Virgil Childers Griffin

b. 16 January 1862, d. 29 January 1951
  • Virgil Childers Griffin was born on 16 January 1862 in Alabama.
  • Bennett Smith Griffin and Martha S. Hodges appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Wetumpka PO, Elmore County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Virgil Childers Griffin, Anna F. Griffin and Bennett Smith Griffin.
  • Bennett Smith Griffin and Martha S. Hodges appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Wetumpka, Elmore County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Virgil Childers Griffin, Anna F. Griffin and Bennett Smith Griffin.
  • He was working on the farm, according to the 1880 census.
  • He married Mary Lee Besson, daughter of William Eugene Besson and Sarah Jane Graves, circa 1891.
  • The following appeared on 16 August 1905 in The Montgomery Advertiser: Mr. and Mrs. Virgle Griffin have gone to Chicago to spend a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Griffin. From there they will go to Deadwood, N. D. They will be joined in Birmingham by Miss Genie Tunstall and in Decatur by Mrs. Oceola Kyle. They will take an extended Western trip before they return.
  • Virgil Childers Griffin died on 29 January 1951 at age 89 in Mobile, Alabama.
  • He was interred at Pine Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama.
  • Last Edited: 9 Mar 2012

Family: Mary Lee Besson b. 10 October 1872, d. 30 July 1952