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Note: N340 Williams' mother, Mildred Hardwick Palmer, died soon after his birth, He was raised by his half-sister, Mary Jane Palmer Jackson. Dates and places came from DAR applications and from 1890 "History of Fayette, Madison, and Pickaway Counties". William Palmer formed a company of men during War of 1812, but it was not called into service. He held the rank of captain. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives, 1840-41. "History of Fayette Co.", p. 651: William Palmer was a deacon and trustee of the First Universalist Church of Jeffersonville, organized August 5, 1860, and a charter member. William and Margaret are buried in Fayette Co. Ohio, near the Greene Co. line. (From Wash. C.H. go to Plymouth, turn left and go to the end of road. Center Church is on corner. Turn right on Allen Road, pass the church. Continue to the fork. Bear left for short distance and on the left is a house and two graves, William and Margaret's.) This is the family cemetery on Burwell Mills farm, her sister's husband. Sources: This info (names, mainly) taken from papers prepared by Hank W. Palmer, December 1, 1898. The papers were included in Pearle Palmer Ettinger's application for DAR. "The Palmer/Parmer Family 1653-1989", 336 Years of Family History, written and illustrated by Kathryn Brown Williams, publ. soft-cover in 1989 Wife of B.B.Mills- Nancy Whitsett :family burial site was/is family farm in Fayette County,Ohio...The Rev. Irvin made the headstones and fences surrounding the cemetery. In this cemetery are William Palmer and Wife , Burwell B. Mills and Wife - Nancy Whitset their children; Ephraim, Eliza, Abner, Polly Ann, Caroline, Joseph Addison, Charles Milton. Bibliography/resource: book title;Family Records of the Adams, Mills, and Humason Families.-September 1921 Author: Franklin Burwell Mills 2246 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL Census records: 1820 PALMER WILLIAM Fayette County OH 012 Jefferson Township 1830 PALMER WILLIAM Fayette County OH 301 Jefferson Township 1840 PALMER WILLIAM Fayette County OH 034 Jefferson Township 1850 PALMER WILLIAM Fayette County OH 145 Jasper Township 1860 PALMER WILLIAM Fayette County OH 1000 Jasper Township
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