Manley Franklin

Posey married Cora Irene Turner on 16 Jan 1896. Cora (daughter of William Thomas Turner and Henrietta McClain Salmon) was born on 2 Aug 1874 in Pontotoc Co., Mississippi; died on 2 Apr 1963. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Henrietta McClain Salmon on 25 Dec 1871 in Pontotoc Co., Mississippi. Henrietta (daughter of John Anderson Salmon and Mary Ann Tutor) was born on 9 May 1852 in Cumberland Co., North Carolina; died on 23 Apr 1937 in Pontotoc Co., Mississippi; was buried in Salmon Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Cynthia M. Haigwood about 1845. Cynthia (daughter of Cleveland Haigwood and Mary Ann Unknown) was born in 1822 in Georgia; died in Pontotoc Co., Mississippi; was buried in Hartwell Tutor cemetery, Pontotoc Co., Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Ann Tutor in 1849 in North Carolina. Mary (daughter of John Henry Tutor and Martha Patsy Betts) was born on 1 Apr 1831 in Cumberland Co., North Carolina; died on 13 Jan 1915 in Pontotoc Co., Mississippi; was buried in Jan 1915 in Salmon Cemetery, Pontotoc Co., Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[Obituary for Mary Tutor Salmon]
published in The Sentinel, January 21, 1915, Pontotoc, Mississippi

Mrs. Mary Salmon

My beloved mother, Mrs. Mary Salmon, nee May Tutor, was born in Wake county, near Raleigh,
N.C. in April 1, 1831, and departed this life for the glorious life with Jesus at 12:10 o'clock, A.M.,
Jan. 13, 1915, from the home of her son S. A. Salmon, where she had been sick with severe cold
for several weeks, having lived to a ripe old age-83 years, 8 months and 21 days, with strong
mind and memory up to the last.
She was known as "Aunt Polly" or "Grandma", and was always in a state of mind to give her
voice as reproof or approval on questions of right or wrong.
She was married to John Salmon at 18 years of age and to this union was born eight children,
five daughters and three sons, Mrs. G. W. Lewellyn of Water Valley, Mrs. Tom Turner of
Randolph and Mrs Berry Tedford, deceased, who preceded her a few years, S. A. Salmon of
Randolph, and J. A. and J. H. Salmon of Pontotoc.
With her husband and three children, she moved from North Carolina a few years before the Civil
War and bought land where the Salmon graveyard is and selected his burying place near a large
gate where his body was laid in the year 1864, to await the resurrection.
When quite young, "Grandma" gave her heart through faith to God and was "born again" and
united with the church, a number of believers in the Blood sacrifice for their sins by Jesus Christ,
called the Baptist Piney Grove Church.
Let me appeal to you children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, whose number will reach
200 or more, your praying mother and grandmother's voice will not be heard any more. She will
bless you no more with her prayers and council. She stood as a headlight to dispel and renounce
all darkness and dishonesty. She was loyal to God in words and in testimony--she would shout
God's praises to victory. She was found on every battlefield where sin was to combat. She
spared not her own when correcting her children. She was sanctified and fully reconciled to
God's will. God willeth that none should die. God is able to make all grace abound toward you,
that you always having all sufficiency, in all things may abound to every good work.
She had no fear of man, not ashamed of Jesus, at home or abroad among thousands, the first to
give testimony of the grace of God and what Jesus had done for her soul and body, in adversity or
prosperity, carried with her armful of God's promises, worked with her hands, never seen begging
bread, always on the firing line resisting the devil at every angle, in love, with the two-edge sword
of God. Some loved her because of her precepts and example for good. The battle is over, her
works will follow, her reward is Heaven.
Now, to all who showed her kindness while living, at the sick bed, the helping hands and
sympathetic hearts at the grave, we sincerely thank you and commend you to God in well doing.

Written by her son J.A.S.