We do not know when Young Bonner and Sallie Robinson met, but they were married December 20, 1883 by Rev. Thomas Joel Bonner. Perhaps Young first met Sallie Hope at church. Maybe they met when she visited her sister Rebecca Jane who was married to Young's uncle Irvine Hale in 1875 and lived just to the west of John Laird. She surely came to visit her sister, Elizabeth Boggs "Lizzie" Robinson, who had married Young's father in 1881. Sarah Hope Robinson was the youngest child of James Robinson and Eliza Ann Bonner. She had twelve older sisters and brothers including a twin brother, Thomas Harvey Robinson. Her father was fifty-three and her mother forty-three when she was born and she had nieces and nephews very close to her age. Sallie was the granddaughter of William Bonner and Ann Lee Joel; her mother and Young's father were first cousins. Born in Texas on May 23, 1860, she spent her youth on her parents' plantation just across Tehuacana Creek from her grandfather Bonner. Across the road from her parents lived the family of her uncle William Bonner, Jr. From about 1870 to 1875, she lived in Fairfield while her father served as Sheriff of Freestone County. They occupied what is now the Freestone County Museum. Sallie's education eclipsed that of many in the county because she attended Due West Female College in Due West, South Carolina in the 1870s. A "Southern Lady" to the core, she knew manners and believed them all important. Harry Glenn classifies Sallie as somewhat of a "fireball" and probable source of the Bonner temper.
Young and Sallie established a Christian home. Weekly attendance at Harmony ARP Church in Stewards Mill was a habit. There they visited with friends and relatives, sang from the Psalter, and worshiped. Almost all cooking had been completed on Saturday because they reserved the Sabbath for worship. Sunday afternoons were reserved for visiting and not for frivolous activities. All the grandchildren recalled spending Sundays at Grandma's house. Whether it was for Sunday Dinner [lunch] after church, the afternoon, or the whole day; everyone came every week. Sometimes other relatives and friends came, too, because everyone enjoyed the hospitality and Sallie's cooking. Keeping the Sabbath Holy meant what it said. One bedroom in Young's and Sallie's home was known as the "Preacher's Room" and was where the Presbyterian minister stayed when he came to preach at Stewards Mill.
Sallie, the consummate Southern hostess, always kept the table set and was ready, willing, and able to feed anyone who stopped in. Cooking was very important because on May 31, 1911, Young and Sallie signed a note to order a Home Comfort Range #1911 from the Wrought Iron Range Company agreeing to pay $83 in two payments of $41.50 a year. The range was to be delivered within sixty days. However, Sallie did have her quirks, too. Neither she nor her daughter Bettie drew water from the well. If the peas boiled dry, so be it; ladies didn't draw water. Outside the back door was a cedar tree trunk with the branches lopped off to leave stubs. Sallie used this tree to hang her dish cloths on to dry. Granddaughter Pauline remembered that sometimes she put her teacakes in a syrup bucket and hung it from a shady tree branch to keep ants from getting into the cookies and to keep them cool. Sallie had a green thumb. Pauline remembered that she always had houseplants. She also remembered that there was a structure like a small cellar beside the outside chimney where Sallie kept her plants to protect them from cold weather; we would call it a cold-frame. Pauline said there was a lemon tree growing there and that she was allowed to climb down and pick lemons which Sallie used to make lemonade and to flavor cakes and pies. As the yard was mostly deep sand, plants didn't grow well there. However, Sue Thornton recalled, "Cousin Sallie had a white crepe myrtle and we always went to see it in bloom." Laura once said, "Mrs. Bonner always had narcissus blooming on her mantel at Christmas." There was also work to do. When they killed hogs, Sallie took the intestines, turned them wrong-side-out, and sat on the porch and scraped them clean. Then she washed them and stuffed sausage in them.
Sallie taught her children good and proper manners. Young taught them to work. Her grandchildren remembered her cooking and said everyone always came for Sunday dinner---even people from the Church. Hope said she made a marble cake by swirling cocoa into the batter. Hope provided the following description of Sallie gleaned while spending a year with her to attend school: "I can remember Grandma getting up in the morning and she gets fully dressed. Her long dress, and I imagine petticoat, and all that stuff. And she put on these high-topped shoes, laced them up, combed her hair, and had it all fixed before she ever went to breakfast. I just thought that was something." Hope also said that after her parents died, Sallie wouldn't wear anything but black and white. She remembered that someone gave her fabric with orchid in it and she wouldn't make herself a dress from it. Edd once remarked, "Grandma Bonner expected you to call everyone by the proper title [aunt, uncle, cousin] and know how they were kin." There must not have been much frivolity about Sallie because another grandson, Joel Andrew, remarked, "There was no fun at Grandma's."
After Young's death, Sallie contracted typhoid fever. She was taken to the home of Tom and Laura Bonner at the corner of highways 75 and 84 in Fairfield and nursed back to health. Sallie and her daughter Bettie moved to Fairfield and lived next door to Joel and Clara. Sallie died in Fairfield on October 1, 1935.

Fairfield Recorder - Oct 9, 1935 edition

"...From her chair in her home at Fairfield, having uttered a word of soliciation for the physical welfare and safety of a little grandson, Mrs. O. Y. Bonner, October 1, 1935, was called to swell Death's endless procession marching over the hills of time...
... In 1877, while a student at Erskine College, Due West, South Carolina, when a young lady of seventeen, having been born May 23, 1860, Sallie Hope Robinson surrendered her life to Christ....
...On December 30, 1883 she was married to Mr. O. Y. Bonner and thus established a home in that faith. To this union was born ten children, all of whom survive but one daughter who died in infancy, Jim Billie, Bettie, Paul, Tom, John L., Joel, Hunter, Oliver, and Sneed. They rise up and call her blessed...."