Rachel was born in 1787 in Bath County, VA, the daughter of William & Mary (Meeks) Sharp.
She was married on Aug. 12, 1806 in Bath County, VA to Jonathan Griffin. He was born in 1777 in CT to Benoni Jr. & Ms. Seeley.
She is the mother of Margaret (Griffin) Hamrick, wife of Isaac Hamrick.
There is question to the time of her death, as there are no dates on her headstone and as of yet, I have been unable to find documentation. What I do know is that she was living with her daughter, Margaret and family, during the 1870 census, but she is not found after that. Below is the info from the census.
1870 United States Federal Census
Name:............Rachel Griffin
Age in 1870:....83
Birth Year:......abt 1787
Birthplace:......Virginia
Home in 1870:..Fork Lick, Webster, WV
Race:............White
Gender:..........Female
Post Office:....Webster Court House
Household Members:
Name....................Age
Isaac Hamrick..........42
Margaret Hamrick......60
Jonathan G Hamrick...24
Mildred J Hamrick.......19
Nathan H Hamrick......15
Rachel Griffin.............83
Samuel Griffin............42
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This is the stone of our ancestor Rachel Sharp, wife of Jonathan Griffin. We knew she lived in Webster County WVA, with one of her children after Jonathan died in Pocahontas Co.
Photographed in the Isaac Hamrick Cemetery, near Bergoo, WV. Isaac was the husband of Rachel's daughter, Margaret. They are buried there too, along with some of their descendants. Looks like someone has recently made the stone, so some family must still live in the area.
*From ancestry.com GerryandDaneille
11 Jan 2010
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Jonathan Griffin was married to Rachel Sharp, daughter of a well known family of early settlers in Bath/Pocahontas area of Virginia. Her father was William Sharp, Revolutionary Patriot, scout, spy and soldier against the Indians and the British. Records from the American DAR state that William served as a private and fifer in Capt. Lewis Pelham's Company, in Colonel Parker's Virginia regiment in 1778. Rachel's mother was Mary Meeks. Mary's parents were killed during an Indian raid in 1761, leaving five orphans. If the names of Griffin and Sharp are mentioned in Pocahontas County, they are still recognized.
We have been to the farmland where Jonathan and Rachel lived and raised their family near Stony Creek. It is still a farm and the owner said, "This is the Griffin Land," even though a century and a half have passed since Jonathan lived there. There is a church and an old cabin still standing in the area, which were built in the 1840s.
Children of this marriage were: Abraham (1808-1880), William (1812-1889), Margaret (1810-1903), Rachel S. (1820-1870), Benoni (1813-1888), Jonathan (1825-1920), and Samuel (1828-1880).
Two of the sons, William and Benoni, became teachers, going over the mountain to what became Webster County, and teaching near Point Mountain. Jonathan is also listed as a teacher and may have held school in his home before an actual school was built. His daughter, Rachel, married a teacher, Charles Ruckman. Her children became teachers in Ohio where they moved.
Abraham and his children stayed on the land in Pocahontas County. One of his sons, Mathias Potts Griffin, was enlisted in the Pocahontas "Moccasin Rangers" a southern unit. He was killed at age 20, in The Battle of Sharpsburg, also called Antietam, which took place Sept. 17, 1862.
Other children of Jonathan and Margaret, crossed the mountains to an area of Western Virginia that supported the Union. Several of the next generation were Union soldiers and even had to leave their homes due to strife in their towns. Several were in politics as the new state of West Virginia was formed during the Civil War.
*From ancestry.com GerryandDaneille
26 Jun 2012
She was married on Aug. 12, 1806 in Bath County, VA to Jonathan Griffin. He was born in 1777 in CT to Benoni Jr. & Ms. Seeley.
She is the mother of Margaret (Griffin) Hamrick, wife of Isaac Hamrick.
There is question to the time of her death, as there are no dates on her headstone and as of yet, I have been unable to find documentation. What I do know is that she was living with her daughter, Margaret and family, during the 1870 census, but she is not found after that. Below is the info from the census.
1870 United States Federal Census
Name:............Rachel Griffin
Age in 1870:....83
Birth Year:......abt 1787
Birthplace:......Virginia
Home in 1870:..Fork Lick, Webster, WV
Race:............White
Gender:..........Female
Post Office:....Webster Court House
Household Members:
Name....................Age
Isaac Hamrick..........42
Margaret Hamrick......60
Jonathan G Hamrick...24
Mildred J Hamrick.......19
Nathan H Hamrick......15
Rachel Griffin.............83
Samuel Griffin............42
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This is the stone of our ancestor Rachel Sharp, wife of Jonathan Griffin. We knew she lived in Webster County WVA, with one of her children after Jonathan died in Pocahontas Co.
Photographed in the Isaac Hamrick Cemetery, near Bergoo, WV. Isaac was the husband of Rachel's daughter, Margaret. They are buried there too, along with some of their descendants. Looks like someone has recently made the stone, so some family must still live in the area.
*From ancestry.com GerryandDaneille
11 Jan 2010
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Jonathan Griffin was married to Rachel Sharp, daughter of a well known family of early settlers in Bath/Pocahontas area of Virginia. Her father was William Sharp, Revolutionary Patriot, scout, spy and soldier against the Indians and the British. Records from the American DAR state that William served as a private and fifer in Capt. Lewis Pelham's Company, in Colonel Parker's Virginia regiment in 1778. Rachel's mother was Mary Meeks. Mary's parents were killed during an Indian raid in 1761, leaving five orphans. If the names of Griffin and Sharp are mentioned in Pocahontas County, they are still recognized.
We have been to the farmland where Jonathan and Rachel lived and raised their family near Stony Creek. It is still a farm and the owner said, "This is the Griffin Land," even though a century and a half have passed since Jonathan lived there. There is a church and an old cabin still standing in the area, which were built in the 1840s.
Children of this marriage were: Abraham (1808-1880), William (1812-1889), Margaret (1810-1903), Rachel S. (1820-1870), Benoni (1813-1888), Jonathan (1825-1920), and Samuel (1828-1880).
Two of the sons, William and Benoni, became teachers, going over the mountain to what became Webster County, and teaching near Point Mountain. Jonathan is also listed as a teacher and may have held school in his home before an actual school was built. His daughter, Rachel, married a teacher, Charles Ruckman. Her children became teachers in Ohio where they moved.
Abraham and his children stayed on the land in Pocahontas County. One of his sons, Mathias Potts Griffin, was enlisted in the Pocahontas "Moccasin Rangers" a southern unit. He was killed at age 20, in The Battle of Sharpsburg, also called Antietam, which took place Sept. 17, 1862.
Other children of Jonathan and Margaret, crossed the mountains to an area of Western Virginia that supported the Union. Several of the next generation were Union soldiers and even had to leave their homes due to strife in their towns. Several were in politics as the new state of West Virginia was formed during the Civil War.
*From ancestry.com GerryandDaneille
26 Jun 2012
Rachel was born in 1787 in Bath County, VA, the daughter of William & Mary (Meeks) Sharp.
She was married on Aug. 12, 1806 in Bath County, VA to Jonathan Griffin. He was born in 1777 in CT to Benoni Jr. & Ms. Seeley.
She is the mother of Margaret (Griffin) Hamrick, wife of Isaac Hamrick.
There is question to the time of her death, as there are no dates on her headstone and as of yet, I have been unable to find documentation. What I do know is that she was living with her daughter, Margaret and family, during the 1870 census, but she is not found after that. Below is the info from the census.
1870 United States Federal Census
Name:............Rachel Griffin
Age in 1870:....83
Birth Year:......abt 1787
Birthplace:......Virginia
Home in 1870:..Fork Lick, Webster, WV
Race:............White
Gender:..........Female
Post Office:....Webster Court House
Household Members:
Name....................Age
Isaac Hamrick..........42
Margaret Hamrick......60
Jonathan G Hamrick...24
Mildred J Hamrick.......19
Nathan H Hamrick......15
Rachel Griffin.............83
Samuel Griffin............42
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This is the stone of our ancestor Rachel Sharp, wife of Jonathan Griffin. We knew she lived in Webster County WVA, with one of her children after Jonathan died in Pocahontas Co.
Photographed in the Isaac Hamrick Cemetery, near Bergoo, WV. Isaac was the husband of Rachel's daughter, Margaret. They are buried there too, along with some of their descendants. Looks like someone has recently made the stone, so some family must still live in the area.
*From ancestry.com GerryandDaneille
11 Jan 2010
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Jonathan Griffin was married to Rachel Sharp, daughter of a well known family of early settlers in Bath/Pocahontas area of Virginia. Her father was William Sharp, Revolutionary Patriot, scout, spy and soldier against the Indians and the British. Records from the American DAR state that William served as a private and fifer in Capt. Lewis Pelham's Company, in Colonel Parker's Virginia regiment in 1778. Rachel's mother was Mary Meeks. Mary's parents were killed during an Indian raid in 1761, leaving five orphans. If the names of Griffin and Sharp are mentioned in Pocahontas County, they are still recognized.
We have been to the farmland where Jonathan and Rachel lived and raised their family near Stony Creek. It is still a farm and the owner said, "This is the Griffin Land," even though a century and a half have passed since Jonathan lived there. There is a church and an old cabin still standing in the area, which were built in the 1840s.
Children of this marriage were: Abraham (1808-1880), William (1812-1889), Margaret (1810-1903), Rachel S. (1820-1870), Benoni (1813-1888), Jonathan (1825-1920), and Samuel (1828-1880).
Two of the sons, William and Benoni, became teachers, going over the mountain to what became Webster County, and teaching near Point Mountain. Jonathan is also listed as a teacher and may have held school in his home before an actual school was built. His daughter, Rachel, married a teacher, Charles Ruckman. Her children became teachers in Ohio where they moved.
Abraham and his children stayed on the land in Pocahontas County. One of his sons, Mathias Potts Griffin, was enlisted in the Pocahontas "Moccasin Rangers" a southern unit. He was killed at age 20, in The Battle of Sharpsburg, also called Antietam, which took place Sept. 17, 1862.
Other children of Jonathan and Margaret, crossed the mountains to an area of Western Virginia that supported the Union. Several of the next generation were Union soldiers and even had to leave their homes due to strife in their towns. Several were in politics as the new state of West Virginia was formed during the Civil War.
*From ancestry.com GerryandDaneille
26 Jun 2012
She was married on Aug. 12, 1806 in Bath County, VA to Jonathan Griffin. He was born in 1777 in CT to Benoni Jr. & Ms. Seeley.
She is the mother of Margaret (Griffin) Hamrick, wife of Isaac Hamrick.
There is question to the time of her death, as there are no dates on her headstone and as of yet, I have been unable to find documentation. What I do know is that she was living with her daughter, Margaret and family, during the 1870 census, but she is not found after that. Below is the info from the census.
1870 United States Federal Census
Name:............Rachel Griffin
Age in 1870:....83
Birth Year:......abt 1787
Birthplace:......Virginia
Home in 1870:..Fork Lick, Webster, WV
Race:............White
Gender:..........Female
Post Office:....Webster Court House
Household Members:
Name....................Age
Isaac Hamrick..........42
Margaret Hamrick......60
Jonathan G Hamrick...24
Mildred J Hamrick.......19
Nathan H Hamrick......15
Rachel Griffin.............83
Samuel Griffin............42
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This is the stone of our ancestor Rachel Sharp, wife of Jonathan Griffin. We knew she lived in Webster County WVA, with one of her children after Jonathan died in Pocahontas Co.
Photographed in the Isaac Hamrick Cemetery, near Bergoo, WV. Isaac was the husband of Rachel's daughter, Margaret. They are buried there too, along with some of their descendants. Looks like someone has recently made the stone, so some family must still live in the area.
*From ancestry.com GerryandDaneille
11 Jan 2010
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Jonathan Griffin was married to Rachel Sharp, daughter of a well known family of early settlers in Bath/Pocahontas area of Virginia. Her father was William Sharp, Revolutionary Patriot, scout, spy and soldier against the Indians and the British. Records from the American DAR state that William served as a private and fifer in Capt. Lewis Pelham's Company, in Colonel Parker's Virginia regiment in 1778. Rachel's mother was Mary Meeks. Mary's parents were killed during an Indian raid in 1761, leaving five orphans. If the names of Griffin and Sharp are mentioned in Pocahontas County, they are still recognized.
We have been to the farmland where Jonathan and Rachel lived and raised their family near Stony Creek. It is still a farm and the owner said, "This is the Griffin Land," even though a century and a half have passed since Jonathan lived there. There is a church and an old cabin still standing in the area, which were built in the 1840s.
Children of this marriage were: Abraham (1808-1880), William (1812-1889), Margaret (1810-1903), Rachel S. (1820-1870), Benoni (1813-1888), Jonathan (1825-1920), and Samuel (1828-1880).
Two of the sons, William and Benoni, became teachers, going over the mountain to what became Webster County, and teaching near Point Mountain. Jonathan is also listed as a teacher and may have held school in his home before an actual school was built. His daughter, Rachel, married a teacher, Charles Ruckman. Her children became teachers in Ohio where they moved.
Abraham and his children stayed on the land in Pocahontas County. One of his sons, Mathias Potts Griffin, was enlisted in the Pocahontas "Moccasin Rangers" a southern unit. He was killed at age 20, in The Battle of Sharpsburg, also called Antietam, which took place Sept. 17, 1862.
Other children of Jonathan and Margaret, crossed the mountains to an area of Western Virginia that supported the Union. Several of the next generation were Union soldiers and even had to leave their homes due to strife in their towns. Several were in politics as the new state of West Virginia was formed during the Civil War.
*From ancestry.com GerryandDaneille
26 Jun 2012
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