General Notes

Nita Porter and Edna McLain Dolland both recall Sarah or Sally as Sally Ann, though she never really heard her called by any other name than that which her husband, George W. Sibley, called her, namely "Sally Honey."

Even though she died before the Depression, Sally was secretive with her money. Everyone knew she kept it hidden but no one knew quite where. She was, however, generous with the grandchildren, paying them for their chores of collecting bark and the like, out of her secret stash.

Nita recalls stories of "Yankees" being camped around the Sibley House, a source of some concern and fright for Sally. To ease her mind when he was away, George allowed one of the male slaves to sleep in the attic of the master house to protect her. This must have been during the Civil War if they still had slaves. If it was during Reconstruction, then the "Slave" was more likely a servant or former slave.

Sallie left a will, dated 13th June 1924. It is handwritten into the Record of Wills in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. The writing is in a different style from the entry below it so it is possible that the entire entry is in her hand. She alludes to her last illness and further states, "...having considered thoughtfully the financial condition of all my children and desiring to do the fair and just thing by all of them, I hereby will, devise and bequeath to my daughter, Mrs. Nettie Floyd all the real estate that I now own consisting of 320 acres of land and described as the N. 1/2 of Section 21, T. 10, R2 East in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, and I will devise and bequeath to my daughter Mrs. Bonnie Jernigan, the sum of Three Hundred Dollars; and I will devise and bequeath to my daughter Mrs. Lula Porter, the new house we built just South of her house and $30.00 in money." The only question is when the 320 acres passed to Lula. Keats Baldwin has the record of all of the transactions.