Mary Ellen Gritton
1831 - 1915 (84 years)-
Name Mary Ellen Gritton Birth 29 Jan 1831 Parke County, Indiana 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Female Death 14 Oct 1915 Vermilion County, Illinois [1, 2, 3] Burial Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois [1, 2, 3] Person ID I1007 Gritton Last Modified 28 Jan 2025
Father Amos Gritton, b. 4 Aug 1794, Mercer County, Kentucky d. 29 May 1857, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 62 years) Mother Elizabeth Holt, b. 10 Aug 1800, North Carolina d. 10 Aug 1866, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 66 years) Marriage 14 Oct 1816 Mercer County, Kentucky [1, 3, 4] Family ID F417 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family George Washington Hoskins, b. 20 Feb 1830, Georgetown, Vermilion County, Illinois d. 14 Jan 1915, Henning, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 84 years) Marriage 2 Apr 1854 Vermilion County, Illinois [3, 4, 5] - Marriage License Abstracts Vermilion County, Illinois 1853-1874. Page 69. John C. Bogart signed for Mary E. Gritton.
Children 1. Sarah E. Hoskins, b. 13 Feb 1855, Illinois d. 18 Dec 1893 (Age 38 years)2. America Hoskins, b. 4 Dec 1856, Vermilion County, Illinois d. 29 Jun 1857, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 0 years)3. Harriet Belle Hoskins, b. 27 Apr 1858, Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois d. 4 Feb 1924, Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 65 years)4. George Riley Hoskins, b. 30 Aug 1860, Illinois d. 31 Jan 1942, Pilot Township, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 81 years)5. William Columbus Hoskins, b. 31 Jan 1863, Vermilion County, Illinois d. 18 Feb 1953 (Age 90 years)6. Theodore Azariah Hoskins, b. 3 Oct 1865, Henning, Vermilion County, Illinois d. 2 Jun 1930, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 64 years)7. John Washington Hoskins, b. 11 Aug 1868, Vermilion County, Illinois d. 4 Mar 1947, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 78 years)8. Adele Hoskins, b. 1 Jul 1878, Vermilion County, Illinois d. 29 Nov 1888, Vermilion County, Illinois (Age 10 years)Family ID F421 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 6 Jul 2019
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Event Map 
Birth - 29 Jan 1831 - Parke County, Indiana 
Marriage - 2 Apr 1854 - Vermilion County, Illinois Death - 14 Oct 1915 - Vermilion County, Illinois 
Burial - - Johnson Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Headstones 
Hoskins, George Washington and Mary Ellen Gritton back Hoskins, George Washington and Mary Ellen Gritton.jpg
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Notes - Trails West: A history of the Hoskins family.
By Robert J. Hoskins, Ella N. Nielsen Hoskins, and Donna Hoskins Higley. March 1993.
Page 20-22.
George Washington Hoskins is the fourth in the genealogical line. George was born on 20 February 1830 to Azariah and Sarah Swisher Hoskins in a small log cabin, near the Little Vermilion River in Vermilion County, Illinois. When George was small the Indians were still friendly in the area and occasionally visited the Hoskins and the other cabins in the neighborhood. In 1833 his parents moved farther north in Vermilion County and settled on a track of land that is now in Blount Township. It is in this area that George grew to man hood, married, raised a family, owned considerable land (some he broke from virgin prairie sod) and died at an advanced age.
George was educated in a one room log school house with slab benches and a huge fireplace. He lived in and grew up in a pioneer home where his mother spun flax and wool for clothing, cooked over a wood fire in a fireplace while the men worked the fields, split the rails and raised the live stock. George received enough education in his early years to conduct his lifetime business, to be a factor in the local school and church and dabble in politics in his later years.
On 2 April 1854 George married Mary Ellen Gritton who was born on 29 January 1831 in Parke County, Indiana. Her parents were Amos and Elizabeth Hold Gritton, both of Mercer County, Kentucky. After their married they immediately settled on a farm in Ross Township in Vermilion County, Illinois. Their first house was also a small log cabin with a breakfast table and chairs and crude home made furniture. A little latter they were able to build a small house of more conventional design on their farm.
As time went by George W. Hoskins grew in prosperity and eventually owned 340 acres of good prairie land. In 1867 his father, Azariah sold his farm to George and he and Sarah moved to Stearns County, Minnesota where they homesteaded 160 acres of land. After George purchased his father’s farm he moved his family to that location which was then located on Section #7 in Newell Township, Vermilion County, Illinois.
George and Mary Ellen had nine children, three of whom died young and the other six grew to adulthood and had families of their own. On 14 January 1915 George died and was buried in Johnson Cemetery in Blount Township, Vermilion County, Illinois. His wife, Mary Ellen Gritton Hoskins died on 14 October 1915 and was buried beside her husband George.
- Trails West: A history of the Hoskins family.
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Sources - [S4] Cemeteries of Vermilion County, Illinois: Blount and Newell Townships, v.1, (Illiana Geneaological and Historical Society, 1995), Library of Linda Hedges.
- [S2] Find a Grave.
- [S75] Don Claypool, The Family of Gritton, (Don Claypool, 1997), Library of Linda Hedges.
- [S104] marriage record.
- [S48] Marriage Abstracts, Vermilion County, Illinois: 1853-1874, (Illiana Genealogical and Historical Society).
- [S4] Cemeteries of Vermilion County, Illinois: Blount and Newell Townships, v.1, (Illiana Geneaological and Historical Society, 1995), Library of Linda Hedges.