Daniel Clark Palmer, 1845-1920

PALMER, LAHMON, WITTER, CHAMBERLAIN, BURLEW, CARTER, YOUNG

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 7/3/2012 at 11:52:44

Daniel Clark Palmer was born near Erie, Pennsylvania, on September 17, 1845, and died, at his home at 783 East Park avenue, Spencer, Iowa, at four o'clock on Monday morning, September 6, 1920. Had he lived eleven days longer he would have been seventy-five years old.

About seven years ago he was stricken with shaking paralysis which slowly undermined his strength and for the past three years rendered him almost entirely helpless.

When he was eleven years old his parents moved from Pennsylvania to Green county,, Wisconsin, where he grew to young manhood, and taught school. Here also, he enlisted In the services of his country in the Civil war and served more than two years in Company D, 35th Wisconsin Volunteers Infantry. Three brothers and father also enlisted, one brother dying in the service.

In 1869 he came to Clay county and settled on a homestead in Lincoln township, eight miles south of Spencer. Here he endured the hardships and privations of a new country that all early settlers remembers so distinctly.

On October 26, 1875, he was married to Margaret Elizabeth Lahmon. The following year the victims to the well known grasshopper scourge and like many other pioneers they loaded their goods on a wagon and drove to another part of the state. In 1881 they returned to Clay county where he lived until his death. Most of that time he has lived in Spencer where he worked at his trade, carpentering.

Mr. and Mrs. Palmer were the parents of six daughters, Edith J., wife of L. A. Witter, died in 1900; Inez E., wife of H. Chamberlain of this city; Cora A., wife of C. B. Burlew of Manette, Washington; Ava C., who died in 1900, Oma Z., wife of F. B. Carter, Bowman, North Dakota, died in 1917; and Zelia O., wife of O. M. Young of Bowman, North Dakota.

Besides his widow and three surviving daughters, he leaves three grandchildren, three sisters and four brothers.

He was a member of Annett Post, G.A.R., and until ill health prevented he attended the meetings regularly and took an active part in the work of that order. His motto was the Golden Rule which was the sentiment of his heart and the constant practice of his life. He had not accumulated much that the world calls wealth, but he leaves to his family and many friends a memory that money could not buy.

Funeral services conducted by Rev. E. Merle Adams, pastor of the Congregational church, were held from the home this (Wednesday) afternoon
at two-thirty o'clock and burial was made in Riverside cemetery. E. Boyed, J.C. McCoy, A.J. Goodell, L.E. LaBrant, J.P. Mills and W.C. Jones acted as pall bearers.

Relatives from away in attendance at the funeral were Mrs. O.M. Young, of Bowman North Dakota, daughter of the deceased, and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McClay of Albert City.

Source: Spencer Reporter, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; September 8, 1920.

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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