Person:Lurana Barber (1)

On the 1860 census, her name is listed as Lawrence, age 62!

From the Autobiography of Robert Fargo

... Another phase of life at that period was the singing school one or two evenings a wekk at some neighboring school house or a near by church, where for a frifling fee we all could learn the rudiments of music, and the singers were such that the church choirs were filled to repletion...

... I should not fail to mention "going to mill" in those days. With a one horse wagon and from six to ten bushels of wheat, I was posted off toa mill distant six miles, when there were a half dozen nearer, but my mother said Thompson's mill made the best flour... When the corn ripened in the fall, there was a boys' strife in the neighborhood as to which should have the first meal or samp from the mill. We used to gather the corn as soon as possible and lay it out in sunny places to dry and then with a half sack astride old Kate I hastened to the nearest mill to have it ground, and that night we supped on "samp and milk", then made our boasts to the neighbors of our alertness, or as our moderns would say, "getting there".

According to the Warsaw Pioneer Cemetery listings, she was Mrs. Barber, so when she married Palmer, Lurana would have been a widow. Her maiden name is unknown.

1. ↑ Leilani Spring (leilani@@iinc.com). Warsaw Village Pioneer Cemetery. ((c) 1999).