SARAH ("SALLIE") HERRIN SALTER
12 September 1856
10 November 1936
My Grandmother Battle was 4+ years of age when her home state, Alabama, seceded from the Union (1861). During the time of her life that I knew her, I never asked if she remembered anything about the Civil War. She must have had some memories. Stories I have heard of these times indicate that even the smallest child would notice and remember. She was 11+ when Alabama re-joined the Union.
Nothing of record was found to indicate how life was spent during her childhood and teen years. I am certain that she could read and write because I have seen her do so. I have a letter she wrote in the 1920s to one of my Aunts in Amarillo. Grandmother Battle always read her Bible each day. I remember that Bible, especially, because it contained large print some of which was red. She had fashioned a cloth cover for this Bible where she kept birthday cards, money, etc., in that Bible and its cover. She must have gone to school, but I know nothing of those years.
During the year of 1877, or earlier -- I do not know for sure -- a young man from Georgia made her acquaintance. There is a record in the Limestone County, Alabama Marriage Records that on the 1 November 1877, Sallie Herrin Salter and Jesse Brown Battle were married. Also, one time I found a small notice in a book in the Archives in Austin, Texas (about Alabama) that a shower was held for Miss Sallie Salter, Bride Elect of Jesse Brown Battle, at someone's home. [Idiot that I was, I didn't copy it.]
Much later in our lives [ca. 1972] Aunt Anna Battle Ivey, came to visit us in Houston. I had a chance to ask her a lot of questions and she told me that: She remembered "them" talking (family) that after Sallie Herrin Salter and Jesse Brown Battle were married the whole Salter family came to Texas with the Bride and Groom. Seems circumstances for making a living in Alabama were very bad and they were looking for a fresh start. Records in Fannin County confirm the fact that the Salters and Battles arrived prior to the birth of her first child, my Uncle Henry Lamar Battle on 7 September 1878.*
Her sixth child (Lucy Evans Battle) was born in Fannin County on 1 September 1889. During the time between the birth of this sixth child and the arrival of the seventh (Anna Amanda Battle) on 26 August 1892, this family had moved from the eastern portion of north Texas to the Texas panhandle, Collingsworth County. [I don't know why except that about this time in history the State of Texas was selling public lands, every other section, for railroad rights-of-way.] This move was quite an undertaking when you consider it was by horse drawn wagon and meant the fording of some rivers, and all the things you see in the movies. They didn't have Interstates back in these ‘Good Ole Days. They probably didn't even have much in the way of roads, certainly not paved ones..
Several of my Grandmother's brothers and their families also made this move to Collingsworth and Childress Counties. As you can imagine there were no subdivisions on this barren prairie; therefore, there were no houses to rent. None of the things we take for granted, today (2010), when we are looking to move to a new location. They built a dugout.
Of course, I have never seen a dugout but the above is a picture of someone's dugout at about the same time. The area of Collingsworth County is rather barren so this may have been taken in the area. I don't know.
My Uncle Mercer, as a young boy was killed when his horse ran away with him in 1895 and he was thrown off. He was one of the first persons buried in the Memorial Cemetery at Wellington. [Row 6, Gravesite 1] The following October, on the 29th, Helen Marie Battle, was born. My Mother was the last child in this family.
The Federal Census of 1900 finds this family in Wellington, Collingsworth County, Texas.
The Federal Census for 1910 finds this family in Sulphur, Oklahoma. I have no idea why they moved to Sulphur. ave no idea of the way they supported themselves at this time. Aunt Emma married Ernest Larmer there 14 November 1909; Aunt Lucy and Uncle Pence Chaney married there 7 June 1911; and Uncle Jim Battle and Aunt Bess were married 4 December 1911.
The next wedding in this family took place all the way across Texas to Kingsville in Kleberg County. Aunt Anna married John Ford Ivey on 21 April 1912. I do not know why they went there nor what they did while there. While checking the courthouse records, I found a record that Jesse Brown Battle was a Justice of the Peace; and that there was a Battle boarding house in the downtown area.
My Mother graduated from high school in Kingsville, Texas, I assume around 1915. Soon thereafter the family moved to Dallas. They are listed on the Federal Census for 1920 in Dallas with one of my Aunts [Lucy] and her husband living with them as well as my Mother. Sallie Herring Battle's husband died in 1924. Thereafter, she had no permanent home but "visited" her children from time to time. The daughters had sort of mini-reunions whenever Grandmother Battle changed her living arrangements
• One of these meetings to transport Grandmother Battle was held on Salado Creek, old U.S. Highway 81. To this day, each time I cross Salado Creek at Salado, Texas I remember that day. I suppose it was after my father died and we were living in San Marcos near Aunt Anna. I was about 7 years old. We met Aunt Lucy and Aunt Emma at Salado Creek and we all had a picnic lunch fried chicken and bread and real butter under the shade trees at the creek. While we were there I spied a swarm or a bunch of flying ants. Uncle Ford cautioned me not to bother them so that I wouldn't be stung. But I remember those ants………. We took Grandmother Battle home with us to San Marcos and Aunt Lucy and Aunt Emma returned to Dallas.
During the summer of 1936 Aunt Lucy invited me to Dallas so that I might go to the Centennial. Grandmother Battle was at Aunt Lucy's at this time and I had an occasion to really visit with her. She would send me out in morning to climb the peach tree for a peach for her breakfast. She let me run the beeswax over the thread that she intended to use to piece quilts. Sometimes while sitting near her wheelchair my mouth would be a little unruly. She would thump me on the head with that little gold thimble on her middle finger saying, "Don't be so impudent, Sarah." [She always called me "Sarah".] My mother didn't take me to Dallas in November when she passed away, school, you know.
Grandmother and Grandfather Battle are Buried at Grove Hill Memorial Dallas, TX
12 September 1856
10 November 1936
My Grandmother Battle was 4+ years of age when her home state, Alabama, seceded from the Union (1861). During the time of her life that I knew her, I never asked if she remembered anything about the Civil War. She must have had some memories. Stories I have heard of these times indicate that even the smallest child would notice and remember. She was 11+ when Alabama re-joined the Union.
Nothing of record was found to indicate how life was spent during her childhood and teen years. I am certain that she could read and write because I have seen her do so. I have a letter she wrote in the 1920s to one of my Aunts in Amarillo. Grandmother Battle always read her Bible each day. I remember that Bible, especially, because it contained large print some of which was red. She had fashioned a cloth cover for this Bible where she kept birthday cards, money, etc., in that Bible and its cover. She must have gone to school, but I know nothing of those years.
During the year of 1877, or earlier -- I do not know for sure -- a young man from Georgia made her acquaintance. There is a record in the Limestone County, Alabama Marriage Records that on the 1 November 1877, Sallie Herrin Salter and Jesse Brown Battle were married. Also, one time I found a small notice in a book in the Archives in Austin, Texas (about Alabama) that a shower was held for Miss Sallie Salter, Bride Elect of Jesse Brown Battle, at someone's home. [Idiot that I was, I didn't copy it.]
Much later in our lives [ca. 1972] Aunt Anna Battle Ivey, came to visit us in Houston. I had a chance to ask her a lot of questions and she told me that: She remembered "them" talking (family) that after Sallie Herrin Salter and Jesse Brown Battle were married the whole Salter family came to Texas with the Bride and Groom. Seems circumstances for making a living in Alabama were very bad and they were looking for a fresh start. Records in Fannin County confirm the fact that the Salters and Battles arrived prior to the birth of her first child, my Uncle Henry Lamar Battle on 7 September 1878.*
Her sixth child (Lucy Evans Battle) was born in Fannin County on 1 September 1889. During the time between the birth of this sixth child and the arrival of the seventh (Anna Amanda Battle) on 26 August 1892, this family had moved from the eastern portion of north Texas to the Texas panhandle, Collingsworth County. [I don't know why except that about this time in history the State of Texas was selling public lands, every other section, for railroad rights-of-way.] This move was quite an undertaking when you consider it was by horse drawn wagon and meant the fording of some rivers, and all the things you see in the movies. They didn't have Interstates back in these ‘Good Ole Days. They probably didn't even have much in the way of roads, certainly not paved ones..
Several of my Grandmother's brothers and their families also made this move to Collingsworth and Childress Counties. As you can imagine there were no subdivisions on this barren prairie; therefore, there were no houses to rent. None of the things we take for granted, today (2010), when we are looking to move to a new location. They built a dugout.
Of course, I have never seen a dugout but the above is a picture of someone's dugout at about the same time. The area of Collingsworth County is rather barren so this may have been taken in the area. I don't know.
My Uncle Mercer, as a young boy was killed when his horse ran away with him in 1895 and he was thrown off. He was one of the first persons buried in the Memorial Cemetery at Wellington. [Row 6, Gravesite 1] The following October, on the 29th, Helen Marie Battle, was born. My Mother was the last child in this family.
The Federal Census of 1900 finds this family in Wellington, Collingsworth County, Texas.
The Federal Census for 1910 finds this family in Sulphur, Oklahoma. I have no idea why they moved to Sulphur. ave no idea of the way they supported themselves at this time. Aunt Emma married Ernest Larmer there 14 November 1909; Aunt Lucy and Uncle Pence Chaney married there 7 June 1911; and Uncle Jim Battle and Aunt Bess were married 4 December 1911.
The next wedding in this family took place all the way across Texas to Kingsville in Kleberg County. Aunt Anna married John Ford Ivey on 21 April 1912. I do not know why they went there nor what they did while there. While checking the courthouse records, I found a record that Jesse Brown Battle was a Justice of the Peace; and that there was a Battle boarding house in the downtown area.
My Mother graduated from high school in Kingsville, Texas, I assume around 1915. Soon thereafter the family moved to Dallas. They are listed on the Federal Census for 1920 in Dallas with one of my Aunts [Lucy] and her husband living with them as well as my Mother. Sallie Herring Battle's husband died in 1924. Thereafter, she had no permanent home but "visited" her children from time to time. The daughters had sort of mini-reunions whenever Grandmother Battle changed her living arrangements
• One of these meetings to transport Grandmother Battle was held on Salado Creek, old U.S. Highway 81. To this day, each time I cross Salado Creek at Salado, Texas I remember that day. I suppose it was after my father died and we were living in San Marcos near Aunt Anna. I was about 7 years old. We met Aunt Lucy and Aunt Emma at Salado Creek and we all had a picnic lunch fried chicken and bread and real butter under the shade trees at the creek. While we were there I spied a swarm or a bunch of flying ants. Uncle Ford cautioned me not to bother them so that I wouldn't be stung. But I remember those ants………. We took Grandmother Battle home with us to San Marcos and Aunt Lucy and Aunt Emma returned to Dallas.
During the summer of 1936 Aunt Lucy invited me to Dallas so that I might go to the Centennial. Grandmother Battle was at Aunt Lucy's at this time and I had an occasion to really visit with her. She would send me out in morning to climb the peach tree for a peach for her breakfast. She let me run the beeswax over the thread that she intended to use to piece quilts. Sometimes while sitting near her wheelchair my mouth would be a little unruly. She would thump me on the head with that little gold thimble on her middle finger saying, "Don't be so impudent, Sarah." [She always called me "Sarah".] My mother didn't take me to Dallas in November when she passed away, school, you know.
Grandmother and Grandfather Battle are Buried at Grove Hill Memorial Dallas, TX
SARAH ("SALLIE") HERRIN SALTER
12 September 1856
10 November 1936
My Grandmother Battle was 4+ years of age when her home state, Alabama, seceded from the Union (1861). During the time of her life that I knew her, I never asked if she remembered anything about the Civil War. She must have had some memories. Stories I have heard of these times indicate that even the smallest child would notice and remember. She was 11+ when Alabama re-joined the Union.
Nothing of record was found to indicate how life was spent during her childhood and teen years. I am certain that she could read and write because I have seen her do so. I have a letter she wrote in the 1920s to one of my Aunts in Amarillo. Grandmother Battle always read her Bible each day. I remember that Bible, especially, because it contained large print some of which was red. She had fashioned a cloth cover for this Bible where she kept birthday cards, money, etc., in that Bible and its cover. She must have gone to school, but I know nothing of those years.
During the year of 1877, or earlier -- I do not know for sure -- a young man from Georgia made her acquaintance. There is a record in the Limestone County, Alabama Marriage Records that on the 1 November 1877, Sallie Herrin Salter and Jesse Brown Battle were married. Also, one time I found a small notice in a book in the Archives in Austin, Texas (about Alabama) that a shower was held for Miss Sallie Salter, Bride Elect of Jesse Brown Battle, at someone's home. [Idiot that I was, I didn't copy it.]
Much later in our lives [ca. 1972] Aunt Anna Battle Ivey, came to visit us in Houston. I had a chance to ask her a lot of questions and she told me that: She remembered "them" talking (family) that after Sallie Herrin Salter and Jesse Brown Battle were married the whole Salter family came to Texas with the Bride and Groom. Seems circumstances for making a living in Alabama were very bad and they were looking for a fresh start. Records in Fannin County confirm the fact that the Salters and Battles arrived prior to the birth of her first child, my Uncle Henry Lamar Battle on 7 September 1878.*
Her sixth child (Lucy Evans Battle) was born in Fannin County on 1 September 1889. During the time between the birth of this sixth child and the arrival of the seventh (Anna Amanda Battle) on 26 August 1892, this family had moved from the eastern portion of north Texas to the Texas panhandle, Collingsworth County. [I don't know why except that about this time in history the State of Texas was selling public lands, every other section, for railroad rights-of-way.] This move was quite an undertaking when you consider it was by horse drawn wagon and meant the fording of some rivers, and all the things you see in the movies. They didn't have Interstates back in these ‘Good Ole Days. They probably didn't even have much in the way of roads, certainly not paved ones..
Several of my Grandmother's brothers and their families also made this move to Collingsworth and Childress Counties. As you can imagine there were no subdivisions on this barren prairie; therefore, there were no houses to rent. None of the things we take for granted, today (2010), when we are looking to move to a new location. They built a dugout.
Of course, I have never seen a dugout but the above is a picture of someone's dugout at about the same time. The area of Collingsworth County is rather barren so this may have been taken in the area. I don't know.
My Uncle Mercer, as a young boy was killed when his horse ran away with him in 1895 and he was thrown off. He was one of the first persons buried in the Memorial Cemetery at Wellington. [Row 6, Gravesite 1] The following October, on the 29th, Helen Marie Battle, was born. My Mother was the last child in this family.
The Federal Census of 1900 finds this family in Wellington, Collingsworth County, Texas.
The Federal Census for 1910 finds this family in Sulphur, Oklahoma. I have no idea why they moved to Sulphur. ave no idea of the way they supported themselves at this time. Aunt Emma married Ernest Larmer there 14 November 1909; Aunt Lucy and Uncle Pence Chaney married there 7 June 1911; and Uncle Jim Battle and Aunt Bess were married 4 December 1911.
The next wedding in this family took place all the way across Texas to Kingsville in Kleberg County. Aunt Anna married John Ford Ivey on 21 April 1912. I do not know why they went there nor what they did while there. While checking the courthouse records, I found a record that Jesse Brown Battle was a Justice of the Peace; and that there was a Battle boarding house in the downtown area.
My Mother graduated from high school in Kingsville, Texas, I assume around 1915. Soon thereafter the family moved to Dallas. They are listed on the Federal Census for 1920 in Dallas with one of my Aunts [Lucy] and her husband living with them as well as my Mother. Sallie Herring Battle's husband died in 1924. Thereafter, she had no permanent home but "visited" her children from time to time. The daughters had sort of mini-reunions whenever Grandmother Battle changed her living arrangements
• One of these meetings to transport Grandmother Battle was held on Salado Creek, old U.S. Highway 81. To this day, each time I cross Salado Creek at Salado, Texas I remember that day. I suppose it was after my father died and we were living in San Marcos near Aunt Anna. I was about 7 years old. We met Aunt Lucy and Aunt Emma at Salado Creek and we all had a picnic lunch fried chicken and bread and real butter under the shade trees at the creek. While we were there I spied a swarm or a bunch of flying ants. Uncle Ford cautioned me not to bother them so that I wouldn't be stung. But I remember those ants………. We took Grandmother Battle home with us to San Marcos and Aunt Lucy and Aunt Emma returned to Dallas.
During the summer of 1936 Aunt Lucy invited me to Dallas so that I might go to the Centennial. Grandmother Battle was at Aunt Lucy's at this time and I had an occasion to really visit with her. She would send me out in morning to climb the peach tree for a peach for her breakfast. She let me run the beeswax over the thread that she intended to use to piece quilts. Sometimes while sitting near her wheelchair my mouth would be a little unruly. She would thump me on the head with that little gold thimble on her middle finger saying, "Don't be so impudent, Sarah." [She always called me "Sarah".] My mother didn't take me to Dallas in November when she passed away, school, you know.
Grandmother and Grandfather Battle are Buried at Grove Hill Memorial Dallas, TX
12 September 1856
10 November 1936
My Grandmother Battle was 4+ years of age when her home state, Alabama, seceded from the Union (1861). During the time of her life that I knew her, I never asked if she remembered anything about the Civil War. She must have had some memories. Stories I have heard of these times indicate that even the smallest child would notice and remember. She was 11+ when Alabama re-joined the Union.
Nothing of record was found to indicate how life was spent during her childhood and teen years. I am certain that she could read and write because I have seen her do so. I have a letter she wrote in the 1920s to one of my Aunts in Amarillo. Grandmother Battle always read her Bible each day. I remember that Bible, especially, because it contained large print some of which was red. She had fashioned a cloth cover for this Bible where she kept birthday cards, money, etc., in that Bible and its cover. She must have gone to school, but I know nothing of those years.
During the year of 1877, or earlier -- I do not know for sure -- a young man from Georgia made her acquaintance. There is a record in the Limestone County, Alabama Marriage Records that on the 1 November 1877, Sallie Herrin Salter and Jesse Brown Battle were married. Also, one time I found a small notice in a book in the Archives in Austin, Texas (about Alabama) that a shower was held for Miss Sallie Salter, Bride Elect of Jesse Brown Battle, at someone's home. [Idiot that I was, I didn't copy it.]
Much later in our lives [ca. 1972] Aunt Anna Battle Ivey, came to visit us in Houston. I had a chance to ask her a lot of questions and she told me that: She remembered "them" talking (family) that after Sallie Herrin Salter and Jesse Brown Battle were married the whole Salter family came to Texas with the Bride and Groom. Seems circumstances for making a living in Alabama were very bad and they were looking for a fresh start. Records in Fannin County confirm the fact that the Salters and Battles arrived prior to the birth of her first child, my Uncle Henry Lamar Battle on 7 September 1878.*
Her sixth child (Lucy Evans Battle) was born in Fannin County on 1 September 1889. During the time between the birth of this sixth child and the arrival of the seventh (Anna Amanda Battle) on 26 August 1892, this family had moved from the eastern portion of north Texas to the Texas panhandle, Collingsworth County. [I don't know why except that about this time in history the State of Texas was selling public lands, every other section, for railroad rights-of-way.] This move was quite an undertaking when you consider it was by horse drawn wagon and meant the fording of some rivers, and all the things you see in the movies. They didn't have Interstates back in these ‘Good Ole Days. They probably didn't even have much in the way of roads, certainly not paved ones..
Several of my Grandmother's brothers and their families also made this move to Collingsworth and Childress Counties. As you can imagine there were no subdivisions on this barren prairie; therefore, there were no houses to rent. None of the things we take for granted, today (2010), when we are looking to move to a new location. They built a dugout.
Of course, I have never seen a dugout but the above is a picture of someone's dugout at about the same time. The area of Collingsworth County is rather barren so this may have been taken in the area. I don't know.
My Uncle Mercer, as a young boy was killed when his horse ran away with him in 1895 and he was thrown off. He was one of the first persons buried in the Memorial Cemetery at Wellington. [Row 6, Gravesite 1] The following October, on the 29th, Helen Marie Battle, was born. My Mother was the last child in this family.
The Federal Census of 1900 finds this family in Wellington, Collingsworth County, Texas.
The Federal Census for 1910 finds this family in Sulphur, Oklahoma. I have no idea why they moved to Sulphur. ave no idea of the way they supported themselves at this time. Aunt Emma married Ernest Larmer there 14 November 1909; Aunt Lucy and Uncle Pence Chaney married there 7 June 1911; and Uncle Jim Battle and Aunt Bess were married 4 December 1911.
The next wedding in this family took place all the way across Texas to Kingsville in Kleberg County. Aunt Anna married John Ford Ivey on 21 April 1912. I do not know why they went there nor what they did while there. While checking the courthouse records, I found a record that Jesse Brown Battle was a Justice of the Peace; and that there was a Battle boarding house in the downtown area.
My Mother graduated from high school in Kingsville, Texas, I assume around 1915. Soon thereafter the family moved to Dallas. They are listed on the Federal Census for 1920 in Dallas with one of my Aunts [Lucy] and her husband living with them as well as my Mother. Sallie Herring Battle's husband died in 1924. Thereafter, she had no permanent home but "visited" her children from time to time. The daughters had sort of mini-reunions whenever Grandmother Battle changed her living arrangements
• One of these meetings to transport Grandmother Battle was held on Salado Creek, old U.S. Highway 81. To this day, each time I cross Salado Creek at Salado, Texas I remember that day. I suppose it was after my father died and we were living in San Marcos near Aunt Anna. I was about 7 years old. We met Aunt Lucy and Aunt Emma at Salado Creek and we all had a picnic lunch fried chicken and bread and real butter under the shade trees at the creek. While we were there I spied a swarm or a bunch of flying ants. Uncle Ford cautioned me not to bother them so that I wouldn't be stung. But I remember those ants………. We took Grandmother Battle home with us to San Marcos and Aunt Lucy and Aunt Emma returned to Dallas.
During the summer of 1936 Aunt Lucy invited me to Dallas so that I might go to the Centennial. Grandmother Battle was at Aunt Lucy's at this time and I had an occasion to really visit with her. She would send me out in morning to climb the peach tree for a peach for her breakfast. She let me run the beeswax over the thread that she intended to use to piece quilts. Sometimes while sitting near her wheelchair my mouth would be a little unruly. She would thump me on the head with that little gold thimble on her middle finger saying, "Don't be so impudent, Sarah." [She always called me "Sarah".] My mother didn't take me to Dallas in November when she passed away, school, you know.
Grandmother and Grandfather Battle are Buried at Grove Hill Memorial Dallas, TX
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