It is not known who Mary’s first husband was, but it is known that he was a Salts. It has been recorded in the Leesburg Cemetery book, that Mary “Polly” salts, a widow with a dau, Mary, was buried along side her husband in the Brown family plot - with Jacob Brown, II and his first wife, Elizabeth Artmire.128

1819 - Mary "Polly" was 25 when her daughter Mary Salts was born.

In her husband, Jacob Brown II's will, it mentions his step-daughter, Mary Cloyd.

1841, May 10th - Her second husband dies

1841, May - According to the Minutes of the Cherokee Baptist Church in May of 1841, she was excommunicated from the Cherokee Baptist Church for excessive drinking.

1850 - Washington County, Tennessee census129
BROWN, Mary 56 NC
BROWN, Richard 24 farmer TN
BROWN, Julia F. 25 TN
BROWN, John B. 2 TN

1853 - Jacob Brown m. Marry/Polly Salts/Solts.Lotts 9?), 23 Jn 1816, Washington co., Tn., by William Bayless, Esq., J.P. She was ag 58 in 1853. B.L. Wt. 13750-160-55. W-2062; NC/TN.130