Jefferson Saltsman (1817 - 1902)

Born 19 Nov 1817 in Saline Township, Jefferson County, Ohio

Ancestors

Husband of Macy (Clark) Saltsman — married 17 Feb 1853 (to 27 Nov 1866) in Jefferson, Ohio, United States

Husband of Nancy Jane (Harrah) Saltsman — married 15 Mar 1868 in Jefferson, Ohio, United States

Died 4 May 1902 at age 84 in Jefferson County, Ohio

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Biography

Jefferson was born in 1817. He was the son of Martin Saltsman and Jane Farquar. He passed away in 1902.

Jefferson Saltsman was born in Saline township, Jefferson county, Ohio, November 19, 1817. Received but a common school education, and learned the carpenter trade with Henry Yeahley for whom he worked three years. Followed his trade until 1847, when he began steamboating on the Yazoo River, having worked at carpentering two years in the South. In 1850 he bought the old home farm in Saline township and began farming. In 1854 he sold this farm, removed to Cross Creak township where he remained nine years, when he bought a farm 200 acres in Island Creek, bordering on the Ohio river, known as the old Sloan homestead, where he is now engaged in farming. He also owns and runs planing mill at Sloan's Station. Mr. Sloan married Mary Clark, March 15, 1854, by whom he had six daughters, viz:

• Maggie J.
• Lizzie L.
• Macy A.
• Arabella
• Barria
• Emma

His first wife dying, he married Nancy J. McElbase, of Beaver county, Pennsylvania.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, and incidentially historical collection pertaining to border warfare and the early settlement of the adjacent portion of the Ohio Valley, 1880

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32477758/jefferson-saltsman