According to the publication "A Heritage History of Beautiful Green Lake Wisconsin" Jonathon Palmer was born in Hartford Ct. in 1773. He met and married Lydia Bunnell b. Dec. 22.1777 in Ct. They both lived to old age and died in Green Lake Co. Wis. Their son Elias Palmer was born in Hartford Connecticut in 1799. We know through the census that he met and married Harriet Rogers. They lived in New York state and bore four children before they moved to Wisconsin in 1832. According to land records of 1848 we know that Elias owned about 350 acres of land. The following is from the history article "In 1847, they(Elias and family)came to Green lake C0. to begin farming. Their homestead land here was on the site of the present Puchyan Pottery farm a little west of the present Puchyam bridge on County Trunk J. Although Elias Palmer had followed the sea in his earlier life, he now became a successful farmer. His duties with Indian skirmishes and other things(including blazing trails between St. Marie and Stevens point) in this new pioneer country often took him away from the family cabin, but his wife Harriet was a courageous woman.

Their only neighbors at that time were Pottawatomie Indians, with the exception of three whit settlers whose homes were 20 miles away. Mrs. Palmer knew there was no one to call for help in case the Indians molested her, but she did not fear. At one time an Indian did come to the cabin and asked her for some articles while he stood there toying with a butcher knife. She told him she could not spare what he wanted and he became sassy. So she picked up the long handled shovel nearby and the Indian disappeared very quickly". In another story related in the article is about a tornado that capsized a large boat on the lake killing several people. Harriet at age 70 was credited with saving the life of the local paster even tho her own daughter was killed in the incident.

By 1850, the census shows their son George W. (our line)had met and married Alice ?. The 1860 census shows Elias and two of his sons George W. and Augustus, along with their families were living together on the same farm. In the Missouri census of 1870 shows George W. and his family living in Atichson co. Mo., a son, Winford, had been born in Iowa. At this time Georges son Walter G.(our line)was eight years old.

We don't know when George W. and his family arrived in Kansas but his son Winford died and was buried in the Elk falls Kansas cometary in 1884. Georges Wife Mary died in 1886 and is buried in the same cemetery. George W. himself died in 1905 of some type of injury according to the Elk Falls Journal news paper. They are buried side by side in Elk Falls cemetery.

Walter G. met and married Vandilla (dillie) Burch and they were married in 1886. They built what was said to be a very nice and modern home less than a mile from Dillies Parents log cabin twelve miles north of Sedan Kansas. They were very successful farmers and ranchers. They raised eight children before the moved to Sedan Ks..

I don' t know the time sequence but I know my grandfather (Clark) and grandmother(Maggie Cunningham) lived in and farmed the "old Palmer place" for several years. My father (Delmer) told me that he stayed on the farm by himself and worked cattle when he was sixteen years old.

Eventually the house was dismantled and the wood used to build living quarters attached to a filling station in Peru Ks.