Welcome Griffin's Corner!
Home to the Griffin family from the 1930's to the 1980's
Lunsford Griffin was born in Nash Co., North Carolina. He married Eleanor Fausett in 1827. They lived in Laurens Co., Georgia where they had seven children. Later they moved to Pike Co., Alabama where they had five more children, one of which was William Henry Griffin born September 1846.
William Henry Griffin married Elizabeth or Betsy Ann McLendon Janurary 1868 and had nine children. One of the nine children was William Zachariah Griffin. They later moved to Greenwood Co., Arkansas. WZ Griffin married Della Cardin Feb. 1894. They had five children, one of which was my Grandfather William Melvin Griffin. William Melvin Griffin married Ina Sheppard and had six children.
Sometime in the 1930's WZ and family moved to a farm in Muskogee Co., Oklahoma a couple of miles north of Porum. That location later became a bus stop known as "Griffin's Corner".