FARMINGTON TIMES, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Thursday, November 22, 1900 OBITUARY Mr. Archer Jacob Palmer was born in Floyd County, West Virginia, March 18th, 1869, and died of typhoid fever at his residence in Bonne Terre, Missouri, November 11th, 1900, aged 31 years, 7 months and 24 days. On the 8th of March, 1899, he was united in marriage with Miss Lucy Long at Bonne Terre, Mo. He leaves a wife, mother, sister and a brother to mourn his loss, besides a number of relatives and friends. When two years of age he removed with his parents from West Virginia to Missouri, where he lived until his death. Archer Palmer was a Christian, a devoted and loving husband, a man of kind and generous impulses and a faithful friend. He died where manhood's morning almost touches noon, while the shadows still were falling toward the West. He had not passed on life's highway the stone that marks the half-way place, and while still in love with life, enraptured with the world, he passed to silent and pathetic dust. And yet after all, it may best; just in the happiest, sunniest hour of all life's voyage, while eager winds are kissing every sail, to dash against the unseen rock, and in an instant hear the billows roar a sunken ship. For whether in mid-sea or among the breakers of the farther shore, a wreck must mark at last the end of each and all. J. S. G.