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10.   JESSE FRANKLIN6 CRITTENDEN (JESSE ALBERT5, THOMAS B.4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born 31 Jan 1900 in Hamilton, O, and died 07 Mar 1968 in Hamilton, O.   He married HESSIE JEAN PAYNE 03 Aug 1933 in Hamilton, O, daughter of JOHN PAYNE and NANCY CARPENTER.   She was born 22 May 1913 in Altamont , Ky.

Notes for JESSE FRANKLIN CRITTENDEN:

Jesse quite school at age 16 and traveled the United States working on drag lines.   He was in Colorado and helped on the million dollar highway.   He was supervisor of Mosler Safe Company planer division when he retired.   He developed cancer of the prostate at age 65.   During the depression he worked for the WPA.

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Burial: 09 Mar 1968, Rosehill Cemetery,Indiana Springs, Ohio

Notes for HESSIE JEAN PAYNE:

Jeans dad died when she was 8 years old, her mother could not support the family they were sent to different homes to live and orphanages.   She lived in Louisville, Ky in the orphanage.   Mr. and Mrs. Hauser owned a grocery store in Louisville, they took her out of the orphanage, she lived with them until her Aunt Hessie came for her and she lived with her family until she was 18.   Moved to Hamilton, Ohio became a nanny to the Koehler family children.   Her first marriage was to Herbert Gains but left him because of drinking and not working.  She met Jesse Crittenden and married him.   He died of cancer, met John McVey married him and moved to Florida were he died of cancer.

Children of JESSE CRITTENDEN and HESSIE PAYNE are:

17. i. JEAN ANN7 CRITTENDEN, b. 17 Jun 1934, Hamilton, O.

18. ii. ELLEN KATHRYN CRITTENDEN, b. 16 Sep 1935, Hamilton, O.

19. iii. MARY ADA CRITTENDEN, b. 09 Feb 1937, Hamilton, O.

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