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Stafford was descended from two prominent families, the fifth of eight children of Leroy Augustus Stafford, Jr. (1869-1923), an Alexandria native and a graduate of the [[United States Naval Academy]] in [[Annapolis]], [[Maryland]]. His grandfather, also named Leroy Augustus Stafford, was a [[general]] for the [[Confederate States of America]] in the [[American Civil War]] who was mortally wounded in Battle of the Wilderness. His uncle, David Theophilus Stafford, was a four-term Rapides Parish [[sheriff]] from 1888 to 1904.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=142605621|title=Leroy Augustus Stafford, Jr. (father of Grove Stafford)|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}}</ref> Stafford's mother, the former Bertha Moore Hyams (1870-1959), was a granddaughter of Louisiana Civil War Governor Thomas Overton Moore. The youngest of Stafford's siblings, Thomas Overton Moore Stafford (1905-1973),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=142642342 |title=Bertha Moore Hyams Stafford (mother of Grove Stafford)|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}}</ref> was an uncle by marriage of the late [[U.S. Representative]] Harold Barnett McSween (1926-2002) of Louisiana's since disbanded 8th congressional district.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=143026141|title=Alice McSween Stafford (sister-in-law of Grove Stafford)|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}}</ref>

Stafford was descended from two prominent families, the fifth of eight children of Leroy Augustus Stafford, Jr. (1869-1923), an Alexandria native and a graduate of the [[United States Naval Academy]] in [[Annapolis]], [[Maryland]]. His grandfather, also named Leroy Augustus Stafford, was a [[general]] for the [[Confederate States of America]] in the [[American Civil War]] who was mortally wounded in Battle of the Wilderness. His uncle, David Theophilus Stafford, was a four-term Rapides Parish [[sheriff]] from 1888 to 1904.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=142605621|title=Leroy Augustus Stafford, Jr. (father of Grove Stafford)|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}}</ref> Stafford's mother, the former Bertha Moore Hyams (1870-1959), was a granddaughter of Louisiana Civil War Governor Thomas Overton Moore. The youngest of Stafford's siblings, Thomas Overton Moore Stafford (1905-1973),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=142642342 |title=Bertha Moore Hyams Stafford (mother of Grove Stafford)|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}}</ref> was an uncle by marriage of the late [[U.S. Representative]] Harold Barnett McSween (1926-2002) of Louisiana's since disbanded 8th congressional district.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=143026141|title=Alice McSween Stafford (sister-in-law of Grove Stafford)|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}}</ref>

Grove Stafford and his wife, the former Emily Gaiennie (1903-1974), had four children. A son, David Grove "Red" Stafford, Jr. (1928-2017), was a graduate of the [[Tulane University]] Law School in [[New Orleans]] and member of the Alexandria firm Stafford, Stewart & Potter, formerly Stafford & Pitts. He served on the Louisiana Board of Ethics and the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, of which he was the president in 1981.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=david-grove-stafford-jr&pid=187482107|title=David Grove Stafford, Jr.|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=December 10, 2017|accessdate=February 6, 2018}}</ref> The three other children were Emily Stafford Brame McNeely (1926-1997); Margaret "Patti" Daniel, and George Mason Graham Stafford (1940-1987).<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=142611245|title=David Grove Stafford, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}}</ref>h the Alexandria firm Stafford, Stewart and Potter,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&formname=name&qf=David&qmi=G&qn=Stafford&qcs=Alexandria%2C+LA&focusfirst=1|title=David G. Stafford|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}}</ref> Emily McNeely was first married to Frank Thebault Brame, Jr. (1919-1992) of Alexandria,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=173922270|title=Frank Thebault Brame, Jr. (son-in-law of Grove Stafford)|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=July 13, 2017}}</ref> the nephew of Scott Miller Brame (1881-1947),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Brame&GSfn=Scott&GSmn=M&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=175402612&df=all&|title=Scott Miller Brame|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=July 13, 2017}}</ref> for whom the Scott M. Brame Middle School in Alexandria is named. Emily's second husband was the Crowley physician, Thomas Ludlow McNeely, Jr., a native of Colfax in Grant  Parish, a graduate of the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and a two-term member of the Crowley City Council, who died on his ninetieth birthday on October 26, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=171891768|title=Thomas Ludlow McNeely, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.co|accessdate=July 15, 2017}}</ref> Stafford's namesake grandson, Grove Stafford Brame, the sixth of seven children of Frank and Emily Brame, was a [[Dr. Pepper|Dr Pepper]] executive in [[Dallas]] and [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], who died in July 2017 at the age of fifty-nine in Boerne, west of [[San Antonio]], Texas. [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=grove-brame&pid=186045000|title=Grove Stafford Brame obituary|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=July 12, 2017|accessdate=July 13, 2017}}</ref>

Grove Stafford and his wife, the former Emily Gaiennie (1903-1974), had four children. A son, David Grove "Red" Stafford, Jr. (1928-2017), was a graduate of the [[Tulane University]] Law School in [[New Orleans]] and member of the Alexandria firm Stafford, Stewart & Potter, formerly Stafford & Pitts. He served on the Louisiana Board of Ethics and the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, of which he was the president in 1981.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=david-grove-stafford-jr&pid=187482107|title=David Grove Stafford, Jr.|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=December 10, 2017|accessdate=February 6, 2018}}</ref> The three other children were Emily Stafford Brame McNeely (1926-1997); Margaret "Patti" Daniel, and George Mason Graham Stafford (1940-1987).<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=142611245|title=David Grove Stafford, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}}</ref>h the Alexandria firm Stafford, Stewart and Potter,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&formname=name&qf=David&qmi=G&qn=Stafford&qcs=Alexandria%2C+LA&focusfirst=1|title=David G. Stafford|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}}</ref> Emily McNeely was first married to Frank Thebault Brame, Jr. (1919-1992) of Alexandria,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=173922270|title=Frank Thebault Brame, Jr. (son-in-law of Grove Stafford)|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=July 13, 2017}}</ref> the nephew of Scott Miller Brame (1881-1947),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Brame&GSfn=Scott&GSmn=M&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=175402612&df=all&|title=Scott Miller Brame|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=July 13, 2017}}</ref> for whom the Scott M. Brame Middle School in Alexandria is named. Emily's second husband was the Crowley physician, Thomas Ludlow McNeely, Jr., a native of Colfax in Grant  Parish, a graduate of the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and a two-term member of the Crowley City Council, who died on his ninetieth birthday on October 26, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=171891768|title=Thomas Ludlow McNeely, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.co|accessdate=July 15, 2017}}</ref> Stafford's namesake grandson, Grove Stafford Brame, the sixth of seven children of Frank and Emily Brame, was a [[Dr. Pepper|Dr Pepper]] executive in [[Dallas]] and [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], who died in July 2017 at the age of fifty-nine in Boerne, west of [[San Antonio]], Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=grove-brame&pid=186045000|title=Grove Stafford Brame obituary|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=July 12, 2017|accessdate=July 13, 2017}}</ref>

Stafford was succeeded in the state Senate in 1948 by Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs (1911-1985), the father of later Rapides Parish District Attorney James Crawford "Jam" Downs and a brother of [[J. Earl Downs]], a former member of the Shreveport city commission government. Sammy Downs entered the Senate with the return of [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] to the governorship.<ref name=senate/> Stafford subsequently served on the [[Louisiana State University]] Board of Supervisors in the administration of Long's second successor, [[Robert F. Kennon]]. He was a defendant in the appeal of a suit brought forth from 1953 to 1955 against LSU by the [[African-American]] [[civil rights]] attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud, Sr. (1899-1972) of New Orleans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://openjurist.org/228/f2d/895/board-v-p|title=

Stafford was succeeded in the state Senate in 1948 by Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs (1911-1985), the father of later Rapides Parish District Attorney James Crawford "Jam" Downs and a brother of [[J. Earl Downs]], a former member of the Shreveport city commission government. Sammy Downs entered the Senate with the return of [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] to the governorship.<ref name=senate/> Stafford subsequently served on the [[Louisiana State University]] Board of Supervisors in the administration of Long's second successor, [[Robert F. Kennon]]. He was a defendant in the appeal of a suit brought forth from 1953 to 1955 against LSU by the [[African-American]] [[civil rights]] attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud, Sr. (1899-1972) of New Orleans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://openjurist.org/228/f2d/895/board-v-p|title=