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Memorial Tiles: Elsie Etta Turner

TURNER, Elsie Etta: 1868 - 1905

Tile sponsored by Hugh Turner husband of Elsie Etta Turner

Elsie Etta was the daughter of Philip Dorland (Tile # 14) and Charlotte Trumpour Dorland and thus a United Empire Loyalist descendant through both parents. She was the youngest of their ten children.

Elsie Etta was just two years old when her father died in 1870. According to census records she continued to live on the family farm with her widowed mother until, at the age of thirty-five, she married Thomas Hugh Turner of Simcoe County, on November 21, 1904.

Elsie Etta Dorland Turner died in childbirth (her cause of death is listed as Surgical Operation—Maternity) in Picton Hospital, Prince Edward County, on July 25, 1905, less than a year after their marriage.(1)

The tile sponsored by Hugh Turner in memory of his wife filled one of the few remaining sixty-four spaces allotted for memorial tiles on the walls of St. Alban’s.




References

1. “Ontario, Canada Deaths 1869-1936,” via www.Ancestry.com.