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Here is an excerpt from my uncle's (unpublished) memoirs. Lorenzo may be a connection?
"I was born on the hottest day in August (21st) 1919, according to my mother. My father's name was Clarence Frederick Palmer and my mother's name was Lila Fern (Dillingham) Palmer. Their first child was George Palmer who passed on at an early age. Their second son was born on May 16, 1917. We lived in Isabella county in central Michigan, our address was Rosebush R.F.D. This town is north of the county seat but the farm we lived on was not far from Mt. Pleasant, which is the county seat. In addition to Mt. Pleasant High School, from which my parents graduated, Central Michigan University is also located there.
My maternal grandparents were Lorenzo Dow and Sedeliah (Williamson) Dillingham, their family included three girls named: Lottie, Laura, and Lila, and one boy named George. They also lived in Mt. Pleasant when my mother was going to high school. This grandfather was a carpenter.
Dow and Deliah's daughter Lottie was stricken with an incurable disease around 1900 and they sought out a Christian Science Practitioner for her and she was cured. Their son George suffered from epilepsy, and C.S. treatments were not fully effective for him. The family was living at Lake George, Michigan (before they moved to Mt. Pleasant), and George was a young boy when he had a seizure, fell into the lake and drowned.
Deliah and her daughter Lila remained faithful to Christian Science for the rest of their lives. However, Lottie did not stay with C.S., yet her daughters Francis and Mildred were members of the church.
Lottie had married Otto Gaedke who worked on the railroad and they lived in Hammond, Indiana. They adopted Lorenzo Henderson and had five children of their own including; Laura, Frances, Mildred, Volney and Robert. They later moved to Perry, Michigan where they rented a farm."
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