Biography of G. A. Palmer - Conway Co, AR

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        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 98

G. A. Palmer, a representative farmer of Gregory Township, was born in
Weakley County, Tennessee, December 13, 1849. He was the second of
three children born to John W. and Margie E. (Johnson) Palmer. Two are
now living, and both reside in this county. Parents were natives of
Tennessee, where father followed merchandising, and while returning
from a trip to New York, where he had been to purchase goods, he was
taken sick on an Ohio River steamer, and died in 1851. He was a Mason
and an active man in his day and time. Mrs. Palmer died in 1880. G. A.
Palmer, the subject of this sketch, was educated at Vicksburg, Miss.,
and at the early age of thirteen years began for himself, and
afterwards settled in this county. On January 14, 1869, he was married
to Mary J. Weems, a native of Mississippi, and to this union have been
born twelve children, named William H., Charley M., John W., Sarah A.,
Margie E., James A., Mattie A., Eliza E., Alfred L., Joseph E., and
Mary J.; the others died in infancy, unnamed. Mr. Palmer is now nicely
situated on a good farm of 160 acres, with 100 under cultivation, on
which he pursues general farming, raising a variety of crops.
Socially, he is a member of the Odd Fellows, Hope Lodge, No. 38; he is
also quite active politically, and an earnest advocate of the
principles of the Democratic party. He and wife are members of the
Missionary Baptist Church, in which he holds the office of deacon.