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| Birth: | 1845 in Ware (Clinch) County, Georgia |
| Death: | 1912 in Echols County, Georgia |
| Sex: | F |
| Father: | Joel Griffis b. 1803 in Montgomery County, Georgia |
| Mother: | Elizabeth Bennett b. 1807 in Bulloch County, Georgia |
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In my research I have uncovered information that Nancy was a witch, Nancy's grandmother was a full blooded Creek Indian. An Indian witch, or medicine person.
Over the years many stories of her spells, chants, deeds and abilities, have been related to many.
On September 4, 1980 Lucius Henry Davis related stories of his life with his grandmother. One night when he was about eight years old, he woke up and could not breath. Something was over his face. He struggled and squirmed until he was free. His grandmother, Nancy, was holding a pillow over hs face trying to suffocate him.
Nancy's son, Charlie Davis was maried to a lady named Georgia. They had one child. One day Nancy killed the baby by sticking a hat pin into the soft part of the top of its skull, penetrating the brain. Nancy is said to have smothered another of Charlie's children.
Charlie and his second wife, Lue Vessie Anderson, wanted a child. They begged Nancy to allow it. Nancy told them that if they wanted a child and for her to let it live, they must name it Robert Leonard David and call him "Senior". This was done and the child lived. But relatives always said that Senior was possessed or had a spell cast over him. At one time he came home and beat his father (a very small boned man) until his was blind. His mother (a huge woman) pulled Senior off of Charlie and beat him senseless. He was then put in jail for beating his father.
Hubert Dixon Griffis, son of Lucius Calvin Griffis and grandson of Dixon Griffis, Nancy brother, related this story. One night Nancy came to the home of Lucius. She was a wanderer. She would spend a night or a week at one of her relatives home then move on to the home of another. She never spent more than a week or two at any one place. When Lucius saw her coming, he told the children to be nice as pie to Aunt Nancy. they were told several times, because Lucius did not want Nancy to put a spell on them. When aunt Nancy came into the house, Lucius' wife Nancy Johnson Griffis was holding a baby. Aunt Nancy wanted to get her hands on the baby, but Lucius would not let her have it. Aunt Nancy began swirling around and carrying on, trying to place a hex or spell on the baby. Lucuis told her to cut out the nonsense. He said that he would not let anything happen to the baby, so she might as well settle down. He invited her to spend the night. She at first refused, but then she accepted. Nancy made up the spare bedroom and put a fine bowl and pitcher set in the room. During the night Aunt Nancy, defecated in the pitcher and the bowl and placed them in the middle of the bed. Then she slipped out into the darkness. Nancy was so made that she could have strangled Aunt Nancy, but she cleaned and scalded out the bowl and pitcher set.
One day Aunt Nancy visited the family of one of her relatives who had a herd of goats. She asked over and over to have one of them killed so that she could have a meal of goat meat. The owner wouldnot hear of it. He refused to kill one of his goats just so she could have a meal. So that evening she left. The next morning the owner awoke and went out to feed his goats. Every one of his goats were dead. They were lying on the ground in pairs. Each pair had their horns locked. Aunt Nancy had put a hex on them.
Mae Griffis Parrish said as a child she could remember everyone being worried when Aunt Nancy came to visit.
Her first husband, John Westfall, was said to be so mean that they tied a rope around his neck and drowned him in the river. Her second husband, Edward Davis, operated a pile driver for the railroad. It turned over in the river and he drown.
She is buried at the Bethel cemetery, Boney Bluff, Echols County, Georgia. She is in an unmarked grave just a little bit to the left of the grave of Henry J. Davis. Henry was one of her grandsons.
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