Levi Griffin
The subject of this sketch gave his life that the country might live. All that was mortal of Levi Griflin fills the grave of a heroic soldier of the Union, and awaits the reveille of the martyr. He was born on the 18th of May, 1828, and was the son of Caleb and Martha (Pliley) Griffin, of Indiana. He came to Ohio with his parents when a child, and on the 22d day of October, 1849, he was married to Rebecca V., seventh child of James and Kachel (Cartmill) Nutt, of Clarke County. Caleb and Martha Griffin had but two children: Levi and Harriet. James and Rachel Nutt were the parents of thirteen children: Sarah, John, Elizabeth, Catherine, Nancy, William, Rebecca, James Monroe, Hannah Jane, Lucinda, George W., Matilda D., and Madison Willis.
To Levi and Rebecca V. Griffin were born five children: George V., born April 10, 1851; Nathaniel Willis, born August 26, 1852; Elizabeth, born August 30, 1855, died August 80, 1856; Laura Jane, born January 3, 1857; John Franklin, born October 22, 1858.
Mr. Griffin answered the country's call for troops by enlisting in Company G, 113th O. V. I., in August, 1862. His regiment was a part of the second brigade, second division, fourteenth army corps, and participated at Chickamauga, Kenesaw Mountain, Bentonville, and many other hotly contested fields. On the 27th day of June, 1864, while charging the works of the enemy at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, Levi Griflin was instantly killed, and was buried on the field after the battle. His bereaved widow makes her home in Waterloo, and by the assistance of a pension from the government lives comfortably. His children are the wards of the nation he died to save.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County