The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-15
FUNERAL OF MISS GRIFFIN.
Held Yesterday Afternoon in This
 City.

Held Yesterday Afternoon in Thi
 City.
 The funeral services over the rrmain
 of Miss Ellen Anne Griffin, who diet Friday in New York, were held yester
 day afternoon in the parors of the un dertaking establishment of Lewis
 Maycock, and were well attended. Tht
 Rev. Charles O. Scoville, curate Q
 Trinity church. conducted the service;
 and the interment was in the Davit
 DeForest plot in the Grove street ceme.
 tery.
 I Miss Griffin was the daughter of the 1 late Charles Alexander and Pastora
 Griffin and the granddaughter of the | late George Griffin, who was at one time one of the leading lawyers in New York. Her mother was a New Haven girl, who was a daughter of David c DeForest, who built the Mayor Sargent house at the corner of Elm and Church streets and resided there for years, and who was notable man in his day MT. DeForest, before coming to New Haven, was a prosperous merchant in Humphreysville, Conn, and also figured prominently as United States consul to Buenos Ayres. While in South America MT DeForest acquired large fortune, and it was there that a number of his children were born. He later came to New Haven and retired from business. Owing to his conspicuous figure and his long residence in South America he was known as Don DeForest to many of his friends here.
 The late Andrew w. DeForest was a second cousin. Attorney George D.. Watrous has of late acted as trustee for Miss Griffin, and it is he who gave in- structions to have Che remains brought here for interment.
 Miss Griffin was born fifty-eight years ago at the summer home of the father on Staten Island near the house built there by Commodore Vanderbilt A New York paper, speaking of the de- ceased, said: "She was very handsome as a young woman and when she was about twenty-one years old she met at the house of Theodore Parkman young man with whom she fell in love. He was Erastus l.. DeForest. IT was later discovered that she and young DeForest were cousins, and as her fam fly refused to allow her to marry him she became disconsolate and moody. A trip to Europe with her mother did not cause her to forget her grief. While she was away the young man died. Her father, grandfather and younger broth CT also died soon after, and on her re- turn to this country she went with her mother to southern California. There her mother died.'
 If the above facts are true they are unknown to Miss Griffin's relatives liv- ing in this city and are discredited by them. It was also stated in New York that she was shabby in ap- pearance and that she had lived in a peculiar manner most of her life. This is also discredited by her relatives here It is fact however, they say, that her 1 life has been somewhat that of re- cluse, in that she seldom visited any body and was as seldom visited either | by friend or relative. She seemed to be | to be by herself, her time be- had travelled in Europe a number of | times and was very well educated.
 The reports that her estate was val I Ied at about S100,000 and that she be- lueathed $10,000 to her housekeeper, Mary Magivney, on condition that the alter take care of her pet dog, are also given little credence by her relatives The estate is estimated at less than ;50, 900. Mrs. Magivney was at the fu- leral of her dead mistress yesterday Afternoon, and the last time Miss Grif- in was here was seven years ago.
 For the last seven or eight years Miss Iriffin had lived in New York. In De- ember she became i'll with Brights