HomeMy WebLinkAboutBCHC PR 04_28_08
For details contact: Dr. Charles R. Schultz, Chairman BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1200 Goode Street College Station, Texas 77840 Phone: 979.696.8483; 979.862.1555 P R E S S R
E L E A S E For immediate release APRIL 27, 2008 College Station, Texas – The Brazos County Historical Commission is hosting a public dedication of the Isom Palmer Historic Marker on
Saturday, May 3, 2008, at 11:00 a.m. The ceremony will be at the Bryan City Cemetery, 1111 North Texas Avenue. The public is invited. Isom Palmer (1811-1874), whose name has various
spellings, was born to Martin and Sarah (Hardwick) Parmer. In 1825, the Palmer (Parmer) family moved to Texas, settling near Nacogdoches the next year, and participated in the 1826 Fredonian
Rebellion. Palmer fought under Capt. John M. Bradley during the Siege of Bexar in late 1835. He then served as sergeant-at-arms at the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence
at Washingtonon-the-Brazos. He later wed Laura E. Dougherty and moved to Brazos County in the early early 1870s. To read the narrative on the marker and learn more about Isom Palmer,
go to http://bchc.co.brazos.tx.us/node/66. To learn more about the history of Brazos County and the Brazos County Historical Commission, please refer to our website at http://bchc.co.brazos.tx.us/.
For more information, contact Henry Mayo at hpmayo1@verizon.net or 979.693.5818. ###