Son of Abner and Nancy Hale Salyer
Obituary for Fielding Nelson Salyer.

Old Pioneer Passes Away

In the death of Mr. Fielding N. Salyer, Williamson County lost one of the old pioneers and one who assisted in bringing this county from a wilderness to it's present high state of development. He passed peaceably away at his home in the Strickland Grove Community seven miles southwest of Jarrell, Texas, Sunday June 23, 1912 at 4:15 o'clock after an illness that lingered over several years. The remains were laid to rest by gentle hands in the last resting place in the family burial grounds along side the companion of his youth, who proceeded him February 4, 1911. Perhaps no larger cortage of friends ever gathered in that community to pay homage to a departed soul as did at the grave of this grand old patriarch. Elder R.P. Cobb a long time pastor of the deceased administered the last rites at the graves edge and very touchingly paid tribute to his old friend and comrade. The pallbearers for the occasion were J.F. Yearwood, J.M. Sharp, Will Lemond, A.T. Irvine, E.A. Strickland, Ike Williams, Kelse Howell of Georgetown and Rob E. Downey of Jarrell, Texas. Uncle Fielden as he was widely and familiary known was born in Floyd County, Kentucky on February 18, 1828, later moving to Arkansas where he was married to Miss Rhoda Patrick in 1852 and in May 1862 came to Texas. Locating on the homestead where he spent his declining years and on which he was interned. Two weeks after his arrival in this country he enlisted in Capt. Strayhorn's Company of Volunteers with whom he remained through out that long dark struggle. Returning home he resumed the trials and hardships imminent to frontier life and for half a century has been a prominent figure in the development of this community and county. He is survived by ten children - seven sons and three daughters all of whom were with him at the end and two who died in infancy 49 grandchildren living and eight dead nineteen living great grandchildren and two dead. They are N.P. Salyer, J.B. Salyer, Mrs. Sarah Pool, J.M. Salyer, Mrs. Annie Millard, T.H. Salyer, Mrs. Mary Reed, D.R. Salyer, W. Salyer, F.T. Salyer. Uncle Fielden has spent a long and useful life and has reared a large family of whom any man might well have felt proud of each being substanitaly indefied with their respective community. Ten grown children, "Scattered to the Four Winds of the Avin" All with him to the end is the lot of few men. "The View" extends sincere Condolances to the bereaved in their sad hour, and may each so live that in the end they too, may face eternity as peaceful and fearless as did their venerable parent.
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