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From: "wmcconne" <>
Subject: Re: [MS-CENSUS-LOOKUP] [MS-CEN] 1870 Alcorn Co/PALMER
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 18:39:01 -0500


I did make an error in that Lizie and Adaline are shown as born GA not TN. You are probably right that Lizie is Elisha but Lizie is definitely listed as a female.

Bill Mc
-----Original Message-----
From: <>
To: <>
Date: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: [MS-CENSUS-LOOKUP] [MS-CEN] 1870 Alcorn Co/PALMER


>Thanks for all your hard work Bill. A lot of my folks got missed in 1870.
>As far as Alcorn and Tishomingo, I was told there were parts of the census
>that were unreadable for transcribing.
>
>The family next door to the older John Palmer is their son Elisha b. 1848
>GA. He married Mary A. Little in 1867 Tishomingo, MS. You are right about
>Sarah age 10 being the daughter of John and Eliza. She marries Jacob
>Sanders in 1861, Alcorn Co.
>
>Sometime after John and Eliza divorce, John marries Mrs. Mary Beene Lange
>who has a daughter named Alice. I don't know if they marry in MS or AR.
>But they are in Arkansas by 1880. In 1884 they have a son named Robert.
>
>This is probably more than you wanted to know....but I enjoy telling the
>story of my family. :)
>
>I'm going to look further into the Martha Parker/Jackson you found. You
>never know....
>
>Thanks again,
>Carolynn
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "wmcconne" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 3:05 PM
>Subject: Re: [MS-CENSUS-LOOKUP] [MS-CEN] 1870 Alcorn Co/PALMER
>
>
>> Carolynn,
>>
>> I'm having no luck. I think they were either missed in the 1870 census or
>Eliza(Mary Elizabeth) has remarried and changed the girls names (or maybe
>the girls married by 1870). Mary and Martha were certainly old enough to be
>married. I see a marriage for a Martha Parker to a Jackson (no first name
>given) in 1870 in Tippah Co, MS.
>>
>> I am wondering about the family next door to John Palmer (the elder) in
>1870 Alcorn Co. They don't seem to fit in any 1860 Palmer family
>> Lizie Palmer 22 TN (possible wrong age?)
>> Adaline Palmer 21 TN ( another wrong age? - one of Eliza's girls?)
>> Mary Palmer 1 MS (fits Alice dau of John in 1880 AR census)
>> Sarah Palmer 10 MS (fits Sarah on one of the family trees for John &
>Eliza)
>>
>> Bill Mc
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: <>
>> To: <>
>> Date: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 10:31 AM
>> Subject: Re: [MS-CENSUS-LOOKUP] [MS-CEN] 1870 Alcorn Co/PALMER
>>
>>
>> >Thanks Bill, I appreciate your help.
>> >
>> >Carolynn
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "wmcconne" <>
>> >To: <>
>> >Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:40 AM
>> >Subject: Re: [MS-CENSUS-LOOKUP] [MS-CEN] 1870 Alcorn Co/PALMER
>> >
>> >
>> >> Haven't found anything yet but I'll take a look. Just wanted to make
>sure
>> >I was chasing the right person.
>> >>
>> >> Bill Mc
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: <>
>> >> To: <>
>> >> Date: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 6:12 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: [MS-CEN] 1870 Alcorn Co/PALMER
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >Yes, that's the one.....There are 3 generations of John Palmers
>though.
>> >In
>> >> >fact all three are living in the same household in 1870 Corinth,
>Alcorn
>> >Co.,
>> >> >MS.
>> >> >
>> >> >It is the daughter of John S. Palmer (age 37 in 1870) we can't seem to
>> >find
>> >> >after the 1868 divorce of her parents. They are found in Jackson,
>> >Madison
>> >> >Co. TN in 1860. Martha is then 8 years old. She may have gotten
>married
>> >> >around that time. I don't know.
>> >> >
>> >> >The older John L. Palmer (age 64 in 1870) also had a daughter named
>> >Martha.
>> >> >She married Hensley Z. Stegall in 1867 Alcorn, MS.
>> >> >
>> >> >Do you think you have found something Bill?
>> >> >
>> >> >Carolynn
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >----- Original Message -----
>> >> >From: "wmcconne" <>
>> >> >To: <>
>> >> >Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 3:40 PM
>> >> >Subject: Re: [MS-CEN] 1870 Alcorn Co/PALMER
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >> Are you looking for the Martha that was the daughter of John Palmer
>who
>> >> >all the family trees at rootsweb say married all his wives in AR but
>had
>> >all
>> >> >his children in MS?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Bill Mc
>> >> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> >> From: <>
>> >> >> To:
><>
>> >> >> Date: Monday, September 04, 2006 3:44 PM
>> >> >> Subject: Re: [MS-CEN] 1870 Alcorn Co/PALMER
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >Not my Martha after all....Thank you for looking Linda and Rebecca.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >----- Original Message -----
>> >> >> >From: "Linda Farmer" <>
>> >> >> >To: <>
>> >> >> >Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 1:35 PM
>> >> >> >Subject: Re: [MS-CEN] 1870 Alcorn Co/PALMER
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> 1870 Mississippi, Alcorn, Township 2 Range 8, Corinth PO
>> >> >> >> Roll: M593_720; Page: 371
>> >> >> >> Sept. 3, 1870
>> >> >> >> HH# 23/23
>> >> >> >> Palmer, John, 21, farmer, MS
>> >> >> >> ----- Marthy, 21, keeps house, MS
>> >> >> >> ----- William, 2, MS
>> >> >> >> Walker, James, 23, farm hand, MS
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> >> >> On Monday, September 04, 2006 3:44 PM, <>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> > May I have a lookup for Marthy Palmer b. 1849 MS? I have been
>> >> >looking
>> >> >> >for
>> >> >> >> > a Martha Palmer b. 1852. Hoping this is her. Her parents
>> >divorced
>> >> >in
>> >> >> >> > 1868. I found her father, grandparent and other siblings
>living
>> >in
>> >> >> >Alcorn
>> >> >> >> > this census.
>> >> >> >> > Thanks so much,
>> >> >> >> > Carolynn
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>
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