Ruth Elaine Gritton
1922 - 1922 (0 years)
Generation: 1
1. Ruth Elaine Gritton was born on 11 Jan 1922 in Nebraska; died on 17 Apr 1922 in Illinois; was buried in West Lebanon Cemetery, West Lebanon, Warren County, Indiana. Notes:
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.
Birth:
Ruth's death certificate gives Nebraska as place of birth.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27383452/ruth-gritton
Paul, Ivan, and Ruth Gritton share a headstone. They were all vicitims of the tornado outbreak across Illinois and Indiana on 17 April 1922.
Died:
tornado victim