Brief Life History of Samuel Eugene
When Samuel Eugene Palmer was born on 14 February 1848, in Texas, United States, his father, Anthony Claiborne Palmer, was 30 and his mother, Martha Almira Dougharty, was 25. He married Elizabeth Brown Ross on 15 December 1868, in Walker, Texas, United States. He died on 24 July 1930, in his hometown, at the age of 82, and was buried in Fairfield, Freestone, Texas, United States.
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- Star E Palmer, "United States Census, 1900"
- S E Palmer, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Samuel Eugene Palmer, "Find A Grave Index"
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1851
Historical Boundaries: 1851: Freestone, Texas, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · Texas Is Restored to the Union
Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.
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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