Sarah Ellen Howell, GW #77 

Sadie was born in Pittsburgh on 1 December 1887 to Philip and Persis (Warner) Howell.  Sadie is the sister of Crete Howell who also became a Gospel Worker.  In the book, The Descendants of Andrew Warner, it is reported that Sadie became a missionary on 14 October 1908.  In 1910 she is listed in the census in Cleveland, Ohio with the Gospel Workers.  Her whereabouts in 1920 have not been discovered.  Her obituary reports that she was a Gospel Worker for over 17 years, so that would put her service to about 1925.  In the 1930 census she is living in Youngstown, Ohio as a housekeeper for Ida Carter, an elderly widow, with several other lodgers.  In 1938 Sadie married Clem T. Ballard, a widower with children, in Philadelphia, though he was from Decatur, Illinois.  In 1940 they were living in the Pittsburgh area with a lodger in their house but without his children that were still minors.  He was a laborer on a road project.  Sadie’s formal education consisted of six years of school.  In 1958 Sadie’s husband died and was buried in Mt Vernon Cemetery in McKeesport, Pa.  Sadie died on 1 August 1973 and is buried next to her husband.