Zilpha Jane was the daughter of John M. Griffith & Jane Ann Rogers and the wife of Stephen Calvin Bailey. Some of her siblings were William 'Bill', Clint, John, Meredith 'Jay', Lucy, Paralee, Susannah and Mary. Her parents both died when she was young and when her older brother Bill came home from the Civil War and married Mary 'Pol' Mathis and took over the household, she and her sister Paralee both married Bailey brothers and left home.
Zilpha and Stephen were the parents of William Arthur, Theodocia, Thomas Dawson, Loretta, Rutha Jane, Henry Stanton, Luzenia (b/d same day), and Everett Prince.
Her husband, Stephen, died March 1900 leaving Zilpha to raise her seven children all alone in their little home on the banks of the Toccoa River in Fannin County, Georgia. When the Blue Ridge Lake and Dam were being built in 1926, they were forced to move since the backwater was to come up to their home. They loaded up all they could carry in a wagon pulled by oxen and came across the Kimsey Highway to Polk County. Each one of the sons purchased a farm in or around Benton, where they remained for the rest of their lives.
In writing about his mother, Everett said, "Mother was small of stature, but a tower of strength in our home, and continually stressed the moral and spiritual side of life. She was not a person to fret and complain when things went wrong. In fact, it seemed that adversity gave her a new determination and strength to cope with seemingly insurmountable problems. I can truly say that all that I am, and all that I ever hope to be, I owe to my sainted mother."
Zilpha and Stephen were the parents of William Arthur, Theodocia, Thomas Dawson, Loretta, Rutha Jane, Henry Stanton, Luzenia (b/d same day), and Everett Prince.
Her husband, Stephen, died March 1900 leaving Zilpha to raise her seven children all alone in their little home on the banks of the Toccoa River in Fannin County, Georgia. When the Blue Ridge Lake and Dam were being built in 1926, they were forced to move since the backwater was to come up to their home. They loaded up all they could carry in a wagon pulled by oxen and came across the Kimsey Highway to Polk County. Each one of the sons purchased a farm in or around Benton, where they remained for the rest of their lives.
In writing about his mother, Everett said, "Mother was small of stature, but a tower of strength in our home, and continually stressed the moral and spiritual side of life. She was not a person to fret and complain when things went wrong. In fact, it seemed that adversity gave her a new determination and strength to cope with seemingly insurmountable problems. I can truly say that all that I am, and all that I ever hope to be, I owe to my sainted mother."
Zilpha Jane was the daughter of John M. Griffith & Jane Ann Rogers and the wife of Stephen Calvin Bailey. Some of her siblings were William 'Bill', Clint, John, Meredith 'Jay', Lucy, Paralee, Susannah and Mary. Her parents both died when she was young and when her older brother Bill came home from the Civil War and married Mary 'Pol' Mathis and took over the household, she and her sister Paralee both married Bailey brothers and left home.
Zilpha and Stephen were the parents of William Arthur, Theodocia, Thomas Dawson, Loretta, Rutha Jane, Henry Stanton, Luzenia (b/d same day), and Everett Prince.
Her husband, Stephen, died March 1900 leaving Zilpha to raise her seven children all alone in their little home on the banks of the Toccoa River in Fannin County, Georgia. When the Blue Ridge Lake and Dam were being built in 1926, they were forced to move since the backwater was to come up to their home. They loaded up all they could carry in a wagon pulled by oxen and came across the Kimsey Highway to Polk County. Each one of the sons purchased a farm in or around Benton, where they remained for the rest of their lives.
In writing about his mother, Everett said, "Mother was small of stature, but a tower of strength in our home, and continually stressed the moral and spiritual side of life. She was not a person to fret and complain when things went wrong. In fact, it seemed that adversity gave her a new determination and strength to cope with seemingly insurmountable problems. I can truly say that all that I am, and all that I ever hope to be, I owe to my sainted mother."
Zilpha and Stephen were the parents of William Arthur, Theodocia, Thomas Dawson, Loretta, Rutha Jane, Henry Stanton, Luzenia (b/d same day), and Everett Prince.
Her husband, Stephen, died March 1900 leaving Zilpha to raise her seven children all alone in their little home on the banks of the Toccoa River in Fannin County, Georgia. When the Blue Ridge Lake and Dam were being built in 1926, they were forced to move since the backwater was to come up to their home. They loaded up all they could carry in a wagon pulled by oxen and came across the Kimsey Highway to Polk County. Each one of the sons purchased a farm in or around Benton, where they remained for the rest of their lives.
In writing about his mother, Everett said, "Mother was small of stature, but a tower of strength in our home, and continually stressed the moral and spiritual side of life. She was not a person to fret and complain when things went wrong. In fact, it seemed that adversity gave her a new determination and strength to cope with seemingly insurmountable problems. I can truly say that all that I am, and all that I ever hope to be, I owe to my sainted mother."
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