Ellen Ketterman Sites

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Obit courtesy of Sites Family Book: "This obituary is in memory of Mrs Ellen Virginia Sites, wife of Clinton Scott Sites. Mrs Sites before her marriage, was a Miss Ketterman. She was born in the state of Missouri, May 22, 1859, and died at her home near Pansy, November 29,1913, after an illness of about ten days, aged 54 years, 6 months, 7 days.

She was married to Mr Sites September 29,1881. There married life was one of happiness and as the thirty-two years of their lives sped by they became more and more endeared to each other.

For more than a quarter of a century this couple toiled side by side amid the sorrows, afflictions and joy that are incident to this pilgrimage here.

To this union there were born four children, one of which preceded its mother to the glory world, having died in infancy. The children living at home with there father are Edward, Della and Aneth Lytle Sites.

This mother left to her children a rich legacy by her example in industry, frugality and lest of all in her devoted christian life.

She believed in experimental religion, having told her husband after several days and nights of wrestling with the spirit that He who stilled the tempest had also spoken peace to her soul. She and her husband were converted under the ministry of Rev. W D Barger, and became members of the United Brethren church twenty-four years ago. Some time afterwards they were baptized in North Mill Creek at the spot where her three children were baptized December 7, 1913 by Rev J W Stearn, the writer of this sketch Just six days from the time that Mrs Sites died, her mother also passed to her reward."