Elizabeth (Stickley) Hite

Elizabeth (Stickley) Hite
born April 5, 1798, in Virginia
died January 4, 1890, in Dayton township, La Salle county, Illinois

Elizabeth Hite tombstone

ELIZABETH
WIFE OF
DAVID HITE
BORN
April 5, 1798
DIED
Jan. 4, 1890
Aged 91 Years & 9 Mos

     One precious life from us has gone
One ______ voice is stilled
One place is vacant in our home
Which never can be filled

[The epitaph comes from a transcription of the cemetery done by Dorothy V. Masters in 1967, when the stone was more complete and readable.]

 

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