M Griffin was a watermelon farmer and grew some big ones so I have been told by family members that knew G-Grandpa Griffin. Carlton Combee, Jesse's grandson told me that the railroad laid a spur into Grandpa's place to leave cars to load with melons. I knew that his son Leslie also grew Melon and grew some big one also. I have a picture of Leslie loading melon into box cars on a railroad siding. I am supposing it was the same siding. After Jesse got older he planted the place in Tung oil trees according to his grandson, Carlton Combee. According to Carlton, his dad, Jesse Combee, leased the place after Jesse died, to plant sea island cotton, for a man named Marshal Hampton. Hampton had lots of cattle and wanted the cotton seed meal for his cow feed. Carlton said his dad, Jesse Combee, would have the cotton shipped to Orlando to have it ginned. Jesse Combee worked for Marshall Hampton many years. Uncle Jess was a cowboy through and through. Boy! could he crack a whip. He was named Jesse but was called Jess. He married Lois Griffin, my Grandmother's sister, both daughters of Jesse M. Griffin.