This property was purchased by W.E Griffith in approximately 1890. It is the birthplace of my grandfather in 1904 and his six siblings. My mother and aunt grew up here as well. The history of this property on the Knox/Warren County Line is long and can not all be shared here. The property was in the family for over a century. The house shown was a Sears Roebuck home unloaded from the railroad siding straight down the county line road in 1929 and built following the directions and numbers on each piece of wood. The metal outbuildings were just eleven years old in 1966... having been built to upgrade the Jersey Dairy operation from the old stanchion milking in the old barn shown here with the elevator in place to the hay loft. The New Modern "Butler Built" milk house is hidden in this picture behind the big old barn to the right of the smaller silo. The larger Silo was the last built. The addition of the Butler buildings in 1955 allowed my grandparents Ross & Maude Griffith to be a Grade A dairy and to increase their Registered Jersey milk herd from 13 cows to 30+. The small barn to the left (south) of the big barn was a horse barn where Registered Morgan stallions were housed. It was torn down in the late 1960's. The Big barn burned to the ground in 1972. The large silo was sold to a young Amish farmer and dismantled for their use in approx. 1998. A new metal horse barn was built where the big old barn had been. Many of the smaller outbuildings have been demolished over the years. My parents (R & J Dyer) moved to the homestead property after 1997 and lived there until their deaths in 2011 and 2015. In 2015, the 5 acre farmstead was sold with the new owners intention to build a new house in the next few years.

i met Ross Griffith back in 1980...i plowed the field to the west ,i worked for R.E.Standard who introduced me to Ross ,,i was 16...ross showed me the name of the dairy cows,written on one of the buildings...Roseanna Jerseys....it was my pleasure to meet your grandfather.

My name is David Adcock. Ross and Maude were my adopted grand parents. I spent some fair time at this farm back in the day when I was a kid.