Person:Mary Palmer (58)

Bruce Palmer's notebook says she died in 1881, he thinks.

From a letter he wrote to Clara Palmer Gambill dated May 11, 1958: The other girl died in Barry (Pike County) Illinois but there is no headstone or marker and it was before the law in Illinois which required cemeteries to keep a map and plot out lots, graves and etc. She died in 1881, I think. As my oldest sister lives in Barry and since she knows the County Clerk of said county, the County Seat being Pittsfield, Illinois, she is going to see if she can obtain any information regarding death certificate andetc. I do remember that my mother, Ora Adelle Stearns Palmer, was a pall-bearer at this funeral as the deceased was a child and they had children as pall-bearers.

1. ↑ 1880 census.
2. ↑ Bruce Palmer's Notes
   Letter to Clare Palmer Gambrill May 11, 1958.