Joshua and Fanny (Stiles) Palmer
©Donna Meszaros
Joshua Palmer, son of Reverend Joshua Palmer, was born 29 November 1784[1] probably in the Cheraw District of South Carolina, where his father was granted several tracts of land.[2], [3], [4], [5] By 1793 the family had moved to Laurens County, where Reverend Palmer became pastor of the Upper Duncan’s Creek Church.[6]
Joshua married Frances “Fanny” Stiles.[7] One source gives the marriage date as 29 September 1802 in Laurens County.[8] Fanny was born 26 November 1786;[9] her birthplace has been given as North Carolina,[10] South Carolina,[11] and Virginia.[12] She is said to be the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Glidewell) Stiles.[13] Before coming to Laurens County, the Stileses and Glidewells lived in Halifax County, Virginia. Richard was probably the Richard Stiles who witnessed a deed dated 30 November 1783 in which William Glidewell sold land in Halifax County to William Hodges.[14]
Richard Stiles was in Laurens County by 1790. The census lists him with one male under 16, one male 16 and over, and 3 females.[15] On 29 December 1797 Richard “Styles” was a witness to a deed between Robert and Agnes Spence and Francis Gill for 62 ½ acres on Duncan’s Creek.[16] The next year, on 8 April 1798, Richard purchased 100 acres from Alexander Manary[17] and on 18 July 1799 he purchased 250 acres on Duncan’s Creek from Robert McCurley. The property was bordered in part by Joshua “Palmore.”[18] On 20 July 1805 Richard sold the two parcels, amounting to 350 acres, to Jesse Belton, with his wife Elizabeth relinquishing her dower rights.[19]
After selling their land in South Carolina, Richard and Elizabeth moved to Butler County, Ohio, where Richard’s will is recorded in 1806.[20] Elizabeth might be the Elizabeth Stiles who in 1810 purchased land in Ross Township, Butler County, from George and Susana Deybread.[21] She is said to have died in August 1828 in Liberty Township, Union County, Indiana.[22]
Joshua and Fanny Palmer were in Indiana by 1811. Joshua Palmer Jr. appears on Franklin County’s first tax list for that year. Joshua Palmer (his father), William Palmer (his brother), and William Sparks (his brother-in-law) are also listed.[23] The part of Franklin County in which they lived became Union County in 1821. In May 1813 Joshua Palmer Jr. and William Sparks were appointed road supervisors in Franklin County.[24] The next year, in May 1814, Joshua Palmer was appointed supervisor of “all that part of the main road commencing at the center of the 11th township running by Joshua Palmers and also all of that road beginning at the center of the 11th twp. thereto to the county line commonly known by the name of Ely’s road (or Eleys). All the hands east of that road within one mile and one half are allotted to Joshua in maintaining this road.”[25] The use of the name Joshua Palmer without the added Jr. or Sr. may mean that Rev. Joshua Palmer was dead by this time.
On 11 November 1814, Joshua contracted to purchase 162.32 acres in the northeast quarter of Section 11 in Township 11 North, Range 2 West[26] (today Liberty Township in Union County). His father, Joshua Palmer Sr., had entered land in the adjoining southeast quarter on 18 June 1807.[27] Eighty acres in the southwest quarter of the same section belonged to Joshua’s brother, William Palmer, who sold it to Jacob Alexander in 1815.[28] Joshua Jr. made four payments on his land: $81.16 on 6 December 1814; $81.00 on 4 November 1816; $99.50 on 19 August 1818; and the last payment of $105.30 on 5 November 1819. He received his final certificate on 7 March 1820.[29]
On 19 October 1816, Joshua and Fanny became founding members of the Silver Creek Baptist Church, named after the stream that flowed through their property. The letter of admission read: “To all whom it may concern: Whereas, the following brethren and sisters have made application for a letter of dismission, in order to become a church, this is to certify that they are in good standing, and full fellowship with us, and will be dismissed from us when the same is effected, viz.: William Cason, Mary Cason, Richard Arnold, Eleanor Arnold, Zachariah Ferguson, Mary Ferguson, James and Mary Tanner, John and Sarah Stapleton, Joseph and Agnes Campbell, Joshua and Fannie Palmer, James and Rebecca Armstrong, Elisha and Lettin Burbidge, Elijah and Mary Cason, Cason and Elizabeth Buckhalter, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Amy and Nancy Stiles, Phebe Elston, Sarah Daugherty, Hannah Burt.” The letter was signed by Bennet Langston. On 8 November 1816 the church was constituted, with Elder William Tyner of Cedar Grove Church, Stephen Oldham of New Bethel, and John Burns and James Smith of Newhope officiating. Joshua Palmer was chosen as the first clerk and Richard Arnold was the first treasurer.[30] Several of the members were related to Joshua’s wife, Fanny. Elizabeth Stiles was her mother, widow of Richard. Rebecca Armstrong,[31] Agnes Campbell,[32] Amy Stiles,[33] and Nancy Stiles[34] were Fanny’s sisters, and Charlotte Stiles was her sister-in-law, married to her brother, Byrd. Byrd Stiles died 17 September 1816, just before the founding of the church.[35] His estate was administered by his brother-in-law, Joshua Palmer.[36]
Joshua Palmer is listed on the 1820 census of Liberty Township, Franklin County with two males 10-16, one male 26-45, four females under 10, one female 10-16, and one female 26-45. Three persons in the family were engaged in agriculture.[37]
On 27 November 1820, for one dollar, Joshua and Fanny sold two and a half acres to Zachariah Ferguson, James Tanner, and Joseph Vanvactor, trustees of the Silver Creek “Babtist” Church, “for the special purpose of a place for Divine worship and a public burying ground for the neighborhood.” The land, in the northeast quarter of Section 11, Township 11, Range 2 West, included the graveyard and the meeting house, indicating they had already been established.[38] Just three days before they sold the above-mentioned land, on 24 November, Joshua and Fanny sold 25 acres to Jesse Elston for $200[39] and an unknown number of acres to Luther Leonard for $600,[40] both parcels being in the same northeast quarter of Section 11.
On 24 September 1821 Joshua entered land in the east half of the southwest quarter of Section 22 in Township 11 North, Range 5 West in Franklin County (now Blue River Township in Johnson County).[41] He received a patent for the land on 10 February 1823.[42] He and Fanny sold this land on 19 December 1825 to Adam Coudy of Rush County.[43] By 1828 they were in Noble Township, Shelby County, Indiana. Joshua and his son, Byrd, were each taxed for 1 poll in that year.[44] Joshua is found in the 1830 census for Noble Township with one male under 5, one male 5-10, one male 20-30, one male 40-50, one female under 5, two females 5-10, two females 10-15, one female 15-20, and one female 40-50.[45]
Elizabeth and Nancy Palmer, apparently the daughters of Joshua and Fanny, were owners of land in Shelby County. Elizabeth, at age 18, entered land in the west half of the southeast quarter of Section 13, Township 12 North, Range 7 East on 25 October 1830.[46] She received a patent on 8 June 1833.[47] Nancy, at age 14, entered land in the east half of the southwest quarter of Section 12 in the same township on 11 January 1834.[48] She received a patent on 5 October 1835.[49] The land may have been purchased for them by their father and put in their names. Elizabeth married Francis A. Parish in Bartholomew County on 6 September 1835[50] and Nancy married Albert B. Kitchell in Shelby County on 12 August 1838.[51]
On 24 February 1832, Joshua and Fanny Palmer “of Shelby County, Indiana” sold “all their interest right title claim & demand of in and to” 80 acres in Union County, Indiana to Jacob Brumage for $20. The land is described as the west half of the southeast quarter of Section 1, Township 11 North, Range 2 West.[52] The southeast quarter of Section 1 had originally been entered by William Cason in 1814.[53] Joshua and Fanny also had this deed recorded in Shelby County.[54]
A few years later Joshua and his son Byrd were in Bartholomew County. Joshua entered land in the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 5 of Haw Creek Township on 2 February 1833[55] and received a patent on 6 November 1834.[56] On 18 August 1834 Byrd purchased 40.73 acres in southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of the same section.[57] He received a patent on 28 October 1835.[58] The 1840 census of Haw Creek Township shows Joshua’s household with one male 10-15, one male 15-20, one male 60-70, one female 10-15, one female 15-20, and one female 50-60.[59] (Joshua’s age bracket should have been marked 50-60 since he was 54 in 1840.)
Joshua was probably dead by 1843, but the date and place of his death are unknown. Byrd Palmer was assessed for 40 acres in Haw Creek Township in 1842 and 1843,[60] but Joshua is not listed. On 10 July 1841 Joshua’s son Elihu purchased from Charles L. Hollingsworth 80 acres (the east half of the northwest quarter of Section 10, Township 11 North Range 4 West) in Jennings Township, Owen County, Indiana.[61] He purchased an adjoining plot of 40 acres from Hollingsworth on 12 February 1842, the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 10.[62] Elihu sold this second tract to his mother, Fanny Palmer, on 22 September 1843.[63] Three days later, on 25 September, Fanny made a deed of gift of the 40 acres to her two youngest sons, William and Joshua, who were 19 and 14 years old. The deed was “for love and affection which she the said Fanny bears to the said William & Joshua for the better maintenance and support of the said William and Joshua.”[64] On 1 June 1848 Elihu Palmer received a certificate for payment in full for his land in Section 4.[65] On the same day his brother, Byrd, received a certificate for his land in Section 12.[66]
Joshua is not found on the 1850 census. His wife, Fanny, is enumerated twice in Owen County, Indiana. On 16 October their son, Joshua Palmer, age 21, his wife, Zilly M., age 22, their daughter, Fanny E., age 1, and Fanny, age 65, are living in Jackson Township. Next to them is Fanny’s grandson, James A. Palmer, age 19, and his wife, Polly E., age 21. Joshua has $100 in real estate.[67] A month later, on 21 November, Joshua Parmer, age 21, Zilly A. M., age 20, “Ann E.,” age 1, and Fanny, age 60, are enumerated in nearby Jennings Township. Just above them on the page are listed Fanny’s son William, age 26, his wife “Charlotta,” and their children Amanda E. and Joshua. Above them on the same page are listed Fanny’s daughter, Nancy, age 30, her husband, Albert Kitchel, and their family. Joshua and William each have $60 in real estate; Albert Kitchel’s land is valued at $800.[68]
Elihu, William, and Joshua Palmer moved Sullivan County, Missouri sometime in the early 1850s. On 1 April 1857, William Palmer received a patent for the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 5, Township 61 North, Range 20 West.[69] Elihu and Joshua received their patents four months later, on 1 August 1857. Elihu’s land was the east half of the southeast quarter of Section 20 and the west half of the southwest quarter of Section 21 in Township 61 North, Range 21 West.[70] Joshua had the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 20 in the same township.[71] On the 1860 census their mother, Fanny, was living with William’s family.[72] She died 15 May 1861 and is buried in the Schrock Cemetery in Taylor Township, where her gravestone states that she was 74 years, 5 months, and 19 days old.[73]
Children of Joshua and Frances “Fanny” (Stiles) Palmer:
1. Elihu Palmer, born 5 November 1805, Duncan’s Creek, Laurens County, South Carolina; died 16 January 1875, Taylor Township, Sullivan County, Missouri; married Amy Armstrong, 9 December 1830, Shelby County, Indiana
2. Byrd Palmer, born 29 January 1808, Liberty Township, Franklin County, Indiana; died 8 October 1881, Coles County, Illinois; married Eleanor Campbell 22 October 1829, Shelby County, Indiana
3. Catherine Palmer, born 10 January 1810, Indiana
4. Elizabeth Palmer, born 15 August 1812, Indiana
5. Mary Palmer, born 19 March 1815, Indiana
6. Margaret Palmer, born 14 March 1817, Indiana
7. Nancy Ann Palmer, born 25 June 1819, Franklin County, Indiana; died 6 April 1877 in Mattoon, Coles County, Illinois; married Albert Bowers Kitchell 12 August 1838, Shelby County, Indiana
8. Permelia Palmer, born 22 December 1821, Indiana; died 20 February 1896; married John Tipton Helm 2 February 1843, Owen County, Indiana
9. William Henry Palmer, born 4 April 1824, Shelby County, Indiana; died 14 March 1865 on board the steamboat Stephen Decatur, Arkansas; married (1) Charlotte Hooten, 8 December 1842, Owen County, Indiana; married (2) Prudence Jane Tate, 1 December 1853, Coles County, Illinois
10. Frances “Fanny” Palmer, born 29 August 1826, Indiana; died 22 March 1911; married Joel Hicks 22 December 1844, Owen County, Indiana
11. Joshua Palmer, born 17 December 1828, Shelby County, Indiana; died 1895 Sullivan County, Missouri; married Zilla Ann Haltom 16 November 1895, Owen County, Indiana
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Joshua married Frances “Fanny” Stiles.[7] One source gives the marriage date as 29 September 1802 in Laurens County.[8] Fanny was born 26 November 1786;[9] her birthplace has been given as North Carolina,[10] South Carolina,[11] and Virginia.[12] She is said to be the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Glidewell) Stiles.[13] Before coming to Laurens County, the Stileses and Glidewells lived in Halifax County, Virginia. Richard was probably the Richard Stiles who witnessed a deed dated 30 November 1783 in which William Glidewell sold land in Halifax County to William Hodges.[14]
Richard Stiles was in Laurens County by 1790. The census lists him with one male under 16, one male 16 and over, and 3 females.[15] On 29 December 1797 Richard “Styles” was a witness to a deed between Robert and Agnes Spence and Francis Gill for 62 ½ acres on Duncan’s Creek.[16] The next year, on 8 April 1798, Richard purchased 100 acres from Alexander Manary[17] and on 18 July 1799 he purchased 250 acres on Duncan’s Creek from Robert McCurley. The property was bordered in part by Joshua “Palmore.”[18] On 20 July 1805 Richard sold the two parcels, amounting to 350 acres, to Jesse Belton, with his wife Elizabeth relinquishing her dower rights.[19]
After selling their land in South Carolina, Richard and Elizabeth moved to Butler County, Ohio, where Richard’s will is recorded in 1806.[20] Elizabeth might be the Elizabeth Stiles who in 1810 purchased land in Ross Township, Butler County, from George and Susana Deybread.[21] She is said to have died in August 1828 in Liberty Township, Union County, Indiana.[22]
Joshua and Fanny Palmer were in Indiana by 1811. Joshua Palmer Jr. appears on Franklin County’s first tax list for that year. Joshua Palmer (his father), William Palmer (his brother), and William Sparks (his brother-in-law) are also listed.[23] The part of Franklin County in which they lived became Union County in 1821. In May 1813 Joshua Palmer Jr. and William Sparks were appointed road supervisors in Franklin County.[24] The next year, in May 1814, Joshua Palmer was appointed supervisor of “all that part of the main road commencing at the center of the 11th township running by Joshua Palmers and also all of that road beginning at the center of the 11th twp. thereto to the county line commonly known by the name of Ely’s road (or Eleys). All the hands east of that road within one mile and one half are allotted to Joshua in maintaining this road.”[25] The use of the name Joshua Palmer without the added Jr. or Sr. may mean that Rev. Joshua Palmer was dead by this time.
On 11 November 1814, Joshua contracted to purchase 162.32 acres in the northeast quarter of Section 11 in Township 11 North, Range 2 West[26] (today Liberty Township in Union County). His father, Joshua Palmer Sr., had entered land in the adjoining southeast quarter on 18 June 1807.[27] Eighty acres in the southwest quarter of the same section belonged to Joshua’s brother, William Palmer, who sold it to Jacob Alexander in 1815.[28] Joshua Jr. made four payments on his land: $81.16 on 6 December 1814; $81.00 on 4 November 1816; $99.50 on 19 August 1818; and the last payment of $105.30 on 5 November 1819. He received his final certificate on 7 March 1820.[29]
On 19 October 1816, Joshua and Fanny became founding members of the Silver Creek Baptist Church, named after the stream that flowed through their property. The letter of admission read: “To all whom it may concern: Whereas, the following brethren and sisters have made application for a letter of dismission, in order to become a church, this is to certify that they are in good standing, and full fellowship with us, and will be dismissed from us when the same is effected, viz.: William Cason, Mary Cason, Richard Arnold, Eleanor Arnold, Zachariah Ferguson, Mary Ferguson, James and Mary Tanner, John and Sarah Stapleton, Joseph and Agnes Campbell, Joshua and Fannie Palmer, James and Rebecca Armstrong, Elisha and Lettin Burbidge, Elijah and Mary Cason, Cason and Elizabeth Buckhalter, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Amy and Nancy Stiles, Phebe Elston, Sarah Daugherty, Hannah Burt.” The letter was signed by Bennet Langston. On 8 November 1816 the church was constituted, with Elder William Tyner of Cedar Grove Church, Stephen Oldham of New Bethel, and John Burns and James Smith of Newhope officiating. Joshua Palmer was chosen as the first clerk and Richard Arnold was the first treasurer.[30] Several of the members were related to Joshua’s wife, Fanny. Elizabeth Stiles was her mother, widow of Richard. Rebecca Armstrong,[31] Agnes Campbell,[32] Amy Stiles,[33] and Nancy Stiles[34] were Fanny’s sisters, and Charlotte Stiles was her sister-in-law, married to her brother, Byrd. Byrd Stiles died 17 September 1816, just before the founding of the church.[35] His estate was administered by his brother-in-law, Joshua Palmer.[36]
Joshua Palmer is listed on the 1820 census of Liberty Township, Franklin County with two males 10-16, one male 26-45, four females under 10, one female 10-16, and one female 26-45. Three persons in the family were engaged in agriculture.[37]
On 27 November 1820, for one dollar, Joshua and Fanny sold two and a half acres to Zachariah Ferguson, James Tanner, and Joseph Vanvactor, trustees of the Silver Creek “Babtist” Church, “for the special purpose of a place for Divine worship and a public burying ground for the neighborhood.” The land, in the northeast quarter of Section 11, Township 11, Range 2 West, included the graveyard and the meeting house, indicating they had already been established.[38] Just three days before they sold the above-mentioned land, on 24 November, Joshua and Fanny sold 25 acres to Jesse Elston for $200[39] and an unknown number of acres to Luther Leonard for $600,[40] both parcels being in the same northeast quarter of Section 11.
On 24 September 1821 Joshua entered land in the east half of the southwest quarter of Section 22 in Township 11 North, Range 5 West in Franklin County (now Blue River Township in Johnson County).[41] He received a patent for the land on 10 February 1823.[42] He and Fanny sold this land on 19 December 1825 to Adam Coudy of Rush County.[43] By 1828 they were in Noble Township, Shelby County, Indiana. Joshua and his son, Byrd, were each taxed for 1 poll in that year.[44] Joshua is found in the 1830 census for Noble Township with one male under 5, one male 5-10, one male 20-30, one male 40-50, one female under 5, two females 5-10, two females 10-15, one female 15-20, and one female 40-50.[45]
Elizabeth and Nancy Palmer, apparently the daughters of Joshua and Fanny, were owners of land in Shelby County. Elizabeth, at age 18, entered land in the west half of the southeast quarter of Section 13, Township 12 North, Range 7 East on 25 October 1830.[46] She received a patent on 8 June 1833.[47] Nancy, at age 14, entered land in the east half of the southwest quarter of Section 12 in the same township on 11 January 1834.[48] She received a patent on 5 October 1835.[49] The land may have been purchased for them by their father and put in their names. Elizabeth married Francis A. Parish in Bartholomew County on 6 September 1835[50] and Nancy married Albert B. Kitchell in Shelby County on 12 August 1838.[51]
On 24 February 1832, Joshua and Fanny Palmer “of Shelby County, Indiana” sold “all their interest right title claim & demand of in and to” 80 acres in Union County, Indiana to Jacob Brumage for $20. The land is described as the west half of the southeast quarter of Section 1, Township 11 North, Range 2 West.[52] The southeast quarter of Section 1 had originally been entered by William Cason in 1814.[53] Joshua and Fanny also had this deed recorded in Shelby County.[54]
A few years later Joshua and his son Byrd were in Bartholomew County. Joshua entered land in the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 5 of Haw Creek Township on 2 February 1833[55] and received a patent on 6 November 1834.[56] On 18 August 1834 Byrd purchased 40.73 acres in southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of the same section.[57] He received a patent on 28 October 1835.[58] The 1840 census of Haw Creek Township shows Joshua’s household with one male 10-15, one male 15-20, one male 60-70, one female 10-15, one female 15-20, and one female 50-60.[59] (Joshua’s age bracket should have been marked 50-60 since he was 54 in 1840.)
Joshua was probably dead by 1843, but the date and place of his death are unknown. Byrd Palmer was assessed for 40 acres in Haw Creek Township in 1842 and 1843,[60] but Joshua is not listed. On 10 July 1841 Joshua’s son Elihu purchased from Charles L. Hollingsworth 80 acres (the east half of the northwest quarter of Section 10, Township 11 North Range 4 West) in Jennings Township, Owen County, Indiana.[61] He purchased an adjoining plot of 40 acres from Hollingsworth on 12 February 1842, the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 10.[62] Elihu sold this second tract to his mother, Fanny Palmer, on 22 September 1843.[63] Three days later, on 25 September, Fanny made a deed of gift of the 40 acres to her two youngest sons, William and Joshua, who were 19 and 14 years old. The deed was “for love and affection which she the said Fanny bears to the said William & Joshua for the better maintenance and support of the said William and Joshua.”[64] On 1 June 1848 Elihu Palmer received a certificate for payment in full for his land in Section 4.[65] On the same day his brother, Byrd, received a certificate for his land in Section 12.[66]
Joshua is not found on the 1850 census. His wife, Fanny, is enumerated twice in Owen County, Indiana. On 16 October their son, Joshua Palmer, age 21, his wife, Zilly M., age 22, their daughter, Fanny E., age 1, and Fanny, age 65, are living in Jackson Township. Next to them is Fanny’s grandson, James A. Palmer, age 19, and his wife, Polly E., age 21. Joshua has $100 in real estate.[67] A month later, on 21 November, Joshua Parmer, age 21, Zilly A. M., age 20, “Ann E.,” age 1, and Fanny, age 60, are enumerated in nearby Jennings Township. Just above them on the page are listed Fanny’s son William, age 26, his wife “Charlotta,” and their children Amanda E. and Joshua. Above them on the same page are listed Fanny’s daughter, Nancy, age 30, her husband, Albert Kitchel, and their family. Joshua and William each have $60 in real estate; Albert Kitchel’s land is valued at $800.[68]
Elihu, William, and Joshua Palmer moved Sullivan County, Missouri sometime in the early 1850s. On 1 April 1857, William Palmer received a patent for the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 5, Township 61 North, Range 20 West.[69] Elihu and Joshua received their patents four months later, on 1 August 1857. Elihu’s land was the east half of the southeast quarter of Section 20 and the west half of the southwest quarter of Section 21 in Township 61 North, Range 21 West.[70] Joshua had the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 20 in the same township.[71] On the 1860 census their mother, Fanny, was living with William’s family.[72] She died 15 May 1861 and is buried in the Schrock Cemetery in Taylor Township, where her gravestone states that she was 74 years, 5 months, and 19 days old.[73]
Children of Joshua and Frances “Fanny” (Stiles) Palmer:
1. Elihu Palmer, born 5 November 1805, Duncan’s Creek, Laurens County, South Carolina; died 16 January 1875, Taylor Township, Sullivan County, Missouri; married Amy Armstrong, 9 December 1830, Shelby County, Indiana
2. Byrd Palmer, born 29 January 1808, Liberty Township, Franklin County, Indiana; died 8 October 1881, Coles County, Illinois; married Eleanor Campbell 22 October 1829, Shelby County, Indiana
3. Catherine Palmer, born 10 January 1810, Indiana
4. Elizabeth Palmer, born 15 August 1812, Indiana
5. Mary Palmer, born 19 March 1815, Indiana
6. Margaret Palmer, born 14 March 1817, Indiana
7. Nancy Ann Palmer, born 25 June 1819, Franklin County, Indiana; died 6 April 1877 in Mattoon, Coles County, Illinois; married Albert Bowers Kitchell 12 August 1838, Shelby County, Indiana
8. Permelia Palmer, born 22 December 1821, Indiana; died 20 February 1896; married John Tipton Helm 2 February 1843, Owen County, Indiana
9. William Henry Palmer, born 4 April 1824, Shelby County, Indiana; died 14 March 1865 on board the steamboat Stephen Decatur, Arkansas; married (1) Charlotte Hooten, 8 December 1842, Owen County, Indiana; married (2) Prudence Jane Tate, 1 December 1853, Coles County, Illinois
10. Frances “Fanny” Palmer, born 29 August 1826, Indiana; died 22 March 1911; married Joel Hicks 22 December 1844, Owen County, Indiana
11. Joshua Palmer, born 17 December 1828, Shelby County, Indiana; died 1895 Sullivan County, Missouri; married Zilla Ann Haltom 16 November 1895, Owen County, Indiana
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[1] Joshua II Palmer –Frances Stiles Family Group Sheet, compiled by Richard and Gloria Jacoby, Omaha, Nebraska, on file in the Genealogy and Local History Room, Shelbyville-Shelby County Public Library, 57 West Broadway St., Shelbyville, Indiana 46176. The source for the family’s birthdates is said to be an affidavit which John B. Palmer had notarized on 26 April 1913 in Custer County, Nebraska. At that time he was the owner of a family Bible printed in 1834. The affidavit was compiled from a “family Record made by Joshua Palmer SR” which was older than the 1834 Bible.
[2] South Carolina Land Plats 7Q:91, 8 January 1785. FHL microfilm 22619.
[3] Ibid, 6:5, 4 July 1785, FHL microfilm 22546.
[4] Ibid, 24:379, 6 October 1788, FHL microfilm 22552.
[5] South Carolina Land Plats 27Q:431, 20 October 1791, FHL microfilm 22624.
[6] Leah Townsend, South Carolina Baptists, 1670 to 1805 (1935; reprint; Baltimore: reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990), 227.
[7] Joshua II Palmer –Frances Stiles Family Group Sheet, compiled by Richard and Gloria Jacoby
[8] Joshua Palmer II-Frances “Fanny” Stiles Family Group Sheet, compiled by Wayne C. Palmer, Sun City, Arizona, on 25 March 1985. He gives no source for the marriage date. Wayne passed away in 2000.
[9] Joshua II Palmer –Frances Stiles Family Group Sheet, compiled by Richard and Gloria Jacoby.
[10] 1850 U.S. census, District 84, Jennings Township, Owen County, Indiana, p. 60 (back) (stamped), line 20, Fanny Parmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M432, roll 164.
[11] 1850 U.S. census, District 84, Jackson Township, Owen County, Indiana, p. 47 (stamped), line 19, Fanny Palmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M432, roll 164.
[12] 1860 U.S. census, Sullivan County, Missouri, p. 47 (upper left-hand corner), line 29, Fanny Palmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M653, roll 658.
[13] Diane Fitzgibbons, The Glidewell and Allied Families Web Site (http://web.archive.org/web/20031130045907/www.idir.net/~dfitzgibbons/Robert1722.htm : accessed 14 October 2009).
[14] Halifax County, Virginia Deeds, 1784-1790 (Miami Beach, Florida: T.L.C. Genealogy, 1994), 6.
[15] 1790 U.S. census, Laurens County, South Carolina, p. 12 (ink), col. 1, Richard Stiles; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 October 2009); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M637, roll 11.
[16] Laurens County, South Carolina Deed Book, F:364; FHL microfilm 24,082.
[17] Ibid, F:290.
[18] Ibid, F:461.
[19] Ibid, H:113; FHL microfilm 24,083.
[20] Ruth Bowers and Anita Short, Gateway to the West (1989; Baltimore: reprinted for Clearfield Company by Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001), 1:175.
[21] Shirley Keller Mikesell, Butler County, Ohio Land Records, Volume 1: 1803-1816 (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1997), 77, citing Butler County Deeds B:209-210.
[22] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [LDS], “Pedigree Resource File,” database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 19 October 2009, entry for Elizabeth Glidewell (PIN 5033204); submitted by Lois Kay Denaut, Henderson, Nevada.
[23] Willard Heiss, Indiana Source Book: Genealogical Material from The Hoosier Genealogist, 1967-1972 (Indianapolis: Family History Section, Indiana Historical Society, 1981), 207.
[24] Maurice Holmes, Court Records of Franklin County, Indiana (Shelbyville, Indiana: M. Holmes, 1987), 18, citing Common Pleas Court Minute Book B:129.
[25] Ibid, 28, citing Circuit Court Book C:91.
[26] Margaret R. Waters, Indiana Land Entries: Cincinnati District, 1801-1840 (1948; reprint; Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2003), 65.
[27] Ibid.
[28] Union County, Indiana Deed Book A:247; FHL microfilm 1571488.
[29] Joshua Palmer (Franklin County) credit under file, certificate no. 8022, Cincinnati, Ohio, Land Office; Land Entry Papers, 1800-1908, Records of the Bureau of Land Management, Record Group 49, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
[30] Atlas of Union County, Indiana (Chicago, Illinois: J.H. Beers, 1884), 57.
[31] Elinor Edmundson and Maxine Young, Butler County, Ohio Marriage Records, 1803-1834 (Middletown, Ohio: Butler County Chapter of The Ohio Genealogical Society, 1990), 175, citing Butler County Marriage Records 1:20. Rebecca Stiles and James Armstrong were married 29 September 1808.
[32] Ibid, 175, citing Butler County Marriage Records 1:49. Agnes Stiles and James Campbell were married 6 July 1813.
[33] Willard Heiss, Indiana Source Book: Genealogical Material from the Hoosier Genealogist, 1973-1979 (Indianapolis: Family History Section, Indiana Historical Society, 1982), 37. Amy “Styles” married Samuel Stong on 1 October 1818.
[34] “Indiana Marriages Through 1850,” database, Indiana State Library (http://208.119.72.68/INMarriages1850/ : accessed 21 October 2009), entry for Nancy “Styles” and James Arnold, married 24 October 1821 in Union County.
[35] Maurice Holmes, Court Records of Union Co., Indiana, 1821-1845 (Shelbyville, Indiana: M. Holmes, 1988), 104, citing Union County Probate Book B:6. The heirs of “Bird” Stiles were his wife, Charlotte, who had remarried to James Hutson, and children John, Lucinda, and Jesse Merrit Stiles.
[36] Maurice Holmes, Court Records of Franklin County, Indiana (Shelbyville, Indiana: M. Holmes, 1987), 18, citing Will and Probate Records A:18.
[37] 1820 U.S. census, Liberty Township, Franklin County, Indiana, p. 211 (stamped), Joshua Palmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M33, roll 13.
[38] Maurice Holmes, Early Landowners of Union County, Indiana (Indiana?: M. Holmes, 1978?), 63, citing Franklin County Deed Book P:231.
[39] Union County, Indiana Deeds A:43; FHL microfilm 1571488.
[40] Ibid, A:68.
[41] Maurice Holmes, Early Landowners of Johnson County, Indiana (Indianapolis, Indiana: Ye Old Genealogie Shoppe, 1975), 10.
[42] Bureau of Land Management, “Land Patent Search,” database, General Land Office Records (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch : accessed 20 October 2009), entry for Joshua Palmer, Johnson County, Indiana, no. 2695.
[43] Joshua II Palmer –Frances Stiles Family Group Sheet, compiled by Richard and Gloria Jacoby.
[44] Assessed Taxpayers of Shelby County, Indiana: 1828, 1842, 1866 (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), 13. Document found August 2009 in the Genealogy and Local History Room, Shelbyville-Shelby County Public Library, 57 West Broadway St., Shelbyville, Indiana 46176.
[45] 1830 U.S. census, Noble Township, Shelby County, Indiana, folio 13, also numbered 378 and 754 in upper left-hand corner, Joshua Palmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M19, roll 28.
[46] Maurice Holmes, Early Landowners of Shelby County, Indiana (Shelbyville, Indiana: M. Holmes, 1980), 27.
[47] Bureau of Land Management, “Land Patent Search,” database, General Land Office Records (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch : accessed 20 October 2009), entry for Elizabeth Palmer, Shelby County, Indiana, no. 11554.
[48] Maurice Holmes, Early Landowners of Shelby County, 27.
[49] Bureau of Land Management, “Land Patent Search,” database, entry for Nancy Palmer, Shelby County, Indiana, no. 18941.
[50] Colleen Alice Ridlin, Bartholomew County, Indiana Early Marriage Returns, 1821-1838 (Indianapolis, Indiana: Ye Olde Genealogie Shoppe, 1977), 26.
[51] “Marriage Records Shelby County, 1827-1853,” Indiana DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report, series 1, vol. 642 (1983), 5.
[52] Union County, Indiana Deeds E:27; FHL microfilm 1571489.
[53] Margaret R. Waters, Indiana Land Entries, 64.
[54] Shelby County, Indiana Deeds C:97; FHL microfilm 1,403,458.
[55] Jane F. Murphy, “Original Tract Book of Bartholomew County, Indiana,” Indiana DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report series 1, vol. 549 (1976-1977):80.
[56] Bureau of Land Management, “Land Patent Search,” database, General Land Office Records (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch : accessed 20 October 2009), entry for Joshua Palmer, Bartholomew County, Indiana, no. 16317.
[57] Jane F. Murphy, “Original Tract Book of Bartholomew County, Indiana, 80.
[58] Bureau of Land Management, “Land Patent Search,” entry for Byrd Palmer, Bartholomew County, Indiana, no. 20478.
[59] 1840 U.S. census, Haw Creek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana, p. 89 (stamped), Joshua Palmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M704, roll 74.
[60] “Records Found of Taxpayers of Bartholomew County, 1842, 1843, 1845,” Indiana DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report, series 1, vol. 553 (1983): 182.
[61] Owen County, Indiana Deed Book 7:369; FHL microfilm 1313098.
[62] Ibid, 7:371.
[63] Ibid, 7:519.
[64] Ibid, 7:520.
[65] Bureau of Land Management, “Land Patent Search,” entry for Elihu Palmer, Owen County, Indiana, no. 33051.
[66] Ibid, entry for Byrd Palmer. Owen County, Indiana, no.33108.
[67] 1850 U.S. census, District 84, Jackson Township, Owen County, Indiana, p. 47 (stamped), line 19, Fanny Palmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M432, roll 164.
[68] Ibid, Jennings Township, Owen County, Indiana, p. 60 (back) (stamped), line 20, Fanny Parmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M432, roll 164.
[69] Bureau of Land Management, “Land Patent Search,” entry for William Palmer, Sullivan County, Missouri, no. 10072.
[70] Ibid, entry for Elihu Palmer, Sullivan County, Missouri), no. 9985. Elihu “of Livingston County, Missouri.”
[71] Ibid, entry for Joshua Palmer, Sullivan County, Missouri, no. 10068.
[72] 1860 U.S. census, Sullivan County, Missouri, p. 47 (upper left-hand corner), line 29, Fanny Palmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M653, roll 658.
[73] “Cemetery Inscriptions of Sullivan County, Missouri,” Missouri DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report, series 1, vol. 164 (1954):98.
[2] South Carolina Land Plats 7Q:91, 8 January 1785. FHL microfilm 22619.
[3] Ibid, 6:5, 4 July 1785, FHL microfilm 22546.
[4] Ibid, 24:379, 6 October 1788, FHL microfilm 22552.
[5] South Carolina Land Plats 27Q:431, 20 October 1791, FHL microfilm 22624.
[6] Leah Townsend, South Carolina Baptists, 1670 to 1805 (1935; reprint; Baltimore: reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990), 227.
[7] Joshua II Palmer –Frances Stiles Family Group Sheet, compiled by Richard and Gloria Jacoby
[8] Joshua Palmer II-Frances “Fanny” Stiles Family Group Sheet, compiled by Wayne C. Palmer, Sun City, Arizona, on 25 March 1985. He gives no source for the marriage date. Wayne passed away in 2000.
[9] Joshua II Palmer –Frances Stiles Family Group Sheet, compiled by Richard and Gloria Jacoby.
[10] 1850 U.S. census, District 84, Jennings Township, Owen County, Indiana, p. 60 (back) (stamped), line 20, Fanny Parmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M432, roll 164.
[11] 1850 U.S. census, District 84, Jackson Township, Owen County, Indiana, p. 47 (stamped), line 19, Fanny Palmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M432, roll 164.
[12] 1860 U.S. census, Sullivan County, Missouri, p. 47 (upper left-hand corner), line 29, Fanny Palmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M653, roll 658.
[13] Diane Fitzgibbons, The Glidewell and Allied Families Web Site (http://web.archive.org/web/20031130045907/www.idir.net/~dfitzgibbons/Robert1722.htm : accessed 14 October 2009).
[14] Halifax County, Virginia Deeds, 1784-1790 (Miami Beach, Florida: T.L.C. Genealogy, 1994), 6.
[15] 1790 U.S. census, Laurens County, South Carolina, p. 12 (ink), col. 1, Richard Stiles; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 October 2009); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M637, roll 11.
[16] Laurens County, South Carolina Deed Book, F:364; FHL microfilm 24,082.
[17] Ibid, F:290.
[18] Ibid, F:461.
[19] Ibid, H:113; FHL microfilm 24,083.
[20] Ruth Bowers and Anita Short, Gateway to the West (1989; Baltimore: reprinted for Clearfield Company by Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001), 1:175.
[21] Shirley Keller Mikesell, Butler County, Ohio Land Records, Volume 1: 1803-1816 (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1997), 77, citing Butler County Deeds B:209-210.
[22] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [LDS], “Pedigree Resource File,” database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 19 October 2009, entry for Elizabeth Glidewell (PIN 5033204); submitted by Lois Kay Denaut, Henderson, Nevada.
[23] Willard Heiss, Indiana Source Book: Genealogical Material from The Hoosier Genealogist, 1967-1972 (Indianapolis: Family History Section, Indiana Historical Society, 1981), 207.
[24] Maurice Holmes, Court Records of Franklin County, Indiana (Shelbyville, Indiana: M. Holmes, 1987), 18, citing Common Pleas Court Minute Book B:129.
[25] Ibid, 28, citing Circuit Court Book C:91.
[26] Margaret R. Waters, Indiana Land Entries: Cincinnati District, 1801-1840 (1948; reprint; Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2003), 65.
[27] Ibid.
[28] Union County, Indiana Deed Book A:247; FHL microfilm 1571488.
[29] Joshua Palmer (Franklin County) credit under file, certificate no. 8022, Cincinnati, Ohio, Land Office; Land Entry Papers, 1800-1908, Records of the Bureau of Land Management, Record Group 49, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
[30] Atlas of Union County, Indiana (Chicago, Illinois: J.H. Beers, 1884), 57.
[31] Elinor Edmundson and Maxine Young, Butler County, Ohio Marriage Records, 1803-1834 (Middletown, Ohio: Butler County Chapter of The Ohio Genealogical Society, 1990), 175, citing Butler County Marriage Records 1:20. Rebecca Stiles and James Armstrong were married 29 September 1808.
[32] Ibid, 175, citing Butler County Marriage Records 1:49. Agnes Stiles and James Campbell were married 6 July 1813.
[33] Willard Heiss, Indiana Source Book: Genealogical Material from the Hoosier Genealogist, 1973-1979 (Indianapolis: Family History Section, Indiana Historical Society, 1982), 37. Amy “Styles” married Samuel Stong on 1 October 1818.
[34] “Indiana Marriages Through 1850,” database, Indiana State Library (http://208.119.72.68/INMarriages1850/ : accessed 21 October 2009), entry for Nancy “Styles” and James Arnold, married 24 October 1821 in Union County.
[35] Maurice Holmes, Court Records of Union Co., Indiana, 1821-1845 (Shelbyville, Indiana: M. Holmes, 1988), 104, citing Union County Probate Book B:6. The heirs of “Bird” Stiles were his wife, Charlotte, who had remarried to James Hutson, and children John, Lucinda, and Jesse Merrit Stiles.
[36] Maurice Holmes, Court Records of Franklin County, Indiana (Shelbyville, Indiana: M. Holmes, 1987), 18, citing Will and Probate Records A:18.
[37] 1820 U.S. census, Liberty Township, Franklin County, Indiana, p. 211 (stamped), Joshua Palmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M33, roll 13.
[38] Maurice Holmes, Early Landowners of Union County, Indiana (Indiana?: M. Holmes, 1978?), 63, citing Franklin County Deed Book P:231.
[39] Union County, Indiana Deeds A:43; FHL microfilm 1571488.
[40] Ibid, A:68.
[41] Maurice Holmes, Early Landowners of Johnson County, Indiana (Indianapolis, Indiana: Ye Old Genealogie Shoppe, 1975), 10.
[42] Bureau of Land Management, “Land Patent Search,” database, General Land Office Records (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch : accessed 20 October 2009), entry for Joshua Palmer, Johnson County, Indiana, no. 2695.
[43] Joshua II Palmer –Frances Stiles Family Group Sheet, compiled by Richard and Gloria Jacoby.
[44] Assessed Taxpayers of Shelby County, Indiana: 1828, 1842, 1866 (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), 13. Document found August 2009 in the Genealogy and Local History Room, Shelbyville-Shelby County Public Library, 57 West Broadway St., Shelbyville, Indiana 46176.
[45] 1830 U.S. census, Noble Township, Shelby County, Indiana, folio 13, also numbered 378 and 754 in upper left-hand corner, Joshua Palmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M19, roll 28.
[46] Maurice Holmes, Early Landowners of Shelby County, Indiana (Shelbyville, Indiana: M. Holmes, 1980), 27.
[47] Bureau of Land Management, “Land Patent Search,” database, General Land Office Records (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch : accessed 20 October 2009), entry for Elizabeth Palmer, Shelby County, Indiana, no. 11554.
[48] Maurice Holmes, Early Landowners of Shelby County, 27.
[49] Bureau of Land Management, “Land Patent Search,” database, entry for Nancy Palmer, Shelby County, Indiana, no. 18941.
[50] Colleen Alice Ridlin, Bartholomew County, Indiana Early Marriage Returns, 1821-1838 (Indianapolis, Indiana: Ye Olde Genealogie Shoppe, 1977), 26.
[51] “Marriage Records Shelby County, 1827-1853,” Indiana DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report, series 1, vol. 642 (1983), 5.
[52] Union County, Indiana Deeds E:27; FHL microfilm 1571489.
[53] Margaret R. Waters, Indiana Land Entries, 64.
[54] Shelby County, Indiana Deeds C:97; FHL microfilm 1,403,458.
[55] Jane F. Murphy, “Original Tract Book of Bartholomew County, Indiana,” Indiana DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report series 1, vol. 549 (1976-1977):80.
[56] Bureau of Land Management, “Land Patent Search,” database, General Land Office Records (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch : accessed 20 October 2009), entry for Joshua Palmer, Bartholomew County, Indiana, no. 16317.
[57] Jane F. Murphy, “Original Tract Book of Bartholomew County, Indiana, 80.
[58] Bureau of Land Management, “Land Patent Search,” entry for Byrd Palmer, Bartholomew County, Indiana, no. 20478.
[59] 1840 U.S. census, Haw Creek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana, p. 89 (stamped), Joshua Palmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M704, roll 74.
[60] “Records Found of Taxpayers of Bartholomew County, 1842, 1843, 1845,” Indiana DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report, series 1, vol. 553 (1983): 182.
[61] Owen County, Indiana Deed Book 7:369; FHL microfilm 1313098.
[62] Ibid, 7:371.
[63] Ibid, 7:519.
[64] Ibid, 7:520.
[65] Bureau of Land Management, “Land Patent Search,” entry for Elihu Palmer, Owen County, Indiana, no. 33051.
[66] Ibid, entry for Byrd Palmer. Owen County, Indiana, no.33108.
[67] 1850 U.S. census, District 84, Jackson Township, Owen County, Indiana, p. 47 (stamped), line 19, Fanny Palmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M432, roll 164.
[68] Ibid, Jennings Township, Owen County, Indiana, p. 60 (back) (stamped), line 20, Fanny Parmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M432, roll 164.
[69] Bureau of Land Management, “Land Patent Search,” entry for William Palmer, Sullivan County, Missouri, no. 10072.
[70] Ibid, entry for Elihu Palmer, Sullivan County, Missouri), no. 9985. Elihu “of Livingston County, Missouri.”
[71] Ibid, entry for Joshua Palmer, Sullivan County, Missouri, no. 10068.
[72] 1860 U.S. census, Sullivan County, Missouri, p. 47 (upper left-hand corner), line 29, Fanny Palmer; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2009); citing National Archives microfilm M653, roll 658.
[73] “Cemetery Inscriptions of Sullivan County, Missouri,” Missouri DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report, series 1, vol. 164 (1954):98.
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