User Home Pages: The G Griswold Family Home Page
Genealogy information (under construction)of the Griswold family including the surnames Rickart, Baker, Giller, Post, Swallow, Edmondson, Petty, Walker, Woody, Cansler, Ecton (Acton), Smallwood, Woods, Wright and many more.Locations include White Hall, Greene County, Illinois andFannin County, Georgia. Michael Griswold is the 1st. of my line of Griswold's to come to America. Michael was living in Wethersfield, Conn. about 1630. Adonijah Griswold, my gg grandpa, served in the American Revolution. George Griswold, brother of my g. grandpa served in the Civil War and died of illness. Ambrose Swallow came to Chelmsford, Mass. from England about 1666. There is an excellent book on the Swallow Family published in 1909. Also, make sure to look at several letters below from George Griswold and other family written during the Civil War. The one from George was written in the hospital while he tried to recover from dysentery. Unfortunately he later died as a result of his illness. I call them THE TALLAPOOSA LETTERS. On December 29, 2007 while spending a long weekend in the North Georgia mountains I took a trip to a city called Tallapoosa in Haralson County, Georgia. I knew that my g grandpa’s sister Mary (Griswold) Barton and family had moved there from Vermont in the 1890’s. I wanted to do a little family history searching at the library to view microfilm copies of any obituaries from thelocal newspaper. After that it was over to the Hollywood Cemetery to find the graves of George Allen, Wilfrid C. and Julia Barton. Where George Washington and Mary (Griswold) Barton, the parents, are buried I don’t know. After leaving the cemetery I went over a couple of blocks to Manning St which is where the 1920/30 U.S. census listed as the address of the Barton’s. At a 4 way stop sign I noticed 2 old ladies talking on the front porch steps. I parked, approached the porch and asked, “ I’m from Cincinnati and was wondering if you knew the Barton family?” The homeowner, Mary Ruth Allen said in a Scarlet O’Hare voice from out of the old south, “Are you a Yankee?”Well they did know some of the Barton children, Wilfrid, called “Baby Barton” according to the other old lady named Dorothy Brett, and Julia. And Mary’s house at 206 Manning was right next to the Barton home address of 216 Manning. Mary said that her late husband Dorsey had gotten some old letters from the Barton home some time ago. She said that he would be pleased to know that someone wanted them. She told me that she would look for them and if they weren’t thrown out she would mail them to me. Dorothy took me over to the Barton home and decided I needed to see the inside so she knocked on the door and got us in. After quite a while we left and as I was walking to my car Mary stuck her head out of her door and said the letters were in my truck. Sure enough there was a candy box with about 48 or so letters in it. This just doesn’t happen. But it did. I have often wondered about items of interest that could be in somebody’s attic. I know they are out there just waiting to be found. Several months later I came across a couple letters written by Deidamia (Woods) Swallow in 1852 and 1857. Look for those below also. | The G GriswoldFamily Home Page Updated November 13, 2010 |
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