The following were taken from news clippings from Alma’s daughter, Marian Virginia Saults Cassing. No dates were given.

Former Teacher’s Mother’s Death is Reported - Paradise Valley, Apr. 18, (Special) - News has been received here of the death April 11 in Concordia, Mo., of Mrs. M Saults, mother of Mrs. Harry Ford of Reno, former Paradise Valley school teacher. Funeral services in Concordia were help April 13. (Journal has been written by hand at the bottom of the article)

Source and date unknown - (Taken from a clipping saved by Marian Virginia Saults Cassing) Mrs. Harry Ford of Reno, Nev., Mr. and Mrs. Lee Saults of Fulton, and Mr. and Mrs Glen Saults of Lexington were called here by the serious illness and death of their mother., Mrs. Alma Saults.

“…Doctor Harlow A. Saults, a well-known and successful physician of Valley City, Missouri, is one of the leading professional men of Johnson County. Dr. Saults was born June 13, 1879, at East Lynne in Cass County, Missouri, a son of D.N. Saults and Alice B. Graham Saults. Doctor Saults obtained his elementary education in the public schools of Knob Noster, Missouri. He is a graduate of the Knob Noster High School, in the class of 1899, and of the Marion Sims Beaumont Medical College at St. Louis, Missouri, in the class of 1903. After completing the High School course, Doctor Saults attended Missouri State University one year and in 1902 successfully passed the examination of the Missouri State Board of Health. After three years’ work in medical school, he began the practice of his profession at Warrenton, Missouri, and one year later, in 1904, came to Valley City, where he opened his office and has since been actively engaged in the medical practice, which has been steadily growing for the past thirteen years and now Doctor Saults has numerous patients within a circuit of ten and thirteen miles in the country. Within the past three years, he has traveled in his Ford car thirty-four thousand miles. Dr. Saults in the owner of his residence and office, which are located on a small tract of two and a half acres of land within the city limits of Valley City and of a splendid farm, embracing one hundred sixty acres of land, three miles south of Knob Noster, a fine, valuable country place.

December 25, 1902, the marriage of Dr. Harlowe Saults and Alma L. Sprague, daughter of W. T. Sprague of Warrensburg, was solemnized and to this union have been born four children: Vera Fay, born August 1, 1904; Luther Lee, born December 26, 1909; Marian Virginia, born November 19, 1913; and Glenn Graham, born March 3, 1918.

Doctor Saults has attained a conspicuous place in the public esteem not solely because of his professional success but also on account of the honorable, straightforward policy he has invariably followed in all his business relations. He always has at heart the best interests of his fellow-men. For his chosen calling, Doctor Saults in admirably fitted. He is a man of tireless energy, quick of perception, quiet and calm in manner, and of well-trained intellect. The success which has already crowned his efforts bespeaks for him a long and eminently useful career. Doctor Saults is the official registrar of vital statistics for Simpson township. Politically, he is a Democrat.”325

Harlow attended high school in Knob Noster, Missouri, and then University of St. Louis. In 1903 Harlow started his practice in Burtville, Missouri. Later he practiced medicine at Warrenton, Valley City, Concordia, and DeWitt, Missouri .

At the time of his daughter Fay’s wedding he was living in DeWitt, MO.326

Knob Noster Gem Oct 1917 - Dr. H.A.Saults has gone to Texas. He will be gone several days

Married by Rev. Frank Russell a Presbyterian minister.5 Witnesses were Walker Kimzey and William Wiedman.5,32