Ellen Tubbs Palmer [1826-1904]

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Born Ellen Tubbs Merrill in 1826 in Auburn, Maine and died January 24, 1904 in Collbran, CO. Married Asa Palmer on April 2, 1847, in Winnebago County, Illinois. 

"During the last twenty years this highly esteemed and most worthy lady, whose death occurred on the 24th day of January, 1904, was a resident of Mesa county, Colorado, and an ornament to the citizenship of the whole Plateau valley, useful in every way among its people and illustrating in her daily life the best traits of that lofty American womanhood which meets every requirement of its situation and conditions, and discharges with skill and fidelity every duty incident to its lot. She was a native of the state of Maine, born at Perkham, Somerset county, and the daughter of Marshfield and Lucy C. (Tubbs) Merrill. Both parents were natives of Maine and were reared, educated and married in that state. Some time after their marriage they moved to Winnebago county, Illinois, and were there engaged in farming until their deaths; the mother dying in 1837, aged thirty-eight, when her daughter was about eight years of age; the father in 1849, aged sixty-seven. Mrs. Palmer passed her girlhood in her native state, remaining there until she was seventeen, when she joined her parents in Illinois. After arriving at her new home she taught school until her marriage, in 1846, to Asa Palmer, after which she and her husband moved to Iowa and in 1858 from there to Kansas, where they remained until 1883, actively occupied in farming on an extensive scale. In 1883 they came to Colorado and took up their residence on a ranch near what is now Plateau City, and there Mr. Palmer died in 1896 aged seventy-four. Mrs. Palmer continued to live on the ranch and superintend its operations, and was successful in her work, cultivating the land with vigor and skill and conducting all the affairs of the farm with intelligence and in a progressive way. Her husband was an enterprising and progressive man. He built the first sawmill in Plateau valley and was instrumental in the erection of other works of public usefulness. They were the parents of seven children, Mary L., Clement K., Merrill E., Mercy R., Albina, Asa and Henry L. Clement K. died in 1894 at the age of forty-two. The others are living."
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