Name: 811856 -- Palmer U.S.A.

Updated: 07-24-2019 02:07:74. Owner: Margaret J. Palmer


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Rufus Amazon Palmer: Birth: March 11, 1857 in Blue Rapids, Kansas Territory. Death: March 23, 1857 in Blue Rapids, Kansas

  2. Emma Viola Palmer: Birth: June 15, 1858 in Blue Rapids, Kansas Territory. Death: October 1858 in Blue Rapids, Kansas

  3. William Nelson Palmer: Birth: February 01, 1862 in Golden City, Jeff. Co., Colorado Territory. Death: July 16, 1923 in Golden, Colorado

  4. Mary Amanda Palmer: Birth: November 04, 1863 in Golden City, Jeff. Co., Colorado Territory. Death: Febuary 13, 1951 in Golden, Colorado

  5. Lucy Annetta Palmer: Birth: August 17, 1865 in Golden City, Jeff. Co., Colorado Territory. Death: November 20, 1884 in Golden, Colorado

  6. Rose Ella Palmer: Birth: August 24, 1867 in Golden City, Jeff. Co., Colorado Territory. Death: October 30, 1921 in Golden, Colorado

  7. Frank Kenyon Palmer: Birth: September 25, 1869 in Golden City, Jeff. Co., Colorado Territory. Death: June 02, 1935 in Home, Wheatridge, CO.

  8. Frank Kenyon Palmer: Birth: September 25, 1869 in Golden City, Jeff. Co., Colorado Territory. Death: June 02, 1935 in Golden, Colorado

  9. Alice Alta Palmer: Birth: June 17, 1871 in Golden City, Jeff. Co., Colorado Territory. Death: February 18, 1964 in Golden, Colorado

  10. Effie Evelin Palmer: Birth: December 01, 1872 in Golden City, Jeff. Co., Colorado Territory. Death: August 19, 1874 in Golden, Colorado

  11. Lena Edna Palmer: Birth: September 19, 1883 in Golden City, Jeff. Co., Colorado Territory. Death: October 13, 1883 in Golden, Colorado


Notes
a. Note:   his funeral. It is said that the first rural telephone in the United States was placed in Joel Palmer's home in 1880. In 1836, Joel went to Indiana with his parents, then to Scott County, Iowa in 1837, traveling in a "Prairie Schooner." In 1853 he started out on his own, buying a farm near the old homestead and engaging in farming until 1856. The discovery of gold in the western mountains led him to begin his journey in 1856 following the old Overland Trail with his wife Matilda. They stopped awhile in Blue Rapids, Marshall, Co., Kansas Territory where the first 2 children were born and later died, 1857 & 1858 respectively. In 1860 he & wife joined a wagon train and proceeded further west, arriving in Golden City, Arapahoe, Co, in the Territory of Kansas on June 5, 1860.(Kansas Territory extended west into what is now Colorado). He had his team and wagon and $6.65 in money, with which he began a new life on the south side of Clear Creek between North & South Table Mountains, entering a homestead of 160 acres. Joel worked the farm by introducing an excellent system of irrigation . By hard work & perservance succes came to him, creating a beautiful improved fruit and garden farm in the area. In his large packing shed they packed their fruit & vegetables for shipment to Denver and mining towns in Clear Creek, Gilpin & Jefferson Counties. The large barn on his farm also served for many dances & social festivities on special occasions. He owned a private irragation ditch & also held an interest in two of the larger irrigation ditches in the area, later becoming known as the Lee-Eskin Ditch. He became one of the counties most prominent citizens.
  On July 11, 1908, while loading a hay wagon, he became dizzy & plunged headlong from the wagon to the ground. He suffered a broken collar bone and a rib, with a dislocated shoulder. The broken rib affected his lung and when pneumonia set in he died one week later.
  A few years after Matilda's death, in 1910,the Denver Tramway Company built a station in Golden and named it after Joel Kenyon Palmer.
  The family bible was passed on to their oldest daughter Mary Amanda (Palmer) Atto. A notation in the bible states that the bible shall be passed on to the oldest surviving daughter of each succeding generation. After Mary Amanda died the bible was passed on to her oldest daughter Elsie May (Atto) Warren, then to Lucille Annie (Warren) Welch, who is currently living in Kansas City, Kansas (1997).
 
Note:   Mr. Adolf Coors, a close neighbor and owner of Coors Brewery, sent red roses to

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