Mrs.
Hannah Palmer died at her home in Vittoria on Monday, Sept. 18th. In
another month she would have been eighty-eight years of age.
Her father, Joseph Tisdale,
died in 1864 aged eight-six. He moved from New Brunswick and came to
Charlotteville in 1802, one of the seven brothers who migrated from
their original U. E. Loyalist home on the St. John River to the Long
Pont Settlement.
Mrs. Palmer was one of
Norfolk's closest links with its past. Her father, in his day the
most prominent man in the settlement, gave his family the best
education then to be had.
Mrs. Palmer's husband was a
physician and a lieutenant-colonel of militia.
In a materialistic age she
had clung to the finer things of life. In lying down to her long
rest she is said to leave a home more generously stored with
mementos of Norfolk's early history than any other in the county.
Mrs. Palmer was a first
cousin of the late Hon. David Tisdale.
