Son of William M. Gross and Mary Jane "Jane" Estep Griffith. Brother to Nora Belle Gross, Benjamin Franklin Gross, John D. Gross, Caleb Powers Gross, Bertha Gross, Maude Florence Gross, Lydia Marie Gross, Victoria Gross, Gladys Ruby Gross, Verne Corbett Gross, and Clark Bross.

Orville married Fronia Howard about 1926 in Harlan County, Kentucky and they had no children.

Orville later married Maggie E. Pannell in 1930 and was married to her when was killed in the line of duty from a gun shot wound while on patrol as a police officer in Wallins Creek, Kentucky. Orville and Maggie had 2 boys as follows: Mr. Benjamin F. Gross and Mr. Robert G. Gross.

Harlan, Harlan County, Kentucky
Published on Page 1 of the Harlan Daily Enterprise, Volume Ten for Friday March 3, 1933

2 MEN KILLED AS RESULT OF SHOOTING AT
Wallins Creek Yesterday; John Blanton and Orville Gross
GROSS, CHIEF

Yesterday afternoon about four o'clock, at Wallins Creek, above the postoffice, John Blanton shot Chief of Police Orville Gross in the left arm, shattering it, and the second shot hit Gross above the stomach on the left side and came out of the lower part of his back near the spine.

Chief Gross dropped down after the shots were fired at him by Blanton, and raised himself up. He then followed Blanton, who went into the store of G. D. Saylor, to get more cartridges, it is alleged. Chief Gross shot him while in the store six times and Blanton fell, mortally wounded.
Both men were rushed to Harlan, but before Blanton reached here he died. Mr. Gross was taken to the Harlan Hospital, where he died at 7:15 this morning from the wounds inflicted.
From the best information obtainable, it is alleged that Blanton was intoxicated and was returning from his home, where he had shot into the door of his house and that Chief Gross, hearing of it, went into that direction when he met Blanton near the store. It is said that Gross reached for Blanton's pistol; then it was that Blanton…

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