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Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs

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Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs

Birth
Brighton, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
6 Feb 1899 (aged 72)
Burial
Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida, USA GPS-Latitude: 29.225581, Longitude: -81.012399
Plot
Lot 46
Memorial ID
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CHARLES HENRY DEARBORN GRIGGS
Charles D. Griggs
Married three times


Not to be confused with other Griggs families — this is the Aspinwall–Griggs family from Brookline and Brighton in today's Norfolk and Suffolk counties, Massachusetts. Nathaniel Griggs was a descendant of Margaret Weld and Nathaniel Brewer II. Nathaniel Griggs (son of Joshua and Martha Wilson Griggs) married Joanna Aspinwall, daughter of Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall and Lucy Sparhawk Aspinwall. Joanna Aspinwall and Nathaniel Griggs had a son, Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs. He married Nancy Dearborn.

Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs was the son of Nancy Dearborn and Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs. Grandson of Sallie and Sherwood Dearborn; and of Joanna Aspinwall and Nathaniel Griggs.

Father of Gertrude I. Griggs Ridgeway. Her mother was Elizabeth Ann Whitney Griggs. Gertrude was the wife of Philip R. Ridgeway. Probable child of Gertrude I. Griggs and Philip R. Ridgeway: Baby Ridgeway. Likely the Ridgeway family of husband Philip R. Ridgeway (note also the Shepherd name) —
Dr. Philip R. Ridgeway
M, #16050, b. 17 August 1828, d. 3 March 1879
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
Dr. Philip R. Ridgeway was born on 17 August 1828. He was the son of Philip R. Ridgeway and Jeanette Nicholls Shepherd. Dr. Philip R. Ridgeway died on 3 March 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 50 of Bright's disease.1
Citations
[S130] Massachusetts Vital Records.
https://www.sewellgenealogy.com/p491.htm#i16050

Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs
https://fullereriksen.familygenes.ca/familygroup.php?familyID=F37065&tree=Dfuller

Nancy Dearborn Griggs
Some Ancestors & Descendants of
Mercy Batchelder & Samuel Dearborn
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~qvarizona/family/batchelder_dearborn.html

BREWER Line to Nathaniel Griggs
Daniel Brewer
Joanna

Nathaniel Brewer
married first Elizabeth Sunderland
She died leaving a child/children.
second married Elizabeth Rand

Nathaniel Brewer II
Son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Rand) Brewer, his second wife.
Margaret Weld
Daughter of Thomas Weld and Dorothy (Whiting) Weld.

Dorothy Brewer
Named for grandmother Dorothy (Whiting) Weld, daughter of Reverend Samuel Whiting and Unknown first wife.
John Williams

Margaret Williams
Named for grandmother Margaret (Weld) Brewer.
Thomas Griggs

Nathaniel Griggs
Named for Nathaniel Brewer II.
Joanna Aspinwall

Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs
Aspinwall for his mother's family.
Nancy Dearborn

Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs
Henry Dearborn for his mother's family.
married three times

The Griggs family has several ties to other families that married into the Brewer and Aspinwall family.

Pinewood Cemetery
"..old listing made in 1958 by the D.A.R. to fill in the stones that are now unreadable. The cemetery is located at the corner of Main Street and Peninsula Avenue, Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida. 11/13/98
GPS N29º 13'33.60 W081º 00'46.32
Parcel 5305-08-14-0010
Copyright ©2008, Carol Swain"
http://wrmorganjr.com/Volusia%20Cemeteries/pnwdcem.htm

Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs was a great-grandson of Lucy Sparhawk and Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall of Brookline, Massachusetts.
https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_descendants/?action=list&MyPrimary_Seqn=1290260&MyLineageCount=1&Control_Min_Seqn=1290260

ASPINWALL FAMILY IN FLORIDA and GEORGIA:
Both Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs and
William Henry Freeman, Sr. lived and died at Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida. His sister Hattie Eliza Freeman married Aspinwall descendant Thomas Brewer Benson. He was the eldest son of
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer and Richard Aaron Benson.

Thomas Brewer Benson's grandfather Thomas Aspinwall Brewer was the son of Joanna Aspinwall Griggs's sister Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall and Edward Brewer — and so Thomas Aspinwall Brewer was a first cousin to Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs.

Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs of Daytona Beach, Florida, was the son of Nancy Dearborn and Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs — the son of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer's aunt Joanna Aspinwall and Nathaniel Griggs.

Descendants of Lucy Sparhawk and Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall:
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs were first cousins. Another of their first cousins was Thomas Aspinwall Davis, 10th Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts. Mayor Davis was the son of Ebenezer Davis III and Lucy Aspinwall Davis Holden — his father Ebenezer Davis III was a nephew of
Governor Increase Sumner of Massachusetts.

Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs also went to Daytona Beach, Florida. Charles D. Griggs (Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs) was from Brighton, Massachusetts. He had three wives, and lived in Daytona Beach with his third wife Abigail Evelyn "Abbie" Griggs.

ASPINWALL line to Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs
PETER ASPINWALL
Remember Palfrey

Capt. Samuel Aspinwall
Sarah Stevens

Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner

Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Lucy Sparhawk

Joanna Aspinwall
Sister of Catherine Sparhawk Aspinwall Brewer
Nathaniel Griggs

Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs
First cousin of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Nancy Dearborn

Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs
Moved to Daytona Beach, Florida, with his third wife Abbie


ASPINWALL line to Lula May Benson Parker
PETER ASPINWALL
Remember Palfrey

Capt. Samuel Aspinwall
Sarah Stevens

Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner

Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Lucy Sparhawk

Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Sister of Joanna (Aspinwall) Griggs
Edward Brewer

Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
First cousin of Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs
Mary Foster Brewer
Moved from Massachusetts to Georgia

Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
First graduate, Georgia Female College (now Wesleyan College, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia)
Richard Aaron Benson

Thomas Brewer Benson
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Sister of William Henry Freeman, who moved (with wife Ella Ellis Freeman) from Macon to Daytona Beach, Florida

Cousin of Charles D. Griggs
Daughter of Thomas Brewer Benson and Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson, and niece of William Henry Freeman:
Lula May Benson
Married Nelson Huntley Parker
1910 Census: Daytona Beach, Florida
Lum Genealogy residence: Daytona Beach, Florida


Cousin of Charles D. Griggs
Daughter of Thomas Brewer Benson and Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson, and niece of William Henry Freeman:
Mamie Shepherd Benson
Married Van Porter Enloe, Sr.
1910 Census: Daytona Beach, Florida
Lum Genealogy residence: Daytona Beach, Florida


Also in Georgia was the family of Edward White. This Edward White, called Major Edward White, married Mildred Scott Stubbs. They lived at Savannah where this Major Edward White is buried. The children of Edward and Mildred Scott "Millcie (or Millie)" Stubbs White were born in Georgia. Some of their descendants also went to Florida. In Georgia, Edward and Mildred Scott Stubbs children and grandchildren knew and visited with the family of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer — Thomas Aspinwall Brewer was the first cousin of Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs, father of Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs. Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs was the son of Nancy Gardner Dearborn and Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs of Brighton, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
The Whites (Aspinwall Family)
https://books.google.com/books?id=2eZYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA411&lpg=PA411&dq=col+guy+Cummins+McKinley&source=bl&ots=yyK9wR9cZ2&sig=ACfU3U3migFNu1Bt1m39CaDsIFOXKC79nQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmjryNk-7yAhVBU98KHfNWCdoQ6AF6BAgkEAI#v=onepage&q=White&f=false

Charles D. Griggs of Daytona Beach, Florida, had ASPINWALL cousins in Georgia and Florida.
https://fullereriksen.familygenes.ca/getperson.php?personID=I108546&tree=Dfuller

Pinewood Cemetery
GRIGGS, Ada L., Jan. 5, 1878 - Sept. 26, 1899
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40289543/ada-l-griggs

Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs
GRIGGS, Charles D. died Feb. 6, 1899, age 72 years, "Gone but still remembered"

GRIGGS, Gertrude Bishop, Dec. 16, 1896 - Nov. 27, 1919

Raymond Francis Griggs
GRIGGS, Raymond F., 1889 - 1921 Pvt. Co. A 106 Eng. 31st Div.
Son of Abbie and Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs

[From Pinewood volunteer researcher site, this appears incorrect based on comparison to DAR records which name the same named person (with same dates) as wife of Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs]:
ALLEN, Abbie E. Griggs, 1860-1935 (widow of John H. Griggs)
http://wrmorganjr.com/Volusia%20Cemeteries/pnwdcem.htm
DAR has Abigail Evelyn Hyster Roberts as wife of Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs...
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40289425/abbie-e-allen
I have been using an old listing made in 1958 by the D.A.R. to fill in the stones that are now unreadable. The cemetery is located at the corner of Main Street and Peninsula Avenue, Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida. 11/13/98
GPS N29º 13'33.60 W081º 00'46.32
Parcel 5305-08-14-0010
Copyright ©2008, Carol Swain [email protected]
http://wrmorganjr.com/Volusia%20Cemeteries/pnwdcem.htm
CHARLES HENRY DEARBORN GRIGGS
Charles D. Griggs
Married three times


Not to be confused with other Griggs families — this is the Aspinwall–Griggs family from Brookline and Brighton in today's Norfolk and Suffolk counties, Massachusetts. Nathaniel Griggs was a descendant of Margaret Weld and Nathaniel Brewer II. Nathaniel Griggs (son of Joshua and Martha Wilson Griggs) married Joanna Aspinwall, daughter of Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall and Lucy Sparhawk Aspinwall. Joanna Aspinwall and Nathaniel Griggs had a son, Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs. He married Nancy Dearborn.

Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs was the son of Nancy Dearborn and Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs. Grandson of Sallie and Sherwood Dearborn; and of Joanna Aspinwall and Nathaniel Griggs.

Father of Gertrude I. Griggs Ridgeway. Her mother was Elizabeth Ann Whitney Griggs. Gertrude was the wife of Philip R. Ridgeway. Probable child of Gertrude I. Griggs and Philip R. Ridgeway: Baby Ridgeway. Likely the Ridgeway family of husband Philip R. Ridgeway (note also the Shepherd name) —
Dr. Philip R. Ridgeway
M, #16050, b. 17 August 1828, d. 3 March 1879
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
Dr. Philip R. Ridgeway was born on 17 August 1828. He was the son of Philip R. Ridgeway and Jeanette Nicholls Shepherd. Dr. Philip R. Ridgeway died on 3 March 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 50 of Bright's disease.1
Citations
[S130] Massachusetts Vital Records.
https://www.sewellgenealogy.com/p491.htm#i16050

Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs
https://fullereriksen.familygenes.ca/familygroup.php?familyID=F37065&tree=Dfuller

Nancy Dearborn Griggs
Some Ancestors & Descendants of
Mercy Batchelder & Samuel Dearborn
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~qvarizona/family/batchelder_dearborn.html

BREWER Line to Nathaniel Griggs
Daniel Brewer
Joanna

Nathaniel Brewer
married first Elizabeth Sunderland
She died leaving a child/children.
second married Elizabeth Rand

Nathaniel Brewer II
Son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Rand) Brewer, his second wife.
Margaret Weld
Daughter of Thomas Weld and Dorothy (Whiting) Weld.

Dorothy Brewer
Named for grandmother Dorothy (Whiting) Weld, daughter of Reverend Samuel Whiting and Unknown first wife.
John Williams

Margaret Williams
Named for grandmother Margaret (Weld) Brewer.
Thomas Griggs

Nathaniel Griggs
Named for Nathaniel Brewer II.
Joanna Aspinwall

Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs
Aspinwall for his mother's family.
Nancy Dearborn

Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs
Henry Dearborn for his mother's family.
married three times

The Griggs family has several ties to other families that married into the Brewer and Aspinwall family.

Pinewood Cemetery
"..old listing made in 1958 by the D.A.R. to fill in the stones that are now unreadable. The cemetery is located at the corner of Main Street and Peninsula Avenue, Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida. 11/13/98
GPS N29º 13'33.60 W081º 00'46.32
Parcel 5305-08-14-0010
Copyright ©2008, Carol Swain"
http://wrmorganjr.com/Volusia%20Cemeteries/pnwdcem.htm

Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs was a great-grandson of Lucy Sparhawk and Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall of Brookline, Massachusetts.
https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_descendants/?action=list&MyPrimary_Seqn=1290260&MyLineageCount=1&Control_Min_Seqn=1290260

ASPINWALL FAMILY IN FLORIDA and GEORGIA:
Both Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs and
William Henry Freeman, Sr. lived and died at Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida. His sister Hattie Eliza Freeman married Aspinwall descendant Thomas Brewer Benson. He was the eldest son of
Catherine Elizabeth Brewer and Richard Aaron Benson.

Thomas Brewer Benson's grandfather Thomas Aspinwall Brewer was the son of Joanna Aspinwall Griggs's sister Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall and Edward Brewer — and so Thomas Aspinwall Brewer was a first cousin to Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs.

Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs of Daytona Beach, Florida, was the son of Nancy Dearborn and Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs — the son of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer's aunt Joanna Aspinwall and Nathaniel Griggs.

Descendants of Lucy Sparhawk and Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall:
Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs were first cousins. Another of their first cousins was Thomas Aspinwall Davis, 10th Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts. Mayor Davis was the son of Ebenezer Davis III and Lucy Aspinwall Davis Holden — his father Ebenezer Davis III was a nephew of
Governor Increase Sumner of Massachusetts.

Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs also went to Daytona Beach, Florida. Charles D. Griggs (Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs) was from Brighton, Massachusetts. He had three wives, and lived in Daytona Beach with his third wife Abigail Evelyn "Abbie" Griggs.

ASPINWALL line to Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs
PETER ASPINWALL
Remember Palfrey

Capt. Samuel Aspinwall
Sarah Stevens

Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner

Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Lucy Sparhawk

Joanna Aspinwall
Sister of Catherine Sparhawk Aspinwall Brewer
Nathaniel Griggs

Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs
First cousin of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Nancy Dearborn

Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs
Moved to Daytona Beach, Florida, with his third wife Abbie


ASPINWALL line to Lula May Benson Parker
PETER ASPINWALL
Remember Palfrey

Capt. Samuel Aspinwall
Sarah Stevens

Lt. Thomas Aspinwall
Johanna Gardner

Lt. Col. Thomas Aspinwall
Lucy Sparhawk

Catharine Sparhawk Aspinwall
Sister of Joanna (Aspinwall) Griggs
Edward Brewer

Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
First cousin of Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs
Mary Foster Brewer
Moved from Massachusetts to Georgia

Catherine Elizabeth Brewer
First graduate, Georgia Female College (now Wesleyan College, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia)
Richard Aaron Benson

Thomas Brewer Benson
Hattie Eliza Freeman
Sister of William Henry Freeman, who moved (with wife Ella Ellis Freeman) from Macon to Daytona Beach, Florida

Cousin of Charles D. Griggs
Daughter of Thomas Brewer Benson and Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson, and niece of William Henry Freeman:
Lula May Benson
Married Nelson Huntley Parker
1910 Census: Daytona Beach, Florida
Lum Genealogy residence: Daytona Beach, Florida


Cousin of Charles D. Griggs
Daughter of Thomas Brewer Benson and Hattie Eliza Freeman Benson, and niece of William Henry Freeman:
Mamie Shepherd Benson
Married Van Porter Enloe, Sr.
1910 Census: Daytona Beach, Florida
Lum Genealogy residence: Daytona Beach, Florida


Also in Georgia was the family of Edward White. This Edward White, called Major Edward White, married Mildred Scott Stubbs. They lived at Savannah where this Major Edward White is buried. The children of Edward and Mildred Scott "Millcie (or Millie)" Stubbs White were born in Georgia. Some of their descendants also went to Florida. In Georgia, Edward and Mildred Scott Stubbs children and grandchildren knew and visited with the family of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer — Thomas Aspinwall Brewer was the first cousin of Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs, father of Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs. Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs was the son of Nancy Gardner Dearborn and Nathaniel Aspinwall Griggs of Brighton, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
The Whites (Aspinwall Family)
https://books.google.com/books?id=2eZYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA411&lpg=PA411&dq=col+guy+Cummins+McKinley&source=bl&ots=yyK9wR9cZ2&sig=ACfU3U3migFNu1Bt1m39CaDsIFOXKC79nQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmjryNk-7yAhVBU98KHfNWCdoQ6AF6BAgkEAI#v=onepage&q=White&f=false

Charles D. Griggs of Daytona Beach, Florida, had ASPINWALL cousins in Georgia and Florida.
https://fullereriksen.familygenes.ca/getperson.php?personID=I108546&tree=Dfuller

Pinewood Cemetery
GRIGGS, Ada L., Jan. 5, 1878 - Sept. 26, 1899
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40289543/ada-l-griggs

Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs
GRIGGS, Charles D. died Feb. 6, 1899, age 72 years, "Gone but still remembered"

GRIGGS, Gertrude Bishop, Dec. 16, 1896 - Nov. 27, 1919

Raymond Francis Griggs
GRIGGS, Raymond F., 1889 - 1921 Pvt. Co. A 106 Eng. 31st Div.
Son of Abbie and Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs

[From Pinewood volunteer researcher site, this appears incorrect based on comparison to DAR records which name the same named person (with same dates) as wife of Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs]:
ALLEN, Abbie E. Griggs, 1860-1935 (widow of John H. Griggs)
http://wrmorganjr.com/Volusia%20Cemeteries/pnwdcem.htm
DAR has Abigail Evelyn Hyster Roberts as wife of Charles Henry Dearborn Griggs...
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40289425/abbie-e-allen
I have been using an old listing made in 1958 by the D.A.R. to fill in the stones that are now unreadable. The cemetery is located at the corner of Main Street and Peninsula Avenue, Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida. 11/13/98
GPS N29º 13'33.60 W081º 00'46.32
Parcel 5305-08-14-0010
Copyright ©2008, Carol Swain [email protected]
http://wrmorganjr.com/Volusia%20Cemeteries/pnwdcem.htm

Inscription

SACRED TO THE MEMORY
OF
CHARLES D. GRIGGS
DIED
FEB'Y 6, 1899
AGED 72 YRS. 9 MOS.



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