NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11278 SHELBY CO – JOHN WILLIAM PALMER – Palmer, McCune, Palmer, Knight, Harvey, Edwards, Woodson 11278 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883. pp. 713-4. JOHN WILLIAM PALMER, of the firm of McCune, Palmer & Knight, manufacturers of plug tobacco, was born near Shelbyville, Shelby county, Kentucky, January 1, 1839. When he was two years of age his parents removed to Bowling Green, Kentucky, and from there to Missouri when he was sixteen, where they settled on a farm in Lincoln county, near Ellsbury, where he lived with them until manhood. In 1861 he began to work at the carpenter’s trade, following it a short time, when he settled on a farm near Ellsbury, where, with farming, he engaged in saw-milling, and ran a threshing machine up to 1877, when he came to Pike county, and first settled on a farm near Prairieville and farmed one year, when he came to Louisiana and became a member of the tobacco manufacturing company of McCune, Palmer & Knight, and is also its general manager. He has been three times married. His first wife was Mildred A. Harvey, of Lincoln county, Missouri, whom he married January 25, 1864, who died August 17, 1866, by whom he has one child, Virginia L. His second wife was Alice M. Edwards, of Pike county, Missouri, whom he married December 16, 1874, who died February 18, 1876, by whom he had one child, Nonie A. He married for his third wife, Mrs. Margaret R. Woodson, of Pike county, Missouri, May 15, 1878. They have two children, twins, Joseph and Elizabeth. He is a member of the First Baptist Church, of Louisiana. He is a member of Union Lodge No. 1875, K. of H., of Louisiana. SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html