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Palmer Pillans

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Palmer Pillans

Birth
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA
Death
24 Mar 1976 (aged 99)
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 24
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Author of MOBILE IN TWO CENTURIES (1970).
Longtime attorney.

Palmer Pillans Middle School, located next to Pine Crest Cemetery, was named for him.
Palmer Pillans was a son of Mobile mayor Harry Pillans, Alabama legislator and co-author of the 1901 Alabama State Constitution.
Son also of Elizabeth Henshaw "Daisy" Torrey Pillans, descendant of John and Priscilla Alden of the Mayflower and the Isbells of Virginia.
Grandson of Palmer and Laura Roberts Pillans, and a great-grandson of Dr. Willis Roberts who served on the building committee of the old City Hospital, the Government Street Presbyterian Church, and Alabama's first public school, Barton Academy.
Grandfather of the late Palmer C. Hamilton who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
Palmer Pillans (3 NOV 1876-MAR 1976) married Emmie D. Price (Mobile, AL license 04/03/1902 book 37/93) and they had just one child:
Martha Torrey Pillans married 06/06/1937 to Clarkson Mazyck Hamilton (Mobile Marriage book 64, p. 249) Lived in the Auld-Price-Pillans home at 1407 Government Street, Mobile, Alabama, c1830, often described as the oldest house left on Government Street and oldest house in the city west of Broad Street on its original foundation.
Author of MOBILE IN TWO CENTURIES (1970).
Longtime attorney.

Palmer Pillans Middle School, located next to Pine Crest Cemetery, was named for him.
Palmer Pillans was a son of Mobile mayor Harry Pillans, Alabama legislator and co-author of the 1901 Alabama State Constitution.
Son also of Elizabeth Henshaw "Daisy" Torrey Pillans, descendant of John and Priscilla Alden of the Mayflower and the Isbells of Virginia.
Grandson of Palmer and Laura Roberts Pillans, and a great-grandson of Dr. Willis Roberts who served on the building committee of the old City Hospital, the Government Street Presbyterian Church, and Alabama's first public school, Barton Academy.
Grandfather of the late Palmer C. Hamilton who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
Palmer Pillans (3 NOV 1876-MAR 1976) married Emmie D. Price (Mobile, AL license 04/03/1902 book 37/93) and they had just one child:
Martha Torrey Pillans married 06/06/1937 to Clarkson Mazyck Hamilton (Mobile Marriage book 64, p. 249) Lived in the Auld-Price-Pillans home at 1407 Government Street, Mobile, Alabama, c1830, often described as the oldest house left on Government Street and oldest house in the city west of Broad Street on its original foundation.

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Lawyer, student, and statesman
In every relation of life, whether public or private
He was all that a man should be



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