PROSPECT CEMETERY (Prospect,
Hwy 273) GILES COUNTY, TENNESSEE
GRIGGS, Eliza A.
(Angeline Taylor), (ca 30 Sep 1835) - 25 Jun 1888. "Age 52 Yrs 8 Mo 26 D's."
2016
She was married in 1857 to Thomas Henry Griggs, Confederate soldier, Pvt Company
H. Tenn. 6th Calvary Regiment, who according to Kathy Wood, was drug to death by
a horse about 1879/80 and was buried in Lynnville, TN, in a lost cemetery in the
woods across from Lynnwood Cemetery, Lynnville, TN. I went down there today and
there's an old house in the center of that woods, that's literally falling down.
It's totally overgrown and I walked around it on three sides and didn't see any
grave markers, but that doesn't mean there aren't any there. I had a hard time
getting in there and found an easier way out. There is also another lost
cemetery in that place the Smith Cemetery which may be where Thomas Henry Griggs
is buried. In 1888 the Railroad is where it was today so there is woods all
around there over to the tracks. Eliza and Thomas also has another son John Bell
Griggs who was born in Giles County and supposedly buried in Yeager, Oklahoma
along with his wife Mary Alice Keaton, who are my mom's grandparents. Carol
Payne.) Revised to include the comment about the Smith Cemetery by C. Wayne
Austin. all added 21 Nov 2012.