Emma L. Palmer (b. Ladd) (c. 1858-1889) was born in Varina, Virginia, and died in Worcester, Massachusetts. By 1880 she had moved to Trenton, New Jersey, where she attended New Jersey State Normal School and became a schoolteacher. She married Lucius R. Palmer in Christian County, Kentucky, in 1884 and by the mid-1880s had moved to Worcester. Palmer studied Christian Science with Annie V. C. Leavitt and Sarah H. Crosse, both students of Mary Baker Eddy. She then took Eddy's Normal class in February 1887 and was listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal in Worcester in 1887 and 1888. Palmer joined both the National Christian Scientist Association and the Christian Scientist Association but withdrew in June 1888 in the fallout following the Abbie A. Corner court case.

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