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revolution of that year. He was twice married, first on December 20, 1860, to Zilpha A. Allgood, who died December 11, 1882, and on February 27, 1883, he married Miss Harriet C. Singleton. He has eight children. Captain H. P. Griffith, elected in 1897 colonel of the Cherokee regiment, United Confederate Veterans, is a native of Laurens county, born in 1837. He is of South Carolinian descent, the paternal line extending, through Stephen and Benjamin Griffith, to his great-grandfather, Ezekiel, a native of Wales, who was a soldier of the Revolution, and his mother, Martha Woodruff, also being of an old South Carolina family. He was reared in Laurens and educated at Furman university. In August, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Fourteenth South Carolina regiment, brigade of Gen. Maxcy Gregg, was elected first lieutenant at the organization, and in the fall of 1862 was promoted to captain. His first battle was at Port Royal on the coast, and then going to Virginia he took part in