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Mrs. Salter was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in the year 1826 [sic], which would make her sixty-five years of age at her death. Her parents were Deacon F. P. Mackintyre, and his wife, Mary Tufts. In 1846, on the 25th of August, she was married to Dr. William Salter, then a young minister of the gospel, just graduated from the Andover theological school and bound for the great west to spread the truth among the hardy pioneers beyond the Mississippi. She bore five children, of whom two died in childhod and three survive her. They are William, lecturer on ethics at Philadelphia; Sumner, composer and teacher of music in New York, and George B. Salter, of this city.
Source: Burlington Hawkeye, 13 Jun 1893, page 7.
...on a June morning in 1893. Dr. and Mrs. Salter took friends riding through Aspen Grove Cemetery, and during the course of the outing, an oak tree suddenly escaped the control of workmen taking it down, and crashed to earth. Salter's surrey was directly in its path. Mary Salter died instantly, and Salter was injured so severely that he was unable to attend his wife's funeral.
Source: The Palimpsest, Vol. 54, No. 4, page 8
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Mrs. Salter was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in the year 1826 [sic], which would make her sixty-five years of age at her death. Her parents were Deacon F. P. Mackintyre, and his wife, Mary Tufts. In 1846, on the 25th of August, she was married to Dr. William Salter, then a young minister of the gospel, just graduated from the Andover theological school and bound for the great west to spread the truth among the hardy pioneers beyond the Mississippi. She bore five children, of whom two died in childhod and three survive her. They are William, lecturer on ethics at Philadelphia; Sumner, composer and teacher of music in New York, and George B. Salter, of this city.
Source: Burlington Hawkeye, 13 Jun 1893, page 7.
...on a June morning in 1893. Dr. and Mrs. Salter took friends riding through Aspen Grove Cemetery, and during the course of the outing, an oak tree suddenly escaped the control of workmen taking it down, and crashed to earth. Salter's surrey was directly in its path. Mary Salter died instantly, and Salter was injured so severely that he was unable to attend his wife's funeral.
Source: The Palimpsest, Vol. 54, No. 4, page 8
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