Name: Paul M. Palmer Sr.
From: The Daily American Republic, Poplar Bluff, Missouri
Dated: September 16, 1996
Submitted by: Robert King

Paul M. Palmer Sr., 89, of Poplar Bluff, formerly of St. Louis, died Saturday, Sept. 14, 1996, at Lucy Lee Healthcare System following a lengthy illness.  Mr. Palmer was born Aug. 19, 1907, in Murphysboro, Ill.  He retired from restaurant management an 1975 with Schnuck's Markets in St. Louis and was of the Catholic faith.  In 1963, he married Ruby Joyce Williams, formerly of Rombauer.  She preceded him in death in March 1993.  Survivors include nine children, Mary Bernard of Poplar Bluff, Dorothy Rocklage, Brenda Reppell, Nora Sita, Charles Dillon and Ray Dillon, all of St. Louis, John Palmer, Jim Palmer and Robert Palmer, all of California; one brother, Father Herbert of California; one sister, Sister Mary Roberts O.S.B., of Indiana; 37 grandchildren; and 29 great-grandchildren.  Visitation will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Jay B. Smith Funeral Home in Mapelwood, Mo. The Mass of Christian burial will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Luke's Parish in Richmond Heights, Mo.  Burial will be in Murphysboro, Ill.  The family request memorials be made to Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Poplar Bluff.

Name of Deceased: Mary Paterson
Newspaper: Daily Missouri Republican, St. Louis, MO
Date:  June 25, 1841
Submitters Name: Candi

Obit: Departed this life, after a few days illness, on the evening of the 24th, aged 18 months. Mary - Infant daughter of Nathaniel and Winefred Paterson.
The friends and acquaintances of the family are requested to attend the funeral this evening at 4 o'clock from the residence on Olive street between 4th and 5th.

Dated 18 Feb. 1875 Delphine Phillips, colored, died on the 11th, aged 116 years.  Her husband who survives, is nearly 100 years old.  Deceased had resided in St. Louis since the war.  She was born in New Orleans, and distinctly remembered the Spanish rule over that place.
[Source: Pioneer Times. Oct. 1987, Vol 11, No 4. Typed by Joanne Scobee Morgan]

Former St. Louis Man Dies Here; Body to Old Home
John Brooks Purcell, aged 31 years, and residing with his mother at 2818 Sacramento street, died Sunday evening after a prolonged illness. Deceased’s mother and Robert C. Purcell, a brother from St. Louis, was in El Paso at the time of death and has arranged to return the remains to St. Louis. Shipment will be made by Nagley & Kaster. Deceased had resided in El Paso for 14 years.
(Source: El Paso Herald, El Paso, Texas, December 6, 1915. Submitted by Dale Donlon)

 John P. PYCHLISKI
Yesterday morning, John P. Pychliski, son of John K and Mary E. Pychliski, aged one year and 13 days.
Funeral will take place at 9 o'clock this morning from the family residence on 11th St. near Or?en St.
(Source: Daily Missouri Republican- St. Louis, July 11, 1850.)