SALMON M. WITHERS.
Michael Wilson Withers, father of Salmon M., was born in Gaston
county, North Carolina, in 1812, married in Washington county, Virginia,
in February, 1842, Ann Catherine Teeter (born 1817, died
1845), and died in this county, May 11, 1863. Salmon M. was born
in Washington county, January 30, 1843. Near Lexington, Rockbridge
county, Virginia, October 15, 1878, he married Lillias Payne
Smith, who was born at Leesburg, Virginia, September 17, 1850.
The children of this union were born: Nannie Payne, September 19,
1879; Robert Spotswood, July 18, 1881; Fannie Teeter, January
29, 1883; Henry Wilson, September 10, 1884; Alfred Miles, October
24, 1886. Rev. Henry R. Smith, father of Mrs. Withers, was born in
Otsego county, New York, and married Nannie B. Payne, near Lynchburg,
Virginia, May 3d, 1849.
Mr. Withers is treasurer of Washington county, to which office he
was elected in May, 1887. His occupation is farming; his residence,
Abingdon.
