{"id":6618,"date":"2018-02-04T09:15:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T14:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/?p=6618"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:29:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:29:56","slug":"who-to-invite-for-dinner-52-ancestors-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/who-to-invite-for-dinner-52-ancestors-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Who to Invite for Dinner–52 Ancestors #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are lots of possible criteria for choosing which ancestor I\u2019d like to have dinner with \u2013 my first thought was my brick wall great grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Hockman.\u00a0 However, I\u2019ve written<\/a> several times about the obstacles I run into trying to track down just who she was.\u00a0 Then it occurred to me: I haven\u2019t really written anything about my Salt grandfather, Henry Clifford Salt, who I never got to meet (my father only just barely got to meet him!).\u00a0 So here is Henry Salt and what I have gleaned from records and then the questions I would like to ask him if only I could.<\/p>\n

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Susan Ruhama and Henry Salt, c mid 1893<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Henry Clifford Salt was the 2nd-born child of J. Clifford and Katie Coffin Salt, born August 1890 just 2 months after the death of their firstborn, Annie, at not-quite 2 years old.\u00a0 Henry was baptized at St. Paul Episcopal Church in Newport Kentucky in 1892.\u00a0 In 1893 his younger sister Susan Ruhama Salt was born in March and in July his father was probated to the State Hospital in Dayton as insane. Katie Salt was left with two very young children and a husband in a hospital some 50 miles away.\u00a0 Henry was not quite 3 years old when he lost his father.\u00a0 I am not clear that either he or Susan Ruhama ever saw him or visited him, although a cousin visited him on occasion.\u00a0 This picture was made probably in that same year as their father was institutionalized.<\/p>\n

Henry grew up on the family farm in Tate Township, Clermont, Ohio.\u00a0 He and his mother and sister lived with his paternal grandmother, Ann J. Salt, who had been widowed young, until Ann died in 1905.\u00a0 They stayed on the farm for some time after Ann’s death.\u00a0 When his mother and sister moved into Bethel Henry moved out of the parental home.\u00a0 It was said that Katie waited until he was old enough to be on his own before moving into town for Susan Ruhama\u2019s education to continue.\u00a0 By the time Henry was 19 he was working as a machinist and living in Cincinnati.\u00a0 There he met his future wife, and in 1913 he married Carrie D. Boothby.\u00a0 They moved across the river first to Dayton, Kentucky, and then soon to Augusta, Kentucky.\u00a0 \"\"<\/a>Henry worked as a car repairer for the C & O for several years while in Kentucky.\u00a0 This information comes from a short newspaper piece published about his ill-health just a couple of years before his death.<\/p>\n

The article notes \u201ccreeping paralysis\u201d and the multiple page eulogy or intended death notice from his wife (I believe) also noted that Henry had been afflicted for four years before his death with an increasing paralysis that made him nearly helpless.\u00a0 While the exact timing of the family\u2019s move back to Salt Air from Augusta is not known, I do know that my father was born in Salt Air in December 1918 on the family farm.\u00a0 Henry\u2019s ill health also may explain the presence of Carrie\u2019s parents on the farm in the 1920 census with the young couple.\u00a0 Henry would have needed help with the farm labor and Carrie might have needed help caring for him and a young toddler.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Henry died 1 Mar 1922, with his death certificate reporting \u201cProgressive muscular atrophy\u201d as the cause.\u00a0 He was 31 years old.<\/p>\n

While I have the basic pieces of vital information and evidence to support them, I know nothing about Henry as a person.\u00a0 There were never family stories told about him and what he was like.\u00a0 There are no diaries or letters from him.<\/p>\n

If I could have him sitting at my dinner table I would love to ask him about himself and who he was as a person.\u00a0 What did he like\/dislike?\u00a0 What was important to him?\u00a0 Was he sociable?\u00a0 Who were his friends?\u00a0 Did he ever visit his father?\u00a0 What man or men helped parent him (was it, as I think, his uncle Edward Wilshire Salt, Jr.?\u00a0 And if so, were there others as well?)\u00a0 What did his mother tell him about his father and his father’s family?\u00a0 I so wish it had occurred to me to ask my Aunt Susan, his sister, about him and about their growing up.\u00a0 I wonder what she would have\/could have told me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are lots of possible criteria for choosing which ancestor I\u2019d like to have dinner with \u2013 my first thought was my brick wall great grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Hockman.\u00a0 However, I\u2019ve written several times about the obstacles I run into …<\/p>\n

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