By about 1792 Nancy and her family had migrated to Mason County, Kentucky part of which which became Bracken County a few years later (in 1796).\u00a0 I know nothing\u00a0 about Nancy\u2019s upbringing or life as a young girl and woman since she left no letters or records of activities until the marriage bond showing she was licensed to marry John Salt.\u00a0 She was 21 years old when they married and he was 5 years older.\u00a0 Based on her signature on a deed of partition of land I think she could write, at least enough to sign her name.\u00a0 As it has been reported that John Salt did some teaching in Kentucky as a young man, he and Nancy may have met this way.\u00a0 Just how much schooling she might have had is not known, nor whether she would have attended a school or been taught at home.<\/p>\n
Nancy and John had at least 7 children (who lived to adulthood), although the years of their births show that there might have been several others born that did not survive.\u00a0 Most of the children were born in Kentucky, until the last one or maybe two who would have been born in Clermont County, Ohio where John and Nancy had purchased a large tract of land in October 1826 with his brother Edward and his wife Priscilla.\u00a0 This land was eventually partitioned, and is the site of the still-standing brick house that was built around 1843-44.\u00a0 The family had lived in another house on the same land, until a fire destroyed it completely one Sunday while the family (which would have been John and Nancy and the 4 younger children) were all at church, around Christmas in 1842.\u00a0 The church they were attending was probably the Calvary Methodist Church.<\/p>\n A little more than 2 years later, Nancy died.\u00a0 I have not found any recorded evidence for her death, except the gravestones which record a full date of death.\u00a0 In Ohio deaths were not required to be registered until 1867 so there is no death register.\u00a0 I do not know of any Salt family Bible that goes back to John\u2019s family (I wish I did!).\u00a0 With no registration and no family stories I do not know what she died of.\u00a0 All in all, Nancy Donovan Salt is a good example of a woman who is pretty much invisible in the records, leaving me with more questions than answers.<\/p>\n When I look at my ancestral chart, the next to last couple on my Salt line are John Salt and Nancy Donovan Salt.\u00a0 I have written before about John but not about Nancy.\u00a0 Nancy is also the next to last …<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/RM-Salt-Nancy-gravestone-300x225.jpg\")
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