This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fuller/Palmer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/igB.2ACE/1929.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Jackie, I have replied to a couple of your messages left on the Fuller family site, but felt you had not received them. My grandmother, Lillie, was the sister of your Grandfather James. She and her husband, Thomas Jefferson (T.J.) Palmer, became the legal guardians of me and my sister when we were practically babies so we knew well someof their brothers and sisters. I knew Uncle Will (William David), Uncle Irvin, Uncle George and Uncle John and their wives. I was named for Aunt Bettie (Elizabeth) who had died about 1924 be fore I was born. Uncle Hiram died soon after he was pictured in the 1935 Fuller family reunion photo. All the brothers are in the family reunion photo. I was born in 1936 and can picture in my mind the faces of Uncle James and Uncle Henry but I did not know them well. I remember both with beautiful white hair. My sister, Joy, and I spent many wonderful times at both the Palmer and Fuller homeplaces as children. Icphenia and Francis Marion died before I was born so I didn't know them. I loved their old homeplace and the "spooky" old organ in the back parlor. There was also a framed hand embroidered mememto of Robert, the youngest brother who died when he was 18 months old. Just a few years ago, when I made my first visit to Aunt Bettie's reopened homeplace on Copper Mountain (across the road from the Fuller homeplace and it is probably the old Horton homeplace where Icphenia was raised) I saw little Robert's grave alongside the graves of Icphenia, Francis Marion, Bettie and her husband, Worley Purcell. I had never been there before because the home was closed up and overgrown with weeds and brush since Bettie's death. Now, her great grandson has added an addition to the original two over two log home and lives there. I was in Uncle Will's Store often before he died and ,while I was growing up, Grandmother bought my clothes at Uncle Irvin's store. She was given a discount, I'm sure, because it was expensive to shop there and she only bought when she found a bargain. My sister and I would take anything home that we liked for her to see. Didn't have to even sign our names. The clerks just put it in a bag for us. That stote was Fuller & Hillman in Kingsport, Tennessee. Uncle Irvin and my grandmother were extremely close and are buried head to head at Oak Hill Cemetery in Kingsport. He always gave us ice cream money when we saw him. I remember meeting your mother and it has to be at a family reunion in the country or on a visit to Kingsport. My grandparents didn't travel at all. Did you have siblings? I remember a Robert and a Faye. Any idea who they were? Hope to talk to you personally. Contact my email please.