The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-03
JOHN Sites
PASSES AWAY
Twins Separated After 81
Years Of COmpanionship.
SUCCUMBED TO CANCER
Brother Had TeIepathic Mes
sage Of Death.
END CAME VERY SUDDENLY
Goodbye ALL" He Said, and
Passed Away.
END CAME VERY SUDDENLY

John + Sites died at St Francis hos
ritaI az l2:30 yesterday OF cancer OF the
stomach. he had entered the hospitr.l
one weeK before and had not been I'll
more than tvo weeks. He was conscious
when he died and when the pale vlsitane
seized him he raised both hands. with
the pains forward. and barely had time
10 say Goodbye, an before ne vac
dead The last moment came 50 sudden.y
that his wife and other relatives who
were in the room had not time 10 give
him parting kiss.
wilbur Suites. hls twin brother. was
not present He had gone 20 the house.
not expecting that the end was so near
Although several blocks away. he felt
deaths grasp almost as If he himself had
been seized.
John is dead he said and fastened
10 the hospital.
Probably, with the exception Of the
Siamese twins nc two men have ever
lived SO close 10 one another. or were
more a4lAe- There was not a man IN town
who could see the difference between. the
physical aspect If any existed. or who
could tell them apart. except BY instinct.
Ahey were connected IN d business way
Win n r Neideriander for sixteen years
ana ne vas never able 10 say positively
winch was John and which was Wilbur.
Iner nephew and business partner. J.
: A-exander has been with them for
thirty years and he said. yesterday that
While ne knew them apart and could tell
which was John and which was Wilbur.
even over a telephone wire, he has never
been able 20 satisfy himself as 10 how
he was able TO correctly Identity them
Individually 7 have made the most
minute examination Of their faces and
forms, Of their eyes and expression. OF
their voices and their laughter. Of their
habits and Manners said Mr.. Alexaa-
der ana for the life o me 1 can't tell
you why I knew them separately l. is
said by those who have known them for
more than q quarter Of a century that
they cut their tobacco in exactly the
same form. that they walked exactly
aAAe and that they thought precisely
alike"
Mr- Alexander says that in matters OF
Judgment all he required was the ouin-
49, IA N-t- ia tine ALAAlltLc re AElltlE.
however. ne said. after getting Johns
opinion would fu5 Wilbur on the street
and ask him for his opinion I have
never know them 10 differ in an opinion
and usually they expressed il almost
identically in the same language.
The current of sympathetic influence
between them was so strong that when
John broke a limb once Wilbur immedi-
stely took sick with species Of rheu-
rlatism in his corresponding limb. Their
lives were in absolute harmony They
have never been known to oppose one an
other in anything. They have lived IN
the same house ever since they were
married and outside OF business hours.
when they were often necessarily sepa-
rated they were always together.
Thirty years ago John and Wilbur cana
TO Wichita with loo mich COWS They
drove them from Kansas CRY overland
and landed hero on December T. 1872 /
They sold the cows for from 800 to Sl25
each ana made a good profit. William
Greinenstein bought many Of them. They
located here and went into the business /
OF trading. IN 1873 they returned % Mis-
souri, and were married To Alice and Car
ne Worth Of Clay county. twin sisters. !
SIS much alike as the brothers were. An ,
elder brother. Henry. married an elder I
sister Of the twins So that three broth F.
ers married three sisters. said 10 De the I.
only case Of the kind known In this c0un- /
try. The suites brothers were not ma I
tive SIissourians and lived there only
Two years They came from s. Clair I
county Illinois % clay county Missouri 1
with their parents. and by mere accident /
purchased the farm adjoining the Worth 4
place not knowing Tor some time 81 the +
existence ot twin neighbors quite as re-
rnarkabie for personal resemblance as
themselves.
John Sites was one ~ the geatlest .
men one could hope 70 fnd His nature
vas ideal He was a man Of marked +
charitable disposition and kindness u
heart He had most lovalIe DISPOSE
ton He was modest man. ard TINS
fact. coupled With the further fact that
r. hef no identity or indivi6ualirv aparr
from his tu-~ brother. Wilbur. rendered
Il practically Impossible Tor the commun-
ity generally 10 know him as we'll as
they would know nan who had no
absolutely perfect duplicate nearly a.
ways by bis SIDE
Wibur Sites IS n great distress ever
his brothers loss Tor the first time IN
nftv-seven years ~ has been separated
from him Il IS ike losing half Ct him
self-hal1 az bis body mind ard soul 7,
s hard n comfort him ard fears are
entertained char it viii zrisve him into
sickness Il said tha- inside Of an
hour after his brothers death Yesterday
h appeared n have grown ten years
cider