Sarah Ann Gritton
1852 - 1941 (89 years)-
Name Sarah Ann Gritton Born 16 May 1852 Indiana [1, 2, 3] Gender Female Census 1920 Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois Occupation at home [2] Died 3 Aug 1941 Farrington Township, Jefferson County, Illinois [1, 2] Buried 5 Aug 1941 Harmony Cemetery, Harmony, Jefferson County, Illinois [1, 2] Person ID I497 Gritton Last Modified 17 Mar 2024
Father William Wesley Gritton, b. 10 Oct 1825, Mercer County, Kentucky , d. 29 Mar 1884 (Age 58 years) Mother Amelia Ann Cox, b. 9 Aug 1835, Hendricks County, Indiana , d. 25 Apr 1879, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 43 years) Married 24 Jun 1851 Johnson County, Indiana [3, 4] Family ID F90 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Peter Milton Lee, b. 6 Jun 1851, Vermilion County, Illinois , d. 3 Aug 1925, Kankakee, Kankakee County, Illinois (Age 74 years) Married 31 Dec 1868 Vermilion County, Illinois [1, 3, 5, 6] - Marriage License Abstracts Vermilion County, Illinois 1853-1874. Page 84. Squire Lee, father, and Cym Lee signed for Milton Lee. W. W. Gritton, father, signed for Sarah A. Gritton.
Divorced Oct 1883 Vermilion County, Illinois [1] Children 1. Luna Amelia Belle Lee, b. 1871, Vermilion County, Illinois , d. 23 Mar 1897, Iowa (Age 26 years) 2. Mary F. Lee, b. Abt 1872, Vermilion County, Illinois 3. Joseph Mack Lee, b. 23 Apr 1872, Newtown, Vermilion County, Illinois 4. John Wesley Lee, b. Abt 1876, Vermilion County, Illinois 5. Ina S. Lee, b. Nov 1875, Vermilion County, Illinois , d. 7 Jul 1906 (Age 30 years) 6. Milton Lee, b. Abt 1880, Vermilion County, Illinois Last Modified 6 Jul 2019 Family ID F242 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 James Humble, b. Jan 1869, Illinois , d. 28 Apr 1911 (Age 42 years) Married Aft 1883 Divorced Bef 1910 Last Modified 6 Jul 2019 Family ID F243 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Note from Find a Grave
Sarah Ann Gritton was born 16 May 1852 in Indiana to William Wesley Gritton and Amelia Ann Cox. She married Milton Lee 31 December 1868 in Vermilion County, Illinois. Sarah divorced Milton in October of 1883 in Vermilion County, Illinois. The marriage produce seven known children; Luna Belle who married Eli Filmore Martin; Mary F.; Joseph M.; John Wesley who married Mary Jane Smith; Iona S. who married William Dickinson, Milton and Henry E. Sarah second married Jesse Thatcher in Vermillion County, Illinois 25 January 1884. They also apparently divorced. Sarah married James Humble in Vermilion County 15 October 1892. She died in Jefferson County, Illinois 31 August 1941. After her eldest daughter Luna Belle died at the early age of 26, Sarah helped raise her four children.
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- Note from Find a Grave
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Sources - [S2] Find a Grave.
- [S7] Illinois, Deaths and stillbirths index, 1916-1947.
- [S75] The Family of Gritton, Don Claypool, (Don Claypool, 1997).
- [S22] Indiana Marriages.
- [S12] Illinois Marriages.
- [S48] Marriage Abstracts, Vermilion County, Illinois: 1853-1874, (Illiana Genealogical and Historical Society).
- [S2] Find a Grave.