MRS. LURA ANN PALMER

PALMER, BALDWIN, MUNN

Posted By: David (email)
Date: 12/13/2004 at 12:30:52

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, February 7, 1907

MRS. LURA ANN PALMER, daughter of WM. and MRS. BALDWIN, was born July 15,
1829, in Pennsylvania, and departed this life, Sunday morning, February 3,
1907, at the home of her son, REV. F.B. PALMER, aged 77 years, 6 months and
18 days. Her husband, DR. O.T. PALMER, died in 1874, and she will be buried
by his side in Forest Cemetery, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Of a family of eight
children, four are living, KATIE ELIZABETH, TRACY EDWARD, and ORAN KARL, of
Des Moines, Iowa, and FRED BALDWIN, of Chariton.

Brief prayer services were held at the Baptist Parsonage in Chariton, at 11
o'clock, Monday morning, Feb. 4th, conducted by Rev. M.G. Munn. The deacons
of the church acted as pall bearers. Funeral services were held in the old
home Baptist Church in Oskaloosa, at 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning,
conducted by Rev, Whitcomb, MRS. PALMER has made her home with her son in
Chariton since last July, and has made many friends who deeply sympathize
with them in the loss of a true, devoted Christian mother.
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