The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-23
MRS. pAsronA fDEEoREsr, GRIFFIN

 Her Death in Santa Barbara, Cal, Recently
 -General Lafayette Entertained at Her
 Fathers House, Now the Residence
 Mayor Sargent.
 Pastora Jacoba Griffin, lately de- ceased at Santa Barbara, Cal, was the youngest daughter of David c. DeFor- est and Julia Wooster. She was born December 30. 1915. at Bnenos Ayres on the La Plata, where her father had been settled as a commission merchant since 1908. She first saw her own coun- try In 1S1S when MT. DeForest came home as consul-general from the La Platan republic and entered upon his long struggle 10 secure recognition of independence for the South Americans In 1s36 October 26) she married Charles Alexander Griffin. distinguished law yer of New York city. Her husband died at Staten Island October 6, 1859; and of her four children only daugh- ter, Ellen A, survives. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Griffin had travelled much. both In Europe and America, residing at one time in Rome and lately in California. Her conver- sation was varied, full of information, vivacious and witty. In youth she was brilliantly beautiful, one of the belles of New Haven.
 Mrs. Griffin connected our city with its past. It Is seventy years since she, a child of nine, looked up reverentially at Lafayette as he drank glass of wine In her fathers house and then patted her flaxen hair in kindly fare well. Her family name connected her country with its past. It is 271 years since her DeForest emigrant-ancestor Huguenot refugee from the Spanish fnquisition, landed with his brother ex- lies on the then desolate island of Manhattan and commenced the settle ment of New York. All her relation ships dated from what In our republic is antiquity. The Woosters her moth- CTS race, and the Curtises', her grand mothers race, were among the primi- tive colonists of Stratford. The first American Griffin arrived in New Eng land more than century before the revolutionary war. One of Charles A. Griffin's grandfathers, a colonel of Con- necticut "Continentals," named Zebu- lon Butler was one of the gallant though unfortunate defenders of Wy Oming valley against Brant and, still earlier, served under the British flag in the war of Wolfe and Montcalm. In these days, when families of the cf1 ho Ia t,, New Haven, such venerable dates and facts seem more than ever worthy of remembrance.
 It may be interesting to New Ha- veners to know that the house of Da- vid c. DeForest, built in 1920, is the fine residence now occupied by Mayor Sargent. Under its portico of slender columns sat Lafayette watching the troops of the city, the Governors s guards, the "Iron Greys," the artil- lery, drawn up. on the "green" to vel come him. Then for short time he went into the house to call on Mrs. De- Forest, and partook Of refreshments The master of the house, at that time consul general from the La Platan re- public, was absent, 4, But, Lafayette turned to his portrait sa1uted it by raising his glass, and drank to the consurs health. # Then he hastened away to visit the college and to call on various notable citizens, his com- rades in the revolutionary war. This scene occurred in 1924 There is a long and interesting account of the hero's reception in the Columbian Register of that period.