Charles Grandison Burritt was apprenticed when a lad to a millwright in Pennsylvania. He went with his employer to build railroad trestles in Kentucky. He worked at this business until injured by a fall then assisted a company in extracting oil from cannel coal. He married Theodosia Ann Compton in Cloverport Ky., an educated accomplished Southern girl. She was a most lovable and adaptable woman. Although never having worked herself she accepted the changed conditions of the north when her husband went there on account of his health with a light heart. After her husband's death she married Judge SW Brisbine of Yankton SD. Her great grandfather on the maternal side was a brother of Gen George Washington's mother Mary Ball (Family of Blackleach Burritt Jr. by Alice Burritt).