Isaac Palmer (34222174)
In 1747, Isaac and Ann (McAuley) Palmer were born within a few months of each other in Northumberland County, Virginia with Isaac born November 1, 1747 and Ann born June 1747. Almost a century later, they passed away within a few months of each other in Christian County, Kentucky. Isaac died April 24, 1843, at age 95, and Ann lived just a few months longer, to age 96. They were known to be eldest people in that part of the state.
They were married in Wiconico, Northumberland County, Virginia. They were baptized, when young, by Lewis Lunsford, one of the early Baptist preachers in Virginia, and they adhered to that church as long as they lived with unshaken fidelity. They had nine children: Ellen, John, Nancy, Elihu, Lewis, Thomas, Ann, Charles, and Elizabeth.
Isaac, in his quiet, stubborn way, took part in the contest of the American Revolution. He served as a Private in the Virginia Militia. Isaac appears upon the roll of Revolutionary soldiers as a Minute Man, and, commencing in 1834, received a pension of eight dollars per month for his services under the Act of June 7, 1832. His pension claim number was S31293, and he initially served in Captain Nutt's Virginia Company at Gwyns Island. As a Minute Man, he served whenever called upon from 1776 until the fall of 1781, seven years and twenty-two days in all. After serving with Captain Nutt, he was called upon by Colonel Thomas Gaskins "whenever the British were likely to make their appearance in the Bay," and by Captain Beacham in Little York.
John McAuley Palmer, one of his grandsons and the 15th governor of Illinois, recalled what he thought to be his excellent wit in terming Cornwallis "Cobwallis," because he said, "they shelled the corn off him in Yorktown!" In old age, Isaac's heroes were Washington and Lafayette, the latter of whom he remembered by the name of "De Marcus," to whom, as he said, General Washington compelled the shelled Cobwallis to deliver his sword at Yorktown." On the other hand, he disliked Thomas Jefferson. He insisted that Mr. Jefferson was an infidel, and had opposed Washington. Those were, in his estimation, unpardonable offenses.
Isaac's life was spent in the quiet pursuits of agriculture, following the simple methods of his day. Grandson John Palmer recalled that he prided himself in the fact that he "owed no man," and that he attended the monthly church meetings which were always held on Saturday, and followed by Sunday preaching, with unfailing regularity. He had aspirations, however, for his boys, and "bound them out" to learn trades. Seven years was then the term of an apprenticeship. For example, his third son, Louis D. Palmer, when fourteen years of age, was bound to Archibald Mcllvaine, a cabinet-maker doing business in Lexington, Kentucky, where he remained until his twenty-first birthday, June 3, 1802, when his apprenticeship expired. He then worked at his trade, supporting his parents until their death in 1843 and also supporting his sisters. Note: The personal stories in this narrative were drawn from Personal Recollections of John M. Palmer The Story of an Earnest Life - Cincinnati, The Robert Clarke Company, Published 1901 and the obituary of Louis D. Palmer.
Isaac Palmer is listed among other Christian County soldiers on a bronze tablet at the entrance to Riverside Cemetery in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. This commemoration was erected in 1910 by the Colonel John Green Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Over a hundred years later, in 2012, his name was listed once again with other Christian County soldiers of the American Revolution on a monument in the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery West in Hopkinsville, Kentucky by the John Manire Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Isaac and Ann Palmer were buried in one of many small country cemeteries in the area, eventually taken over by cattle grazing. The cemetery was named Benjamin Radford Cemetery, and, interestingly, Benjamin Radford was one of the men Isaac listed within Isaac's pension application as a neighbor who could verify his service in the American Revolution.
The new gravesite will be dedication by the Daughters of the American Revolution from all over the US on October 1, 2021 at 1:oo p.m.
Biography written by Shirley Knapp Stirling
Contributor: Rae Victor (47012853) • [email protected]
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In 1747, Isaac and Ann (McAuley) Palmer were born within a few months of each other in Northumberland County, Virginia with Isaac born November 1, 1747 and Ann born June 1747. Almost a century later, they passed away within a few months of each other in Christian County, Kentucky. Isaac died April 24, 1843, at age 95, and Ann lived just a few months longer, to age 96. They were known to be eldest people in that part of the state.
They were married in Wiconico, Northumberland County, Virginia. They were baptized, when young, by Lewis Lunsford, one of the early Baptist preachers in Virginia, and they adhered to that church as long as they lived with unshaken fidelity. They had nine children: Ellen, John, Nancy, Elihu, Lewis, Thomas, Ann, Charles, and Elizabeth.
Isaac, in his quiet, stubborn way, took part in the contest of the American Revolution. He served as a Private in the Virginia Militia. Isaac appears upon the roll of Revolutionary soldiers as a Minute Man, and, commencing in 1834, received a pension of eight dollars per month for his services under the Act of June 7, 1832. His pension claim number was S31293, and he initially served in Captain Nutt's Virginia Company at Gwyns Island. As a Minute Man, he served whenever called upon from 1776 until the fall of 1781, seven years and twenty-two days in all. After serving with Captain Nutt, he was called upon by Colonel Thomas Gaskins "whenever the British were likely to make their appearance in the Bay," and by Captain Beacham in Little York.
John McAuley Palmer, one of his grandsons and the 15th governor of Illinois, recalled what he thought to be his excellent wit in terming Cornwallis "Cobwallis," because he said, "they shelled the corn off him in Yorktown!" In old age, Isaac's heroes were Washington and Lafayette, the latter of whom he remembered by the name of "De Marcus," to whom, as he said, General Washington compelled the shelled Cobwallis to deliver his sword at Yorktown." On the other hand, he disliked Thomas Jefferson. He insisted that Mr. Jefferson was an infidel, and had opposed Washington. Those were, in his estimation, unpardonable offenses.
Isaac's life was spent in the quiet pursuits of agriculture, following the simple methods of his day. Grandson John Palmer recalled that he prided himself in the fact that he "owed no man," and that he attended the monthly church meetings which were always held on Saturday, and followed by Sunday preaching, with unfailing regularity. He had aspirations, however, for his boys, and "bound them out" to learn trades. Seven years was then the term of an apprenticeship. For example, his third son, Louis D. Palmer, when fourteen years of age, was bound to Archibald Mcllvaine, a cabinet-maker doing business in Lexington, Kentucky, where he remained until his twenty-first birthday, June 3, 1802, when his apprenticeship expired. He then worked at his trade, supporting his parents until their death in 1843 and also supporting his sisters. Note: The personal stories in this narrative were drawn from Personal Recollections of John M. Palmer The Story of an Earnest Life - Cincinnati, The Robert Clarke Company, Published 1901 and the obituary of Louis D. Palmer.
Isaac Palmer is listed among other Christian County soldiers on a bronze tablet at the entrance to Riverside Cemetery in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. This commemoration was erected in 1910 by the Colonel John Green Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Over a hundred years later, in 2012, his name was listed once again with other Christian County soldiers of the American Revolution on a monument in the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery West in Hopkinsville, Kentucky by the John Manire Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Isaac and Ann Palmer were buried in one of many small country cemeteries in the area, eventually taken over by cattle grazing. The cemetery was named Benjamin Radford Cemetery, and, interestingly, Benjamin Radford was one of the men Isaac listed within Isaac's pension application as a neighbor who could verify his service in the American Revolution.
The new gravesite will be dedication by the Daughters of the American Revolution from all over the US on October 1, 2021 at 1:oo p.m.
Biography written by Shirley Knapp Stirling
Contributor: Rae Victor (47012853) • [email protected]
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Isaac Palmer (34222174)
In 1747, Isaac and Ann (McAuley) Palmer were born within a few months of each other in Northumberland County, Virginia with Isaac born November 1, 1747 and Ann born June 1747. Almost a century later, they passed away within a few months of each other in Christian County, Kentucky. Isaac died April 24, 1843, at age 95, and Ann lived just a few months longer, to age 96. They were known to be eldest people in that part of the state.
They were married in Wiconico, Northumberland County, Virginia. They were baptized, when young, by Lewis Lunsford, one of the early Baptist preachers in Virginia, and they adhered to that church as long as they lived with unshaken fidelity. They had nine children: Ellen, John, Nancy, Elihu, Lewis, Thomas, Ann, Charles, and Elizabeth.
Isaac, in his quiet, stubborn way, took part in the contest of the American Revolution. He served as a Private in the Virginia Militia. Isaac appears upon the roll of Revolutionary soldiers as a Minute Man, and, commencing in 1834, received a pension of eight dollars per month for his services under the Act of June 7, 1832. His pension claim number was S31293, and he initially served in Captain Nutt's Virginia Company at Gwyns Island. As a Minute Man, he served whenever called upon from 1776 until the fall of 1781, seven years and twenty-two days in all. After serving with Captain Nutt, he was called upon by Colonel Thomas Gaskins "whenever the British were likely to make their appearance in the Bay," and by Captain Beacham in Little York.
John McAuley Palmer, one of his grandsons and the 15th governor of Illinois, recalled what he thought to be his excellent wit in terming Cornwallis "Cobwallis," because he said, "they shelled the corn off him in Yorktown!" In old age, Isaac's heroes were Washington and Lafayette, the latter of whom he remembered by the name of "De Marcus," to whom, as he said, General Washington compelled the shelled Cobwallis to deliver his sword at Yorktown." On the other hand, he disliked Thomas Jefferson. He insisted that Mr. Jefferson was an infidel, and had opposed Washington. Those were, in his estimation, unpardonable offenses.
Isaac's life was spent in the quiet pursuits of agriculture, following the simple methods of his day. Grandson John Palmer recalled that he prided himself in the fact that he "owed no man," and that he attended the monthly church meetings which were always held on Saturday, and followed by Sunday preaching, with unfailing regularity. He had aspirations, however, for his boys, and "bound them out" to learn trades. Seven years was then the term of an apprenticeship. For example, his third son, Louis D. Palmer, when fourteen years of age, was bound to Archibald Mcllvaine, a cabinet-maker doing business in Lexington, Kentucky, where he remained until his twenty-first birthday, June 3, 1802, when his apprenticeship expired. He then worked at his trade, supporting his parents until their death in 1843 and also supporting his sisters. Note: The personal stories in this narrative were drawn from Personal Recollections of John M. Palmer The Story of an Earnest Life - Cincinnati, The Robert Clarke Company, Published 1901 and the obituary of Louis D. Palmer.
Isaac Palmer is listed among other Christian County soldiers on a bronze tablet at the entrance to Riverside Cemetery in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. This commemoration was erected in 1910 by the Colonel John Green Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Over a hundred years later, in 2012, his name was listed once again with other Christian County soldiers of the American Revolution on a monument in the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery West in Hopkinsville, Kentucky by the John Manire Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Isaac and Ann Palmer were buried in one of many small country cemeteries in the area, eventually taken over by cattle grazing. The cemetery was named Benjamin Radford Cemetery, and, interestingly, Benjamin Radford was one of the men Isaac listed within Isaac's pension application as a neighbor who could verify his service in the American Revolution.
The new gravesite will be dedication by the Daughters of the American Revolution from all over the US on October 1, 2021 at 1:oo p.m.
Biography written by Shirley Knapp Stirling
Contributor: Rae Victor (47012853) • [email protected]
View Memorial
In 1747, Isaac and Ann (McAuley) Palmer were born within a few months of each other in Northumberland County, Virginia with Isaac born November 1, 1747 and Ann born June 1747. Almost a century later, they passed away within a few months of each other in Christian County, Kentucky. Isaac died April 24, 1843, at age 95, and Ann lived just a few months longer, to age 96. They were known to be eldest people in that part of the state.
They were married in Wiconico, Northumberland County, Virginia. They were baptized, when young, by Lewis Lunsford, one of the early Baptist preachers in Virginia, and they adhered to that church as long as they lived with unshaken fidelity. They had nine children: Ellen, John, Nancy, Elihu, Lewis, Thomas, Ann, Charles, and Elizabeth.
Isaac, in his quiet, stubborn way, took part in the contest of the American Revolution. He served as a Private in the Virginia Militia. Isaac appears upon the roll of Revolutionary soldiers as a Minute Man, and, commencing in 1834, received a pension of eight dollars per month for his services under the Act of June 7, 1832. His pension claim number was S31293, and he initially served in Captain Nutt's Virginia Company at Gwyns Island. As a Minute Man, he served whenever called upon from 1776 until the fall of 1781, seven years and twenty-two days in all. After serving with Captain Nutt, he was called upon by Colonel Thomas Gaskins "whenever the British were likely to make their appearance in the Bay," and by Captain Beacham in Little York.
John McAuley Palmer, one of his grandsons and the 15th governor of Illinois, recalled what he thought to be his excellent wit in terming Cornwallis "Cobwallis," because he said, "they shelled the corn off him in Yorktown!" In old age, Isaac's heroes were Washington and Lafayette, the latter of whom he remembered by the name of "De Marcus," to whom, as he said, General Washington compelled the shelled Cobwallis to deliver his sword at Yorktown." On the other hand, he disliked Thomas Jefferson. He insisted that Mr. Jefferson was an infidel, and had opposed Washington. Those were, in his estimation, unpardonable offenses.
Isaac's life was spent in the quiet pursuits of agriculture, following the simple methods of his day. Grandson John Palmer recalled that he prided himself in the fact that he "owed no man," and that he attended the monthly church meetings which were always held on Saturday, and followed by Sunday preaching, with unfailing regularity. He had aspirations, however, for his boys, and "bound them out" to learn trades. Seven years was then the term of an apprenticeship. For example, his third son, Louis D. Palmer, when fourteen years of age, was bound to Archibald Mcllvaine, a cabinet-maker doing business in Lexington, Kentucky, where he remained until his twenty-first birthday, June 3, 1802, when his apprenticeship expired. He then worked at his trade, supporting his parents until their death in 1843 and also supporting his sisters. Note: The personal stories in this narrative were drawn from Personal Recollections of John M. Palmer The Story of an Earnest Life - Cincinnati, The Robert Clarke Company, Published 1901 and the obituary of Louis D. Palmer.
Isaac Palmer is listed among other Christian County soldiers on a bronze tablet at the entrance to Riverside Cemetery in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. This commemoration was erected in 1910 by the Colonel John Green Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Over a hundred years later, in 2012, his name was listed once again with other Christian County soldiers of the American Revolution on a monument in the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery West in Hopkinsville, Kentucky by the John Manire Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Isaac and Ann Palmer were buried in one of many small country cemeteries in the area, eventually taken over by cattle grazing. The cemetery was named Benjamin Radford Cemetery, and, interestingly, Benjamin Radford was one of the men Isaac listed within Isaac's pension application as a neighbor who could verify his service in the American Revolution.
The new gravesite will be dedication by the Daughters of the American Revolution from all over the US on October 1, 2021 at 1:oo p.m.
Biography written by Shirley Knapp Stirling
Contributor: Rae Victor (47012853) • [email protected]
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