She was his second wife. They married soon after his first wife died.
They had 7 children
Hannah B:1634
Elihu B: 1635
Gov. Nehemiah B: 1637
Moses B: 1640
Benjamin B: 1642
Deacon Gersham B: 1644
Rebecca B:1647
Next information added by FAG contributor BluMoKitty:
Grave not marked and she is not listed in the 1934 Hale Collection survey of this cemetery, indicating he had no legible marker at that time either.
Also from Contributor:
Edna Andersen -
Marriage of Rebecca Short to Walter Palmer She was md. l Jun 1633 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Her first child Hannah was also born in 5 Jun 1634 in Charlestown , Suffolk, Massachusetts. "Walter was married for a second time to Rebecca Short of Roxbury on June 1, 1633. They were married in Roxbury Church, of which she was a member and Rev. John Eliot its Minister. She was one of the first members of his church upon her arrival in America in 1632. Roxbury was generally settled by the people from Essex and Hertfordshire under the leadership of the Rev. John Eliot who had been the Vicar of Nazeing. Reverend Eliot's records of the Roxbury First Church state: 'Rebeckah Short, a maide srvant, she came in the yeare 1632 and was married to Walter Palmer a Godly man of Charlestown Church.' "
She was his second wife. They married soon after his first wife died.
They had 7 children
Hannah B:1634
Elihu B: 1635
Gov. Nehemiah B: 1637
Moses B: 1640
Benjamin B: 1642
Deacon Gersham B: 1644
Rebecca B:1647
Next information added by FAG contributor BluMoKitty:
Grave not marked and she is not listed in the 1934 Hale Collection survey of this cemetery, indicating he had no legible marker at that time either.
Also from Contributor:
Edna Andersen -
Marriage of Rebecca Short to Walter Palmer She was md. l Jun 1633 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Her first child Hannah was also born in 5 Jun 1634 in Charlestown , Suffolk, Massachusetts. "Walter was married for a second time to Rebecca Short of Roxbury on June 1, 1633. They were married in Roxbury Church, of which she was a member and Rev. John Eliot its Minister. She was one of the first members of his church upon her arrival in America in 1632. Roxbury was generally settled by the people from Essex and Hertfordshire under the leadership of the Rev. John Eliot who had been the Vicar of Nazeing. Reverend Eliot's records of the Roxbury First Church state: 'Rebeckah Short, a maide srvant, she came in the yeare 1632 and was married to Walter Palmer a Godly man of Charlestown Church.' "
Inscription
Grave not marked and she is not listed in the 1934 Hale Collection survey of this cemetery, indicating he had no legible marker at that time either.