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- LKH note:
Note from Family Search.
Orsmus Vandorn Gritton and his wife, Mary Josephine Underwood, abandoned their three boys when the couple separated. At the time the youngest, Joseph Vandorn Gritton, was age five. The boys grew up in Brightside Orphanage in Plymouth, Indiana. The orphanage put them out one by one as they reached the age of sixteen. Their mother kept their sister, Millie.
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- Mrs. Josephine Gritton has filed a petition in the superior court asking a divorce from Orsmus Gritton. They were married June 22, 1903, and separated March 24, 1920. She alleges cruel and inhuman treatment and failure to provide. They have three children and she asks their custody. Russell K. Bedgood and L.J. Ledman are attorneys for the plaintiff.
Journal and Courier, Lafayette, Indiana. Friday, 8 October 1920, page 1.
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- LKH Note:
second marriage to Leotis / Leloads Pettyjohn
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57117365/leotis-pettyjohn
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- Mrs. Mary Josephine Pettyjohn, 74, formerly of 505 New York street, died in the hospital at the State Soldiers home at 10:40 p.m. Wednesday. She had been in failing health three years and hospitalized three weeks. She had lived at the Soldiers home four years.
Born in Penfield, Ill., she was married to Leoads Pettyjohn who died in 1953.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Millie Breese, Lafayette; two sons, Edward H. Gritton, East Chicago, and Joseph B. Gritton, Schererville; four brothers, Ben Underwood, Three Rivers, Mich., William Underwood, Kalamazoo, Mich., Charles Underwood, Lafayette, and Edward Underwood, Elmdale, and a sister, Mrs. Clyde Green, Attica.
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