Source: James and Tom Goldrup (See parent's notes):

" Samuel Nelson Griggs Jr., born 1830 Montgomery County, Missouri.Samuel died, unmarried, at the "poor house" in Adams County, Illinoison June 8, 1878."

On November 18, 2000, additional information on the descendants ofMinus and Jane (- - - - ) Griggs was furnished by Mr. Tom Goldrup andMr. Jim Goldrup, third greatgrandsons of Minus Griggs, Jr. andRachael (Sparks) Griggs. Their email address is skyla@sasquatch.com.
His information is quoted in part and modified where appropriate.

"Sarah Griggs, born 1781 in Rowan County, NC; she married in ClarkCounty, Kentucky on June 8, 1805 to Cornelius Howard, born 1781 inNorth Carolina. A write-up on Cornelius Howard from the "PioneerFamilies of Missouri" states that he married first a Miss Griggs (bothof Kentucky) and second the widow Nancy Hunt, born 1807 Kentucky, andby whom he had no children but raised at least four of hers. By hisfirst wife he had Rachel, Cynthia, Elizabeth, Martin, John and twoothers. In 1816 they settled on Brush Creek in Warren County,Missouri, and lived there two years. He cleared a field and raised twocrops of corn, but now the field is covered with large oak trees andthe Brush Creek Presbyterian Church stands near the center of it. In1818 he moved and settled on South Bear Creek (still in Warren County)where he died many years later. Sarah died there 1840-50."

On November 18, 2000, additional information on the descendants ofMinus and Jane (- - - - ) Griggs was furnished by Mr. Tom Goldrup andMr. Jim Goldrup, third greatgrandsons of Minus Griggs, Jr. andRachael (Sparks) Griggs. Their email address is skyla@sasquatch.com.
His information is quoted in part and modified where appropriate.

"Theophilus Griggs, born 18-- in Clark County, Kentucky. He marriedthere on November 13, 1827 to Hannah Bibee. No other informationexcept he does not appear on the 1830 Kentucky census.

On November 18, 2000, additional information on the descendants ofMinus and Jane (- - - - ) Griggs was furnished by Mr. Tom Goldrup andMr. Jim Goldrup, third greatgrandsons of Minus Griggs, Jr. andRachael (Sparks) Griggs. Their email address is skyla@sasquatch.com.
His information is quoted in part and modified where appropriate.

" Wiley Griggs, born about 1797 in Rowan County, North Carolina. Hewent as a young child with his parents to Clark County, Kentucky, andby1818 moved further west to St. Charles County, Missouri with twoother brothers. He did not remain long in Missouri, possibly returningto Kentucky before moving on to Hardeman County, Tennessee. We lastfind him living there with his wife Nancy in 1850.
Nearby lived his uncle David Sparks. Several other Griggs' in thecounty may or may not be his children (William M. Griggs, born 1825 inKentucky, and married Elizabeth Riddle February 1, 1849; and Henry C.Griggs, born 1835 and married in Hardeman County on
September 9, 1854 to Elizabeth Murphy. A possible daughter was HesterAnn Griggs who married in Hardeman County on March 15, 1840 to HarveyStandfield."

On November 18, 2000, additional information on the descendants ofMinus and Jane (- - - - ) Griggs was furnished by Mr. Tom Goldrup andMr. Jim Goldrup, third greatgrandsons of Minus Griggs, Jr. andRachael (Sparks) Griggs. Their email address is skyla@sasquatch.com.
His information is quoted in part and modified where appropriate.

"William Griggs, born prior to 1784 in Rowan County, North Carolina.He is residing in Clark County, Kentucky in 1810, and disappears afterthis time. He may be the William Griggs who purchased 174 acres ofland in Warren County, Kentucky on February 13, 1817. It is believedthat he moved to Missouri by 1830 living in Boone County, and that hedied by 1840. It is thought that it would his widow who married asMrs. Eliza Griggs in Boone County on February 16, 1840 to WilliamDillon. Whatever became of William, it appears he moved away from theClark/Estill Counties area of Kentucky at an early date. He may be thefather of Peyton Griggs Jr."

SQ 3076: "... Mary Theresa died as an infant."

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Polly Hagan's father was Henry Hagen.

SQ pg 2619: In 1964, they were operating a resort area in GallinasCanyon on New Mexico State Route 3 to Montezuma. We have no furtherinformation about them.

See THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, March 1990, Whole No. 149, p. 3546:
"Eady Sparks, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Jones) Sparks, was bornon February 19, 1801, probably in clarke County, Georgia. She wasundoubtedly named for her father's sister, Eady Sparks. She wasmarried to John Hale in 1819. He may have been a son of Isaiah Halewho applied in 1832 in Hickman County for a pension for his service inthe Revolutionary War. John Hale died in 1832, leaving Eady with sixsmall children. His property was sold at a public auction conductedby Ureal B. Spicer, constable, in Hickman County in 1833.
"(John Hale may also have been a brother of the wife of Hardy Sparks,brother of Jesse Sparks. Note that John and Eady (Sparks) Hale nameda son Isaiah Hale. We also know that Hardy and Mary (-----) Sparks,who lived in the Hickman-Humphries- Carroll Counties area of Tennesseefrom about 1810 to 1830, named their first child Isaiah Hale Sparks.For this reason, we believe that Hardy's wife was Mary Hale.)

His grandmother advises that, after father apparently abandoned hisfamily when Jonathan was young, Johnathan's name was legally changedto Johnathan Daniel Hale from Johnathan Daniel Smith. Source was hisgrandmother, Thelma (McKay) Marshall in January 2002.tmarshall@farmerstel.com

See SQ p. 3546 and the notes of Eady Sparks (485) for support for theprobility that Mary's surname was Hale. Eady was married to JohnHale, believed to be Mary's brother.

Information concerning Nikki and Drew was provided by her grandmother,Thelma Jean (McKay) Marshall at tmarshall@farmerstel.com. "Nikki andDrew are both graduates of Jacksonville State University inJacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama. Both are physical educationteachers."

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The following note was located in a genealogy file in the Family History
Library, Salt Lake (FHL 985191):
27 July, 1674
Came Katherine the wife of Thomas Spalding and proved her Right t ofifty
acres of Land for her time of Service performed in this Province to Lieut.
Colonel John Jarbo
Warrant then Granted unto Thomas Spalding of St. Maries County
for fifty acres of land it being due to him for Katherine his
wifes time of Service performed in this province.
Coct.ut(?) the 27th day of October next
10th
Land Record, 1674, St. Maries County, Liber 18, Folio 101, Land Office,
Annapolis, MD.
An additional note in FHL 985186 indicates that "Catherine --- Emigrated
with the John Jarboe family from Dijon France. Her Uncle was John Shercliffe."

Ellen B. Hamersley Clerico Speth lives in Seal Beach, CA (as of12/99).

Apparently (See BRITISH ROOTS OF MARLAND FAMILY which traces theancestry of the Alexander Hamilton famous in American History) thisAlexander was unrelated to the famous Alexander.