Eleanor Elizabeth McGrath

     Eleanor Elizabeth McGrath was born in 1861 Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Mary Hickey. Eleanor Elizabeth McGrath and Gus Peters may have married before 1880. Eleanor Elizabeth McGrath married Horatio Nixon Palmer, son of John Henry Palmer and Catherine Nowlin Graves, 7 November 1883 San Bernardino, California,

Marriage: San Bernardino, California; 07 Nov 1883; Horatio Palmer; age: 33 and Elanor Mcgrath; age: 23: page: 124 film number: 1290190 digital folder number: 004640187 image number: 00635.² Eleanor Elizabeth McGrath died 27 May 1894, in Prescott, Arizona at age 33 years and was buried Citizen's Cemetery, Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona.
     She left a will filed on 14 June 1894

According to the Prescott Journal Miner paper, dated June 15, 1894:
“The will of the late Mrs. Eleanor Palmer was filed for record in the Probate Judge’s office yesterday. She bequeathed her entire possessions, excepting some stock in the Virginia Gold Mining Company, to her sister, Johanna Lucy McGrath, better known as Lucy Cook. The mining stock was left to her husband.”

Will:
In the name of God, Amen. I, Eleanor Elizabeth Palmer, wife of H. N. Palmer, of Prescott, in the County of Yavapai and the Territory of Arizona, being of sound and disposing mind and memory and over the age of twenty-one years, and knowing the uncertainty of life and not acting under fraud, menace or undue influence of anyone whomsoever do hereby make, publish and declare these presents as and for my last will and testament in items and manner following:

Item 1. I desire that my funeral expenses and all just debts be first paid.
Item 2. I will, bequeath and divise my sewing machine, seal skin cloak and all my wearing apparel to my sister Johanna Lucy McGrath, known here in Prescott, Arizona, as Josie Cook, now of Fremont, El Paso County Colorado.