Generation Two

2. MAJOR GENERAL NOYES ELIAS PALMER (1771–1858) (Elias Sanford, Ichabod, Ichabod, Gershom, Walter)

Noyes Elias Palmer was born on 20 April 1771 in Stonington. He died on 23 April 1858, age 87 years and three days, probably in Harmony, Chautauqua County, New York. He married first Esther Palmer on 20 April 1791, probably in Brookfield. He married second as her second husband Hannah Rhodes. Hannah, the daughter of Colonel Joseph Rhodes, was born on 19 April 1784 in Connecticut or Rhode Island. She died on 1 February 1857. She married first James Babcock on 6 May 1802. James, the son of Joseph and Hannah (Ross) Babcock, was born in Westerly, Rhode Island. He died on 15 October 1810 in Westerly. Noyes and Hannah are buried together in the Magnolia Cemetery in Magnolia, Chautauqua County. [1]

Noyes went to Brookfield (then in Chenango County, New York) by 1800. He appears in the 1800 census heading a household in Brookfield with a man and a woman, both between 26 and 44, and a boy under ten. He was assessed for taxes that year and his real estate was valued at 1,294 dollars and his personal estate at 54 dollars. [2]

In 1806 Noyes Palmer of Madison County was a captain in the New York State militia. [3]

In 1810 Noyes had a barn and he was building a house on land owned by his father. By an indenture dated 10 September 1810, Elias S. Palmer of Stonington sold Noyes Palmer of Brookfield for one thousand dollars about two acres of land upon which the barn and house were located. Noyes might be the N. Palmer who appears in the 1810 census heading a household in Brookfield with a man and a woman age 26 to 44 and a boy and a girl age ten to 15 and two boys and three girls under ten. [4]

Noyes served as a major in Dutton’s Second Regiment of the New York State Militia in the War of 1812. [5]

In 1813 there was a terrible epidemic in Madison County. [6] This was the year that Noyes’s first wife Esther Palmer died and perhaps that was the reason. Noyes remarried shortly after.

In his will of 1820, Noyes’s father left him his lot of land number 95 in Brookfield and 500 dollars. He also left him his silver-headed sword on the condition that he maintain his brother David for David's life. There must have been some friction between Noyes and his father, as Elias added a condition that if Noyes challenged his will he was to get nothing. It appears that Noyes did not challenge the will and that he agreed to care for his brother, as he apparently later owned his father's sword. [7]

In 1820 Noyes headed a household in Brookfield made up of a man 45 and older, a woman 26 to 44, a woman 16 to 25, a boy 16 to 18, two boys and two girls ten to fifteen and two boys and two girls under ten. In 1830, he headed a household in Brookfield made up of two men 50 to 59 (perhaps one was his brother David), one woman 30 to 39, one man and two women 20 to 29, a boy and a girl 15 to 19, a boy and a girl ten to 14, two boys five to nine and a boy and a girl under five. [8]

Noyes Palmer of Madison County was a major general in the New York State militia on 1 February 1830. [9]

In about 1839 Noyes and Hannah moved to Harmony. In 1840 Noyes headed a household in Harmony made up of two men 60 to 69, one woman 50 to 59, a man and a woman 20 to 29, a boy 15 to 19, a boy and a girl ten to 14 and three boys under five. In 1850 he headed a household in Harmony that consisted of himself, a 78-year-old farmer born in Connecticut; Hannah, 66 years old and born in Connecticut; Cornelius, a 26-year-old farmer born in New York; Margaret, 24 years old and born in New York; and Andrew, a 21-year-old farmer born in New York. Noyes had real estate worth 1,800 dollars. He had eleven [?] milch cows, two working cattle, four other cattle, 30 sheep and two pigs on his farm in Harmony. He produced wool, butter and maple sugar, grew potatoes and hay and had an orchard. [10]

In 1855 Noyes headed a household in Harmony that consisted of himself, an 84-year-old farmer, born in Connecticut, who had lived in Harmony for 16 years; his wife Hannah, age 71 and born in Rhode Island; his children Andrew J., a 26-year-old farmer born in Madison County and Jane, probably Andrew’s wife, age 27 and born in Otsego county. [11]

In 1902 there was a centennial celebration of Chautauqua County and various towns had exhibits. Among those for the town of Harmony were: “Top boots worn by Gen. Noyes Palmer 1820. Commission as a Major Colonel from Governor Tompkins. Commission as a Major General from Governor Clinton. Two silver spoons made from the hilt of a sword which belonged to Elias Palmer a soldier of the Revolution, furnished by his great-grandchildren, H.N. Palmer and Mrs. H. Pringle. The spoons made about the year 1814.” [12]

Esther Palmer was born on 22 October 1771 in Stonington. It is said that she died on 25 May 1813 in Brookfield. [13] She married as his first wife Major General Noyes Elias Palmer.

Esther is sometimes referred to as Harriet Esther, but in her birth record and in her father’s will she is called Esther.

The headstone of Noyes and Esther’s daughter Oriss identifies her parents as Noyes and Esther, but unfortunately, primary sources identifying Esther, the daughter of William, as the wife of Noyes Elias Palmer appear to be lacking. William mentions his five daughters in his will, but only by their first names and he only identifies two of their husbands. William’s daughter is the right age to have married Noyes and William and Noyes’s fathers were friends, or at least associates.

In his notes Harding Palmer says that Noyes had 17 children. If Noyes and Esther married in 1791 there might have been two children born before Achsah who probably died young.

i. Achsah Palmer was probably born between 1795 (based on the 1810 census) and 1798 (based on Benjamin’s birth). She married John C. Babcock, the son of John and Damaris (Crandall) Babcock and the nephew of Achsah’s stepmother’s first husband. He was born on 18 February 1796 in Westerly and he died in Toledo, Ohio. [15]

John’s parents went from Westerly to Brookfield soon after 1796 and later they went to Persia, New York. John went to Toledo to help lay out the city. After his death, his father went to Ohio and brought Achsah and her children home and cared for them until the children were grown. [16]

ii. Benjamin Franklin Palmer was born on 21 September 1800 and he died about 1837.

Benjamin F. Palmer of Leonardsville, the son of General Noyes Palmer, hanged himself in the upper story of his father’s house in about 1837. About four years before he was chopping with an ax and he hit his heel, crippling himself. Afterwards, he fell into a depression. [17]

iv. Elias Lansing Palmer was born on 21 March 1804 in New York and he died on 1 July 1896. He married first Martha R. Stanley on 1 March 1849 in Copiah County, Mississippi. He married second Surilda Unknown. Surilda was born in February 1836 in Kentucky and she died on 2 February 1927 in Shasta County, California. She married second James A. Robertson on 7 June 1900 in Shasta. James was born in April 1930 in Kentucky. [18]

In 1850 E. Palmer, a 45-year-old mechanic born in New York was living in Hinds County, Mississippi with his 18-year-old wife Martha, born in Mississippi, and his one-year-old son George, also born in Mississippi. In 1860, E.L. Palmer, a 36[!]-year-old brick mason born in New York was living in Hinds County with M. Palmer, age 28, Geo. H. Palmer, age ten, C. A. Palmer, age nine, John J. Palmer, age six, E. Palmer, age four and R. Palmer, age seven months. He had real estate worth 5,000 dollars. In 1870 Elias L. Palmer, a 66-year-old farmer born in New York was living in Bowling Green, Pettis County, Missouri with Zarilda, age 31 and born in Kentucky, and children George, age 20, Charles, age 19, John, age 17, Ellen, age 13, Ray, age eleven and Edwin, age seven, all born in Mississippi. He had real estate worth 5,000 dollars and a personal estate of 600 dollars. Elias Lansing Palmer, a 78-year-old bricklayer born in New York and living in Anderson in Shasta County, registered to vote in California on 7 June 1882. [19]

In 1900 Surilda, born in February 1836 in Kentucky, was living with James A. Robertson, born in April 1930 in Kentucky, Surilda’s 48-year-old stepson Charles and three grandchildren in Anderson. In 1910 James A. Robertson, age 79, and Surilda, age 73, were living in Anderson and James was a brick mason. In 1920 Surilda Robertson, an 83-year-old widow born in Kentucky was living with her daughter Minnie and Minnie’s husband in Anderson. [20]

v. Orris Avilla Palmer was born on 14 January 1806 and she died on 11 April 1878 and is buried in the Magnolia Cemetery in Chautauqua. [21]

Orris might be the Arissa V. Palmer, a 45-year-old dressmaker born in New York, described as an insane pauper, who was an inmate in the Utica asylum in 1850. Despite her unchanging age, this is probably the same person as Aurissa Palmer, a 45-year-old pauper living in a poor house in Chautauqua in 1855, Aurissa Palmer, a 45-year-old pauper born in New York, who was living in a poor house in Chautauqua in 1870 and Aurissa Palmer, 45 years old, insane and living in a poor house in Chautauqua in 1875. [22]

vi. Servilla Palmer was born on 19 September 1808. Servilla Rotner died on 17 September 1902, age 94, at the house of her cousin Mr. A. C. Palmer in Fayetteville, Onandaga County, New York. [23] She married Daniel Rotner. He probably died in the spring of 1879.

Servilla’s grandfather Elias Sanford Palmer purchased a 600-acre lot in Manlius in Onondaga County and his sons’ Charles and Sanford settled on this land. Daniel Rotnor owned land next to this lot and he married Charles’s daughter Asenath Palmer, the widow of Aaron Wing. Servilla probably went to live with her uncle Charles’s widow, Asenath (Main) Palmer, perhaps to be a companion or to take care of her. Charles left Servilla a bequest in his 1854 will. When Daniel’s wife Asenath died, Daniel married her cousin Servilla. At the time of her death Servilla was living with her uncle Charles’s grandson Asa Cady Palmer, the son of his son Henry. [24]

In 1860 Daniel Rotnor was a 55-year-old farmer with real estate worth 31,000 dollars and a personal estate of 15,000 dollars. He was living in Manlius with his 53-year-old wife Asenath and her children. Living next to Daniel were Asenath Palmer, aged 71 and born in Connecticut, and Servilla Palmer, age 45 and born in New York. [25]

In 1865 Daniel Rotnor was 60 and born in Montgomery County. He was living in Manlius with his wife Savila, age 55 and born in Connecticut [!] and his grandson Charles Wing, age 26 and born in Onondaga County. [26]

The census is probably wrong and Charles Wing was Daniel’s stepson, the son of Asenath Palmer and her first husband Aaron Wing, who died in 1848. [27]

In 1875 Daniel Rotnor, age 70 and born in Montgomery County, was living in Manlius with his wife Savilla, age 60 and born in Madison County, and their 12-year-old daughter [!] Bertha L., who was born in Michigan. In 1880 Savila Rotnor, age 71, and her 17[!]-year-old daughter Bertha L. were living in Manlius. [28]

Daniel Rotnor fell ill in the autumn of 1878 and on 28 May 1879 it was reported that, “his death is hourly expected.” [29]

vii. George Washington Palmer (#1) was born on 11 July 1810 near Utica, New York. He died on 10 January 1889 in Chicago. He married Amanda Malvina Harding.

ix. Alexander Hamilton Palmer was born on 18 May 1815 and he died on 8 December 1866. [30] He married Nancy Ann Child on 28 September 1834. Nancy, the daughter of Dolphus and Chloe (Jackson) Child, was born on 27 August 1813 in Woodstock, Connecticut. She died on 27 March 1890. Alexander and Nancy are buried in the Oak Ridge Cemetery in Sandwich, DeKalb County, Illinois. [31]

Alexander and Nancy lived in Sandwich, Illinois. For many years Alexander was a druggist there. He was a Republican and a Presbyterian and at one time had property worth 25,200 dollars. [32]

Based on the birthplaces of their children, Alexander and Nancy moved from New York to Illinois sometime between 1841 and 1846. On 10 March 1844 Alexander bought 80 acres in Illinois for 80 dollars. On 29 August 1853 he bought another 40 acres for 40 dollars. [33]

In 1860 A.H. Palmer, a 44-year-old farmer born in New York, and Nancy A., age 44 and born in Connecticut, were living in Squaw Grove, DeKalb County, with their apparent children Oscar B., 25, Morris M., 23, Clinton R., 20, Camillus S., 19, Frances, 14, Clara, eleven, Mary E., eight, and Isadore, six. The first four children were born in New York and the others were born in Illinois. A.H. had real estate worth 5,000 dollars and a personal estate of 2,000 dollars. In 1880 Alexander was a 64-year-old retired merchant living in Sandwich with his 65-year-old wife Nancy C., his daughter Isadore and her husband William Chapman, his single daughter Mary, his widowed daughter F. Barnes and his 40-year-old nephew James Babcock, born in Illinois and described as idiotic. [34]

x. James Monroe Palmer was born on 27 November 1817, probably in Brookfield. He died on 17 April 1885. He married Hannah Louisa Tice. Hannah was born on 6 August 1819 and she died on 30 September 1882. James and Hannah are buried together in the Lynhaven Cemetery in Lyndonville, Orleans County, New York. [35]

In 1850 James, 33, lived in Yates, Orleans County with Louisa H., 31, Hellen, eight and Charles, three. In 1865 James, 47, Louisa H., 45, Hellen, 21, Charles, 18, James M., 13 and Anna M., four, were living in Yates. In 1875 James M., a 57-year-old farmer born in Madison County, Louisa, 55 and born in Wayne County, James, 23 and born in Orleans County and May, 14 and born in Orleans County, lived in Yates. In 1880 James, 62, Louise H., 60, and May, 19, lived in Yates. [36]

xi. Priscilla Maria Palmer was born in 1819 in Madison County and she died in 1891. She married Charles Wesley Brown. Charles was born in 1822 and he died in 1898. Priscilla and Charles are buried together in the Panama Union Cemetery in Panama, Chautauqua County. [37]

In 1850 Charles, a 27-year-old farmer, was living with Priscilla, 28, and Gertrude, three, in Harmony. In 1855 Charles, 33, Priscilla, 35, and Gertrude, eight, were living in Harmony. In 1860, Charles 38 and with real estate worth 500 dollars and a personal estate of 200 dollars, Priscilla, 40 and a tailoress, and Gertrude, 12, were living in Harmony. In 1865 Charles, 43, Priscilla, 17, Charles’s niece Eva, ten, and Charles’s mother Polly, 62, were living in Harmony. In 1870, Charles, a 48-year-old farmer with real estate worth 4,000 dollars and a personal estate of 500 dollars, Priscilla, 50, Gertrude, a 22-year-old school teacher, Eva, 15, and Olive, 73, were living in Harmony. In 1875 Charles W. Brown, a 53-year-old farmer born in Connecticut, Priscilla, 55 and born in Madison County, were living with Polly, 78, and a hired domestic, Eva, 20 and born in Chautauqua. In 1880, Charles and Priscilla lived in Harmony. Priscilla was 60 and Charles was a 58-year-old farmer, sick with ulcerated lungs. [38]

xii. Eugene Lycurgus Palmer was born on 5 March 1822, probably in Brookfield and he died on 16 May 1891. He married Jane B. Gates. Jane was born on 27 June 1820 and she died on 8 August 1910. Lycurgus and Jane are buried together in the Fairplains Cemetery in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan. [39]

Based on the birthplaces of their children, Lycurgus and Jane moved to Michigan sometime between 1853 and 1859.

In 1860 Lycurgus was a 39-year-old farmer with real estate worth 4,000 dollars and a personal estate of 450 dollars. He was living in Grand Rapids with Jane B., 38, Beatrice D., eleven, Lycurgus N., seven, and Charles I., ten months. Charles was born in Michigan; the rest of the family was born in New York. In 1880 Lycurgus and Jane were 59 and living in Grand Rapids with their children Beatrice, 31, and Jennie M., 17. In 1900 Jane was living with her daughter Beatrice and Beatrice’s husband Horace Combs in Grand Rapids. Jane had had five children and they were all living. She was deaf. [40]

xiii. Cornelius Palmer was born about 1824 in New York, probably in Brookfield.

In 1850 Cornelius, 25 years old and born in New York, was living with his parents in Harmony. It is possible that Cornelius is the single white 55-year-old male, born in New York and with parents born in Connecticut, who was a retail grocer in Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin in 1880. This Cornelius is probably the 44-year-old single white male C.M. Palmer, born in New York, with a foreign-born father [!], who was a grocer in in Eau Claire in 1870 and had a personal estate of 1500 dollars. [41]

xiv. Margaret Palmer was born on 10 September 1826, probably in Brookfield. She died on 31 March 1858, perhaps in childbirth. She is said to have married John Stephen Cushing. John, the son of John and Lucy Cushing, was born on 25 March 1828 in Truxton, Cortland County, New York. He died on 31 December 1901. Margaret and John are buried in the Sherman Cemetery in Sherman, Chautauqua County. [42] He married second Emma Unknown.

In 1850, Margaret, 24 and born in New York, was living with her parents in Harmony. In 1855 John, a 25-year-old farmer born in Courtland County was living in Sherman with his wife Margaret, 25 and born in Madison County, his nine-month old daughter Ella and his parents John and Lucy. In 1860 John, a 32-year-old farmer with real estate worth 2,500 dollars was living in Sherman with Ella, 5, and Lucy. In 1865 John was a 37-year-old farmer living in Sherman with his wife Emma, 27, his daughter Ella, ten, and two younger children. [43]

xv. Andrew Jackson Palmer was born in 1828 in Madison County, probably in Brookfield, and he died on 29 March 1897. He married Jane Pringle, the daughter of Homer Pringle. She was born in 1828 in Otsego County and she died in 1916 and is buried with her husband in the Magnolia Cemetery in Chautauqua. [44]

Homer Pringle of Harmony refers to his daughter Jane Palmer, the wife of Andrew Jackson Palmer, in his will of 4 December 1878. [45]

In 1850 Andrew was 21 and living with his parents in Harmony. In 1855 Andrew and Jane were living with Andrew’s parents in Harmony. In 1860 Andrew, 31, and Jane, 32, were living in Harmony with Clarence, three, and Mary. Andrew was a farmer with real estate worth 2,500 dollars and a personal estate of 850 dollars. In 1870 Jackson was a 42-year-old farmer with real estate worth 5,000 dollars and a personal estate of 2,000 dollars. He was living in Harmony with his wife Jane, 42, and their children Clarence, 13, Hurbert, five, and Blanche, three. In 1873/4 Andrew J. was a singing teacher and farmer in Harmony. In 1875 Andrew, born in Madison County, and Jane, born in Otsego County, were living in Harmony with their children Clarence S., 18, Herbert N., ten, and Blanche L., eight. In 1900 Jane, born March 1829, was living in Sherman with her daughter Blanche, Blanche’s husband Wellman Bates and their children. Jane had had four children and three were living. [46]

On 21 June 1897 Herbert N. Palmer petitioned to have letters of administration on Andrew J. Palmer’s estate granted to him and to Jane Palmer. He testified that Andrew had died, intestate, on 29 March 1897. [47]

1. Noyes’s birth, as the son of Elias S. and Phebe, is recorded in CVR, Stonington, 193. His death date, as well as that of his second wife, is found on his gravestone. “Noyes Palmer/died 1 Apr. 1858/ age 87 ys, 3 ds/Hannah/wife of Noyes Palmer/died Feb. 1, 1857/age 72 yrs, 9 m., 12 days,” digital image, “Noyes Elias Palmer,” Findagrave, #38239638. His first wife’s name, that she is his cousin and their marriage date is from the notes of Harding Palmer. His first wife’s name is also found in Dolliver, Lineage Book, vol. 23, 259–60. Information about Hannah’s first husband in Stephen Babcock, Babcock Genealogy (n.p.: Eaton & Mains, 1903), 134.

2. CEN > 1800 > NY > Chenango > Brookfield > image 7, line 3, entry for Noys Palmer. Household members are free and white unless otherwise specified. “New York, Tax Assessment Rolls of Real and Personal Estates,” database with images, Ancestry > NY > Chenango > Brookfield > image 7, line 3, Noyes Palmer, citing New York State Comptroller’s Office, “Tax Assessment Rolls of Real and Personal Estates, 1799–1804,” series B0950, microfilm, New York State Archives, Albany.

<3. L.M. Hammond, History of Madison County, State of New York (Syracuse: Truair, Smith & Co., 1872), 145.

4. “New York Land Records, 1630–1975,” images, FamilySearch, citing county courthouses > Madison > deeds, vol. P–Q > image 524. CEN > 1810 > NY > Madison > Brookfield > image 2, line 17 on second half, entry for N. Palmer. There were three N. Palmers in the census in Brookfield, but the composition of the other two households makes this one the most likely.

5. “War of 1812, Service Record Index,” database with images, Fold3 > NY > P > Palmer, Noyes, citing “Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers who Served During the War of 1812,” NARA microfilm M602, citing alphabetical card index to compiled service records. Noyes Palmer of Harmony, New York, allowed $55.00 in “New York, Military Equipment Claims, War of 1812,” database, Ancestry, citing “Index of Awards on Claims of the Soldiers of the War of 1812,” New York State Adjutant General’s Office, Albany.

6. Hammond, History of Madison County, 187.

7. CPR > New London > probate records, vols. 11–12, 1819–1829 > images 90–91.

8. CEN > 1820 > NY > Madison > Brookfield > image 10 of 15, line 15; 1830 > NY > Madison > Brookfield > image 27 of 54, line 8, entries for Noyes Palmer.

9. Peter Force, Register of the Army and Navy of the United States, no. I (Washington, D.C: Peter Force, 1830), 116–7. His grandson George Henry Palmer wrote in his journal, “My Grandfather was a Major General of New York Militia.” David Luff, Journal of Major George H. Palmer (Ventura, CA: David Luff, 2000), 1. He was commissioned on 10 April 1826 or 1827. “New York NY Spectator 1826–1827 Grayscale – 0387.pdf,” digitized newspaper page, Old Fulton New York Post Cards (http://fultonhistory.com).

10. CEN > 1840 > NY > Chautauqua > Harmony > image 35, line 25; 1850 > NY > Chautauqua > Harmony > image 69, lines 34–38. “U.S., Selected Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850–1880,” database with images, Ancestry > NY > Agriculture > 1850 > Chautauqua > Harmony > image 9, line 35, entries for Noyes Palmer.

11. NYCEN > 1855 > Chautauqua > Harmony > E.D. 3 > image 1, lines 1–4, entry for Noyes Palmer.

12. The Centennial History of Chautauqua County, vol. 1 (Jamestown, NY: Chautauqua History Co., 1904), 417.

13. Esther’s birth as the daughter of William 3d is recorded in CVR, Stonington, 187.

<14. The birthdates of Noyes’s children and the deaths of Benjamin, Harriet, Elias and Aza are from the notes of Harding Palmer.

15. Babcock, Babcock Genealogy, 134, 226.

16. Ibid.

17. “Sandy Hill NY Herald 1837–1841 – 0726.pdf,” digitized newspaper page, Old Fulton New York Postcards (http://fultonhistory.com).

18. Elias Lansing Palmer and Martha Stanley, 1 March 1848 in Copiah County. “Mississippi, Compiled Marriage Index, 1776–1935,” database, Ancestry, citing Hunting for Bears, “Mississippi Marriages, 1776–1935,” citing information from county courthouse records. [Son] Ray Palmer’s marriage license says that he lived in Missouri, but was born in Edwards, Hines, Mississippi and that his father was Elias Lansing Palmer and his mother was Martha R. Stanley. See “Montana, County Marriages, 1865–1950,” database with images, Ancestry, citing “Montana, County Marriages, 1865–1950,” Salt Lake City, FamilySearch, 2023. Surilda’s birth month and state in CEN 1900 > CA > Shasta > Anderson > district 111 > image 17, lines 36–40, entry for Serilda Palmer. Surilda Robertson’s death date and place and her age at death in “California Death Index, 1905–1939,” database with images, Ancestry > 1930–1939 > O–R > image 75, citing Vital Search Company Worldwide (http://www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com), index to California Dept. of Health and Welfare, California Vital Records. Sarilda Palmer and James A. Robertson’s marriage date in “Marriage Records of Shasta County, California, 1852–1904,” database with images, Ancestry, citing “Marriage Records of Shasta County, California,” Redding, California, The Society, 1977.

19. CEN > 1850 > MS > Hinds > Not stated > image 146, lines 11–13, entry for E. Palmer. CEN > 1860 > MS > Hinds > Not stated > image 58, lines 3–9, entry for E. L. Palmer. CEN 1870 > MO > Pettis > Bowling Green > image 49, lines 14–21, entry for Elias L. Palmer. “California, Voter Registers, 1866–1898,” database with images, Ancestry > Shasta > 1867–1896 > 1867 > image 33, citing Great Registers, 1866–1898, microfilm, California State Library, Sacramento, California.

20. CEN > 1900> CA > Shasta > Anderson > district 111 > image 17, lines 35–40, entry for Serilda Palmer. CEN > 1910 > CA > Shasta > Anderson, district 89 > image 5, lines 17–8, entry for James A. Robertson. CEN > 1920 > CA > Shasta > Anderson, district 96 > image 22, lines 76–9, entry for Harvey L. Bishop.

21. “Orris Avilla Palmer/Dau of/Noyes and Esther Palmer/Died Apr. 11, 1878/Aged 71 [hard to read] y 9 m 27 d.” (digital image, difficult to read), “Orris Avilla Palmer,” Findagrave.

22. CEN > 1850 > NY > Oneida > Whitestown > image 129, line 7, entry for Arissa V. Palmer. The New York State Archives holds patient files, but they may be inaccessible under New York State health privacy laws. NYCEN > 1655 > Chautauqua > Chautauqua > image 53, line 23, entry for Aurissa Palmer. CEN > 1880 > NY > Chautauqua > Chautauqua > image 19, line 14, entry for Aurissa Palmer. NYCEN > 1875 > Chautauqua > Chautauqua > E.D. 2 > image 12, line 32, entry for Aurissa Palmer.

23. “Died at Ninety Four,” Syracuse Journal, 19 September 1902, image in “Syracuse NY Daily Journal 1902 – 2767.pdf,” digitized newspaper page, Old Fulton Post Cards (http://fultonhistory.com). The article does not give her birth date.

24. Charles S. Newman, “Memories of Fayetteville,” online article held by the Fayetteville Library (http://www.everingham.com/family/data2/fayetteville_memo.html), accessed 14 October 2018. NYPR> Onandaga > wills, vols. J–K, 1851–1859 > images 218–221.

25. CEN > 1860 > NY > Onandaga > Manlius > image 53, lines 11–14, entry for Asenath Palmer.

26. NYCEN > 1865 > Onandaga > Manlius > image 39, lines 29–32, entry for Daniel Rotnour.

27. Conway P. Wing, John Wing of Sandwich, Mass., and his descendants, 1662–1881 (Carlisle, PA: n.p., 1881), 212–3, 262.

28. NYCEN > 1875 > Onandaga > Manlius > E.D. 2 > image 28, lines 38–40, entry for Daniel Rotnor. CEN > 1880 > NY > Onandaga > Manlius > 181 > image 18, lines 31–32, entry for Savila Rotnor.

29. “Town News: Eastern Onandago,” Syracuse Daily Journal, 26 April 1879, in “Syracuse NY Daily Journal 1879 - 0015.pdf,” digitized image, Old Fulton Post Cards (http://fultonhistory.com). “Town News: Fayetteville,” Syracuse Daily Journal, 28 May 1870, in “Syracuse NY Daily Journal 1879 - 0530.pdf,” digitized image, Old Fulton Post Cards.

30. “A.H. Palmer/May 18, 1815/Dec. 8, 1886,” digital image, “Alexander Hamilton Palmer,” Findagrave, #101794849.

31. Elias Child, Genealogy of the Child, Childes and Childe Families (Utica, NY: Curtis & Childs, 1881), 396. “Nancy Ann Palmer/Aug. 27, 1813/Mar. 27, 1890,” digital image, “Nancy Ann Childs Palmer,” Findagrave, #101794788.

32. Child, Genealogy of the Child, Childes and Childe Families, 397. Lewis M. Gross, Past and Present of DeKalb County, Illinois, vol. 2 (Chicago: Pioneer Publishing Co., 1907), 365. Henry F. Kett, The Voters and Taxpayers of DeKalb County, Illinois (Chicago: H.F. Kett & Co., 1876), 211.

33. State of Illinois, “Illinois, Public Land Purchase Records, 1813–1909,” database, Ancestry, entries for Alexander Palmer and Alexander H. Palmer.

34. CEN > 1860 > IL > DeKalb > Squaw Grove > image 13, lines 26–39, entry for A.H. Palmer. CEN > 1880 > IL > DeKalb > Sandwich > 40 > image 30, lines 20–22, entry for Alexander Palmer.

35. Birth and death dates on gravestone (digital image, unreadable), “James Munroe Palmer, Sr.,” Findagrave, #106814224. Mrs. James Palmer died at her residence Friday last, Medina Register, Thursday 5 October 1882 in “Medina NY Daily Register Journal 1882–1887 - 0158.pdf,” digitized newspaper page, Old Fulton New York Post Cards (http://fultonhistory.com). Birth and death dates for James M. and his wife Hannah Louisa Tice in Sharon Kerridge, “Lynhaven Cemetery - “P” Surnames, Village of Lyndonville, New York,” webpage, Orleans County, New York (http://orleans.nygenweb.net), accessed 16 October 2018.

36. CEN > 1860 > NY > Orleans > Yates > image 48, lines 35–39, entry for J.M. Palmer. NYCEN > 1865 > Orleans > Yates > image 34, lines 39–45, entry for James Palmer. NYCEN > 1875 > Orleans > Yates > image 12, lines 1–4 and CEN > 1880 > NY > Orleans > Yates > 154 > image 25, lines 31–33, entries for James M. Palmer.

37. “Charles W. Brown/1822–1898/Priscilla M. Palmer/his wife/1819–1891,” digital image, “Charles W. Brown,” Findagrave, #27608791.

38. CEN > 1850 > NY > Chautauqua > Harmony > image 79, lines 9–12, NYCEN > 1865 > Chautauqua > Harmony > E.D. 2 > image 7, lines 26–8, CEN 1860 > NY > Chautauqua > Harmony > image 71, lines 18–20, NYCEN > 1865 > Chautauqua > Harmony > image 45, lines 21–25 and CEN > 1880 > NY > Chautauqua > Harmony > 62 > image 4, lines 28–29,, entries for Charles Brown. CEN > 1870 > NY > Chautauqua > Harmony > image 77, lines 3–7, entry for Chas Brown. NYCEN > 1875 > Chautauqua > Harmony > E.D. 2 > image 14, lines 21–24, entry for Charles W. Brown.

39. “L.E. Palmer/Mar. 5, 1822/May 16, 1891/His wife/Jane B. Gates/June 27, 1820/August 8, 1910,” digital image, “Lycurgus Eugene Noyes Palmer,” Findagrave, #77373914.

40. CEN > 1860 > MI > Kent > Grand Rapids > image 17, lines 3–8 and CEN > 1880 > MI > Kent > Grand Rapids > 123 > image 65, lines 43–46, entries for Lycurgus Palmer. CEN > 1900 > MI > Kent > Grand Rapids > district 91 > image 7, lines 6–8, entry for Horace Combs.

41. CEN > 1870 > WI > Eau Claire > Eau Claire > image 28, line 30, entry for Cornelius Palmer. CEN > 1880 > WI > Eau Claire > Eau Claire > 126 > image 15, line 31.

42. “Margaret/wife of/John S. Cushing/died Mar./31, 1858/ae 31 yrs/(other side) Margaret and Ada,” digital image, “Margaret Cushing,” Findagrave, #45707394. Margaret and John’s birth dates in Warren Cushing, “Genealogy of the Cushing Family,” RootsWeb’s World Connect Project (https://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com), accessed 16 October 2018, citing Allston Tattrie Cushing, Genealogy of the Cushing Family (Kansas City: n.p., 1969), 34. Death date on John’s gravestone in Norman McIntyre and Sandra McIntyre, “Sherman Cemetery, Chautauqua Count,” webpage, Painted Hills Genealogy Society (http://www.paintedhills.org).

43. NYCEN > 1855 > Chautauqua > Sherman > all > image 7, lines 5–10, entry for John S. Cushing. CEN > 1860 > NY > Chautauqua > Sherman > image 32, lines 18–20 and NYCEN > 1865 > Chautauqua > Sherman > image 4, lines 34–38, entries for John Cushing.

44. “Andrew J. Palmer/1825–1897/His wife/Jane Pringle/1828–1916,” digital image, “Andrew J. Palmer,” Findagrave, #73933439.

45. NYPR > Chautauqua > Record of Wills, vols. 5–6, 1870–1878 > image 616, citing New York, Surrogates Court Chautauqua County, Probate Records 1811–1901, Index 1811–1962.

46. CEN > 1860 > NY > Chautauqua > Harmony > image 31, lines 6–10, entry for A.J. Palmer. CEN > 1870 > NY > Chautauqua > Harmony > image 75, lines 33–7, entry for Jackson Palmer. NYCEN > 1875 > Chautauqua > Harmony > E.D. 3 > image 4 of 6, lines 29–33, entry for Andrew Palmer. CEN > 1900 > NY > Chautauqua > Sherman > 126 > image 12, lines 13–20, entry for Wellman Bates. Hamilton Child, Gazetteer and Business Directory of Chautauqua County, N.Y., for 1873–4 (Syracuse, printed at the Journal office, 1873), 262.

47. NYPR > Chautauqua > Proceedings of Administration, vols. 8–9, 1892–1901 > image 433, citing New York, Surrogates Court Chautauqua County, Proceedings of Administration, Chautauqua County, New York.