...er, and sister of Maj. James H. Ambler, of Pickens county. He is of Scotch-Irish descent on both sides, both the Ambler and Griffin families having emigrated from Ireland to Virginia, and thence to South Carolina . Mr. Griffin was third in a family of seven children, five sons and two daughters, of whom three sons served in the Confederate army. The eldest, Robert Young Hayne, was captain of Company H, in th...