1. Death record for Sarah Jane Palmer (d. George W. and Amanda (Harding)) in Chicago, “Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916–1947,” database, Ancestry, citing “Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916–1947,” index from digital images of original records, FamilySearch, Salt Lake City.

2. George Henry Palmer, letter to Julia Estelle Hoban, 18 October 1865, author’s copy.

3. "U.S. Federal Census," Ancestry > 1870, entry for George H. Nye. Jane Palmer, 43, born in New York, portrait painter; 1880, entry for George W. Palmer; 1910 > IL > Cook > Chicago Ward 35 > district 1515 > image 22, lines 95–98; 1920  > IL > Cook (Chicago) > Chicago Ward 33 > district 2127 > image 17, lines 12–15, entries for Loren M. Felt.