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Robert Taylor Saulsbery is a native of Harrison County, W. Va., born September 3, 1849, and is the son of Robert and Harriet (Boyer) Saulsbery. The father was a native of Wales and the mother of Pennsylvania. The former was a farmer by occupation, and came from Wales to America, making a home in Harrison County, W. Va. In 1865 Robert Saulsbery, Sr., with his family, left West Virginia and made a home in Scotland County, Mo., where Robert, Jr., grew to manhood and adopted his father’s business in connection with stock raising. In 1876 he came to Lawrence County and purchased property in Section 19, Peirce Township. He here married, February 26, 1862, Miss Belle Chester, of Granby, Mo., and the daughter of the late William Chester, of that place. Mrs. Saulsbery was born in La Salle County, Ill., April 11, 1865, and was reared and educated in Southwest Missouri. She was a school teacher. William Chester was a native of England, and his occupation was that of miller. He married Miss Alice Hawk, also a native of England. To this union was born one child, a son William Archibald, born August 25, 1885, in Lawrence County. They worship at all churches, but generally attend the Methodist Church. Mr. Saulsbery has served on the school board of his district and is a good citizen in every respect. Mrs. Saulsbery, the mother of Robert, Jr., died in Virginia in 1863, in full communion with the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, and is buried in Harrison Connty, W. Va. The father of Robert, Jr., died at the home of John Boyer his nephew, in California, in 1875, and was buried at College City.