52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. 2023 Week 4, Theme is "Education".

My cousins and I have contributed for years to the history of the family, especially my Griffin family. Our Gt grandmother Lizzie Terry Griffin has been our inspiration. A widow bringing young children from Kansas to Edmond OK soon after the Land Run, and homesteading on land near Portland and Waterloo Rd. Central State College, later University of Central Oklahoma, in Edmond was just getting started and she sent many children and grandchildren to the school. And now many descendants and their spouses have attended, since those early days to the present. There is a bench on campus to memorialize her. In 2015, she was honored post-humously to The Luminary Society at UCO. The Luminary Society was developed as part of the 125th celebration year. She was one of only 125 outstanding members of the UCO community to be chosen since the establishment of the Territorial Normal School of Oklahoma, from 1890 to the present. I believe this honor was well deserved and partly happened because of our family research together. Our matriarch has influenced so many, and the numbers have grown to include Lizzie's Great Great Grandchildren just at Central State/ University of Central Oklahoma... not to mention those who have gone on to other institutes of education.