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The Granville Historical Society Oral History Project 2001 - 2002
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10) Sallie Jones Sexton
Sallie Jones Sexton – A Great Horsewoman (Virginia Jones Olmsted) I had two sisters. Sallie was my older sister by 5 years and Betty was my half sister and she was 18 years my senior. Sallie was a great horsewoman. During the war when all the men were off serving their country, Sallie took the bull by the horns and she delivered the milk. She did all kinds of things like that. At that point I had been married and I was not living there. There was a lot of hearsay about what she was doing. People were telling me about what my sister was doing because I wasn’t there to see for myself. But I was very proud of her, of her accomplishments and her horsemanship and so on.
A Colorful Local Character (Eric Jones) One of the most prominent people at the time was Sallie Jones Sexton. She was the owner of the Granville Inn and had a farm at the [ Bryn Du ] mansion on Newark Granville Road. She also owned the golf course and was involved in a number of hobbies including showing horses nationally and maybe around the world. We grew up knowing Sallie as someone who could go out in the field and bail hay with farm hands during the day and then wine and dine well-known people at the Inn in the evening. She was very colorful. She could meet with the women’s group and hold any women’s group’s attention. She was an excellent speaker but she could cuss with any farm hand too. Sallie was in school with my mother at Granville High School. And she went on to some prominent women’s college -- it could’ve been Smith or Stephens. So she was well-educated. But you could put her picture next to the word “character”. The Granville Inn and the Load of Coal (Robert Kent) I remember one time coming to the Granville Inn where Granville Rotary met and there parked out in the driveway was a big load of coal. And the driver was waiting for cash. He wouldn’t take a check. Now this is when Sallie Jones Sexton owned the Inn. So it was too cold in the Inn to have Rotary so we went across the street to Buxton. And the driver never did dump the coal. He left because she wouldn’t pay. |
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