Data from great granddaughter, Charlotte Palmer. Habersham County became White County in 1857. Burial: Mt. Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Lumpkin Co. GA near Shoal Creek Community
ADAMS.gedcom sources:(1)Habersham and White Counties Cemetery Book; (2)"The History of White County", Article by Ellene Jackson, page 289 showed 9 children. [For some reason the ADAMS gedcom had a Flossie that we'd not heard of in this line and Bonnie L. was under the wrong father.]
US Census 1860, White Co., GA, Jul 19 1860, 48/48, Sheet 437, age 9.
US Census 10 May 1910, White Co. GA, Shoal Creek Dist; 245/238; Sheet 254, age 59.
FGR Family Search LDS file AFN:VWFJ-LD
William "Billy" Ledger Palmer of GA has the ancestors of SILAS C PALMER on Tribal Pages:NE GA KIN
UPDATE: "The Palmers" by Charlotte Palmer on July 2005 in PA.
Silas enjoyed music and played the fiddle. He was in reasonably good health and died at the ripe old age of 98 years.
Burial: Mt. Zion Baptist Church #2 Cemetery near Cleveland, Georgia in Lumpkin, County as was Nancy, his wife, who died 10 years before him.
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