"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 28, No 10, p 39, Feb. 29, 1872. In North Stonington, Conn., Feb. 18th, 1872, Mr. Abel Palmer, aged 71 years. Mr. Palmer was born, lived, and died, in the same house on Pendleton Hill. He bore an irreproachable character as a man, neighbor, husband, father, and a Christian. Within a few years, I have preached the funeral sermon of his wife, an estimable woman; a son, who had just entered upon his professional life as a physician; and now that of the father, leaving two sons to survive, one a physician in an infirmary in Michigan, the other residing in the now desolate homestead. The funeral of Mr. Palmer was attended in the Baptist meeting-house on Pendleton Hill, by a large concourse of people. who came to pay their last tribute of respect to their aged fellow citizen, and to the memory of a good man and a Christian. Sermon from Ecclesiastes 3: 2 - "A time to be born, and a time to die." "The righteous shall be held in everlasting remembrance." S. S. G. http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jonsaunders