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John W. Giffin/Griffin

Re: Giffin or Griffin

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 3:49AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Giffin, Wallace, Everett
It has been 2 years since the last post in this thread, but I just began working on this line of Giffins today. I am attempting to make a connection with a new Giffin acquaintance who is in this line. I have found through a little census record work that Charles Washington Giffin's wife, Martha Elizabeth Wallace, was married first to John Wesley Everett, and had two sons by him, Benjamin W and James W Everett. Martha married Charles W Giffin in 1897, after J.W. Everett died. Two of Charles Washington Giffin's sons were born prior to J.W. Everett's death dates, leading me to believe that Joel M (listed on one census as Joda), and William E Giffin were not Martha's sons, but a previous spouse's. I can find no record of who she might have been though. On the 1900 Arkansas census, They list their marriage date as the same as Martha's marriage to J.W. Everett, and gave her two Everett boys the Giffin surname, leading me to believe they felt a need to hide something. I doubt she had children with the last name of Everett at the same time she had two other Giffin sons, although it is possible. On the 1910 census in Missouri, Benjamin and James have the last name of Everett again, but Joel and William are still Giffins. All boys were born within 5 years. I can't find further records of the Everett boys after that. Terry Magyar has posted on Charles Washington Giffin's Find-A-Grave site that Charles' parents were William and Josephine Giffin of VA. Ancestry has shut down the MyFamily sites, where Terri has posted a lot of how he found his information, so I'm unable to retrieve that. I do know that he and his brother, Skip, have taken a lot of grave photos, and their work is pretty reliable. Does anyone have more information on William and Josephine Giffin? And does anyone know the story of Charles Washington Giffin and Martha's four oldest boys? Thanks!
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