George Harlan Gritton
1917 - 1965 (48 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
1. George Harlan Gritton was born on 17 Mar 1917 in Indiana; died on 30 Mar 1965 in Decatur, Macon County, Illinois; was buried in Graceland Cemetery, Decatur, Macon County, Illinois. Other Events:
- Occupation: electrical worker
Notes:
Anthony and Bessie Gritton’s family was in the path of the April 1922 tornado outbreak that swept across Indiana.
Abridged from the Journal and Courier, Lafayette, Indiana. Tuesday, 18 April 1922.
Nine persons lost their lives, many other were seriously injured and much property was destroyed in a cyclone that visited Warren county late Monday afternoon, the terrific storm wiping out the village of Hedrick, six miles northwest of West Lebanon, where four of the storm victims met death, then swooping down on a settlement known as Soul Sweep Corner, two and a half miles east of Hedrick, where three were killed; and finally striking the Ulrich Hunter farm south of Judyville, where two lost their lives.
House Plows Furrow
At Soul Sweeper corner, the Gritton home in which two children lost their lives, was carried 50 feet from its foundation, and left completely shattered in a field. It plowed a deep furrow in the ground as it was swept along by the force of the storm. The body of Mrs. High, whose home was completely destroyed was found in the wreckage. The body of taken to the home of her father, Charles Wakely, in West Lebanon. The bodies of the Gritton children were taken to the Byers home west of the corner.
The Dead At Soul Sweeper Corner
Mrs. Gladys W. High, 34.
Paul E. Gritton, 6.
Ruth E. Griton, 3 months old.
Seriously Injured
Tony Gritton, father of children killed. He was a broken hip and ankle and is hurt internally.
Ivan, Harlan and Helen Gritton, of Soul Sweeper Corner, all badly injured and at Lakeview hospital, Danville, Ill. Ivan and Harlan are expected to die.
[LKH note: George Harlan Gritton and Helen Gritton survived their injuries.]
Decatur Review | Decatur, Illinois | Wednesday, April 19, 1922 | Page 1
Danville TOLL 11.
Danville, IL, April 19.
With the death of Ivan Gritton, age 3 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Gritton, of Hedrick, Ind in a hospital here, the death list from the tornado of Monday afternoon was brought up to 11. Mr. and Mrs. Gritton are in a local hospital suffering from injuries inflicted by the storm and are in a serious condition. Two other Gritton children were instantly killed.
Abridged from The Richmond Item, Richmond, Indiana. Wednesday, 19 April 1922.
At Pleasant View Corner, two miles distant, east, four were killed. Ruth E. Gritton, three months old, was on her mother’s lap, and Paul, six years old, was playing at his mother’s knee. The home was wrecked and the children blown into a hedge fence one hundred years away and killed. Mr. and Mrs. Gritton and three children are in a serious condition at a Danville, Ill., hospital. Across the road Mrs. Phillip High was killed outright and Joseph High fatally injured.
George H. Gritton Succumbs At 48
George Harlan Gritton, 48, of 1712 E. William St., died at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday in Decatur and Macon County Hospital, where he had been a patient give days.
Mr. Gritton, an electrical worker, had been a resident of Decatur for 35 years.
He was born March 17, 1917, in Danville, the son of Anthony D. and Bessie Ann Heck Gritton.
Mr. Gritton married Vena May Revis in Decatur on July 27, 1941.
He was a member of the Christian Church, Stephen Decatur Lodge 979 AF & AM, Zohak Grotto and the Electrical Workers Union No.146.
Mr. Gritton is survived by his wife; parents, two sons, Anthony P., Decatur; Kenneth R., U.S. Air Force, Denver, Colo.; and four sisters, Mrs. James (Helen) Roach, Decatur; Mrs. Jac (Esther) Carrier and Mrs. Fred (Leora) Birch, all of Decatur; and Mrs. Charles (Edna) Wells, Macon.
Two brother and one sister preceded him in death.
The body is at Brintlinger's Funeral Home, where arrangements are incomplete. The family suggests memorials made to the Heart Fund.
The Decatur Daily Review, Decatur, Illinois. Wednesday, 31 March 1965.
Buried:
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Plot RGeorge married Vena Mae Revis on 27 Jul 1941 in Decatur, Macon County, Illinois. Vena (daughter of Elby Revis and Nora Fielder) was born on 15 Feb 1919 in Edgar County, Illinois; died on 19 Nov 1990 in Decatur, Macon County, Illinois; was buried in Graceland Cemetery, Decatur, Macon County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Anthony Paul Gritton
was born on 20 Jan 1942 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; died on 7 Jan 1966 in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida; was buried in Graceland Cemetery, Decatur, Macon County, Illinois.
Generation: 2
2. Anthony Paul Gritton (1.George1) was born on 20 Jan 1942 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; died on 7 Jan 1966 in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida; was buried in Graceland Cemetery, Decatur, Macon County, Illinois. Notes:
Anthony Gritton
Anthony Paul Gritton, 23, of 1712 E. William St. died at 10:40 a.m. Friday in Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla., of injuries received in an automobile accident on Dec. 5.
He was born in Chicago on Jan. 20, 1942, son of George H. and Vena Revis Gritton.
Mr. Gritton was a member of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers No.146. He had been working as an electrician in Tampa for two and one-half months.
He is survived by his mother and a brother, Kenneth R., both of Decatur; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Gritton of Decatur and Mrs. Nora Revis of Edgar. He was preceded in death by his father, in 1966.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the Brintlinger's Funeral Home in Decatur.
Herald and Review, Decatur, Illinois. Saturday, 8 January 1966.
Buried:
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