Individual Notes

Note for: Clyde Dan Griffith, 14 OCT 1901 - 4 DEC 1967 Index

Event:
     Type:   MARR
     Date:   3 APR 1923
     Place:   Sapulpa, OK

Individual Notes

Note for: Effie Jane Fowler, 11 NOV 1906 - Index

Event:
     Type:   MARR
     Date:   3 APR 1923
     Place:   Sapulpa, OK

Individual Notes

Note for: Lois Lillian Griffith, 2 FEB 1906 - Index

Event:
     Type:   MARR
     Date:   27 JUN 1927
     Place:   Mammoth Springs, Fulton Co., AR

Individual Notes

Note for: Luthur Samuel Kersey, 1 JAN 1908 - Index

Event:
     Type:   MARR
     Date:   27 JUN 1927
     Place:   Mammoth Springs, Fulton Co., AR

Individual Notes

Note for: James Logan Griffith, FEB 1908 - 1979 Index

Individual Note:
BIOGRAPHY
Lewis Gene believes James Logan was with Otho Griffith at Pearl
Harbor.

Individual Notes

Note for: John Hill IV Botts, 25 AUG 1902 - 5 JUL 1960 Index

Burial:
     Date:   JUL 1960
     Place:   Thayer, Oregon Co., MO

Individual Notes

Note for: Thurman Doris (Tony) Powell, - Index

Individual Note:
BIOGRAPHY
Tony was an engineer on the Frisco Railroad. He and Ruby retired to
Florida.

Individual Notes

Note for: Otho John Griffith, 12 MAR 1907 - 12 OCT 1981 Index

Event:
     Type:   MARR
     Date:   21 DEC 1946
     Place:   Paragould, AR

Individual Note:
     BIOGRAPHY
Known by his nephews and nieces as Uncle Buck, Otho served in the U.S.
Army for 21 years, reaching the rank of Master Sargeant. He was
stationed at Hot Springs, AR during part of the 30's and was at
Schofield Barracks in Pearl Harbor when it was bombed Dec. 7, 1941.
During WWII, he came into Europe during the invasion of Southern
France with Gen. Patch's 7th Army and at times was attached to
Patton's 3rd Army. He later served in the Korean War.

Individual Notes

Note for: Carl Dan Griffith, 9 APR 1909 - 22 DEC 1985 Index

Event:
     Type:   MARR
     Date:   23 MAY 1931
     Place:   Thayer, Oregon Co., MO

Individual Note:
     BIOGRAPHY
Carl grew up in the Ozark foothills of North-central Arkansas, along the banks of the Myatt Creek, southeast of Saddle, AR. During the 1920s, his father moved the family to Thayer, MO, but continued to farm the rich bottom land in Arkansas. In 1930 Carl was 21 and driving a truck for the Arkansas State Highway Department. A year later, he and Doris were married.

By 1933 Carl and Doris had moved back to Fulton Co., Arkansas and were living in a small rock house on the Myatt property. During these early years of the depression, Carl worked at whatever he could to provide for his growing family...farming with his father, cutting and splitting firewood and fence posts, driving a school bus and other labor as was available. The family moved again in 1936 into a small log cabin on the Myatt property. Later that year Carl began working for the Frisco Railroad, starting in the switchyard at Thayer. In 1938 the family moved back to the family farm in Thayer, next to the cemetary. Another move in '40 or '41 to the "Champ Clark" place was necessary when John and Minnie decided to return to the farm in Thayer.

In the Spring of 1944, Carl and Doris purchased an 80-acre farm east of Thayer on Highway 142. Carl continued with Frisco as Brakeman and Conductor on the Springfield to Memphis route. He retired in 1968 with 32 years of service.

Individual Notes

Note for: Doris Maxine DuBois, 20 JUN 1913 - 29 DEC 1993 Index

Event:
     Type:   MARR
     Date:   23 MAY 1931
     Place:   Thayer, Oregon Co., MO

Individual Notes

Note for: Thomas Henry (Hank) Monroe, 30 NOV 1897 - Index

Individual Note:
BIOGRAPHY
Hank served in the Marines during World War I.