Elizabeth Palmer died on 24 April 1705 at Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts.2,1
Burial*
She was buried at Pentaucket Cemetery, Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts, Next to the stone of Captain Samuel Ayer is this stone inscribed: Here lys ye body of Elizabeth wife of" and the stone is broken off here. Since Captain Samuel Ayer's mother is Elizabeth (Palmer) Ayer, she died 3 years before her son and the styling is identical, it certainly seems probable that he was buried next to her and that this is her stone.
[S168] Ayer genealogy : the descendants of John Ayer of Salisbury, 1640; Haverhill, 1647, Sidney Perley , Reprint of work first published in "The Essex antiquarian, v. 4, no. 10, October 1900 in Salem, Massachusetts SLC 929.273 Ay24p & 1320511 #4 (also personal library).
[S167] Ancestry of Herbert Erin Gustin...Julia Livingston Carlisle and ...Gustin Family, Lester Carlisle Gustin , 1954 pgs 718-749 section on Ayer family NEHGS CS 71 G982 1954 v.2.