Cyril Dampier Palmer of Portreath, Cornwall County, England United Kingdom was born in March 1918 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio United States, and died at age 24 years old on October 27, 1942 in Île de Batz, Finistere County, Brittany France. Cyril Palmer was buried at Runnymede Memorial Panel 65. in United Kingdom.
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The year I am unable to recall, but it was in February Black History Month. The journalist actress Oprah Winfrey had a program out entitled the Slave Narrative. The actor
Samuel Jackson would come on and talk about the Palmer Plantation in Georgia. This was important to me because my father has told me that his great grandfather was half black and half native American from the Creek Nation. this information was important to me because I had assumed that our roots were from Florida.
Years later, I was talking to one of my aunts and stated that my grandfather was not from Florida but was from Georgia.
Sometime around about 1980 I had visited a friend in Rice Borrow Georgia. We went to a Methodist Church that had on its corner stone the last name Palmer. Asking around I met a young lady that had shared the same last name. I told her the story of how no one could tell us where my grandfather came from, just that he had jump off a train in Tuskaloosa, Alabama. He had seen the Hargrove girls and fell in love with one of them. This young lady to whom I had told the story to, said the same just opposite. her Grand Father jump on a train in Georga and was never to be seen again. I wonder?
I'm a Founder of AncientFaces and support the community answering questions & helping members make connections to the past (thus my official title of Founder & Content and Community Support ). For me, it's been a labor of love for over 20 years. I truly believe with all of my heart that everyone should be remembered for generations to come.
I am 2nd generation San Jose and have seen a lot of changes in the area while growing up. We used to be known as the "Valley of Heart's Delight" (because the Valley was covered with orchards and there were many canneries to process the food grown here, which shipped all over the US) - now we have adopted the nickname "Capital of Silicon Valley" and Apple, Ebay, Adobe, Netflix, Facebook, and many more tech companies are within a few miles of my current home in San Jose (including AncientFaces). From a small town of 25,000, we have grown to 1 million plus. And when you add in all of the communities surrounding us (for instance, Saratoga, where I attended high school, living a block from our previous Mayor), we are truly one of the big cities in the US. I am so very proud of my hometown. For more information see Kathy - Founder & Content and Community Director My family began AncientFaces because we believe that unique photos and stories that show who people are/were should be shared with the world.