Cabot Alaska Griffith was born on September 7, 1897 in the northeast part of Elmore County, Alabama and died in Henrico County, Virginia on June 30, 1966. He was the oldest son of Barney Bascomb Griffith. In his early adult years he and his dad became estranged over a disciplinary action taken against Cabot regarding the running of the family work mules. He had used the mules and wagon to go a courting, was late getting back to the house and ran the mules the last part of the trip back home. Barney whipped Cabot with the mule plow lines. The next morning he told one of his fellow workers in the cotton field that his hair would be as white as the bole of cotton in his hand before they ever saw him come back home again. He moved to Montgomery, Alabama, got a job with the new telephone company there, and some time later was promoted to a new job in Virginia. The story is told that when his dad died, the telegraph company did not get the word to him in a timely manner. Consequently he was unable to get back in time for the funeral, arriving a few days after his dad's burial. He insisted that his dads body be disinterred so that he could view his body one last time.