Mary Josephine Underwood
1883 - 1957 (74 years)-
Name Mary Josephine Underwood - daughter of Theadore Underwood and Anna VanDeusan [1]
Born 22 Jan 1883 Penfield, Vermilion County, Illinois 
[1, 2, 3, 4] Gender Female Died 5 Jun 1957 Lafayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana [1, 3, 4] - Indiana State Soldiers' Home
Buried 8 Jun 1957 Indiana Soldiers Home Cemetery, Tippecanoe Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana [1, 3] - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51268507/josephine-mary-pettyjohn
Area WWI, Section New World, Row C, Grave 21
Person ID I557 Gritton Last Modified 22 Feb 2024
Family Orsmus Vandorn Gritton, b. 29 Jun 1881, Illinois , d. 4 Apr 1979, California (Age 97 years) Married 23 Jun 1902 [5] Children 1. Millie Elzora Gritton, b. 28 Nov 1903, Penfield, Champaign County, Illinois , d. 23 Sep 1973, Kentland, Newton County, Indiana (Age 69 years)2. Walter Theodore Gritton, b. 10 Aug 1905, Penfield, Champaign County, Illinois , d. 29 Mar 1956 (Age 50 years)3. Edward Harold Gritton, b. 5 Oct 1907, Penfield, Champaign County, Illinois , d. 22 Aug 1977, Sullivan, Sullivan County, Indiana (Age 69 years)4. Joseph Vandorn Gritton, b. 29 Apr 1910, Illinois , d. 9 Oct 1977, Schererville, Lake County, Indiana (Age 67 years)Last Modified 7 Mar 2021 Family ID F263 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 22 Jan 1883 - Penfield, Vermilion County, Illinois 
Died - 5 Jun 1957 - Lafayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana 
Buried - 8 Jun 1957 - Indiana Soldiers Home Cemetery, Tippecanoe Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - 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.
[6] - 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.
[7] - LKH Note:
second marriage to Leotis / Leloads Pettyjohn
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57117365/leotis-pettyjohn
[6] - 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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