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To
be a Virginian
either by
Birth, Marriage,
Adoption,
or even
on one's
Mother's
side is
an Introduction
to any State
in the Union,
a Passport
to any Foreign
Country,
and a Benediction
from Above
Anonymous
All
of my Palmer
information
is very
recent.
(See the
February
Archives.)
The sources
need to
be verified
and the
information
needs to
be proven,
but it appears
the first
Palmer to
America
was Thomas
Palmer,
born in
1590. He
came with
his wife
and daughter
Priscilla
on the Tyger.
Thomas
and his
wife settled
in Northumberland
Virginia.
Until I
can prove
the descendancy
to Coleman,
the only
sure Palmer
ancestry
is from
Connie Marie
Palmer Lawson.
That information
links the
following:
Rick's
great grandfather,
George Melvin,
and Connie's
grandfather,
William
Woodard,
were brothers
and were
2 of many
children
delivered
to Mac Donald
Palmer and
his wife.
Mac Donald
was the
son of Josiah
Palmer/Palmore,
son of Coleman
Palmer.
Any information
in the tree
on this
site that
takes place
before Coleman
was found
online in
several
different
gedcoms
on Rootsweb,
but still
needs to
be proven.
Meeting
Cousins
in June
2002
In about
1920, after
returning
from service
in World
War I, Rick's
grandfather,
William
Mathew Palmer,
left Virginia
and went
up to Michigan,
probably
for work.
He met and
married
Iris Luella
Bradley,
and his
children
and grandchildren
were born
in the Detroit
area. The
rest of
the family
stayed in
Virginia.
Rick remembered
very little
about this
Virginia
family,
except that
his parents
took him
there to
visit a
farm as
a child.
He remembered
an old graveyard,
where the
pictures
of the deceased
were on
the gravestone.
He also
remembered
meeting
an uncle
named Rowlett.
After finding
Rowlett's
death listed
in the Social
Security
Death Index,
I took a
chance and
wrote to
a few Palmers
in the same
area. I
hit the
jackpot,
and Connie
Palmer Lawson
and I had
been exchanging
emails ever
since. Connie's
father was
also Richard
Palmer!
My Rick
(Richard)
had obviously
been named
after his
dad's first
cousin.
Connie
and her
brother
Kenneth,
are the
grandchildren
of William
Woodard
Palmer.
His brother
George Melvin
was Rick's
great-grandfather.
Connie invited
us to come
for a weekend,
and Rick
and I enjoyed
a fun-filled
two days
sightseeing,
meeting
relatives,
and having
a generally
good time!
It was an
awesome
thing to
sit with
our new-found
family in
the heart
of Virginia,
knowing
that Rick's
grandfather
(known to
them as
just "Mathew")
was a close
relative
of all these
people.
We had a
wonderful
time comparing
notes and
looking
at old photos.
We even
found a
picture
in Connie's
album of
Rick as
a young
boy. The
identity
of those
in the photo
had been
a mystery
to the family.
We also
found the
gravestones
with pictures
that Rick
had remembered
seeing as
a boy, in
the Palmer
cemetery,
on the very
farm where
Connie and
Donnie Ray
live.
Gravestone
Pictures
 
Click
on each
picture
for
a view
of the
whole
stone. |
On the
left
is George
Melvin
Palmer
(1869-1942),
Rick's
great-grandfather.
The
woman
on the
right
is Mary
Harriet
Bradbury
Palmer
(1842-1935),
George's
mother
and
the
wife
of MacD.
Palmer.
[MacD
was
a Civil
War
veteran
and
is buried
in the
Hollywood
Cemetery
in Richmond.] |
We'll
never forget
our great
weekend
in Virginia,
and hope
to get back
to see our
cousins
again soon.
 |
Because
I've
added
so
much
information,
there
is
a
separate
tree
just
for
the
Palmer/Palmore
surname:
The
Palmer
Tree
Surname
list
Persons
Sources
|
Photos
Rowlett
Palmer
with George
Melvin,
his wife
Emily Olesky
Palmer,
and sons
George Melvin
and Richard
Kevin (my
husband).
Obituaries/Death
Records
Richard
C. Palmer,
December
12, 1993
Rowlett
Mack Palmer,
November
17, 1978
Genealogy
Reports
and Trees
Descendants
of Reuben
Palmer
This report
is still under
construction.
The information
back to
Coleman
Palmer is
correct.
The connection
between
the supposedly
first Palmer
in America
(Thomas)
and his
son Robert
is not proven,
so I have
not listed
him as an
ancestor
here. I
decided
to start
with his
son Reuben,
but his
descendants
down to
Coleman
are just
conjecture
at this
time. (Last updated February 2006. This file is a pdf. If you can't read it, download Acrobat reader free.)
Census Pages
1810
Virginia:
Coleman
Palmore
1850
Charlotte
County,
VA:
Coleman
Palmore
and family
1850
Charlotte
County,
VA:
Josiah Palmore
with his
family
1860
Charlotte
County,
VA: Coleman
and family
1860
Lunenburg
County,
VA: Mack
Palmore
1870
Charlotte
County,
Bacon Twp.,
VA: Josiah
Palmore
and family
1900
Chesterfield
County,
Manchester
City, VA.
Several
of the children
of Mac D
are listed
in this
area:
George
Melvin Palmer,
Nannie R Beck Palmer
with sons Willie
M, and George L.
and five families
lower is Lucius
T. or K. and his
family
Minnie
and Nannie Palmer
are listed a few pages
away from their brothers
in Chesterfield County.
1900
Charlotte
County,
VA and
1910 Lunenburg,
VA, where
Mack and
William
W. lived:
1900
Charlotte,
Walton
Twp, VA:
William
T. Palmer
[brother
of Mack
D.] and
his family,
including
widowed
son-in-law
John Townsend
and his
children,
Allie,
Flave,
and Evelyn.
1900
VA: Violet
Palmer
with husband
Joe Eudailey
and their
children.
1910
Lunenburg
County,
Rehoboth
Twp.,
VA: Mac
D. Palmer
1910
Lunenburg,
Rehoboth,
VA: William
Woodard,
Nettie,
their
sons Francis
W. and
Lucius
K., and
their
nephew
Rowlett.
1910
VA: Viola
Palmer
Eudailey
and family.
1910
VA: Evaline
Townsend
living
with her
Townsend
grandparents.
1910
VA: Flave
Townsend
1920
Lunenburg
County,
VA: the
Currin
family
[family
of the
2nd wife
of William
Woodard]
1920
Lunenburg
County,
VA: William
Woodard
with Mable,
daughter
Harriet
G. and
son Keith
Lucius
Directories
CHARLOTTE
COUNTY
in Chataigne's
Virginia
Gazetteer
Pages
358-367
of Chataigne's
Virginia
Gazetteer,
Classified
Business
Directory
1893-94:
Eudaileys,
Palmers,
Townsends
listed
here.
Links
There
is an
entire
page dedicated
to the
Palmer
name.
Take a
look at
Palmer
Paths.
Search
this site (names, locations, etc.):
Surnames
on this site [more listed under "the Whole Family Tree"
section]
The Billings side: BILLINGS / BILLING, LANG, BERTRAND, WATSON, BROMELL, BOND, RICKARD, PETER, LEAN, HAWKIN / HOCKEN, HOSKYN, BROAD, RUSHTON, SCHMACHTENBERGER, FOOTE, BULL, LODGE, LAWLOR, REARDON, HOULE, SENECAL / SENICAL, BATZOLD, BEGGS, GUNGEL, MCGREGOR, MELLOR, BROWN, ANGELSEY, WILSON
The
Palmer side: PALMER / PALMORE, OBEROWSKI, OLESKY, KRUSCHINSKI, PILARSKI, OSTRANDER, BECK, VAUGHAN, EUDAILEY
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