John Salmon

John Salmon was born about 1762 in Halifax County, Virginia. It is not known whom he married; they had two known children. He served as a corporal in the War of 1812; Ancestry states that a Sarah Wilson was collecting pension for her husband, John Salmon (1760-1837). Another listing states that he purchased 141 acres from a Noel & Nancy Burtin in 1827. He died about 1830 in Halifax County, Virginia. One of these two children was John Salmon, who was born in 1790 in Halifax County, Virginia; in Halifax County, Virginia, on December 12, 1822, he married Agnes Torian (born about 1800 in Halifax County, Virginia and died September 7, 1844 in Trigg County, Kentucky), they had seven children and he died August 4, 1855 in Christian County, Kentucky.