Fayette County, Alabama
~ Griffin & Sarah
(Shepherd) Trull
~
I am Lynn Fusinato, a
great-great-granddaughter of
Griffin and Sarah "Sally" Trull. I am looking for other
descendants of Griffin and Sarah in order to find out more information
about the family history and in hopes of finding a tintype (or
photocopy of such tintype) made of Griffin Trull in the 1870-1875 time
frame.
This tintype
of Sarah Shepherd Trull (click on photo to enlarge) was
handed down through their youngest daughter to a cousin of my
father. I suspect that a tintype of Griffin probably was made at
the same time as Sarah's and possibly was passed down through the line
of a different one of their children.
If anyone is interested in
sharing
family history information and pictures, please contact me.
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Griffin Henry
TRULL was born 20 Jun
1807 in Anson Co., NC, and was one of the ten children of Mary
GRIFFIN and Stephan
TRULL, a barrel
maker. Around 1833 he married Sarah SHEPHERD, who was born 15 Jul 1811 in Anson
Co., NC, and was the daughter of Elizabeth
YERBY and William
SHEPHERD Jr.
In 1847 Griffin moved his family
to Fayette Co., AL. The family traveled to Alabama in oxen-pulled
wagons and a buggy with splatter boards covering the wheels. The
group included the family of Griffin's brother, Stephan
Jackson TRULL, and
Sarah's invalid mother Elizabeth. They settled near Newtonville
where the families of two of Sarah's brother's, Issac and Jacob
SHEPHERD, already
lived. Sarah's brothers had immigrated to Alabama in 1825 and
1836 respectively. A few years after moving to Alabama, Elizabeth
SHEPHERD was murdered by the young slave girl she had brought from
North Carolina to take care of her.
Griffin and Sarah resided in
Fayette County for about thirty years until 1872 when they bought land
and moved into a log cabin located in neighboring Lamar Co., AL.
Later they built a larger house on their Lamar County property near a
crossroad, in addition to a post office and a gin. Sarah fell
from their gin, suffering a broken back that left her an invalid unable
to walk for the rest of her life. In the 1880s Sarah and Griffin
"broke up housekeeping" and started living a few months with each child
as was the custom in those days. Sarah had a special large chair
that she normally sat in, and this chair would be lifted into the wagon
bed for her to ride in when it was time to rotate to the next child's
home.
Griffin helped establish the
Meadow Branch Baptist Church in 1878, selling the land for the church
and cemetery to the church deacon for $5. Both Griffin and Sarah
were buried at the Meadow Branch Church Cemetery. Sarah died
first 20 Jun 1892, and Griffin died 24 Jul 1898.
Their children were:
1.
William Jasper TRULL,
born 29 Mar 1835, Anson Co., NC; died 20 Mar 1908, AL.
He married Laura
Virginia KIRKLAND.
2.
Cornelia Ann TRULL,
born 15 Aug 1838, NC; died 08 Sep 1902, AL.
She married (1) Robert M.
WOODS, children included Dr.
Robert W. Woods.
She married (2) Murry
Jackson PRICE, 1865.
3.
Jacob Giles "Jake" TRULL, born 12 Jun
1839, NC; died 24 Mar 1908, AL.
4.
Lewellen "Bad" TRULL, born 18 Sep
1842, NC; died 22 Dec 1922, AL.
He married Martha
Jane "Sis" SUDDUTH.
5. Melissa TRULL,
born 22 Jul 1844, NC; died 02 Aug 1876, AL.
She married (---)
GARDNER, children:
Will and Alice GARDNER.
6.
Sarah or Alice TRULL, born 1845?, NC; died ?.
She married Bud
FREEMAN.
7.
Mary Jane "Hon" TRULL, born 27 Jul
1846, NC; died 30 Jan 1920, AL.
She married Amasiah
M. "Em" GUIN.
8.
Thomas J. TRULL, born
05 Apr 1848, AL; died 25 Oct 1881, AL.
He married Anna "Annie" COOK.
9.
Elizabeth McKenneth TRULL,
born 12 Jul 1852, AL; died 04 Jul 1938, AL.
She married Miles
Calvin WALDROP.
10. Newton L.
TRULL, born 20
Mar 1854, AL; died 05 Mar 1920, AL.
He married Emma Kate
COOK (sister of
Annie COOK).
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This page last updated 24 Mar
2004.
