Kit Carson County, Colorado
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Kit Carson County Pioneers:
Earl J. and Alma (Larsen) Palmer, Burlington
AMBER
Amber E. Palmer claimed a quarter in section 28, 9S 48W in 1913.
Amber was one of four teachers in Vona district # 47 in 1911.
"One of the largest and finest sod school
houses in the county is located about seven
miles south west of Vona. The ample wall space
is almost covered with booklets, drawings,
silhouettes, and mottoes, all made by the
pupils. A bright idea is the hanging a wire
post-card holder on the wall, and filling it
with drawings made on paper cut to
post-card size. In this way, the drawings
can be taken down whenever they have
served their purpose and fresh ones
put up without marring the wall with
tacks. Miss Amber Palmer and her pupils
are to be congratulated upon the quality
of the work exhibited.
Although the day of the
superintendent's visit was cold and
stormy, about thirty pupils were
present."
Charles W. Palmer claimed a quarter in section 9, 10S 42W in 1891.
EARL
In 1900 Gage County, Nebraska, Earl J, born May 1890 in Nebraska, is with Seth Palmer March 1854 in England and Susan Dec 1848 Virginia. She's had eleven kids, eight living. Amos 25 and Owen H. 13 were born in Illinois.
Susannah might have married a Peters who died in 1877.
On May 25, 1910, Earl J. Palmer of Goodland and Miss Alma Larson of Fox, Kit Carson County, married in Birlington, witnessed by C. F. and Dovra V. Moore.
Alma was born Feb 14, 1891 in Minden, Nebraska.
Alma was in Yuma County in 1900, with Jens Larsen in Kit Carson County in 1910
1853-1943 and Jensine Kirstine Christensen 1859-1948.
She's in Sherman County, Kansas in 1910, a servant for the James and Gertrude Stevens family. She's 19, born in Nebraska.
September 28, 1911 "Mrs. R. C. Yarnell and
Mrs. Firm Moore spent a few days last week with
their sister, Mrs. Palmer of Goodland."
(Roscoe C. Yarnell and Laura B. Larson, both of Kit Carson County,
married there on August 20, 1902. In 1910 Kit Carson County, Roscoe C. is 36, with Laura 26 born in Nebraska of Danish parents, have Linnie V. 1.)
Laura, born July 4, 1883, died October 1965.
Earl J. Palmer claimed a quarter in section 34, 9S 48W in 1914.
1912 "Mr. and Mrs. Earl Palmer of Goodland
spent Sunday at the Yarnell home. "
In 1920 Earl is a railroad clerk in Goodland, with Alma both 28 born in Nebraska.. Leslie is 6, born in Kansas.
Earl is a railroad clerk in 1930 Fairbury, Nebraska, with Alma both 39. Leslie is 16, Dorothy 9.
Earl, Alma, and Dorothy were in Fort Worth, Texas in 1935, and in 1940 are in El Reno, Oklahoma, where he's still a clerk for the Rock Island Railroad.
April 1948 "Officials of the Rock Island railroad today
opened a hearing on the derailment of the road's Texas Rocket
at Kremlin, Okla., Wednesday. Two persons were killed and ?8
injured in the derailment. It occurred after the train
was hit at a crossing by a loaded dump truck. Conducting
the questioning of Rock Island employes were R. B. Smith,
superintendent of the Oklahoma City division of Rock Island,
and C. L. Franklin, El Reno, assistant general manager.
Earl J. Palmer, chief clerk here, said finding of the
report would be sent to Rock Island headquarters in Chicago
and that probably no statement on the hearing would be
released here."
Earl 1890-1952 is buried in El Reno, Oklahoma # 44605407,
with Alma 1891-1983 # 44605355.
April 1952 "Miss Dorothy Palmer and her brother, Lieutenant Colonel Leslie F. Palmer, who were called here by the illness and death of their father , Earl J. Palmer, 1205 South Macomb, left Thursday for their homes in Heidelberg, Germany, after spending three weeks with their mother."
Leslie, of Dallas, Texas, married Helen Swaim of Lawton, Oklahoma, on October 4, 1940 in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
1962 El Reno "Honoring Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. Leslie Palmer and daughter, Pamela, of Heidelberg, Germany, Mr. and Mrs. Sam H. Brown, 414 South Rock Island, were hosts for a 7 o'closk dinner Friday evening. Other guests were Miss Elsie Lee Brown of Oklahoma City and Mrs. Earl J. Palmer."
Leslie F. Palmer 1913-1979 is buried in Arlington National # 49346415 "LTC Army WWII, Korea."
He probably had two daughters,
Pamela Palmer Kirby and Lisa Palmer Evans, both living
in Winter Park Florida in 2007.
Helen Swain Palmer Evans 1916-2004 is buried in
Arlington # 121177125.
, daughter of Stanley A. Swain and Ellen Johnson Swain.
Dorothy Ellen Palmer 1920-1980 is also buried in El Reno # 44605523.
2018 University of Central Florida "Pamela Kirby, who retired last week as an associate dean in the College of Health and Public Affairs, recently donated $25,000 to the university to establish the “Robert and Pamela Kirby Endowed Scholarship for Legal Studies.” The new scholarship was announced at a retirement reception held in her honor on June 29.
Associate Dean Kirby established the scholarship in memory of her late husband, Robert Brandt Kirby, and in appreciation of the couple’s opportunity to serve UCF as faculty members. Beginning in 1995, both taught courses in the legal studies program after retiring from the U.S. Army, where they served as commissioned officers and attorneys in The Judge Advocate General’s Corps."
EDWIN
Edwin N. Palmer claimed a quarter in section 4, 10S 48W in 1912.
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