Matthews / Conner / Covey / Salts [Solt] Family History - Person Sheet
Matthews / Conner / Covey / Salts [Solt] Family History - Person Sheet
NameMathew SALTS, M
Birth Dateabt 1797
Birth PlaceNorth Carolina
Death Dateaft 1828 Age: 31
Death PlaceCarter County, Tennessee
FatherHenry SALTS , M (1765-1850)
MotherMary "Polly" BROWN , F (~1774->1855)
Spouses
1Nancy BEAVER60,94, F
Birth Dateabt 1795
Birth PlaceNorth Carolina
Death Dateaft 1870 Age: 75
Death PlaceSevier County, Tennessee
ChildrenAlexander , M (1818-1863)
Notes for Mathew SALTS
Alexander Salts is the only identified child of Mathew Salts and Nancy Beaver. The only documentation on Mathews Salts is a marriage record and his name appears in the Carter County Court minutes. Strangely enough Alexander is listed in both the 1850 and 1860 census as being born in NC. In the 1850 census, several Shults families are listed in Sevier County, TN – this fact may deserve more investigation. Some Salts family members changed the surname spelling to Sauls (Sauls is in Red). Some of the grandchildren of Alexander Salts went to California between 1900 and 1910, most of them stayed in California. More detailed information may be found in “Mathew Salts Family Tree” on ancestry.com.
Carter County, Tennessee
Minutes of the County Court
1826-1829
W.P.A. Records
Published by Mountain Press www.mountainpress.com
The index lists - Salts, Mathew, 87, 181, 192, 226
Notes from Connie Gray are in red font. I have made every effort to maintain the spelling, grammar and punctuation as published.
The court was held in Elizabethton, TN.
1827 - Tuesday August 14th
Page 87 - Ordered by the court that Matthew Solts [not spelled Salts] be appointed constable who came into court enter into this Bond with Elijah Hatheway and Henry Grindstaff his security in the final sum of one thousand Dollars with condition see bond and took the several oaths required by law for a public officer.
1828 - Tuesday May 13th 1828
Page 181 - John Bradburn vs Matthis Salts
Refered to the arbrtration of William Jones Jacob Simmerly Benjamin Hyder and John Shields and if they cannot agree they to choose a fifth man and award to be the judgement of this court. There returnable to next court
1828 - Wednesday May 14th 1828
Page 192
State Vs James Lovelace
The defendant being charged upon the bill of Indietment and he for plea thereto saith that he is not guilty thereof and puts himself on his county and James P. Taylor attorney General who prosecutes for the state does the same whereupon came a Jury towit, James W. Renfro Thomas Nichols John T. Borin Abner McLeod Matthias Broiles Stephen Parsons Jacob Poland John Smith Matthew Salts Moses Huffman Ansel Carden Samuel A. Irwin good and lawful men chosen elected tried and sworn upon their oaths do find the defendant not guilty It is therefore considered by the court that the county be taxed with the costs of this prosecution on the part of the state only that the county Trustee pay the same out of any monies not other wise appointed leaving the defendants costs not taxed to the county.
1828, August - Second Monday in August the year of our Lord 1828
Page 226
Elijah Hathawy & John Scott bail of Mathew Salts constable surrendered in open court the body of said Mathew in discharged of themselves as bail and the said Mathew having failed to give other & sufficient security it was therefore ordered by the court that said Mathew be removed from office
Benjamen Grindstaff was appointed constable and entered into bond with Henry Grindstaff John Justice & Harden Brown in the sum of one thousand dollars took the oath prescribed by law & was qualified as constable
So we now know that Mathew Salts was alive in August of 1828 and living in Carter County, TN!!!
(from Dixie Dellinger) - My grandmother, Nellie Bly Lacy (1889-1961), was born and raised in Elizabethton, TN. Nell married Thomas Heskell Salts, son of Andrew J. Salts and Lodena Ellen Price. Nell's sister Delia married James Arthur Grindstaff.
General Notes -- Matthew does not appear in the Tax Records for Washington County, Tennessee...nor does he appear in the 1830 or later Federal Censuses for any county in eastern Tennessee. To date, the only find for him is of his marriage in Washington County on the 4th of October in 1818. Therefore, it is assumed that he died a young man sometime after the birth of his only known child, Alexander.
His wife Nancy can be found in the Washington and Sevier County, Tennessee censuses of 1850, 1860 and 1870.
Carter County, Tennessee
Minutes of the County Court
1826-1829
W.P.A. Records
Published by Mountain Press www.mountainpress.com
The index lists - Salts, Mathew, 87, 181, 192, 226
Notes from Connie Gray are in red font. I have made every effort to maintain the spelling, grammar and punctuation as published.
The court was held in Elizabethton, TN.
1827 - Tuesday August 14th
Page 87 - Ordered by the court that Matthew Solts [not spelled Salts] be appointed constable who came into court enter into this Bond with Elijah Hatheway and Henry Grindstaff his security in the final sum of one thousand Dollars with condition see bond and took the several oaths required by law for a public officer.
1828 - Tuesday May 13th 1828
Page 181 - John Bradburn vs Matthis Salts
Refered to the arbrtration of William Jones Jacob Simmerly Benjamin Hyder and John Shields and if they cannot agree they to choose a fifth man and award to be the judgement of this court. There returnable to next court
1828 - Wednesday May 14th 1828
Page 192
State Vs James Lovelace
The defendant being charged upon the bill of Indietment and he for plea thereto saith that he is not guilty thereof and puts himself on his county and James P. Taylor attorney General who prosecutes for the state does the same whereupon came a Jury towit, James W. Renfro Thomas Nichols John T. Borin Abner McLeod Matthias Broiles Stephen Parsons Jacob Poland John Smith Matthew Salts Moses Huffman Ansel Carden Samuel A. Irwin good and lawful men chosen elected tried and sworn upon their oaths do find the defendant not guilty It is therefore considered by the court that the county be taxed with the costs of this prosecution on the part of the state only that the county Trustee pay the same out of any monies not other wise appointed leaving the defendants costs not taxed to the county.
1828, August - Second Monday in August the year of our Lord 1828
Page 226
Elijah Hathawy & John Scott bail of Mathew Salts constable surrendered in open court the body of said Mathew in discharged of themselves as bail and the said Mathew having failed to give other & sufficient security it was therefore ordered by the court that said Mathew be removed from office
Benjamen Grindstaff was appointed constable and entered into bond with Henry Grindstaff John Justice & Harden Brown in the sum of one thousand dollars took the oath prescribed by law & was qualified as constable
So we now know that Mathew Salts was alive in August of 1828 and living in Carter County, TN!!!
(from Dixie Dellinger) - My grandmother, Nellie Bly Lacy (1889-1961), was born and raised in Elizabethton, TN. Nell married Thomas Heskell Salts, son of Andrew J. Salts and Lodena Ellen Price. Nell's sister Delia married James Arthur Grindstaff.
General Notes -- Matthew does not appear in the Tax Records for Washington County, Tennessee...nor does he appear in the 1830 or later Federal Censuses for any county in eastern Tennessee. To date, the only find for him is of his marriage in Washington County on the 4th of October in 1818. Therefore, it is assumed that he died a young man sometime after the birth of his only known child, Alexander.
His wife Nancy can be found in the Washington and Sevier County, Tennessee censuses of 1850, 1860 and 1870.
Notes for Nancy (Spouse 1)
1830 - Can't find
1840 - Can't find
1850 - Washington County, Tennessee, living with son Alexander148
1860 - Sevier County, Tennessee, living with son Alexander
1870 - Sevier County, Tennessee living with her grandson, James F. M. Salts age 75
1840 - Can't find
1850 - Washington County, Tennessee, living with son Alexander148
1860 - Sevier County, Tennessee, living with son Alexander
1870 - Sevier County, Tennessee living with her grandson, James F. M. Salts age 75
Notes for Mathew & Nancy (Family)
License issued 3 October 1818 (see Vol O, page 165). Married by Wm Bayless, Justice of Peace, Attest by Jas. S. Johnson.