When William Zemira Palmer was born on 3 December 1882, in Orderville, Kane, Utah, United States, his father, James William Palmer, was 22 and his mother, Olive Myrtle Black, was 17. He married Rebecca Stevens on 19 September 1904, in Rancho Dublan, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 3 Blanding, San Juan, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 27 August 1945, in Blanding, San Juan, Utah, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Blanding City Cemetery, Blanding, San Juan, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1887: San Juan, Utah Territory, United States 1896: San Juan, Utah, United States
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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.
Possible Related NamesWilliam Zemira Palmer was born into a polygamous family in Orderville, Utah. His family moved to Mexico when he was very young. He married Rebecca Stevens in the Mormon colonies in northern Mexico. H …
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