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Full Name Barbara Marie Wright Palm Emberson Palm
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People ID 442868
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First Name Barbara
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Nickname Babs
Middle Name Marie
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Priorsurnames Palm Emberson
Surname Palm
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Father's Surname Wright
Mother's Surname McKuen
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Gender Female
Full Birth Date If Known 1919-01-28
Birth Year 1919
Birth Month 1
Birth Day 28
Full Death Date If Known 2008-03-02
Death Year 2008
Death Month 3
Death Day 2

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Daughter ofLawrence Boynton Wright71075318921981
Daughter ofBess-Marie Palm44286918961986
Stepdaughter ofAndrew Emanuel Palm44286318931956

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Cemetery Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Address 1712 S. Glendale Avenue
City/Town Glendale
County/District Los Angeles
State/Province California
Postal/Zip Code 91205
Country/Principality USA
SectionGM, Fuchsia Terrace, Columbarium of the Dawn
Lot0
Space30346
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The find a grave memorial for this gal is just a fount of misinformation, I stopped taking most of it seriously once I did a little research and discovered several things listed in it were just flat wrong. I have no idea where the wrong information came from (although some of it appears to be from the obituary, obituaries are notorious for garbling information), in some sense it's irrelevant but I have a morbid fascination with how data gets garbled.

First of all, her birthplace/home town is not Raymond, Washington. There is a Raymond in Pacific County, Washington; but I'm pretty sure she was born in Redmond, King County, Washington. King County is adjacent to Snohomish County, which is where this woman's biological mother (the actual one, not the one listed on find a grave) was living in 1910 and married in 1914. Pacific County is four or five counties over from King County, and Redmond and Raymond are 139 miles from each other per Mapquest.

The memorial confuses her stepfather's first wife with her mother, and states that her biological mother was her stepmother. The memorial for her stepfather's first wife Ethel has her maiden name wrong (used her mother's second married name as her maiden name rather than Ethel's actual maiden name which was Pendergast). As far as I can tell there is no connection between her stepfather's first wife and Barbara, that's just wrong information.

I believe Bess-Marie is Barbara's biological mother. I think Andrew Palm is her stepfather. It is likely (but not proven) that Barbara's father is Bess-Marie's first husband Lawrence Boynton Wright, who I'm going to add to the database and link to Bess-Marie. The only problem with all this is that I can't find Barbara or Bess-Marie or Lawrence in the 1920 and 1930 census records. By 1940 Bess-Marie, Barbara, and Andrew Palm were all living together in Los Angeles, California. In 1930 Andrew was still married to Ethel; apparently he divorced her after that and married Bess-Marie.

Bess-Marie is referred to in the find a grave memorial as Bess-Marie Wagner. I can't find her anywhere under that name. Her maiden name was McKuen and her married name prior to marrying Andrew Palm was Wright. The memorial indicates she was Barbara's governess and then stepmother. Again, there is no evidence to support any of this.

I can't find Lawrence Wright in the 1940 census but his 1942 draft registration places him in San Francisco, California, in 1942.

So it's not clear whether Barbara's father was Lawrence Wright or whether there was a "Mr. Wagner" that Bess-Marie was married to after her marriage to Lawrence Wright. Since I have found zero evidence of that I tend to favor the theory that Barbara's maiden name was Wright but she took Andrew Palm's surname after her mother married Andrew.

I also find it telling that the niche where Barbara is inurned also contains Bess-Marie, Andrew Palm, and Bess-Marie's mother Mary Ann Johnston McKuen Clement. The common factor here is Bess-Marie, and that's another reason I'm convinced she is Barbara's mother. The marriage records for Barbara's marriage to Keith Emberson actually list Bess-Marie as her mother, but also list Andrew Palm as her father, which I'm pretty sure is wrong because Andrew shows up with Ethel in both the 1920 and 1930 census records.

I just wish I could find Bess-Marie, Barbara, or Lawrence Wright in the 1920 and 1930 census records, that would add some much-needed clarity to this picture. But I can't find them at all.

There is a Veteran's Administration card for Lawrence Wright which lists his residence as Lead, Lawrence County, South Dakota, but it's not clear whether that residence is from 1917 or 1919. His 1917 draft registration lists him in Treadwell, Alaska (now a ghost town near Juneau, Alaska), so that implies that the residence from the later paperwork is from 1919 not 1917.

According to her family search record, Barbara married Keith Lloyd Emberson on 22 August 1953 in Los Angeles, California. However, he is not mentioned in her obituary and her social security DMF record lists her under Palm not Emberson, so it seems likely they were divorced some time after the marriage.

In any event, the parents she is linked to on find a grave are not her biological parents, although Andrew Palm is her stepfather. She has no connection whatsoever to Ethel Palm, and she is not linked to her biological mother, Bess-Marie Palm.


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