Brief Life History of Caroline
When Caroline Palmer was born on 5 October 1813, in Barre City, Washington, Vermont, United States, her father, Aaron Palmer, was 33 and her mother, Edna Loomis, was 30. She married Lyman Roscoe Barnum on 1 March 1837, in Barre Town, Washington, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Enosburg, Franklin, Vermont, United States for about 10 years and Union, Iowa, United States in 1895. She died on 22 March 1887, in Afton, Union, Iowa, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Afton, Union, Iowa, United States.
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- Caroline Brown in household of Jehiel R Brown, "United States Census, 1850"
- Caroline Palmer, "Vermont, Births and Christenings, 1765-1908"
- Caroline Palmer, "Vermont, Marriages, 1791-1974"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English palmer(e) ‘palmer, pilgrim to the Holy Land’ (Anglo-Norman French palmer, Old French pa(l)mer, paum(i)er), so called from the palm branch carried by such pilgrims. The term was also used to denote an itinerant monk who traveled from shrine to shrine under a vow of poverty. This surname is also common in Ireland, where it has been recorded from the 13th century onward.
Irish: when not of English origin (see 1 above), a surname adopted for Gaelic Ó Maolfhoghmhair (see Milford ), the name of an ecclesiastical family.
Swedish (mainly Palmér): ornamental name formed with palm ‘palm tree’ + the suffix -ér (a derivative of Latin -erius) or -er (from German).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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