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| Directions: Courthouse grounds (corner of Main and 6th) | |
| Marker #: 5267000614 | |
| Year Dedicated: 1965 | |
| Size, type: 18 x 28" Subject | |
| Last reported condition: NONE | |
| Colonel John Griffith - (1831-1889) CONFEDERATE OFFICER IN CIVIL WAR. LEARNED AT WAR'S END THAT WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF FAMILY HAD FLED FROM ARKANSAS TO TEXAS IN OPEN WAGON DRAWN BY A MILK COW AND A ONE-EYE MULE. THE MISSING WERE FOUND IN 1866, AS MULE WAS RECOGNIZED NEAR THE COURTHOUSE IN COMANCHE AND 2 GRIFFITH BOYS MOUNTED HIM. SETTLED AT BUFFALO GAP. HELPED TO ORGANIZE TAYLOR COUNTY, 1878. MOVED TO KIMBLE COUNTY,1881. HAD MUCH PROPERTY, GREAT INFLUENCE. AN EXAMPLE OF THOSE LEADERS WHO CAME TO TEXAS AFTER WAR TO GET A NEW START AND BECOME OUTSTANDING CITIZENS. (1965) | |
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Decimal degrees: N 30.489877 W -99.768038
Degrees, minutes: N 30 29.393 W 099 46.082 UTM: Zone 14, Easting 426290, Northing 3373320 |
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