Samuel Moyer
Palm (b:7/12/1882) and Florence
Isabel Rohrbach (b:5/3/1884) were married on May 15, 1902 in Reading, PA
at the young ages of 19 and 18. They had four children. William Henry (b:10/27/1903),
Sarah Isabel (b:5/28/1905), Samuel M. Jr. (b:1/31/1909),
and Mary Louise (b:5/12/1914). Moyer was the maiden name of Samuel senior's
mother Lydia.
William Henry (called Henry and Hank) went to Cornell University to become
an engineer, Sarah went to nursing school in Allentown, PA, Sam did not
go to college, and Mary, although accepted by Hood College, fell in love
and did not enroll. William was probably named after his paternal grandfather.
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On the left is a picture of Florence with
her daughters Mary (my mother) and Sarah (my aunt) around 1918 or
1919. I am guessing at the year because it looks like Mary might be
about 4 or 5 years old and Sarah about 13 or 14. The background is
a row of the garages. It could be their Paxtang backyard because the
garages were on an alley behind the houses. On the right Florence is in an earlier picture with her sons Henry and Sam and with her daughter Sarah.
The 1890 census records were all destroyed. The 1900 census for Reading, PA shows my grandfather living at 1124 Cotton Street with his father, mother, and a border named Charles Briel who was a day laborer aged 33. 18 year-old Sam was a clerk at the telegraph office. Notice the month and year of their births - great grandfather William September 1856 - great grandmother Lidia/Lydia June 1859 - granddad Sam July 1882.
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The 1910 census shows the Palm family
living at 38 South 10th Street in Allentown,
PA and my mother's father was a plant manager in Easton, PA for the
telephone company by the time he was 27.
The 1920 census shows the family
living at 3639 Brisban Street in Paxtang, PA and her father was an
auto salesman. He was listed as age 37 in the January census.
The 1930 census shows the family
living at 514 Laurel Road in Yeadon, PA and her father was an engineer
for the telephone company and listed as age 47. The census was taken in April
and in July her mother, Florence, died.
The 1940 census shows Samuel
living on Evans Road in Lower Gwynedd, PA with just three folks in the household - Granddad Samuel Palm, Great granddad William Palm, and Granddad Palm's wife Jean. Samuel was an engineer
for the telephone company and listed as age 57. The census was taken April 25, 1940.
Samuel (my granddad) died 3/13/1943 at age 60 years, 8 months, and 1 day. He died of Glomerulonephritis (acute inflammation of the kidney). I was almost 11 years old. His father, William (my great granddad), died about 1954. |
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