Palace L. Dwyer

1862-1935

Born 1862

Died 1935

Children include Morton

Palace L. Dwyer was born on 4 January 1862. His given name was written Pallas as often as Palace, and in the newspapers of his last years he was simply P. L. Dwyer. He married Telitha Leigh, who was born in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, on 6 September 1855 and was some six years older than he was.

Their two sons were born in Butler County, Kentucky, just south of Muhlenberg across the Mud River: Morton L. Dwyer on 26 December 1892, and Raymond Hezekiah Dwyer on 6 April 1895. By 1913 the family had moved north into Muhlenberg County, to a farm in the Leigh community near Greenville, the county seat. The neighborhood shares its name with Telitha's own family, the Leighs.

In 1913 Otto A. Rothert published A History of Muhlenberg County, the first full history of the county. In it he traced the old buffalo trails of the region. In the days before settlement, herds of buffalo had worn paths across the county on their way to the salt licks along Mud River. One of those paths, he wrote, led off from the main trail toward Greenville, "through what is now the Pallas Dwyer farm."

In the autumn of 1917, during the First World War, his younger son Raymond was among the Muhlenberg County men who gathered at the courthouse in Greenville and left by special train for Camp Taylor at Louisville. Raymond served as a private in the Army, came home, and in later life moved to Harrison, Arkansas. The elder son, Morton, stayed near his parents, farmed, and carried the rural mail out of Greenville.

Telitha died on 30 May 1934. Palace outlived her by eighteen months. He died at his home in the Leigh community at half past two on the afternoon of Saturday, 14 December 1935, aged 73. His funeral was held at the house at half past one the next afternoon, and he was buried in the family cemetery there, now called the Leigh-Dwyer Family Cemetery. His obituary named his survivors as his two sons, Morton and Raymond Dwyer.

Children

Morton L. Dwyer 1892-1969

Sources

Messenger (Central City, Kentucky), 19 December 1935, obituary of P. L. Dwyer; transcribed at kygenweb.net/muhlenberg/obituaries/obituariesDw.htm.

Otto A. Rothert, A History of Muhlenberg County (Louisville: John P. Morton and Company, 1913), page 12, footnote 1; archive.org, historyofmuhlenb00roth.

The Record (Greenville, Kentucky), 4 October 1917, page 3; Chronicling America, Library of Congress, sn87060049.

Obituary of P. L. Dwyer, Messenger (Central City, Kentucky), 19 December 1935, transcribed by the Muhlenberg County KYGenWeb obituary collection (record kd-st6b-pl-dwyer-obituary-1935); Otto A. Rothert, A History of Muhlenberg County (Louisville: John P. Morton, 1913), page 12, footnote (archive.org historyofmuhlenb00roth; record kd-st6b-rothert-buffalo-trail-1913); The Record (Greenville, Kentucky), 4 October 1917, page 3 (record kd-st6b-camp-taylor-1917); obituary of Morton L. Dwyer, Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro), 26 June 1969; Find a Grave memorials 135717846 (Palace L. Dwyer, giving his birth date and his parents as Winfield Scott Dwyer, 1826-1895, and Sirreney D. White Dwyer, 1829-1900), 135718327 (Telitha Leigh Dwyer) and 58434744 (Raymond Hezekiah Dwyer)

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