Robert Palmer, his Irish bride Rose Glennon and their son Richard.

My GG Grand Parents Robert Palmer, Rose Glennon and their son Richard Palmer.
This grave is on their old homestead, the house was just above it. He died in the house (Not Kernville) Hot Springs Valley (or Vaughn)

Robert Palmer Rhoads

My GG Grandfather & Grandmother
Robert Palmer And Rose Glennon

HISTORY OF KERN COUNTY CALIFORNIA BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 1914
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified
With Its Growth and Development From the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY WALLACE M. MORGAN

ROBERT PALMER.—That he should have worked his way forward from poverty to independence and, notwithstanding the handicap of being
thrown upon his own resources at an early age before he had secured a
common-school education, should have broadened his mind by self-culture
and habits of close observation, proves that Mr. Palmer was a man of more
than ordinary force of character and energy of purpose. The conditions
that environed his early years were made discouraging by the death of his
father, Edward Palmer, a native Kentuckian and a lifelong resident of the
Blue Grass state, where his death occurred about 1829. About 1834 the
mother, Martha (Patton) Palmer, removed to Illinois with her family and
settled at Jacksonville. At that time Robert, who was born in Kentucky
May 7, 1823, was a lad of eleven years, scarcely ready to take up the
difficult burden of self-support, yet forced to do so by reason of the circumstances
of the family. It was as a miner that he earned a livelihood. While
the work was difficult and physically exhausting he managed to find time
for reading and developed into a manhood of broad mental vision, qualified
in mind and body for the difficult task of pioneering.
The discovery of gold in California changed the entire tenor of the
life of Mr. Palmer, who early in 1850 joined an expedition bound for the
west. The journey was made on horseback and with pack-animals. What
might have been a tedious, uneventful trip was made memorable through
several attacks on the part of savages and Mr. Palmer long carried in his
arm a wound made by an arrow. Fortunately, however, none of the party
was killed and it was without loss that they landed at Hangtown in August,
immediately after which the young gold-seeker went to the Sierras to engage
in placer-mining. After about ten years in the mines of that region he came
to Kern county in 1860 and became interested in the mines at Kernville
(then called Whiskey Flat). During 1862 with three other prospectors he
located and developed placer mines at Claraville. This attempt proved successful.
While working the mines he began to buy cattle and selected the LH brand
for his herd, later he used ISI. In 1876 he purchased from J. M. Lewis a tract now known as the Palmer ranch. To this raw land in Hot Springs valley he brought his
family and from that time until his death. May 30, 1905, he gave his attention
to the raising of cattle and to general farming, meanwhile winning the
warm friendship of associates and co-workers throughout the valley. So
great was his popularity that he could have had local offices had he chosen,
but, while always voting the Democratic ticket, he steadfastly refused to
run for public office.
The marriage of Mr. Palmer at San Francisco June 14, 1866, united
him with Miss Rose Glennon, a native of Kells, County Meath, Ireland, and
a daughter of James and Mary (Brady) Glennon, the former superintendent
of a large estate in that county. During May, 1863, Miss Glennon crossed
the ocean to New York City. January 13, 1864, she embarked on a vessel
for Panama and on the 8th of February she landed in San Francisco, where
she lived up to the time of her marriage. Afterward she made Kern county
her home and at this writing, although spending her time largely with married
daughters in Los Angeles, she still owns the old homestead of two
hundred and eighty-two acres in Hot Springs valley. The ranch is devoted
to alfalfa and stock and is without a superior on the Kern river, the present manager, Walter Palmer, continuing the careful oversight maintained by his father. The family consisted of twelve children who attained mature years,namely: Robert, a stockman of Kernville; Margaret, wife of William Wear,of Wallace, Idaho; Richard, who died in Los Angeles in October, 1894;Edward, now living in Oregon; Mrs. Alary E. Moberly, of Los Angeles;Lee Palmer; Rose, wife of Dan Burke, of Panama, Kern county; Walter,
on the home farm ; Mrs. Hettie Curtis, of Hollywood ; Mrs. Rebecca Dunn,
of Los Angeles ; Patton, deceased ; and Mrs. Nellie Beaty. of Los Angeles.
The children received fair educations. from 1876 until 1883 the parents
were the only family in the entire valley having children and, public schools
not having been established, they were obliged to hire at their own expense
a teacher, but in 1883 the arrival of other people with children necessitated
the establishment of free schools, which important work Mr. and Mrs.
Palmer promoted, as they did all movements for the general upbuilding of the South Fork country.

Robert Palmer Rhoads

The Bakersfield Morning Echo
2 June 1905, page 8