The following is from a document written by Elizabeth Courtright Hite, sister of Ellen, in 1933.
"Ellen was a brunette with wonderful black eyes and rosy cheeks ... and seemed quite grown up... Father bought a fine Steinway piano and she began at once taking lessons". She had studied music in Granville and during the two or three years before her death she became one of the finest musicians in Circleville.
"The following summer (1869) brought the first sorrow into our family. There was quite a little typhoid fever prevalent in our town (Circleville) that season and our oldest sister Ellen, a perfect picture of health and full blooded womanhood was the first to be stricken by the disease. She was then eighteen. The course of the disease was swift - not more than a week. Her death was a great blow to Mother as she had counted so much on Ella. She was beautiful, bright, and very musical and was expected to become very accomplished. It frightened me to see Mother so grieved. Apparently it did not occur to them that some of the rest of us were liable to become ill with the same fever. Everyone was so sad and worried about Mother that many other things were forgotten."
The following is from a document written by Elizabeth Courtright Hite, sister of Ellen, in 1933.
"Ellen was a brunette with wonderful black eyes and rosy cheeks ... and seemed quite grown up... Father bought a fine Steinway piano and she began at once taking lessons". She had studied music in Granville and during the two or three years before her death she became one of the finest musicians in Circleville.
"The following summer (1869) brought the first sorrow into our family. There was quite a little typhoid fever prevalent in our town (Circleville) that season and our oldest sister Ellen, a perfect picture of health and full blooded womanhood was the first to be stricken by the disease. She was then eighteen. The course of the disease was swift - not more than a week. Her death was a great blow to Mother as she had counted so much on Ella. She was beautiful, bright, and very musical and was expected to become very accomplished. It frightened me to see Mother so grieved. Apparently it did not occur to them that some of the rest of us were liable to become ill with the same fever. Everyone was so sad and worried about Mother that many other things were forgotten."
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