Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd ed.,1885,
Webster Co.

WILLIAM H. GRIFFITH is a native of Macon County, Tenn., born January, 1848,
and is the eldest of a family of six children, born to Byron and Maria
(Rison) Griffith, of Welsh origin.  His father was born about 1821, in
Jackson County, Tenn., and his mother was a native of Huntsville, Ala.  His
great-grandfather Griffith was born in Wales, and when five years old, was
kidnapped and brought to America.  At the early age of fifteen years our
subject enlisted in Company B, Thirty-seventh Kentucky Mounted Infantry,
and after a faithful service of almost two years, was honorably discharged
in January, 1864.  He then worked on a farm for one year, afterward clerked
in a store for the same length of time, and then for one year traveled
through the country selling clocks for the firm of Moore Brothers.  In 1867
he came to Petersburgh, where he has since resided.  Mr. Griffith was
married in 1868 to Miss Ellen Wise, a native of Jefferson County, Ky., born
January 3, 1850, and who came to what is now Webster County when about one
year old.  This marriage has been blessed with six children: Frank,
Charles, Effie, Roy, Guy and Edward.  Mr. Griffith advocates the principles
of the Greenback party for all national issues.  He erected the first
business house in Sebree.  Mrs. Griffith is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South.

Griffith Rison Wise
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Macon-TN Jackson-TN Huntsville-Madison Jefferson

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