JOHN GARRITSON
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Officer Rank: Posseman
Memorial Panel: 10-E: 22
Department: Delaware, Oklahoma, Marshal Office
End of Watch: January 6, 1917
Cause: SHOT
Age: 31
Years of Service: 3
Description: Posseman Garritson, City Marshal Bullock and six possemen were pursuing the Poe/Hart gang for the armed robbery of a local store. The gang was pursued to a wooded area where the Marshal's small posse was ambushed by a gang of fifteen men. City Marshal Bullock and Posseman Garritson were shot and killed.
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