Snodgrass Family History Book

Snodgrass Family Photographs
Figure 10.9. The Elder Snodgrass Members. This Photo was taken at the Snodgrass Family Reunion held at the John Phillip
Snodgrass Home in 1932.
Top row (Left to Right): George Washington Snodgrass (b. 3 Mar 1868), Thomas Lafayette (Fate) Snodgrass (b. 4 Jan 1863), John
Phillip Snodgrass (b. 29 Nov 1861), and William James (Bill) Snodgrass, Jr. (b. 18 Nov 1866).
Bottom Row (Left to Right>: \\''inifred (Winnie) Lou Snodgrass (Rauch) (b. 29 Jul 1872), Mary Francis Snodgrass (King) (b. 8 Aug
1856), Florence Amanda Snodgrass (Hargrove) (b. 15 Dec 1869), Anna Augusta Snodgrass (Collins) (b. 20 Nov 1879), and Elnora
(Note) Snodgrass (Haws) (b. 9 Aug 1875).
Clara Bee (Risley) Snodgrass tells this story of her father William James Snodgrass, Jr. He was a young man when his father Williain Sr.
died and he then went to Boise. Idaho to work to help his 1nother Winnie. While in Idaho he got a job taking a string of horses to another
town down river so he took a short cut. He \Vas told there were plenty of places he could stay at night so he took the trail down the river. It
\vas in cold weather and he traveled for two or three days and never cmnc to any place to stay. At that ti1nc he was getting cold and hungry so
he then put the horses in a fast n1n to keep from being almost frozen to death. Finally he cainc to a fannhouse. The people at the fannhouse
saw hi1n coining and they went to 1neet hi1n and took hi1n in and took care of his horses. They had hi1n take his shoes off and walk in the
sno\.V so he wouldn't get \Vann too fast as his feet were frozen. When he got \Vann he stayed for a fe\.V days. They had lots of good food and a
good bed. He then took the horses on and delivered them.
After that Clara's father Bill Snodgrass caine back to see his mother Winnie in Arkansas. At this ti1ne she wanted to sell hi1n forty acres of
land off of her place. He bought the land and built a house and a barn. The 40 acres 1ny father Bill bought was in timber. My 1nother and
father 'Norked clearing the land and the children helped, as they got old enough. My father Bill was a fanner; he had apple orchards. grapes,
strawberries and row crops of different things. All the fainily worked on the fmm.
Clara's grandmother Winnie Snodgrass was left alone and sold the 80 acres to Thomas Lafayette Snodgrass. I le bought the
farm from his brothers and sisters in about 1902. He paid $100.00 to each of the children, totaling$ l ,000.00. Thomas Lafayette
Snodgrass then farmed the place and erected a new house and lived there until his death on 21 Apr 1942.
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