Editing Jim Palosaari (section)

==Personal life==

Palosaari was married four times. He married Joyce Warner in Detroit, in 1962, and moved to New York (Long Island) with his wife and stepson, Michael, about a year later. This union produced one son, Kent. Jim and Joyce were divorced in 1967.  Jim and Jeanette Palosaari (not married) met in Wisconsin and became parents of a daughter, Sonja, in 1967.  They moved together to southern California shortly after her birth.  Shortly after his arrival in southern California Jim moved to northern California.  In 1970, Jim married Susan Cowper, and had four children: Jedidiah, Seth, Cody, and Sophia. In 1981 Jim and Sue's second oldest son, Seth, died in an automobile accident with two other members of the community. The couple was divorced in 1992.

Five years later, Palosaari married Susan Mattson, who died in 2008. In March 2011 Palosaari married Jo Sappenfield. They lived in Palosaari's native state of Wisconsin until his death on May 25, 2011.

Palosaari was a self-described [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] and [[socialist]], committed less to party and politics than to the ideals of social justice, living in poverty, communal living, and a religious lifestyle in which everything is given up for God. He considered himself a [[Christian primitivism|Christian Primitivist]], trying to live in the 20th century with the ideals of the 1st century Christians.<ref>{{cite web|last=Palosaari|first=Jim|title=The Testimony of Jim Palosaari|website=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Uhxn08E-o |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/a_Uhxn08E-o| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|accessdate=8 September 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>