Gladys Evelyn Palmer

Female29 September 1906–16 March 1976

Brief Life History of Gladys Evelyn

When Gladys Evelyn Palmer was born on 29 September 1906, in Trenton, Hitchcock, Nebraska, United States, her father, Charles Edgar Palmer, was 24 and her mother, Bessie May Waite, was 22. She married Peter Jerome King on 10 August 1926, in Kearney, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Upper Driftwood Township, Hitchcock, Nebraska, United States in 1910 and Montrose, Montrose, Colorado, United States in 1935. She died on 16 March 1976, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 69.

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Family Time Line

Peter Jerome King
1905–1981
Gladys Evelyn Palmer
1906–1976
Marriage: 10 August 1926
Jerome Palmer "Jerry" King
1928–2012
Jacqueline Elaine King
1931–2000
Gwendlyn Gale King
1939–2023

Sources (10)

  • Gladys E King, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Gladys Evelyn Palmer, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
  • Gladys King in entry for Pete Jerome King, "Colorado, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    10 August 1926Kearney, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States
  • Children (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (2)

    World Events (8)

    1907 · Not for profit elections

    Age 1

    The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.

    1909 · Garden of the Gods Park

    Age 3

    In 1879, railroad tycoon, Charles Elliott Perkins bought 240 acres whrere The Garden of the Gods is located, and planned to use it as a summer home. Perkins died in 1907 before he could establish it as a public park. Perkin's children donated the now 480 acres to the city of Colorado Springs, to become a public park.

    1927

    Age 21

    Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

    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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