Violet Pearl Hall was born in Latta in Thurlow Township, Hastings County, Ontario on 8 October 1903, the child of Walter Hall and Armenia (Hambly). She married Wilbert Welsh Elliott on 23 June 1926 at the United Church in Plainfield, Ontario. The couple had four children. Violet died on 30 July 1985 at the Belleville General Hospital. She was buried in the Victoria Cemetery in Thurlow Township.
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Materials collected by Violet Elliot:
1. Postcard of the House of Refuge in Belleville. 1915
2. Township of Thurlow Auditor's Report for 1932
3. Two blotters advertising Leslie's Shoes in Belleville, c.1930
Donated by the Arendt family in October 2020.
Items 1 and 3 have been scanned and are online at https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=134017397%40N03&sort=date-taken-desc&text=2020-072&view_all=1
The first two concessions of Thurlow Township were surveyed in 1787 by Louis Kotte, by which time the land adjacent to the Bay of Quinte had already been partly settled by Loyalists. For municipal purposes it was joined with Sidney Township until 1798, when it held its own town meetings. Belleville became a separate town in 1836 and Thurlow's first township council met in 1850. In 1998 the two were reunited and Thurlow Ward became part of the enlarged City of Belleville.
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