Revised on 07 Feb 2020 to revise details regards her move to Texas from Arkansas.
Shortly after Mary Jane died, the following Obituary appeared in a local newspaper, The Devine News.
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LARGE FUNERAL PIONEER LADY 95 YEARS OLD
Mrs. Mary Jane Griffin, 95, widow of the late Hezekiah Griffin, quietly fell asleep, without a struggle, at the home of her son and daughter, near Shook, on the evening of April 17, 1934.
Her maiden name was Stevens, and she was a native of Jonesboro, Tennessee, though her parents moved towards the west, stopped two years in Arkansas, and then came to Burleson County, Texas in 1859.
[Comments from Don Herring: The last statement in the previous paragraph is incorrect. Mary Jane's family lived in Arkansas and Missouri over 20 years. They moved from Tennessee to Arkansas before the 1840 Census, probably before Mary Jane's first birthday. In "Trials and Tribulations...". Mary Jane said she traveled to Texas from Arkansas when she was about 20, which would have been in 1859. She traveled with a family named Wilson to Texas. At that time, her mother and 3 younger siblings lived in Missouri. Her father died from typhoid fever in Arkansas in about 1844. Her mother stayed in Arkansas until after 1850, then moved the rest of her family to Missouri before the US census of 1860. From there her mother moved to Texas with her two youngest sons (Caswell Pickett and William Henry Stevens), before 1880 and finally to Oklahoma before she died in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma in 1900 - all can be confirmed by the US Census records for the respective years. Also, Mary Jane first moved to Cooke County, Texas (near Gainesville) from Arkansas, not Burleson County. She met and married her husband, Hezekiah in Cooke County.]
In 1861, about the break of the Civil War, Mary Jane was married to Hezekiah Griffin, and soon they came west, locating on the Verde Creek, below Bandera, but the Indians, in a battle with Mr. Griffin and his brothers, shot Silas [Hezekiah's younger brother] six times with arrows, burned their barn and took away all their horses and saddles. They moved soon to Bandera town, a few miles west from Devine, 63 years ago [1871], having lived in Medina County, and near Devine, all this time, and in Texas, 75 years.
She is survived by 130 living descendants, as follows: 8 children lived to rear families (three are dead), leaving J. S., D. H., and E. S. Griffin, sons; and Mrs. L. A. Moss, of San Antonio, and Miss Mollie Griffin, of Devine, now surviving; 42 grand-children, 68 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren, fifth generation. One brother, William Stevens, now resides in Elmo, Oklahoma, is 92 years old, and a sister recently passed away at 91. There is also a very large number of relatives of the family and friends without number.
The funeral Thursday afternoon, at the old cemetery at Black Creek, was largely attended, many from San Antonio, Hondo, and other places.; conducted by Editor W. L. DuBose, Rev. Cocreham, and Rev. Elmer Mullins, taking part; and the grave was literally piled with beautiful floral offerings. The active pall-bearers were to be six great-grandsons (something we never heard of before) but some of these could not be present and their places were filled with grandsons - three grandsons and three great-grandsons. She was for fifty years a consistant member of the Primitive Baptist Church at Black Creek.
The actiivebearers were Elbert, Claude and Arnold Griffin, Eugene, Raymond and Ralph Bendele. Our reporter did not get names of honorary bearers.
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Mary Jane's parents were married 21 Jul 1831 in Washington Co, Tennessee. See parents & sibling memorials using the links below.
Compiled by her Great Grandson, Don Herring
Please feel free to notify Don Herring at Findagrave.com Memorial # 48531255, if you dispute any of the information in this bio or if you have additional or more up to date information regarding persons described in this memorial.
Shortly after Mary Jane died, the following Obituary appeared in a local newspaper, The Devine News.
**********************************************
LARGE FUNERAL PIONEER LADY 95 YEARS OLD
Mrs. Mary Jane Griffin, 95, widow of the late Hezekiah Griffin, quietly fell asleep, without a struggle, at the home of her son and daughter, near Shook, on the evening of April 17, 1934.
Her maiden name was Stevens, and she was a native of Jonesboro, Tennessee, though her parents moved towards the west, stopped two years in Arkansas, and then came to Burleson County, Texas in 1859.
[Comments from Don Herring: The last statement in the previous paragraph is incorrect. Mary Jane's family lived in Arkansas and Missouri over 20 years. They moved from Tennessee to Arkansas before the 1840 Census, probably before Mary Jane's first birthday. In "Trials and Tribulations...". Mary Jane said she traveled to Texas from Arkansas when she was about 20, which would have been in 1859. She traveled with a family named Wilson to Texas. At that time, her mother and 3 younger siblings lived in Missouri. Her father died from typhoid fever in Arkansas in about 1844. Her mother stayed in Arkansas until after 1850, then moved the rest of her family to Missouri before the US census of 1860. From there her mother moved to Texas with her two youngest sons (Caswell Pickett and William Henry Stevens), before 1880 and finally to Oklahoma before she died in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma in 1900 - all can be confirmed by the US Census records for the respective years. Also, Mary Jane first moved to Cooke County, Texas (near Gainesville) from Arkansas, not Burleson County. She met and married her husband, Hezekiah in Cooke County.]
In 1861, about the break of the Civil War, Mary Jane was married to Hezekiah Griffin, and soon they came west, locating on the Verde Creek, below Bandera, but the Indians, in a battle with Mr. Griffin and his brothers, shot Silas [Hezekiah's younger brother] six times with arrows, burned their barn and took away all their horses and saddles. They moved soon to Bandera town, a few miles west from Devine, 63 years ago [1871], having lived in Medina County, and near Devine, all this time, and in Texas, 75 years.
She is survived by 130 living descendants, as follows: 8 children lived to rear families (three are dead), leaving J. S., D. H., and E. S. Griffin, sons; and Mrs. L. A. Moss, of San Antonio, and Miss Mollie Griffin, of Devine, now surviving; 42 grand-children, 68 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren, fifth generation. One brother, William Stevens, now resides in Elmo, Oklahoma, is 92 years old, and a sister recently passed away at 91. There is also a very large number of relatives of the family and friends without number.
The funeral Thursday afternoon, at the old cemetery at Black Creek, was largely attended, many from San Antonio, Hondo, and other places.; conducted by Editor W. L. DuBose, Rev. Cocreham, and Rev. Elmer Mullins, taking part; and the grave was literally piled with beautiful floral offerings. The active pall-bearers were to be six great-grandsons (something we never heard of before) but some of these could not be present and their places were filled with grandsons - three grandsons and three great-grandsons. She was for fifty years a consistant member of the Primitive Baptist Church at Black Creek.
The actiivebearers were Elbert, Claude and Arnold Griffin, Eugene, Raymond and Ralph Bendele. Our reporter did not get names of honorary bearers.
**********************************************
Mary Jane's parents were married 21 Jul 1831 in Washington Co, Tennessee. See parents & sibling memorials using the links below.
Compiled by her Great Grandson, Don Herring
Please feel free to notify Don Herring at Findagrave.com Memorial # 48531255, if you dispute any of the information in this bio or if you have additional or more up to date information regarding persons described in this memorial.
Revised on 07 Feb 2020 to revise details regards her move to Texas from Arkansas.
Shortly after Mary Jane died, the following Obituary appeared in a local newspaper, The Devine News.
**********************************************
LARGE FUNERAL PIONEER LADY 95 YEARS OLD
Mrs. Mary Jane Griffin, 95, widow of the late Hezekiah Griffin, quietly fell asleep, without a struggle, at the home of her son and daughter, near Shook, on the evening of April 17, 1934.
Her maiden name was Stevens, and she was a native of Jonesboro, Tennessee, though her parents moved towards the west, stopped two years in Arkansas, and then came to Burleson County, Texas in 1859.
[Comments from Don Herring: The last statement in the previous paragraph is incorrect. Mary Jane's family lived in Arkansas and Missouri over 20 years. They moved from Tennessee to Arkansas before the 1840 Census, probably before Mary Jane's first birthday. In "Trials and Tribulations...". Mary Jane said she traveled to Texas from Arkansas when she was about 20, which would have been in 1859. She traveled with a family named Wilson to Texas. At that time, her mother and 3 younger siblings lived in Missouri. Her father died from typhoid fever in Arkansas in about 1844. Her mother stayed in Arkansas until after 1850, then moved the rest of her family to Missouri before the US census of 1860. From there her mother moved to Texas with her two youngest sons (Caswell Pickett and William Henry Stevens), before 1880 and finally to Oklahoma before she died in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma in 1900 - all can be confirmed by the US Census records for the respective years. Also, Mary Jane first moved to Cooke County, Texas (near Gainesville) from Arkansas, not Burleson County. She met and married her husband, Hezekiah in Cooke County.]
In 1861, about the break of the Civil War, Mary Jane was married to Hezekiah Griffin, and soon they came west, locating on the Verde Creek, below Bandera, but the Indians, in a battle with Mr. Griffin and his brothers, shot Silas [Hezekiah's younger brother] six times with arrows, burned their barn and took away all their horses and saddles. They moved soon to Bandera town, a few miles west from Devine, 63 years ago [1871], having lived in Medina County, and near Devine, all this time, and in Texas, 75 years.
She is survived by 130 living descendants, as follows: 8 children lived to rear families (three are dead), leaving J. S., D. H., and E. S. Griffin, sons; and Mrs. L. A. Moss, of San Antonio, and Miss Mollie Griffin, of Devine, now surviving; 42 grand-children, 68 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren, fifth generation. One brother, William Stevens, now resides in Elmo, Oklahoma, is 92 years old, and a sister recently passed away at 91. There is also a very large number of relatives of the family and friends without number.
The funeral Thursday afternoon, at the old cemetery at Black Creek, was largely attended, many from San Antonio, Hondo, and other places.; conducted by Editor W. L. DuBose, Rev. Cocreham, and Rev. Elmer Mullins, taking part; and the grave was literally piled with beautiful floral offerings. The active pall-bearers were to be six great-grandsons (something we never heard of before) but some of these could not be present and their places were filled with grandsons - three grandsons and three great-grandsons. She was for fifty years a consistant member of the Primitive Baptist Church at Black Creek.
The actiivebearers were Elbert, Claude and Arnold Griffin, Eugene, Raymond and Ralph Bendele. Our reporter did not get names of honorary bearers.
**********************************************
Mary Jane's parents were married 21 Jul 1831 in Washington Co, Tennessee. See parents & sibling memorials using the links below.
Compiled by her Great Grandson, Don Herring
Please feel free to notify Don Herring at Findagrave.com Memorial # 48531255, if you dispute any of the information in this bio or if you have additional or more up to date information regarding persons described in this memorial.
Shortly after Mary Jane died, the following Obituary appeared in a local newspaper, The Devine News.
**********************************************
LARGE FUNERAL PIONEER LADY 95 YEARS OLD
Mrs. Mary Jane Griffin, 95, widow of the late Hezekiah Griffin, quietly fell asleep, without a struggle, at the home of her son and daughter, near Shook, on the evening of April 17, 1934.
Her maiden name was Stevens, and she was a native of Jonesboro, Tennessee, though her parents moved towards the west, stopped two years in Arkansas, and then came to Burleson County, Texas in 1859.
[Comments from Don Herring: The last statement in the previous paragraph is incorrect. Mary Jane's family lived in Arkansas and Missouri over 20 years. They moved from Tennessee to Arkansas before the 1840 Census, probably before Mary Jane's first birthday. In "Trials and Tribulations...". Mary Jane said she traveled to Texas from Arkansas when she was about 20, which would have been in 1859. She traveled with a family named Wilson to Texas. At that time, her mother and 3 younger siblings lived in Missouri. Her father died from typhoid fever in Arkansas in about 1844. Her mother stayed in Arkansas until after 1850, then moved the rest of her family to Missouri before the US census of 1860. From there her mother moved to Texas with her two youngest sons (Caswell Pickett and William Henry Stevens), before 1880 and finally to Oklahoma before she died in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma in 1900 - all can be confirmed by the US Census records for the respective years. Also, Mary Jane first moved to Cooke County, Texas (near Gainesville) from Arkansas, not Burleson County. She met and married her husband, Hezekiah in Cooke County.]
In 1861, about the break of the Civil War, Mary Jane was married to Hezekiah Griffin, and soon they came west, locating on the Verde Creek, below Bandera, but the Indians, in a battle with Mr. Griffin and his brothers, shot Silas [Hezekiah's younger brother] six times with arrows, burned their barn and took away all their horses and saddles. They moved soon to Bandera town, a few miles west from Devine, 63 years ago [1871], having lived in Medina County, and near Devine, all this time, and in Texas, 75 years.
She is survived by 130 living descendants, as follows: 8 children lived to rear families (three are dead), leaving J. S., D. H., and E. S. Griffin, sons; and Mrs. L. A. Moss, of San Antonio, and Miss Mollie Griffin, of Devine, now surviving; 42 grand-children, 68 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren, fifth generation. One brother, William Stevens, now resides in Elmo, Oklahoma, is 92 years old, and a sister recently passed away at 91. There is also a very large number of relatives of the family and friends without number.
The funeral Thursday afternoon, at the old cemetery at Black Creek, was largely attended, many from San Antonio, Hondo, and other places.; conducted by Editor W. L. DuBose, Rev. Cocreham, and Rev. Elmer Mullins, taking part; and the grave was literally piled with beautiful floral offerings. The active pall-bearers were to be six great-grandsons (something we never heard of before) but some of these could not be present and their places were filled with grandsons - three grandsons and three great-grandsons. She was for fifty years a consistant member of the Primitive Baptist Church at Black Creek.
The actiivebearers were Elbert, Claude and Arnold Griffin, Eugene, Raymond and Ralph Bendele. Our reporter did not get names of honorary bearers.
**********************************************
Mary Jane's parents were married 21 Jul 1831 in Washington Co, Tennessee. See parents & sibling memorials using the links below.
Compiled by her Great Grandson, Don Herring
Please feel free to notify Don Herring at Findagrave.com Memorial # 48531255, if you dispute any of the information in this bio or if you have additional or more up to date information regarding persons described in this memorial.
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