Robert Shanklin SALYER {M} = Lydia SALYER {F}

Married 4 October 1867, Russell Co, VA

Robert Shanklin SALYER:

Born 20 July 1825, Copper Creek, Scott Co, VA
Died 13 July 1881, Elkhorn City, Pike Co, KY


Lydia SALYER:

Born 1840, Russell Co, VA

Logan H SALYER {M} = Polly BELCHER {F} > Family

Logan H SALYER:

Born 1864, Moll's Creek, Russell Co, VA
Died 1947, Elkhorn City, Pike Co, KY
Death: At the age of 26, Logan was a Captain in the Confederate Army: Company H, 50th Regiment Virginia Infantry (Floyd's Brigade). His second cousin, Second Lieutenant Shanklin Salyer (36), another second cousin, Sergeant Samuel Salyer (44), Private James Salyers and Private Tyree D. Salyers were in the same Company.

= Sarah RIDDLE {F} > Family

Eliza Ann SALYER {F} = Morgan SLONE {M} > Family

Eliza Ann SALYER:

Alias Sissy SALYER
Born 1866, Russell Co, VA

Livisa E SALYER {F} = John Wesley CHILDRESS {M} > Family

Livisa E SALYER:

Alias Visy SALYER
Born 1869, Russell Co, VA

William Elbert SALYER {M}

Born May 1871, Russell Co, VA
Died 11 June 1899, Pike Co, KY

Ira G. SALYER {M} = Mary CLEVINGER {F} > Family

Ira G. SALYER:

Born 3 September 1873, Pike Co, KY

Eugenia Rebecca SALYER {F} = Howard STANLEY {M} > Family

Eugenia Rebecca SALYER:

Born 1877, Pike Co, KY


Howard STANLEY:

Born ABT 1873, Pike Co, KY

Marriage: The following is from Brenda Salyer dated 5 March 1997 in an e-mail message to Laurie McKenzie:
Robert Shanklin Salyer was born July 20, 1825 on Copper Creek near Nickelsville, Virginia. He died July 13, 1881, near Elkhorn City, Kentucky. He is listed in the 1860 list of landholders in Wise County as owning 451 acres, of which 80 were improved with a total value of $1500. He served in the Confederate Army as a 2nd Lieutenant under Col. L.H.N. Salyer, his nephew. Shanklin married (1) Anna Easterling in 1847 and divorced her in 1867. She remarried to a Vicars. Anna and Shanklin had seven children while living in the Copper Creek area of Russell County. They were:
1. Melvina (never married)
2. Isabel Jane married Thomas Addington. Five children.
3. James Madison married Liza Ann Gardner. Three children.
4. Sarah married Levi Potter.
5. John married Nancy Kilgore. Fifteen children (six died of the flu).
6. Mary V. married David Stapleton.
7. Robert S. married Louise Kilgore.
Franklin and Lydia were second cousins. Lydia's 1st cousin was Robert Shanklin's nephew.