Sarah Frances Zellner was born to John William Zellner and Elivira Frances Edge on March 11, 1967, in Georgia. She also grew up in Monroe County, GA.Walter and Sallie married in 1888 and had eight children: Emma (1887), Josephine (1890), Bernice (1893), Walter Samuel (1896), John W (1899), Cornelia Florine (1901), Sarah Lou (1905), and an unknown child. They raised their family in Monroe County, but had moved to Center (Jackson), GA, by 1920 and then Tampa (Hillsborough), FL, by 1930. Walter was a farmer by trade, but worked as a warehouse watchman in Tampa.
Walter passed on April 27, 1940, in Oconee County, GA, at the age of 72. Sallie, or "Granny Ingram" as she was affectionately called by her grandchildren, died on January 10, 1965, in Barnwell County, SC.
