Yolo County Biographies


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P. PALMER
 
            P. PALMER, sexton of the Woodland Cemetery, is the son of Alvia and 
Rhoda (Bordman) Palmer, natives of New York State; his father died when the son 
was nine years old, and the mother is still living in Sanders County, New 
Brunswick, at the age of seventy-eight years.  The subject of this brief sketch 
was born in Marion County, Ohio, November 18, 1837, and was ten years of age 
when his widowed mother moved with him to Michigan, where he received three 
months schooling.  After a residence there of ten years, he moved to Illinois 
and lived there eight years; then resided for a short time in New Brunswick, and 
finally, in 1880, he came to California, since which time he has resided mostly 
in Yolo County.  He has 160 acres of land near Madison, and he has had the 
situation of sexton of the present cemetery six years.  His wife, whose maiden 
name was Mary E. Fleming, is a native of Pennsylvania, and they were married in 
1860, in Mercer County, Illinois.  Their two living children are:  Adelia A. and 
Robert C., and there are two deceased, Charles and Harry.  Mr. Palmer is a 
member of Grafton Lodge, I.O.O.F., at Lodge No. 215, A.O.U.W., and Post No. 65, 
G.A.R.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by Betty Wilson