Orrill family

Frederick Thomas Orrill

Orrillhigh

Vital Information

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Full name Frederick Thomas Orrill
Born 8 Jul 1869, Pike County, Illinois
Died 4 Jun 1926, Arcadia, Los Angeles County, California
Father William Tebbett Orrill (b. 1834, Warwickshire, England)
Mother Eliza F. Miller Chitwood Orrill (b. 1842; d. 1921)
Spouse Mary Alvira Woodward (m. ~1894)
Son Clinton Woodward "Jack" Orrill (1900-1926)
Son Price Vinton Orrill (1898-1990)
Daughter Alice Ada Orrill Parsons (1896-1966)
Occupation Farmer, Richland Township, Cowley County, Kansas

Biography

Frederick Thomas Orrill was born on 8 July 1869 in Pike County, Illinois, to William Tebbett Orrill, an English immigrant from Warwickshire, and Eliza F. Miller Chitwood. The family relocated to Richland Township, Cowley County, Kansas, where Frederick farmed and raised three children: Alice Ada (1896), Price Vinton (1898), and Clinton Woodward (1900), all born in Wilmot. He died on 4 June 1926 in Arcadia, Los Angeles County, California, just three months after his son Clinton died from burns sustained in a tar still explosion at the Standard Oil refinery in Sugar Creek, Missouri, on 13 March 1926. He is a paternal grandfather of Gale Fulghum.