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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=https://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=https://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=https://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

 

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. Frank Brame's younger brother, Scott Overton Brame (c. 1928-2019), was another prominent Alexandrian, who in 1993 retired after forty-three years of service as the chief executive officer of the Central Louisiana Electric Company. CLECO honored Brame by renaming the power station in Boyce in northwestern Rapides Parish as the Brame Energy Center in 2010. CLECO also established the Scott O. Brame/CLECO Endowed Chair in Finance at Louisiana State University at Alexandria.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=scott-overton-brame&pid=192053631&fhid=6588|title=Scott Overton Brame|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=April 3, 2019|accessdate=April 9, 2019}}</ref> 

 

After Frank's death, his widow, Emily, wed 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=https://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>

==Political life==

==Political life==