Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2025 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== USGenNet Data Repository Notice: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ============================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. ============================================================================= Detroit Free Press Sunday, 27 December, 1903 [Victim of Dec. 26, 1903 Pere Marquette head-on train wreck] GEORGE T. PALMER, 508 Trumbull avenue, has been an American Express messenger for the past thirty years. He is 56 years of age, and celebrated his birthday anniversary on Christmas day. MR. PALMER is the express messenger who was literally buried under the oysters at the time of the Michigan Central wreck at Vienna about three years ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Grand Rapids Press Monday, 28 December, 1903 GEORGE T. PALMER, the messenger for the American Express company, whose escape from the splintered remains of the combination mail and express car was the one topic of con- versation at the scene of the wreck, Saturday night, died at U.B.A. hospital at noon yesterday. His body was removed to Durfee & McInnes' morgue and prepared for burial, after which it was shipped to the family home, 502 Trumbull street Detroit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detroit Free Press Thursday, 31 December, 1903 At the home at 502 Trumbull avenue yesterday morning at 11 o'clock were held the last sad funeral services over the remains of GEORGE T. PALMER, the American express mes- senger who met his death in the Pere Marquette wreck. The funeral was a sad contrast to the festivities at the PALMER home last week. On Christmas day MR. PALMER had celebrated his fifty-sixth birthday and the house had been decorated with the bright red and the green holly, and the anniversary had been one long to be remembered. Yesterday the home was also decorated, but with different plants and different flowers. Floral offerings, emblematic of death, brought by relatives and friends were heaped upon the casket and adorned the room. Rev. Henry T. Miller, of the Trumbull Avenue Presbyterian church, conducted the services. They were simple, consisting only of a scriptural reading and a prayer and two hymns. The remains were taken to Woodlawn cemetery for burial. I. V. Carter, R. U. King, J. H. Sanford, of the express company, J. M. Thurber, R. M. Ross, and M. Menna were the pallbearers. Among the beautiful floral offerings was a wheel of Easter lillies and violets, sent by friends in the employ of the express company. ===============================================================================