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Daniel Palmer
Daniel Palmer was born in Virginia, Dec. 26, 1826, a son of Daniel and Nancy (Roles) Palmer. His parents came to Wayne County, Ind. He learned the tanner's trade, and worked at it eleven years, and since then has been engaged in farming. Dec. 27, 1855, he married Martha H. Smith, a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, born Sept. 17, 1830. They have four children- Elva C., wife of Benjamin Price; Arthur B., Laura B. and Joseph W. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer are members of the Society of Friends. Mr. Palmer's father, Daniel Palmer, is a native of Fauquier County, Va., born in 1795. He was married in 1822 to Nancy Roles, and in 1828 came to Wayne County, Ind., and settled in Centre Township, and in 1832 purchased eighty acres of school land in Webster Township, and afterward purchased 110 acres in the same township. He and his wife were members of the Baptist church. Mrs. Palmer died May 12, 1862. Mr. Palmer is living with his only remaining child, Daniel. They had a family of four children — Lucinda, Daniel, Margaret and Joseph. Mrs. Palmer's father, Samuel Smith, was born in Virginia in 1802, and when sixteen years of age removed to Columbiana County, Ohio, where he married Huldah Moreland, who was born in 1806. In 1839 they came to Indiana, and settled in Webster Township, Wayne County, where Mr. Smith died in 1862. They had a family of seven children — James, Robert, Martha, Judith, Rachel, Yates and Hannah. Mrs. Smith married Jesse Lundy in 1865, and died in 1871. Joseph Palmer, Jr., volunteered in the late war, September, 1862, in the Sixty-ninth Indiana Regiment, and was killed at Richmond, Ky., Sept. 30, 1862.
Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884. Volume 2