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Violet Sleight
Generation: 1
1. Violet Sleight was born in Jul 1876 in Minnesota; died on 8 Jan 1900 in Sedro-Woolley, Skagit County, Washington; was buried in Green Hills Memorial Cemetery, Burlington, Skagit County, Washington. Notes:
Violet was born in Minnesota to Charles M. Sleight and Alvina Millie Prout. In 1892, at the age of 16 years, Violet married 20 year old French Canadian Alexandre P. Pouliot. From this marriage, two daughters were born: Mildred Violet in 1893, and Pensy in 1894. By 1900, the family was living in St. Paul.
Around 1904, Violet had moved to Spokane, Washington. She married Norman Schemerhorn in 1921 in Seattle. By 1930, Violet was divorced and living in the "Northern State Hospital for the Insane" in Sedro-Woolley, where she remained until death in 1960
