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Buried:
Montrose Cemetery

Betsey married William Bartlett Hinds. William (son of Conrad Gerald Hinds and Huldah Post Harris) was born 28 Dec 1810, Bridgewater Twp., Susquehanna Co., Pennsylvania USA; died 1886; was buried , Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

Hattie married Shadrack Horton Pennsylania, USA. [Group Sheet]

Albert married Lilly P Sweet 1863. Lilly was born Oct 1846, New York; died Bef 1910. [Group Sheet]

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Died:
Age: 21

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Lila had two or three strokes.


Buried:
Rosehill Cemetary

Lila married Nathaniel James Banker 1897. Nathaniel (son of James Wesley Banker and Ann E Banker) was born 7 Jul 1873, Pennsylvania; died 25 Jun 1925, Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Hallstead, PA. [Group Sheet]

Lorena married Raymond Smith. Raymond (son of William H. Smtih and Eva Cooper) was born 17 Jul 1907, Newton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA; died Mar 1970, Newton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

Lorena married Carl Kelley [Group Sheet]

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Banker Siblings http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=88a86042-5312-440a-97dc-c8052bd581aa&tid=11714637&pid=-412810014

Mildred married John VanAucken 25 Aug 1917, Broome, New York, USA. John was born Abt 1892, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

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Ethel Mae Banker Sisco was born the third of six children of James Nathaniel and Lila Ann (Hinds) Banker on May 23, 1900 in Hallstead, PA. Both twenty-seven years old at the time. The family rented a home at 213 Fourth Street in Hallstead, PA., within walking distance of the Hallstead train depot where Ethel's father worked as a brakeman for the D, L, & W Railroad.

The 1910 US Federal census shows ten year old Ethel still living at the Fourth Street address. The Banker family were some of the first settlers in the Hallstead area. The family farmstead and cemetery are located at the intersection of SR1022 and Hunzinger Road up DuBois Street, just up the hill from the Fourth Street home of James and Lila.

Like most of her generation, Ethel's education perhaps ended around the sixth grade. Not much is known about her teenage years.

While it is not known when or where she met Olin Sisco, it can be surmised that they either met each other after Olin's family relocated from Nicholson, PA to Hallstead sometime between 1910 and 1917 or, perhaps she began working at the Endicott Shoe Company where her brother was employed before she was seventeen and met Olin there. Seventeen year old Ethel and twenty year old Olin were married on September 1, 1917 at the parsonage of the Grace Baptist church by Rev. H. M. Shepson, a well known evangelist throughout the area. Ethel continued to work at EJ until she and Olin Sisco began their family in 1920.

One year after their wedding, Olin would be called to enlist in the US Army and sent to basic training in Georgia. While Ethel must have missed Olin during this period, his time in the army was shortened and he would never deploy as WWI came to an end five months into his enlistment.

On February 25, 1920, three years after their wedding and at 20 years old Ethel would experience joy as first child Dorotha was born. Life continued to get better and better and by 1923 they purchased a home at 6 Theron Street and in 1923 the twins, Leo and Leon were born.

Unfortunately that joy would begin to turn to sorrow, grief and misery as Leo, born with a spinal defect died nine months after his birth. As was customary in those days, the deceased would be mourned in the home and then taken by the funeral home to the grave site. Dorotha Sisco Thomas remembers sitting in the back seat of the funeral home's large car between her mother and father with Leo's casket sitting across their laps as they were driven the few short blocks to the Floral Park Cemetery in Johnson City, NY.

In 1925, the federal census shows that Olin, Ethel, Dorotha, and Leon lived at 6 Theron Street along with Lorena Banker and Ellsworth Banker, Ethel's sister and brother who were also working at the EJ sho factory at the time. The 1930 census shows that Olin, Ethel, Dorotha and Lillian continued to live at the 6 Theron Street address and that Lorena and Ellsworth had moved out.

By 1940, the family had moved to Hallstead where Ethel's tribulations continued in marriage. It is often said that when you marry, you marry the entire family. This unfortunately was the case for Ethel as her mother-in-law for some reason despised her. Grandson Terry Sisco remembers Ethel as a warm, caring and giving woman who was very devout in her faith in Christ. It is not known when her relationship with Mary Sisco deteriorated but she endured a difficult relationship with her mother-in-law who overtly expressed that she would do all in her power to break up Ethel's marriage to Olin if "it were the last thing I do before I die."

While Dorotha and Leon grew up as model children, Lillian, the Sisco's third child was more of a free spirit. She died at the young age of twenty-three of kidney failure adding to the emotional toll that Ethel had endured her entire married life. It was Ethel's faith in God that sustained her through these tribulations.

Ethel typically wore a "house dress" with an apron over it and black orthopedic high heel shoes. She loved baking. Her baked goods along with canning fruits and vegetables added to the finances of the family. She would take her goods to market in Johnson City, NY along with produce raised on the family farm.

She was a faithful member of the Hallstead Baptist church and was a very devout Christian who intensely loved her family. Her lifelong friend was Bessie Gathany, with whom she spent many hours sewing and conversing. Bessie, her husband Dan along with Olin and Ethel took trips from Hallstead to Indian Rocks Beach, Florida in the days before Interstate highways.

She was a very talented seamstress. Esther Sisco, Ethel's daughter-in-law worked for the Harvey's Chicken farm in the 1950's and would bring collect the empty chicken feed bags that were typically made of flannel. She would give these to Ethel who would make grandson Terry Sisco pajamas from the material. Ethel loved her grandchildren and enjoyed them spending weekends at her house and attending church with her. As a treat she would make "bread, butter and sugar sandwiches.

As a hobby she raised African violets.


Buried:
Floral Park Cemetary

Died:
Stroke and Diabetic complications

Ethel married Olin Reece Sisco 1 Sep 1917, Binghamton, Broome, New York, USA. Olin (son of Frances Luther Sisco and Mary Mercy Phillips) was born 26 Mar 1897, Nicholson, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, USA; died 10 Oct 1965, Binghamton, Broome, New York, USA; was buried , Johnson City, Broome, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Alvin married Blacka Vera [Group Sheet]

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Howard married Melvina Fletcher 26 Oct 1937, Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA. Melvina (daughter of Thomas Fletcher and Alice Durden) was born 2 Sep 1907, Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA; died 4 Mar 2000, Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania; was buried , Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]