Asahel Griffin family photographs

We have recently received a collection of photographs from Ken Griffin. One is a picture of Asahel Griffin son of Samuel Griffin and Mercy Nettleton. The 2nd picture is of the family of Asahel’s son Sylvester. It contains his daughter Lucinda and his sons Ira, Asel, and Edwin. The last picture is of John Sylvester Griffin’s family. John is Sylvester Griffin’s grandson. Ken’s family tree descends from Asahel / Sylvester / David / John Sylvester. Sylvester’s son David died at the age of 23 leaving one son John Sylvester. John Sylvester married Martha Curry the young couple eventually ended up in Natoma, Kansas. John and Martha are represent by a large contingent of Griffin’s still living in Kansas. Several things are striking about these photographs. The 3 generations all share similar features. Those traits are also present in other family trees. On ancestry.com there is posted a picture of Samuel Griffin 3rd, Asahel’s half brother. The two men look very much the part of brothers. There is also a remarkable similarity between Sylvester’s son Ira and Samuel’s grandson Henry. I was part of a discussion with the director of the Griffin DNA project. We were discussing the ability of the DNA result to predict for example which of several brothers in a family I may have descended from. He shared the observation that such judgment calls were easier to make in our case since our shared DNA strain was remarkable stable and resilient. The point being there is a good chance that many family trees probably share facial characteristics with Asahel’s family.