Della Gritton
1887 - 1935 (48 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Della Gritton was born in Jan 1887 in Cedar County, Iowa (daughter of Isaac N. Gritton and Lillia M. Malcolm); died on 18 Jan 1935 in Orange County, California; was buried in Westminster Memorial Park, Westminster, Orange County, California. Other Events:
- Baptism: Westminster Memorial Park, Westminster, Orange County, California
Notes:
Mrs. Chasteen Ill in California
Former Resident of Settlement Confined to Hospital, Relatives Learn.
Settlement - A telegram was received by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Globes this morning telling of the serious illness of their sister-in-law, Mrs. Harry Chasteen, who is in a Santa Ana, Calif., hospital. The Harry Chasteen family was former residents of the Settlement.
The Muscatine Journal, Muscatine, Iowa. Friday, 18 January 1935.
Della Chasteen Succumbs Today To Long Illness
Mrs. Della Chasteen, 48, who resided near Bolsa, died at an Orange hospital today following an extended illness. She had lived in Orange county for the past 13 years and was born in Kansas.
Her husband, Harry Chasteen, and the following children survive: Mrs. F.C. Barnheart, of Washington; Mrs. W.E. Hudgens, of New London, Connecticut; Mrs. W.J. Kolb, of Willowcreek, California; Lillian, Harry James and Maxine Chasteen, all of Bolsa. Her mother, Mrs. Lillian Peters, of Iowa, also survived.
Funeral services will be announced later by the Harrell and Brown Funeral home.
The Register, Santa Ana, California. Friday, 18 January 1935.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63248207/della_chasteen
Section 16GDella married Harry A. Chasteen on 26 Dec 1906 in Muscatine County, Iowa. Harry was born on 6 Feb 1886 in Wilton, Muscatine County, Iowa; died on 30 May 1955 in Orange County, California; was buried in Magnolia Memorial Park, Garden Grove, Orange County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
2. Isaac N. Gritton was born in 1864 in Cedar County, Iowa (son of Levi Gritton and Elizabeth R. Durdin); died in 1890; was buried in Hebron Cemetery, Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa. Other Events:
- Census: 1880, Sugar Creek, Cedar County, Iowa
Notes:
Buried:
Isaac N. "Ike" Gritton shares a headstone with his tather Levi Gritton and Mary E. Gritton.
Block 7, Lot 4.Isaac married Lillia M. Malcolm on 1 Mar 1887 in Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa. Lillia was born in 1867 in Knox County, Illinois; died in 1938; was buried in Wapello Cemetery, Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Lillia M. Malcolm was born in 1867 in Knox County, Illinois; died in 1938; was buried in Wapello Cemetery, Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa. Notes:
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7293188/lillian-petersChildren:
- 1. Della Gritton was born in Jan 1887 in Cedar County, Iowa; died on 18 Jan 1935 in Orange County, California; was buried in Westminster Memorial Park, Westminster, Orange County, California.
Generation: 3
4. Levi Gritton was born in 1826 in Mercer County, Kentucky (son of Levi Pete Gritton and Anna Myers); died on 26 Mar 1896 in Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa; was buried in Hebron Cemetery, Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa. Other Events:
- Census: 1860, Washington, Linn County, Iowa
- Census: 1880, Sugar Creek, Cedar County, Iowa
- Census: 1885, Sugar Creek, Cedar County, Iowa
Notes:
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26544465/levi-grittonLevi married Elizabeth R. Durdin on 5 Mar 1854 in Knox County, Illinois. Elizabeth was born about 1834 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. Elizabeth R. Durdin was born about 1834 in Kentucky. Notes:
Birth:
In the 1850 census, Elizabeth Durdin is 16 years old and on a farm not too farm from where I believe her parent lived. I believe she is the daughter of Alexander and Jerusha Durbin, and the younger sister of Lucy Ann Durbin, Levi's first wife.Children:
- Merriman Gritton was born in Feb 1855 in Illinois; died in 1914 in Linn County, Iowa.
- James H. Gritton was born about 1856 in Knox County, Illinois.
- Edward Preston Gritton was born on 20 Apr 1858 in Marion, Linn County, Iowa; died on 14 Aug 1939 in Joy, Mercer County, Illinois; was buried on 16 Aug 1939 in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Duncan Township, Mercer County, Illinois.
- Arminta J. Gritton was born in 1860 in Iowa.
- 2. Isaac N. Gritton was born in 1864 in Cedar County, Iowa; died in 1890; was buried in Hebron Cemetery, Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa.
Generation: 4
8. Levi Pete Gritton was born in 1790 in Mercer County, Kentucky (son of John Gritton and Elizabeth Hoagland); died in 1845 in Washington Township, Linn County, Iowa. Notes:
I believe that following news article referes to Levi Pete Gritton as he is the only Levi Gritton who matches dates and locations of the story.
Louisville Daily Democrat. 4 December 1845. Page 3
New Harmony, Indiana, Sept. 10th, 1842.
Sir: - Your kind invitation on behalf of the State Central committee of Pennsylvania, to unite with our fellow citizens throughout the Union, in the approaching celebration at Danville, of the anniversary of the memorable battle of the Thames, has been duly received. I deeply regret that my duty as Trustee of the State University of Indiana, which imperatively requires my attendance at Bloomington, during commencement week, (five days only previous to your celebration,) compels me to forego the gratification I should have experience in meeting, on such an occasion, the disingnished [sic] men who will assemble, amonst [sic]whom is our valued fried, Co. R. M. Johnson.
Since I have alluded to the death of Tecumsah by Col Johnson's hand, I may be pardoned on this occasion, for alluding, in proof of a fact which nothing but party jealousy ever disputed, to evidence of the most direct character, which chance enabled me to procure, and which was never before, as I know of, laid before the public.
Levi Gritton, an humble farmer, now living about three miles east of Evansville, in this state, was present, then quite a youth, at Winchester's defeat; was taken prisoner and carried to Malden and had there frequent opportunities of seeing Tecumseh, and of receiving at his hands, a degree of kindness, not imitated by those who called themselves the civilized allies of the Indian chief. Tecumseh's appearance then, was stamped upon Mr. Gritton's recollection, by that which is never forgotten, kind deeds to a captive in a strange land. After a time, an oath was tendered to the prisoners at Malden, not to serve again. Gritton and two others, who refused to take it, were hurried to Montreal and sold to a French trader there; but after five or six weeks captivity, Gritton seized a skiff, descended the St. Lawrence, and returned by way of Buffalo, after enduring many hardships, to his home in Mercer county, Kentucky.
Then he enlisted as one of McAffee's company, and was afterwards present at the battle of the Thames. These particulars, and those I am about to relate, I had from his own lips, noting them down at the time; and after reading them to Gritton, causing him to append to them his signature.
The young soldier, then not yet twenty-one was elected as one of the forlorn hope which, as every one knows, was led up against the Indians, in advance of the mounted men by Col. Johnson in person. Next to Col. Johnson, rode Col. Whitley, and immediately behind him Levi Gritton. Whitley as is well know, fell dead at the first fire; and it was Gritton who afterwards carried home to his widow the rifle and shot pouch of the fallen soldier. The same fire which killed Whitley, brought to the ground every man of the forlorn hope, Col. Johnson, and one other excepted. Gritton received a wound in the left leg, and had his horse shot from under him. When Col. Johnson turned round and saw the forlorn hope down, he called out to the rest of his men, to dismount and fight the Indians after their own fashion. Each who was not disabled then took to a tree; and a desultory combat was kept up for some quarter of an hour; Johnson's men still advancing from tree to tree upon the Indians. About that time it was, that Gritton who had taken his station behind a beech, saw col. Johnson ride round the top of a fallen tree about ten or twelve yards in advance of him, and perceived an Indian who he instantly recognized as Tecumseh, standing a few steps from the root of the same tree. He saw Tecumseh raise his tomahawk as in the act to throw, and at that moment Col. J. shot him with his own pistol. He saw Tecumseh fall and die on the same spot. Next morning Gritton's men, knowing that he was acquainted with Tecumseh, induced him to go with them about sunrise to the scene of the combat, and there they still found the body were it first lay. About the same time Anthony Shane, the half breed interpreter, who had known Tecumseh for years visited the body and recognized it instantly. I asked Gritton if he had ever heard it doubted in the army, that Tecumseh was the Indian shot by Col. J.Levi married Anna Myers on 27 Dec 1813 in Mercer County, Kentucky. Anna was born about 1793; died before 1830 in Mercer County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. Anna Myers was born about 1793; died before 1830 in Mercer County, Kentucky. Children:
- Jacob Gritton was born in 1814 in Mercer County, Kentucky; died on 6 Dec 1879 in Buchanan County, Iowa; was buried in Quasqueton Cemetery, Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa.
- 4. Levi Gritton was born in 1826 in Mercer County, Kentucky; died on 26 Mar 1896 in Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa; was buried in Hebron Cemetery, Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa.