Mitchell County Georgia Obituaries Joseph B. Palmer 1919 ****************************************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ****************************************************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sam Luckey Oct 2002 Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/mitchell.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Obituary of Joseph B. Palmer as written in "The Camilla Enterprise" dated 4 Apr 1919. Camilla, Georgia. A gloom was cast over the town last Friday morning when the news came that Joe Palmer, with the American Army in France, had died in the service of his country. The telegram from the War Department received by his mother, Mrs. Laura Palmer, briefly stated that Joe B. Palmer had died from injuries received 15 Mar 1919. Further details of his injuries and death have not been received by his family yet, but it is supposed that he died from no injuries received in battle, his mother having had several letters from since the Armistice, one of them written just a few days before his death, and he has been in good health and was expecting to be on his way home by this time. The death of the young soldier was a sad blow to his loved ones, particularly at this time when his homecoming was was being looked forward to as a certainty. Among friends here the sailing of the 82nd Division, of which Joe was a member, has been one of the chief topics of conversation recently and no one doubted that in a few weeks Joe would be coming home with the rest of the boys. Joe Palmer left Camilla on 19 December 1917, with a number of other young men from this county entering the service of our country. Less than six months later he went across to the war zone where eventually he took part in some of the hardest fighting of the war. In the Argonne Forest, St. Mihiel and many other notable battles, the fame of which has been published throughout the world, he fought as only a red-blooded American can fight and, miraculously, came through it all without a wound. Mitchell county is proud to number such a soldier among those who represented her in the greatest of wars. he gave his young life to his country, and having finished his service died where he fought. He was a member of Company L, 328th Infantry. In civil life Joe was highly esteemed by all who knew him and he was beloved by a large number of friends. Since childhood he had been a member of the Baptist church of this city. He was about 24 years of age. He is survived by his mother, two brothers, Messrs T. C. and Dan Palmer and six sisters, Mrs W. W. Adams, Mrs G. C. Burson, and Misses Mattie, Helen, Louise and Lucy Palmer. the sympathy of many friends throughout the county goes out to the family in their sorrow.