Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-09-29

away down the valley, and clothes
with much of local historic interest, is
that at decadent Tuckertown. few
miles west of Loganyille, in the town
ship of Washington, hard by Hillpoint
just beyond the Westfield boundary
Sank county The region was set
tied some seventy years ago, and
here rest many of the pioneers OF
that period 1t was something Of an
Adventist community in the begin
ming, but now the church at the grave
yard is Lutheran, like nearly all the
countryside up and down Narrows
prairie.
Here sleep Planners and Dearholts,
Costerisans and Corsons, Hales, Har-
rises and Harris, Kilbourns, Lyndons
Purdys, Sebrings, Thompsons and
several score more-all names as
sociated intimately with the earliest
colonization of the region and borne
today by many worthy descendants
widely separated. Some birthdays
craven upon the stones extend even
back into the century which saw the
birth of the nation.
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Possibly the most notable grave is
that of William Palmer, stout aboli-
zionist and an assemblyman in 1865
and 1866, who came from Flushing,
Ohio, in 1854, settling in Loganyille,
and, a contracting carpenter by oc-
cupation, built the first frame house
in the village, later occupied by Frank
Dorm, but long since gone He was in
terested with c. P. Logan, for whom
the village was named, in erecting the
primal sawmill in the place, and with
J. D. Mackey in 1861 in founding the
original gristmill In the mid COS he
owned the farm adjoining kirkland at
Devils lake, later known as the Hop
kins tract, now part of the state
park. He~resided for about two years
at, 115 Fifth avenue, Baraboo, then
retied to his fine farm in Wesfield,
where he died in 1873. at the age OF
68. He was born in 1906 at Hayre de
Grace, Maryland, and was married in
1888 at Philadelphia to Elizabeth My
ers. From 1923 to 1884 he lived in
the Quaker city, moving then to Ohio.
In 1850 he went to California for two
consin. He had nine children, two
sons serving through the Civil war,
one, Charles W., being wounded in
the shoulder by the same ball that
killed Mr. Richards, Westfield neigh
Dor. Mrs. PALMER died in 1898, aged
90. Mr. Palmer was an aggressive
abolitionist before the Civil war and
of the Thaddeus Stevens type, always
a stout, intimate and vociferous friend
of the negro. One Of his daughters,
Mrs. Florence Palmer Bunker, last liv-
ing child of the family, resides with
a daughter, wife of Reedsburg
banker. Beside Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer
in the Tuckertown cemetery sleeps a
little son Of twelve years who died in
1862 Mr.. Palmer at one time owned
760 acres through which Narrows
creek wound on it's way down the val
ley to confluence with the Baraboo at
Ableman.
Back in 1865, the war not yet ended,
Mr. Palmer was force in having the
legislature ratify the amendment to
the federal constitution abolishing and
prohibiting slavery, and on February
8 of that year, in the assembly, he
Yoa5o q forv;d oddracc i'm which COM
menting upon the speech of O. F.
Jones of Dodge, he, according to a
newspaper of the time, administered
a severe castigation to the northern
defenders of slavery. The most de-
testible creature on Gods earth was,
in his opinion, the man who, born IN
the north and nurtured under the in
fiuence of free institutions, with no
personal interest in the perpetuation
of slavery, yet lends his talents to the
advocacy of slavery, doing the devils
dirty work without pay from the mere
love of it." Naturally enough there
was applause" as the paper notes.
The vote in the assembly that follow
ed was 72 for ratification and Is, all
democrats, against, yet two democrats
in the lower house voted with the re-
publicans and six in the senate. Cen
eral A. w Starks, the other Sank
county member. twas absent because
of the critical illness of a son at
Baraboo" It is needless to say that
the nation. ratified the amendment. In
the assembly of 1885, Mr.. Palmer was
chairman of the committee on local
legislation and a member of the com
mittee on roads and bridges, while in
1866 he was on the committee on town
and county organization. r. M. Strong
was his associate from Sank in 1860
Another well known pioneer, whose
tomb is at Tuckertown was Rev. Grin
B. Kilbourn, born 101 years ago, now
long at rest. He was Litchfield
Connecticut, man, going to Luzerene
county. PENNSYLVANIA. at IT wears