Eleanor Elizabeth McGrath

     Eleanor Elizabeth McGrath was born on 29 November 1858 Worcester County, Massachusetts.² She was the daughter of Mary Hickey. Eleanor Elizabeth McGrath and Gus Peters may have married before 1880 To date, no evidence they were married. 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, native of Missouri, resident of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, bachelor and Elanor Mcgrath; age: 23, native of Los Angeles, resident of Los Angeles, divorced. Page: 124.³ Eleanor Elizabeth McGrath died 27 May 1894, in Prescott, Arizona at age 35 years, 5 months and 28 days and was buried Citizen's Cemetery, Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona. Her estate was probated on 1 August 1894, Prescott, Pinal County, Arizona Territory Petition to Probate will of Eleanor E Palmer, deceased.
The original executor declining to qualify, H N Palmer, late husband of Eleanor E Palmer was duly appointed to administer the estate.⁴
     She left a will filed on 25 July 1892

A copy of the will was attached to the probate, with this date.

Also, 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.⁴