EIGHTH GENERATION

654. Martha Thomas HAYNIE was born on 3 Oct 1861 in Brookline, Greene County, Missouri (Birth date is from the family Bible record). She died on 16 Apr 1949 in Bois D'Arc, Greene County, Missouri. The funeral for Martha Thomas (Haynie) Salts was handled by Brim's Funeral Service, Walnut Grove and Ash Grove, Missouri. Martha was 88 years, 6 months and 13 days old when she died. Funeral Services were held at Bois D'Arc Methodist Church on Monday, 18 April 1949 at 2 P.M. Reverand F. W. Denton and Gordon Mann officiated; music was by Mrs. Nora Squibb and song service by the Church Choir. Active escorts were: Sherman Hosey, Lloyd Trogdon, Frank William Hitt, Hubert Mason, Jimmie Embrey and Donald June Trogdon; all grandsons. Honorary Escorts were: Wayne Mason, Ivan Trogdon, Junior Haworth, Harold Hackett, William Bland, and Harry Green; family members and friends. Martha was buried on 18 Apr 1949 in Clear Creek Cemetery, Greene County, Missouri, beside her husband, William Franklin Salts (section 3, row 3).
Martha was married to William Franklin SALTS (son of Allen SALTS and Sarah ERWIN) on 28 Mar 1881 in Bois D'Arc, Greene County, Missouri by P.J. Spoon, MG at the minister's residence. Witnesses were: Mr. Rogers and Miss Tennie Haynie. William Franklin SALTS was born on 14 Oct 1859 in Washington County, Tennessee. He died on 19 May 1920 in Bois D'Arc, Greene County, Missouri. He was buried in Clear Creek Cemetery, Greene County, Missouri beside his wife Martha Thomas (Haynie) Salts. Martha Thomas purchased the SALTS head stone that marks both graves in Clear Creek Cemetery, Section 3, Row 3, on 15 March 1937. It was purchased and placed by United States Monument Service, Springfield, Mo. The cost was $37.50. The William Franklin Salts Family Bible gives William's birth date as 1860, however, the 1860 Federal Census shows his age as 1 year. Since the Census date was 1 June 1860, if his actual date of birth was in October 1960 he would not have been listed in the Census. Therefore, we must assume that he was born in 1859 which is the date shown on his tombstone. William was the first of the Allen Salts children to attend school.

William Franklin Salts came to Missouri from Tennessee at the age of 14 (about 1873). He came with some unnamed Tennessee neighbors by covered wagon. At the time William didn't even own a pair of shoes (as Frankie stated it, he came to Missouri bare-footed). He never returned to Tennessee, and what he did from 1874 to 1880 is unknown. In the 1880 Federal Census for Center Township, Greene County, Missouri, Frank Salts, 20 years old from Tennessee, was employed as a "Hired Man" and was enumerated with the W. H. Park family; Mr. Park was a Physician. Another man, G. W. Rogers, age 19 from Tennessee, was also a "Hired Man" and was enumerated with the Park family.
William purchased land from the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company on 18 February 1881 and it was deeded to him on 5 April 1887. The purchase price for the land was $240.00 and was described as follows in the Warranty Deed which is filed in Greene County, Missouri, Book 41, page 577:
. . . a certain parcel of land situated in Greene County, in the State of Missouri, containing Forty (40) acres more or less, and described as follows: South West quarter of the South East quarter of Section numbered Six (6) in Township numbered Twenty Nine (29) North of Range numbered Twenty Three (23) West of the Fifth Principal Meridian. Reserving however a strip of land One Hundred (100) feet wide to be used by the first party for a right of way or other purposes, where the line of the Springfield and Western Missouri Railroad Company is laid over the premises, as now constructed or as it may be hereafter constructed. . . .
William was 21 years old when he married Martha Thomas Haynie in 1881. They had seven daughters. In addition to farming, William was a butcher. He farmed his land and traveled around the country-side selling the meat that he butchered. His customers preferred his meats because it was so clean. Everything was wrapped in spotless white paper.
The family first lived in a log cabin which was located just east of the existing concrete block house; a cabin which William built perhaps with the help of some of his neighbors. It was a one room cabin, which quickly proved to be too small for his growing family, so William and his family began to cast concrete blocks for a new home. The concrete blocks were allowed to cure for a year before they started construction on the new home.
The family moved into the new home when Frankie was about three years old (about 1906). The original family log cabin was subsequently torn down. The date that the cabin was built is not exactly known, however, we know that William and his new wife Martha lived there for approximately twenty-five years (about 1881 to 1906). It is also believed that the cabin was built before William and Martha were married. If Frankie's recollections are correct, all seven daughters were born in the log cabin, which would date the cabin as being built before January 1882. All seven daughters attended school in the near-by town of Bois D'Arc, Missouri, which is about two miles from the farm. They walked to school by following the railroad tracks that skirt the farm on the North East.
William lost an eye when he was still a fairly young man. Frankie told stories about the glass eye that William wore. If one examines the large picture of William that hangs in the back bedroom of the family home, it is obvious that one eye is artificial. Wilburn Morris, a son-in-law, said that the problem with the eye occurred at the Morris home. Wilburn said that the eye "just sort of exploded", which would tend to indicate glaucoma, and a build of of pressure in the eyeball.
When William died, at the age of 60, five of his daughters were married and most had children of their own. Martha and the remaining daughters survived by leasing the farm land adjoining the home to other farmers in the area, and by selling the milk from a small herd of cows. The farm, where daughter Frankie Allens (Salts) still lived in 1994, was purchased by Frankie and her husband, Leonard R. Bean on 21 April 1941. The Warranty Deed was recorded in Geene County, Missouri, Book 865, page 544, on 10 May 1949.
William and Martha had the following children:
child+922 i. Lena Treece SALTS was born 17 January 1882 in Bois D'Arc, Greene County, Missouri. She married Walter Smith TROGDON.
child+923 ii. Grace Belle SALTS was born 29 December 1884 in Bois D'Arc, Greene County, Missouri. She married Lafayette "Fate" MASON.
child+924 iii. Purna Lillian SALTS was born 31 July 1887 in Bois D'Arc, Greene County, Missouri. She married Wilburn Edward MORRIS.
child+925 iv. Jessie Arisona SALTS was born 1 May 1890 in Bois D'Arc, Greene County, Missouri. She married Earl Lee HITT.
child+926 v. Lottie Rabin SALTS. was born 6 April 1893 in Bois D'Arc, Greene County, Missouri. She married first Frank Marvin HOSEY. She married second Floyd James DUNCAN.
child+927 vi. Arvia Erskine SALTS. was born 17 July 1900 in Bois D'Arc, Greene County, Missouri. She married first Harold Albert HITT. She married second Glen EMBRY.
child+928 vii. Frankie Allen SALTS. was born 7 October 1903 in Bois D'Arc, Greene County, Missouri. She married Leonard Ray BEAN.



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