Samuel Starr Griffin Jr.

The Honorable SS Griffin Jr.

Contemporary of Dr. PJ McCormick. He was 16 attending University of Penn when the war broke out. He left school to go south and fight. Fought in the civil war with PJ McCormick, became fast friends with him, returned to Yazoo after the war, attended PJ's wedding to "Belle" Godfathered their first child, Helen, and wooed and married her 16-17 years later. This caused a rift between PJ and SS Griff Jr. for a number of years. In the end they were good friends again... PJ living out his last years with Samuel and Helen in their home on Broadway in Yazoo City.

This is the same Griffin from whom the Griffings of the Historic House in Guilford, CT (The Henry Whitfield House) descended. His father SS Griffin senior moved south from Guilford at some point and married And Samuel was one who was fighting against family that had remained north in the Civil War.

Another note, he had 8 children that lived and had children late into life. He married Helen when he was 40 and had Beverly Griffin his 8th child when he was 65!

Death: he died in Colalto the house in Yazoo that he named after the high hill that the house sits on. He died in the house after breaking his hip. He never liked cars and was out on the road, saw a car, put out his hand to stop it, got hit, broke his hip and did not survive the injury. He was 80.

Civil War: He served from private to sergeant major Company C 46th Mississippi infantry. Work: a foremost scholar he served as chancery clerk of Yazoo County for 42 years.