Born while the family lived in Casper, Wyoming -- near Midwest. Roy Richard Robertson had found work in 1926 in Midwest (nearby) for the U.S. Survey of the Tea Pot Dome.
My mother remembers riding in the car to the cemetery, in the backseat; her brother Richard, herself, and "the little casket. It was just a plain box. It was so cold, and only daddy got out of the car."
Their short time in Casper was marked by this sad loss. Otherwise, mother remembers that the little house they lived in was very nice. The house still stands on South Durbin Street just below 5th Street.
Mother also remarked that "my mother had her weepy days, and though she'd never say, I was sure that it was for her little baby."
The baby was named Charles for Helen Palmer Robertson's father - and Howard for her brother Charles Howard Palmer. Called Howard, he died when he was 17 of typhoid, in 1899 in Lebanon Missouri. The Palmer family moved away from Lebanon to Wagoner, Oklahoma the following year circa 1899/1900.
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My mother remembers riding in the car to the cemetery, in the backseat; her brother Richard, herself, and "the little casket. It was just a plain box. It was so cold, and only daddy got out of the car."
Their short time in Casper was marked by this sad loss. Otherwise, mother remembers that the little house they lived in was very nice. The house still stands on South Durbin Street just below 5th Street.
Mother also remarked that "my mother had her weepy days, and though she'd never say, I was sure that it was for her little baby."
The baby was named Charles for Helen Palmer Robertson's father - and Howard for her brother Charles Howard Palmer. Called Howard, he died when he was 17 of typhoid, in 1899 in Lebanon Missouri. The Palmer family moved away from Lebanon to Wagoner, Oklahoma the following year circa 1899/1900.
https://goo.gl/maps/rzzfm
Born while the family lived in Casper, Wyoming -- near Midwest. Roy Richard Robertson had found work in 1926 in Midwest (nearby) for the U.S. Survey of the Tea Pot Dome.
My mother remembers riding in the car to the cemetery, in the backseat; her brother Richard, herself, and "the little casket. It was just a plain box. It was so cold, and only daddy got out of the car."
Their short time in Casper was marked by this sad loss. Otherwise, mother remembers that the little house they lived in was very nice. The house still stands on South Durbin Street just below 5th Street.
Mother also remarked that "my mother had her weepy days, and though she'd never say, I was sure that it was for her little baby."
The baby was named Charles for Helen Palmer Robertson's father - and Howard for her brother Charles Howard Palmer. Called Howard, he died when he was 17 of typhoid, in 1899 in Lebanon Missouri. The Palmer family moved away from Lebanon to Wagoner, Oklahoma the following year circa 1899/1900.
https://goo.gl/maps/rzzfm
My mother remembers riding in the car to the cemetery, in the backseat; her brother Richard, herself, and "the little casket. It was just a plain box. It was so cold, and only daddy got out of the car."
Their short time in Casper was marked by this sad loss. Otherwise, mother remembers that the little house they lived in was very nice. The house still stands on South Durbin Street just below 5th Street.
Mother also remarked that "my mother had her weepy days, and though she'd never say, I was sure that it was for her little baby."
The baby was named Charles for Helen Palmer Robertson's father - and Howard for her brother Charles Howard Palmer. Called Howard, he died when he was 17 of typhoid, in 1899 in Lebanon Missouri. The Palmer family moved away from Lebanon to Wagoner, Oklahoma the following year circa 1899/1900.
https://goo.gl/maps/rzzfm
