Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Wyatt Palmer


Okay, I'm back to working on the Palmers again.

The only reason why I'm so determined with these wonderful ancestors of mine is I feature them in my 2009 release of Not Guilty of Love. Wouldn't it be great if I can go back one more generation before I write the last chapter?

On the 1870 census, Minerva Palmer (who seemed to live close to the Lamberts---possibly the last slaveholders) had 3 children before she married Spence(r) Lambert sometime before 1880: Charles,4, Wyat(t),3, and Sam, almost a year.

Wyatt Palmer was born October 1868. On the 1900 Cleburne Township, Monroe County, AR census, he was in his second marriage to Ollie. They had a daughter, Mary, 3, born in 1897. She did have a step-brother and step-sister.

In 1910, Wyatt was 42, Mary was 13, and my great-grandmother Minvera Brown, 17, and her younger brother who was a twin to Ellis, 14, Louis Brown, 14, lived with their uncle. That's Minerva and Louis.

I have not found Wyatt on the 1920 and 1930 censuses, but I'm checking. If he had held off dying until after 1912, I can request his birth certificate. Keep your fingers crossed.