re for them the
needed relief.

Her labors also extended to many destitute families of refugees, who had
found their way to St. Louis from the impoverished regions of Southern
Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and
who would have died of actual want, but for the charity of the
Government and the ministering aid of the Western Sanitary Commission
and the Ladies' Union Aid Society. In her visits and her dispensations
of charity Mrs. Palmer was always wise, judicious, and humane, and
enjoyed the fullest confidence of the society in whose service she was
engaged. In the performance of her duties she was always thoroughly
conscientious, and actuated by a high sense of religious duty. From an
early period of her life she had been a consistent member of the Baptist
Church, and her Christian character was adorned by a thorough
consecration to works of kindness and humanity which were performed in
the spirit of Him, who, during his earthly ministry, "went about doing
good."

By her arduous labors, which were greater than her physical constitution
could permanently endure, Mrs. Palmer's health became undermined, and in
the summer of 1865 she passed into a fatal decline, and on the 2d of
August ended a life of usefulness on earth to enter upon the enjoyments
of a beatified spirit in heaven.

LADIES' AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA

One of the first societies formed by ladies to aid and care for the sick
and wounded soldiers, was the one whose name we have placed at the head
of this sketch. The Aid Society of Cleveland, and we believe one in
Boston claim a date five or six days earlier, but no others. The ladies
who composed it met on the 26th of April, 1861, and organized themselves
as a society to labor for the welfare of the soldiers whether in
sickness or health. They continued their labors with unabated zeal until
the close of the war rendered them unnecessary. The officers of the
society were Mrs. Joel Jones, President; Mrs. John Harris, Secretary;
and Mrs. Stephen Colwell, Treasurer. Mrs. Jones is the widow of the late
Hon. Joel Jones, a distinguished jurist of Philadelphia, and
subsequently for several years President of Girard College. A quiet,
self-possessed and dignified lady, she yet possessed an earnestly
patriotic spirit, and decided business abilities. Of Mrs. Harris, one of
the most faithful and persevering laborers for the soldiers in the
field, throughout the war, we have sp