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Aquilla Palmer

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Aquilla Palmer

Birth
Clark County, Ohio, USA
Death
22 Dec 1908 (aged 76)
Homer, Champaign County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Homer, Champaign County, Illinois, USA
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Homer Pioneer is Taken
Aquilla Palmer, Long Time Resident of Village
Champaign Daily News
Wednesday December 23, 1908 page 1
Homer, Ill., Dec.23. – Aquilla Palmer died Tuesday from cancer of the nose. He was the third son of Landon and Anna Palmer and was born April 30, 1832, in Clark county, Ohio. He came to Illinois with his parents at the age of six years and lived on a farm in the vicinity of Homer until he grew up. For a while he followed carpentering and built several first houses in Homer. He assisted in moving old Homer to the present site.
On March 6, 1859, he married Huldah Clark near Sidney. They moved on a farm three and three-quarters miles southeast of Homer. After thirty years of active farm life they retired and moved to Homer. Of their ten children, five passed away in childhood. Those surviving, besides his widow, are: Landon of Fairmount; Henry G. of Palmer, Kan.; Albert of Danville; Louanni, wife of G. H. Astell of Homer, and Sophia, wife of Jack Breedlove, also of Homer.
The funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Thursday morning at the house, Rev. W. F. Stevenson of the Methodist Episcopal church, officiating. Interment will be made at Lost Grove cemetery.
(Transcribed by the Homer Historical Society)
Homer Pioneer is Taken
Aquilla Palmer, Long Time Resident of Village
Champaign Daily News
Wednesday December 23, 1908 page 1
Homer, Ill., Dec.23. – Aquilla Palmer died Tuesday from cancer of the nose. He was the third son of Landon and Anna Palmer and was born April 30, 1832, in Clark county, Ohio. He came to Illinois with his parents at the age of six years and lived on a farm in the vicinity of Homer until he grew up. For a while he followed carpentering and built several first houses in Homer. He assisted in moving old Homer to the present site.
On March 6, 1859, he married Huldah Clark near Sidney. They moved on a farm three and three-quarters miles southeast of Homer. After thirty years of active farm life they retired and moved to Homer. Of their ten children, five passed away in childhood. Those surviving, besides his widow, are: Landon of Fairmount; Henry G. of Palmer, Kan.; Albert of Danville; Louanni, wife of G. H. Astell of Homer, and Sophia, wife of Jack Breedlove, also of Homer.
The funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Thursday morning at the house, Rev. W. F. Stevenson of the Methodist Episcopal church, officiating. Interment will be made at Lost Grove cemetery.
(Transcribed by the Homer Historical Society)

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