Kit Carson County, Colorado
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Kit Carson County Pioneers:
Elmer E. Palmer, 8 South 43 West
Elmer cash-claimed a quarter in section 30, 8S 43W in 1889.
Although there is no proof that this is the same, he might be the Elmore Palmer in 1880 Washtenaw County, Michigan, a commercial traveler, 40, with Hannah 36 and Jessie M. 12.
1883 
Independent Order of Good Templars "The IOGT originated as one of a number of fraternal organizations for temperance or total abstinence founded in the 19th century and with a structure modeled on Freemasonry, using similar ritual and regalia. Unlike many, however, it admitted men and women equally, and also made no distinction by race."
1884 Medical World
In 1885 Boulder County, Elmer is a physician 45, born in Michigan, parents born in New York. His wife Hannah 41 is a school teacher, also born in Michigan.
(Hannah's brother Edmund J. Borden 1852-1927 is buried in Boulder # 50002230._
He was a bookkeeper in 1900 Boulder, 48, with Irene G. 34, Gilbert 14, Margaret 12, Philipp 10, Alice 7, and Neil 4.
All the kids were born in Colorado.
1887 
In 1900 Buffalo, New York, Elmore is a physician,
born Dec 1839 in Michigan,
married 35 years to Hannah Oct 1843 Michigan.
She's had four kids, none living. Elmore's niece Grace E. Ranstead May 1876 in MIllinois, mother in Michigan, is with them.
(Jennett Palmer Ranstead 1846-1911 is buried in Peotone, Will COunty Illinois # 180719533._
Elmore 1839-1909 died in Buffalo "Dr. Palmer was a pioneer of Albion, Michigan. He wrote a lengthy series in 1908-09 about Albion History in the Albion Mirror newspaper entitled "Biographical Sketches," which provides valuable information about the early history of Albion. Dr. Palmer attended the Albion public school system, and also Albion Seminary and Albion College. He graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor as a medic in 1864. His uncle, Dr. Alonzo B. Palmer was dean of the medical school there. Dr. Elmore Palmer entered the Union Army on July 30, 1864 as an assistant surgeon for the 29th Michigan Infantry, and became a full surgeon on March 19, 1865. He was discharged in September, 1865. In 1886 he moved to Buffalo, NY, where he practiced medicine throughout the 1880s and 1890s. Spouse: Hannah Borden, who was 60 years old at the time of his death. Burial: Cremains.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Buffalo Courier" July 29, 1916
Elmore Palmer of No. 309 Plymouth avenue, who died October 23, 1909, feared he might be buried alive and his will, probated by Surrogate Hart yesterday, contains stipulations to avoid it. Palmer desired that his body be cremated after examination by two competent physicians. "I desire my funeral be strictly private and the usual dark and somber signs of mourning and death be dispensed with, but rather all be made to indicate peace and joy by free use of living plants and blooming flowers", read a paragraph of the will. The will leaves an estate upward of $5,500 to the widow, Mrs. Hannah Palmer. It is dated 1895.
obit "Buffalo Courier", Oct 26, 1909
The funeral of Dr. Elmore Palmer, who died Saturday, will be held this afternoon from his home, No. 309 Plymouth Avenue, at 3 o'clock. The services will be conducted under the auspices of Niagara Lodge No. 25. I. O.O. P. Dr. Palmer was 70 years old and had been engaged in the practice of medicine in Buffalo for nearly a quarter of a century. He is survived by his wife and one daughter. "
Hannah Chambers Borden was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, on October 8, 1843. Her father was a Presbyterian clergyman, Edmund Woodmansee Borden (1822-1893). On her mother's side, Margaret Hopper (1823-1901), she descended from Andries Willemszen Hoppe (1622-1658), who was among the first settlers of Manhattan Island. She was the oldest of a family of eight children, the four surviving siblings were: Almira C. Rice (1845-1934), Emma L. Borden (1848-1872), Edmund James Borden (1852-1927), Flora E. Exelby (1864-1941). [1]
Edmund Woodmansee Borden was the second son of Tyler and Hannah Borden and was born in Monmouth county, New Jersey on March 30, 1822. When twenty years old he married Margaret Hopper of New York City and with her moved to Michigan in 1843, at the time a pioneers land. He died on February 27, 1893, after fifty-three years of ministry. He is buried with his wife at Forest Hill Cemetery (Ann Arbor, Michigan). [2]
At the age of sixteen Palmer entered Albion College, in Albion, Michigan, and after a three-year course of study took her master's degree, M. A. 1862. [1] [3]
After graduation Hannah Borden Palmer began to teach in the union school in Lapeer, Michigan. [1]
In 1864 Palmer accompanied her husband to the front with his regiment, camping with them until the muster-out in September 1865. After that home duties and the care of her children occupied her time until the crusade began. [1]
She was elected president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of Dexter, Michigan, under whose guidance and auspices were organized a public library and reading-room. [1]
She opened a private school in Colorado, which she conducted with success until she moved to Buffalo, New York. [1]
Mainly through her efforts, a lodge of Good Templars was organized in Boulder, Colorado, and she was its presiding officer for five successive terms. [1]
Her love for children induced her to organize a Band of Hope, which soon grew to nearly two-hundred members. During that time she became a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Boulder and soon received the gavel. [1]
In the spring of 1886 business led her husband to Buffalo, in the practice of his profession. Seeing in the Royal Templars what she believed to be a fruitful source of great good, she united with that order, serving as chaplain, vice-councilor and select councilor. After three years as select councilor of Advance Council No. 25 she declined reelection. Her council sent her as its representative to the Grand Council in February 1890. On her first introduction into that body she was made chairman of the committee on temperance work and was elected grand vice-councilor, being the first woman to hold that position in the jurisdiction of New York. In the subsequent sessions of the Grand Council in February 1891, and February 1892, she was reelected grand vice-councilor, being the only person ever reelected to that office.
In 1881, after the death of all four of her children, she moved to Boulder, Colorado, and then in 1886 to Buffalo, New York, always with her husband. They lived at 309 Plymouth Avenue. [1] She spent the last 5 years of her life at the Episcopal Church Home and died from arterial sclerosis on January 26, 1940. She was buried as a pauper at the Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo) with no headstone together with her husband's ashes. [3]
"Hannah was also preceded in death by her husband; brothers, Edmund James Borden and George W. Borden; her twin sister, Ann Amelia Borden (in 1843) and sisters, Almira C. Rice, Emma Louise Borden and Orcelia Ann Borden; Flora Ellen Exelby survived her by one year. She lived for years with her adopted daughter, Grace, in Buffalo and resided at the Episcopal Church Home her last five years. She was interred with her husband, at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo in the Church Charity Section with no obituary and remained "lost" to the current generations of family until 2015. She is survived by her great-nieces, Irene P. Warner, Katherine P. Kydd and Margaret H. Mugglin, their children and other distant descendants."
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