Etc. -- Ellen Tisdale, Mrs. Daniel Olds, 1923 obituary
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An unedited transcription of a page 1 article from 22 Feb 1923 Simcoe Reformer.
[Some paragraph breaks inserted by the transcriber]

MRS. DANIEL OLDS DESCENDANT
OF PIONEER NORFOLK FAMILY

In the death last Saturday of Mrs. Daniel Olds, formerly Ellen Tisdale, Norfolk County loses another member of one of the oldest families ever settled within its limits. 

Born near the shore front of Lake Erie in 1846, Ellen was the second daughter of a family of two sons, Albert and Eli, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Ellen and another who married into the Oakes family. 

Their father was Benjamin Tisdale, fifth son of a family of ten, reared by Ephraim Tisdale, son of Captain Ephraim Tisdale, the father of the Norfolk Tisdale family.

The Tisdale[s] of Norfolk are the descendants of an old Welsh family that settled in the County of Lancaster, England. Some time in the first half of the seventeenth century, the greatgrandfather of Ellen Tisdale's greatgrandfather came to America and settled in the old Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Captain Ephraim Tisdale, one of his descendants, fought for old King George during the War of American Independence, and when the end came, with its bitter persecution of the Loyalists, the Tisdale estates were confiscated and the Captain and his family subjected to ignoranious treatment.

They fled into New Brunswick and settled on the St. John River, near Waterbury, on lands allotted to U. E. Loyalists. A son, Lot, first came to the "Town of Charlotteville, Upper Canada," and the remaining sons, with the old Captain, followed later.

Ephraim, father of Benjamin, was among these sons, and took up his residence along the lake front. He was appointed High Constable for the District of London in 1803. His third son was Ephraim Tisdale, who settled in Charlotteville and remained there until he died, leaving behind him a proud record of service both in municipal and in military affairs. 

The late Colonel D. Tisdale, former member for South Norfolk in the Dominion Parliament, once Minister of Militia in the Tupper Government, a leading member of the Norfolk Bar, and Colonel of the 39th Battalion of Norfolk Volunteers, was a son of Ephraim.

Thus the death of Mrs. Daniel Olds will recall to many of the county's older residents memories of the activities of the Tisdale[s] in Norfolk through decades past.

Besides her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Charles Misner at home, and Mrs. A. B. Reid of Port Huron, remain to mourn her loss.

Rev. Thomas Green conducted the service from her late residence, McCall Street, on Monday afternoon, and interment took place at Oakwood Cemetery. The bearers were her nephews: Maitland Tisdale, Martin Tisdale, Benjamin Tisdale, Fred Tisdale of Hamilton, Elgin Chute of Aylmer, and Milton Oakes.

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