This book contains everything I could find about my motherÕs Melvin family, from family records and recollections, from cousins Carol Pence-Garron, Phoebe Cortessis, June Fiori and Phoebe Melvin but most of all, from ÒPalmer GroupsÓ, by Emily Wilder Leavitt which contains
a large section on Melvins. PG is the basis for the information in the book. I have modified it
slightly and added to it, but it remains the framework of the book.