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JOHN PALMER, farmer and stock-raiser, post-office Sarcoxie, was born in Almanance county, N. C., Nov. 22, 1844. His parents, Thomas and Agnes Palmer, were also natives of North Carolina. When about fourteen years of age our subject moved with his parents to Missouri locating on a farm in Webster county; four years later the family moved to Batesville, Ark.; subject was raised entirely on a farm and received a fair education. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted in Company B, Second Missouri Cavalry, and served until the close of the war; participated in the battles of Augusta, Ark., Pilot Knob and Independence, Mo., Blue Mills, Kan., and others of considerable importance; came to Jasper county in 1874, locating on a farm near Reeds, and five years later purchased and moved upon his present farm, to which he has added many improvements, and has engaged in farming and stock-raising on a extensive scale. Mr. Palmer was married in Osage county, this state, July 11, 1868, to Miss Sarah F., daughter of Ryland W. and S. A. Giles, natives of Tennessee. Mrs. P. was born Sept. 5, 1851. From this union there have been two children: Thomas Ryland, born Aug. 13, 1870, and Mary Frances, born April 29, 1872, died March 29, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer are members of the M. E. Church (South); they have a splendid farm of 140 acres, mostly well improved; neat dwelling, good barn, young orchard, etc. Mr. P. is a practical farmer.