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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Palmer, Lew S
Lew Palmer Dead
L. S. Palmer, known to the old timers of Chase county as Lew Palmer, died at St. Lukes hospital, Wellington, Kansas, Saturday, January 22, 1933 after an illness of several months.
The funeral was held at the home of his sister, Mrs. W. C. Austin in this city, Tuesday, January 31st, and interment was in Prairie Grove cemetery. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. L. Mitchell, pastor of the Methodist church.
Lew Palmer was a farmer, stockman and auctioneer in Chase county and for a number of years owned a livery stable in Cottonwood Falls. He was well known to most of the men of Chase county from 18__to 1905
From Chase county he went to Marion county where he continued farming and stockraising for several years. He managed the Moore ranch northwest of Marion, Kansas, and about 1910 went to Texas as manager of Mr. Moore's cattle ranch there.
After leaving Mr. Moore's employ ______?___ shipped cattle and _____?_______ Los Angeles, California, from Canadian, Texas. Usually when he shipped hogs to Los Angeles he would ship a train load at a time.
He moved to Wellington, Kansas about 1930 and that had since been his home.
Mr. Palmer was born at Summerfield, Madison Co., Ohio, January 5, 1865, the son of Rev. and Mrs. Samuel C. Palmer. When he was six years old his parents moved to a farm which his father homesteaded about 16 miles southwest of Marion, Kansas, where they lived until about 1885 when they moved to Middle Creek in the western part of Chase county.
Mr. Palmer was married July 4, 1886 at Cottonwood Falls to Miss Emma Pringle, of Middle creek, and to this union three children were born. May Pauline, now Mrs. Ra__ Dittemore of Wichita, Kansas; Albert S. Palmer of Folsom, N.M.; and Frank C. Palmer of Miami, Florida, all of whom survive him.
Mr. Palmer was again married on January 9, 1924, at Wichita, Kansas to Mrs. Francis Pelpmeyer.
Lew Palmer was impulsive, aggressive, a hard worker, and always an optimist. He would always make good money on a rising market and lose it on a falling market. He delighted in gathering a crowd around him when he had a good story to tell. He liked people and most people liked him. His explosive "doggone, doggone, doggone," will remain with those who knew him as long as they live.
Big hearted, generous, sometimes reckless, always in the thick of things, both in business and politics, many times well off financially, and as often broke, he always had a world of friends and most of them will remember some especially amusing incident in their relations with him.
He was 68 years old by the calendar but he had packed several hundred years of living into that span. God rest his soul.
Mr. Palmer is survived by his widow, Mrs. Frances Palmer of Wellington, Kansas, his daughter and two sons, also two grandchildren, Virginia Jane and William, children of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Palmer; five sisters, Mrs. W. R. Richards of Emporia; Mrs. L. W. Pratt, Miami, Oklahoma; Mrs. W. C. Austin, Cottonwood Falls; Mrs. S. E. Lee, Topeka; Mrs. A. L. Salmans, Detroit, Michigan; and their families and many more distant relatives.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Jan. 28, 1933
by Lorna Marvin
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