OBIT: Henry Champion PALMER, 1942, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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HENRY C. PALMER

  Henry Champion Palmer, 83, died at the National Hotel, Monday morning at 9 
o'clock, after a brief illness.  He was born March 24, 1859, at Mushoppen, Pa, 
and had been a railroad engineer for thirty-seven years, first on the Lehigh 
Valley Road, then at Jenningston, W.Va., for the Jennings brothers.  He was 
transferred to Jennings, Md., in 1912, and worked there till he retired a few 
years ago.  He had made his home at the National Hotel for the past two years.
  Mr. Palmer was twice married.  Surviving from his first marriage are one 
daughter, Mrs. Hattie Runyon, and one son, Howard Palmer, Jonestown, Pa.; and by 
the second marriage, three daughters, Mrs Fredrick Yommer, Grantsville, Mrs. 
Gladys Wilt, Jennings, and Miss Bertha Palmer, Mt. Lake, three step-daughters, 
Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins, Barton, Md., Mrs. Mary Bonser, Sayre, Pa., Mrs. Nettie 
Harren, Athens, Pa. and two step-sons, Jacob Hunsinger, Towands, Pa., and Jesse 
Hunsinger, Uffington, Pa.  He also leaves one brother, Elmer Palmer, Murray 
Mines, Pa., nineteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
  Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon in the Grantsville Methodist 
Church with Rev. V. R. Gillum, local pastor officiating.  Hymns, "Going Down the 
Valley", and "Abide With Me" were sung by the Methodist Choir.  A duet, "Ivory 
Palaces" was sung by Mrs. Harry Yommer and Mrs. Harry Hoover.  The pallbearers 
were Milton Rodamer, Jason Wilburn, Llewellyn Blocher, Henry F. Durst, and J. U. 
Stanton.  Interment was in the Grantsville cemetery under the direction of 
William Winterberg, local mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, July 2, 1942