Samuel Thomas Snead and descendant fams

These are my cleaned up research notes.

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One more thing – if you are learning to research, start by studying the census forms. I use a short hand here in summing them up.  What you end up on after a search is the census of a certain decade, and a given state, and a county within that state, and divisions within that county.  There is a page number (often about three numbers) written in an upper corner, and you’ll see the date of enumeration there.  Families are listed – between 1790 and 1840 only by the head of household with tick marks for the other people in the household, only telling you gender and age.  Sort of.   In 1850, they started listing ALL the people in the house (which I mean literally – they listed ALL the people who happened to be in the house on the day of enumeration – read up on it – which probably actually ended up being the day the census taker came around with age, place of birth, occupation – and more detail as the decades became more modern.

Families of the Samuel Thomas Snead branch of the Seaborn Anderson Sneed Line

Muscogee county, Georgia, record of Marriages Book A 1838-1845 image 145 /246 doc page 83. License date 12 Nov 1840.  Marriage 12th Nov 1840

Record of Marriages Book B 1840-1845 I 3/345 doc pg 2. Seaborn Sneed and Ataline Slaughter married 12 Nov 1840 by Nelson M Lister.

Because this report focuses on Samuel T, I am not including the 1845 record of Seaborn’s marriage to Lenissa Kennedy, his second wife and my gg grand, in Russell County, Alabama.

Russell County, Alabama 1850 census 32/107 this image is impossible, nearly, to read. Thus the transcribers came up with Seaborn Smid. About 2/3 down the page.

  • Seaborn Sneed 34 GA
  • Lenissy Sneed 34? GA
  • Samuel 8
  • William 5
  • Josephine 3
  • Andrew J 1
  • Ruben Alevera? Alford? 18 (I had Alford down in my original research – I think the copy I had was better)

We can infer from this census and the wedding dates that Samuel was born March 28 – Dec 28 in 1841

For decades, I could never find anything on Seaborn’s oldest son, Samuel. But Ancestry and its search engine popped a Civil War pension application up in my face. I didn’t believe it could be the same person – but found, as I read, that I was CERTAIN this was my boy.

1860 census,Seals Station, Southern Division, Russell County, Alabama

Notice here that Samuel is with the family at this point, just at the very gates of the civil war.  He’s the son of Seaborn Sneed and his first wife, Ataline Slaughter, who seems to have died with the birth of the second son, William.  Samuel is 16 years of age here, and they are in Russell County, Alabama, where they have been since around 1845 or even earlier.

  • fam 199
  • Seaborn Snead abt 40 years old GA
  • Lanissa 34 GA
  • Samuel T Snead 16 Alabama on down – which I’m not sure is true. Samuel and William were probably born in Muscogee, GA.
  • William is no longer here.
  • Josephine 12
  • Andrew J 10
  • Sarah E 8
  • John R 6
  • Eliza N 4
  • Uriah D 1

Fam 200:

  • William Webb 61 Farmer GA
  • Sarah Snead 80 house keeper North Carolina. (Sarah, we think, is probably Seaborn’s aunt.  We don’t know how William Webb fits into the story yet. See Seaborn’s page for more earlier history.

This next link isn’t significant yet. But Samuel will marry a Mary O Cottingham (don’t set that in stone till you’ve read the whole thing) in 1867 and this is the only census listing I could find any where or time for a girl of that name. This person is working in Pike County, which is far south and east of Russell, so there’s little chance these two would have met. More later.

1860: Western Div, Pike, Alabama post Off: Hellcon im 456/1115 pg 380 in the actual record. fam 950

  • James McNeal 55 GA all the way down till
  • Catherine McNeal 45
  • Henry 22
  • Sarah 18
  • Della 11 AL
  • Mary O Cottingham 25 school teacher AL b. 1835

At this point, the civil war intrudes, and for decades, I had no idea what had happened to Samuel.  He seemed to have vanished.  These were part of the years of heavy migration westward, and people DID just seem to disappear off the face of the earth.  Then again, some of them actually did that.  So though this document, an application for Indigent Civil War Veterans’ pensions, is dated 1909, I am placing it here in the story because it explains where Samuel was for the three years following that 1860 census. (Thank you profoundly, Ancestry search engine.) and I have verified its relevance:

Soldier’s Application for Pension – Form A – 15450 = for the use of soldiers in indigent circumstances.  Name of applicant: S. T. Sneed.  Henderson County, Texas  Post office: Athens.  Aug. 31 1909:  W.H. Davis – County Assessor of Henderson, Texas. Assessed value of pension of S.T. Sneed: $150.00. (21 Aug 1909)

Next form: for Use of Soldiers who are in Indigent Circumstances:

  • S.T. Sneed: I was discharged at Montgomery, Ala in April 1865.
  • Age: 64 years
  • Born: Washington County, Georgia.
  • How long in Texas: 42 years
  • Where now?: Henderson
  • How long here? 38 years
  • Post office? Athens
  • Occupation: Farming
  • In what state was your command formed? Alabama
  • How long did you serve? 3 years
  • What outfit? Company E 39th Alabama Infantry
  • Ever transferred? No.
  • Not commissioned. Not detailed to special service
  • Signature

4 Aug 1909:  2 Affidavits follow. One for B.P. Adam and one for Paul Jones that they know the applicant personally and have no interest in the claim. 21 Aug 1909. Vouched for by John S Pries, County Judge of Henderson.

  • Another Voucher, by H. T. Benton, Judge of Probate in Russell County, Alabama. Two witnesses, Captain Wm. J. Sankey and T. W. Perry (County clerk, 67, living at Seale, Russell, Alabama) witnessed before him that they both know S.T. Sneed personally, that they had known him in Russell County for five or six years before he enlisted and that he enlisted and served from March or April 1862 (5 May, actually) and that he served till the end of the war. He was a private in the infantry for 3 years.
  • Next comes a cross interrogation of the same two men is included. Sankey’s address is given His age: 66. He states that S.T. enlisted 5 May 1862. That Sneed served honorably. The tenth page (I think) is the permission and pension granted letter. Stamped 26 Aug, 1909.
  • Last page, from the War Department, Adjutant General in Washington, marked 1560520 Aug 31, 1909 Addressed to the Commissioner of Pensions, State of Texas, Austin:
  • The records show that __ Thomas Snead (surname also borne as Sneed), private, Company E, 39th Alabama Infantry, Confederate States Army, enlisted May 5, 1862. On the roll for November and December, 1863, last on file, he is reported, “Absent, sent to hospital March 25, 1863.” No later record of him has been found.

TF Perry: Mary F Perry.  William Snakey

Ancestry image 38 1860(?) Census Russell County, Alabama shows the Sneed family on image 28 and Thomas Perry on image 31.

1867 Voter Registration 9/85 5th July, Butler County, Alabama. Alabama Gov Archives. #983 Samuel T Sneed A 497 (2?) next to him #991 Seaborn Sneed 496 Non-alphabetical list of S surnames. They are the only two Sneeds in that county list. No William Webb.  See also this image.

This bit of info was a total shocker to me, as I had just assumed the Sneeds had lived in Russell till they moved to Lawrence. (As a researcher, I fall into the trap of thinking in decades as is other people think in months or years.) But ten years is a really long time, and they could have lived in a dozen places between 1860 and 1870. I need to probe the records of Burke county to see if there might be more info.

1867: September  Ancestry Report of the marriage record:  of Samuel T Snead and Mary O Cottingham.  This is only a summary of the information they felt was important.  Family Search, however,  has the actual image of this record; only in the image will you learn that Samuel T marries  MRS. Mary O. Cottingham in Butler County 1 September 1867.

1870 census of  Falls, Texas, Precinct 1    i10/22  fam 74

  • Thomas Snead 29 (b. 1841) Alabama This age lines up with the early census and the wedding date of his parents.
  • Mary 39 Alabama (b.1831)  If we take the date from her headstone (which is not always a great source – depends on whether the family kept records, or the informant is just guessing), she was born Oct 1833. So she should be 37 here. So she has married a man who is eight years her junior. So she could be the teacher in Pike, not a single girl, or not yet married to whoever – . But where was her family while she was off on her own, teaching?
  • Mary Cottinghead? 14 Alabama – garbled in the image.  This child is obviously not the daughter of Thomas. But could be of Mary. I found no trace of either of them – I assumed that the school teacher in 1860 was our girl, but she was living with a family, as single teachers were wont to do, and in Pike County. I have found this younger mary nowhere among the Lowndes families, which are the obvious choice, considering the Butler wedding.
  • Snead Sneed 3 Alabama (b. 1867?)  This name – Really?? Could be an earlier child who dies young, but I think this is probably Samuel Alexander with the wrong age attached and the total wrong name. So here’s an awkward question: These two people were married in September of 1867. No room there for a child to be born within wedlock. But he was, evidently, still living with his parents, and his life doesn’t seem irresponsible. So this age is probably way off. It was probably the 14 year old who answered the questions. So I’m assuming that this is Samuel and he was born in June or July of 1868. just sayin. So he’d be either 1 or two years old, depending on whether his birthday was before the census enumeration date or after. If his birthday happened to fall in September, the census rules demanded that he be reported at his younger age, not the age he would “become” that year later.

1880: Hamilton, Texas Census dist 69 (we have moved from Falls, Texas) i51/70 fam 436

  • S.T. Sneed 30 Father Farming Texas, Georgia  (Georgia and Alabama were written in. I think they were corrections. I think the dude just wrote Texas in for everybody. And Thomas’ age should be 39 here based on birth info)
  • MC Sneed F 32 Mother Texas, Alabama. b.1848 But really – if she was born in 1833, she’d be 47.  When you look at the original record and then find a capitol “C” in the lines above this family entry, you can tell quite clearly that the letter that follows the M is an O. The ages in this census are WAY different than the ages in the last one. This is just stupid.
  • L.(or S) A. Sneed 11 son ALABAMA – so born 1869. **  (This is Samuel Alexander, either the Snead Snead child or a second son and the first is gone – but given the track record of these census takers and ages, who the heck knows? See notes above.)
  • *C.L. Sneed 4 son Texas. B. 1876  (This will turn out to be Columbus Caldwell Snead – people call me Crystal, to my everlasting annoyance, because it seems like all they hear are the first and last sounds of a name – Kris . .dle. So maybe this Dude did the same thing: Col-ell. I want to slap these guys)
  • M Holton Female 79 Texas widowed. But New Jersey was penciled in her mother column, so we don’t know her.  Nobody in this line is from the north east.

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At this point, we enter the census black hole. There is no census for any state I know of between 1880 and 1900. There are other documents that can be drawn on, if you can find them. So during this twenty year span, several significant things happen. For one, everyone we know up to this point got suddenly older – Samuel Thomas will be 59 at the turn of the century and will be living in Henderson, Texas, having left Hamilton, and Samuel Alexander will be 30 years old. Evidently, during this period, he and his parents seems to stick together – or at least come back together in Henderson, and Samuel meets and marries Rebecca Elizabeth Fowler late in 1896, as we see in the following records:

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1899:  A Christening for Laura Elizabeth Sneed, daughter of Rebecca Elizabeth Fowler and S.A. Sneed in Henderson Texas 29 May 1899.

1900 :  Census for Justice Precinct 1, Henderson, TX fam 260 i 31/48

  • S.A. Snead 30 b. July 1869** married 3 years Al Al Al
  • Elizabeth Snead 22 b. May 1878   married 3 years 2 children born 2 alive Tenn Tenn Tenn
  • Jno R Snead June 1897 2 yrs old Tex Ala Tenn
  • Laura E. Snead. May 1899 1   yr old Tex Al Tenn.

Here, I will point out that Seabron Sneed, Samuel’s father, had with his second wife a boy named John R. Sneed (born in 1854), and a girl named Laura E Sneed (born in 1861). I don’t know if these kids were named after those – Seaborn’s was Laura Ella and this one is Laura Elizabeth. Samuel THOMAS would, of course, have known them well. But they would be aunt and uncle to Samuel Alexander, who was born after the two families had gone their separate ways. Maybe they visited back and forth between Texas and Arkansas – and these two moved down into Texas, too, I suddenly remember. But not till after these kids were born. So this is a flimsy hope of further proof of connection.

Family 261:

  • T Snead Head *** Feb 1852 48 widowed – AL AL AL this birth date is off by 10 years. He was definitely born in 1841-3. So he’s actually 58. This is the last we will see of him as a living person.
  • *Collie son b. December 1877 22 single Tx Al Al – there is very little on this son. I expect to see him in the census in 1810, but I don’t yet.

So one son of Samuel Thomas was born about 1870 and the other about 1877. Surely there were children in between those years? He’s been married to Mary since 1867. Some sadness in the story here.

Between 1900-1907: Rebecca Elizabeth Fowler Snead dies.

1907: Marriage of S.A. Snead and Mrs. M. E. Wood in Athens, Henderson County 7 Feb 1907.

This is problematic. The initial in the middle should be an A. So it threw me – are there two Marys in this time period? But there’s not time between this marriage and Joyce’s Christening, unless the first girl died after a month or two. And I’d see that other marriage.

1908: Christening:  For Gladys Joyce Snead 9 Feb 1908  Father: Samuel A Snead.  Mother: Mary Adline Coffer  Henderson Texas

I can’t find a marriage for Mary Coffer and Benjamin Wood. I should be able to find it. Could she have been married to a Coffer after she was a Wood? Is this her original maiden name?

1909: Columbus Caldwell Sneed with wife Sarah Larena Williams. Birth of daughter Oleeta Sneed born 27 Dec 1909 in Athens, Henderson County, TX. Mother’s birthplace Miss. Father 31 (b. 1878), mother 28 (1882). (This is Collie, son of Samuel Thomas, listed with him in 1900, batching together. We know this because Oleeta is sister to Ida M Sneed, who ends up in the household of Samuel A in 1920, indicated as his niece. All the little pieces fitting together.

1910: Find a grave for Mary O Sneed. Athens, Henderson County, Texas USA.  There’s a headstone. Birth: Oct 24, 1833 Death Jan 10, 1910 buried Meredith Campground Cemetery, Athens, Henderson Texas. “Mary O Sneed wife of S.T. Sneed.”

Samuel Thomas Snead is now a widower. He will not re-marry.

http://interactive.ancestry.com/7884/4449202_00669?pid=28193931&backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3findiv%3d1%26db%3d1910USCenIndex%26h%3d28193931%26tid%3d%26pid%3d%26usePUB%3dtrue%26rhSource%3d7602&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true

1910 Justice Precinct 1 Henderson, Texas Census:  fam 126

  • Samuel A Snead head 39 (1871) married twice – 3 years to Mary (I think this indicates that his parents were born in England. Too weird for me. And utterly untrue.
  • Mary A wife 40? Also married twice – years 3 to Samuel. children born 2 children living born Mississippi
  • John R son 12 Texas Al Miss   This is messed – he is Lizzie Fowler’s son and she was Tenn
  • Laura E dtr 10 Tex Al Miss As is this messed – the same
  • Wilson C 8 California Al Miss – I know nothing about Wilson C – how did Samuel A. and Lizzie manage to sneak in a trip to California without our knowing it? David was born 1906 – 7. Which would explain a quick marriage for his father. His mother evidently did not do well with this pregnancy. They also should read TX, AL, Tenn
  • David H 4 Texas Ala Miss
  • Gladys J dtr 2 Texas Ala Miss
  • Benjamin F Wood, step son Tenn Indiana Tenn (This is Mary’s son and he was born in Tenn?)

1910 Athens, Henderson, TX – this is the family of Columbus Caldwell Snead.  Wow – he didn’t live very long.  But he managed to have more kids than his dad did.

  • Lou Snead 29 wid 5 births 3 surviving. Miss, b. 1881 This is the wife of Collie Snead. Widowed already.
  • Elmer Snead 8 b. 1902
  • Ida M Snead 5 b 1905 – remember her. She is the Body of Proof for the connecting of two families.
  • Eliza O Snead 4/12 b 1910

So Collie has died. Died before he was 32, evidently. Here’s the deal – his youngest child was born Dec 27, 1909, so he had to have been alive in March of 1909, or there never would have been an Oleeta. This is assuming that Lou told the truth when she called herself a widow – that he didn’t just up and leave as some did. I can find no death cert for either of them.

1910: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F65Q-Z2H

Christening:  23 Dec 1910  for Susie, dtr of Samuel A Snead and Mary Adline Coffer. Hendrson, Texas (probably Athens by this time, but I didn’t make note.  And  Susie Finy Sneed, Henderson, Texas b 12-23-1910 Dtr of Samuel A and Mary.  I think this is the Texas birth registry. I’ll add to this another detail, completely out of order – but relevant – Susie Martin – address in Victoria, Texas at some point. Thus, we see that she married a Martin- name and location.

1910 Census for Henderson Co Texas i14/35

Samuel T Snead household 132 Head 66 widowed says GA England England which is, if this reasoning is solid, ridiculous. I have no way of knowing if the people around him are relatives.

1914:  Certificate of death for S.T. Snead: Jackson County, Edna, Texas. Registered no 145 Also stamped 15056.

Samuel T Snead.  Male White Died July 2 1914.  Cause of death: Pellagra, dr. treated him from June 12 1914 till July 2. 3 PM.

Says he was 71 (this age is pretty close to right) (b. 1842 or so, according to the first couple of census.) Occupation of deceased: Farmer. Informant S.A. Snead. Address of S.A.: Edna, Texas at this time. (Jackson County?)

Samuel Thomas is referred to in one place as Sam T Snead.

These certificates can be rich in information – but they are not necessarily going to be accurate. The “informant” can be a husband or wife, a child, a neighbor – and often, the info is obviously just guesses.  So these, and headstones, for that matter, can be really wrong.  You have to look at all the evidence before you settle on a fact.  In this case, in the part of the form that requests info about parents of the deceased, Samuel Alexander Sneed, the “informant,” seems to be confused; he fills in the blanks with the name of HIS father instead of the deceased’s parent – who would have been Seaborn Sneed and blithely skips over the line requesting the maiden name of his father’s mother.

My conclusion is that he never knew his grandparents and didn’t hear a heck of a lot about them. Samuel Thomas, even before his marriage, had begun living a life apart from his family logistically – three years in the confederate army – the maybe a year or two of family, then he’s gone to Texas. His father died in about 1874, and his mother lived with her other children in Arkansas and Texas. Evidently, they were not all that close, or there would have been enough stories told, Samuel Alexander could have come up with his grandmother’s name.

1915: Derived from 1830 census entry:

Laura Elizabeth Snead (dtr of Samuel Alexander and Lizzie Fowler) md Jesse Baker in 1915 in Henderson, Texas)

1920 census: Justice Prc 4, Victoria, TX 

  • Samuel A. Snead 52
  • Mary A Snead 51 Al Al
  • Wilson Snead 17 son California
  • Homer Snead 16 son TX on down. Also known as H.D. – Homer David or David or D.H.
  • Gladys 11 dtr
  • Susie 9 dtr
  • Ida M 15 Niece This is the Ida who was listed in 1910 with her mother, Lou. This is the proof that Columbus Caldwell Snead was the brother of Samuel Alexander Snead.
  • Ben F Wood 28 step son. And this son of Mary’s helps us figure out her history a bit

And Lou has died also by this time? Or did she remarry and leave Ida – as the child is being brought up in the household of Samuel Thomas and Mary Adline Coffer Wood Sneed. She called herself a widow in 1910. I am assuming she was truthful in that. I can find no death cert for either Columbus or Sarah Lorena.

1930 Prec 6 Henderson, TX  i7/20  fam 68

  • Jesse Baker Head 39 TX
  • Laura (Laura Elizabeth Snead, fyi) wife 39   both 24 when they got married so married
  • Delphia dtr 12
  • Lucille dtr 10
  • Beula? Dtr 4
  • Jesse Jr. son 1
  • Samuel Snead Father in law 63 m at 27 years old. (This is Samuel Alexander Snead.  Evidently, he has been widowed, also – I need to find that death record.)

(this is Laura E Snead’s family – dtr of Samuel Alexander Snead, son of Samuel Thomas Snead)

1935:  This is a death cert from Victoria, Tex for Samuel Alexander Snead. Date of death: 30 March 1935(There are a lot of problems with the information on this certificate. H.D. Snead is informant, and he did a terrible job. I think he probably was in charge of designing the headstone, too, because the same bad birth date is on it. H.D. is Homer David Snead, son of Samuel A. Snead and Rebecca Elizabeth Fowler.)  So he fills in the blanks:

  • Wife: Mary Snead. (That is correct; his “current” wife was Mary.)
  • Date of birth: July 5, 1867 (this date is actually BEFORE the marriage. And I’ve discussed that at the head of this report)
  • Location of birth: Birmingham, Alabama. (Wrong again)
  • Name of father, Thomas Snead of Birmingham, Alabama. (Thomas Sneed is correct – Samuel T Sneed who went by Thomas. This man was not, as far I know, born in Birmingham)
  • Name of Mother: Elizabeth Fowler (of Jackson, Miss). But this is the name of Samuel Alexander’s WIFE – H.D. has filled in, not his father’s mother, but his OWN mother, Samuel’s first wife’s name. This is much like Samuel Alexander Snead did when he was filling out his own father’s cert.
  • Burial: Greentree Cemetery, Victoria, TX.

The only other Snead in the Everygreen cemetery in Victoria is a baby boy b 17 dec 1924 and died 21 Dec that year.

By the way, while Samuel Thomas tends to show up with the “Snead” spelling, the rest of Seaborn’s family uses the double e.  All throughout the American history of this family, the docs show multiple spellings. But it’s all really the same family.  So don’t confine yourself to one spelling or the other when you research.

1940:  By 1940, Susie Snead, the baby daughter of Samuel Alexander Snead and Mary Adline Coffer Wood Snead has married a Winborn (still living in Victoria, Henderson) but is living with Jack Walker, the husband of her sister Gladys. Those families are in the census. Mary Adeline Coffer Wood Snead is then 72, widowed. She is from Tenn.

1940 census 27/69

  • Jack Walker 34
  • Gladys 32
  • Homer son 11
  • Jacky son 9
  • Susie Winborn 29 sister in law Divorced
  • Patsy Sue Winborn 9 sister’s dtr.
  • Billy Winborn 8 sister’s son Texas
  • and Mary Snead.  Mary Adline Coffer Wood Sneed  is now 72, b about 1868 Tennessee Widowed mother-in-law of Head of house. Her home in 1835 was Victoria, Victoria TX on E Stayton. Highest level of education 3rd grade

1972:  There is a Sarah L Williams in the SS Death index last lived in Lavaca, Tex died 15 May 1972, born 15 June 1886. Collie’s Sneed’s wife? At this point, we have a pile of death certificates for the members of his family rolling in. Collie was the younger son of Samuel Thomas Sneed, brother of Samuel A. Sneed. He was 22 in 1900, so his story plays out in that century.  We’re coming up on it.  His own life is not long.

 1973: A death cert for Ida Mae Whitten that says she was a resident of Texas City, Galveston who died December 1973. The cert declares that her father’s name was Collie Caldwell Sneed and her mother was a Williams. ( We find her in the household of Samuel A Snead in 1920 – OH!!! As niece. OK. Another bit of evidence that Collie Caldwell Sneed was the son of Samuel T and the brother of Samuel A Sneed. 

1976: Death record for Elmer C Sneed 28 Oct 1976  Galveston, Texas  Death record for Elmer C Sneed 28 Oct 1976. d in Galveston, Tx married. Born 13 Feb 1902 in Athens Tex. Father: Collie Caldwell Sneed, mother: Sarah Williams.Informant Mrs. Clara Sneed. Has the above info. Elmer lived in Galveston 50 years.   Was a Retired Watchman at a Cotton Compress place.

There is also a Christening for Elmer. Naming him Elmer Caldwell Sneed.  In the Christening, his mother’s name is spelled Sarah Lourraine Williams.

I have yet to find this marriage. I think I’m going to find that, after showing up a single man in 1900, Collie Sneed went out on his own, married, had about five kids and then died before the next census.

FS – Death Cert for Benjamin Franklin Wood (the son of Mary Adline Coffer Wood – the one who was in the household with Samuel A’s kids and Ida M, Collie’s daughter). Certificate issued out of Dallas Texas. Died Dec 12 1976. He was a Vocational Nurse at the VA hospital. He was born in Magazine, Arkansas.

  • Father’s Name: Benjamin Wood.
  • Mother: Mary Coffer.
  • Born Feb 18, 1895 . Died at 81 years old.
  • Informant James D Wood. Renal failure – it was pretty awful. Buried at Laurel Land Memorial Park in Dallas.
  • FS says this happened in Jonesboro, Craighead, Ark. Not what it says, but there you are.

1880 Census, Magazine, Yell County, Arkansas – there is no Mary listed in this family, but they are in Magazine, Yell, Arksansas. Father: Rober Mc Cofer. Giving up here. This is for her family to work out. There is also another Magazine in Arkansas, in another county.

1979: Death Cert for Homer David Snead, son of and informant on the death cert of Samuel Alexander Sneed

 

Homer David Snead (H.D. Snead) d. 3 April 1979 (!!! wow. Not all that long ago)

Managed a truck fleet, but was retired. Born Nov 23, 1903 and was 75 at last birthday. Father’s names: Samuel A. Snead. Mother’s maiden name: Elizabeth Fowler. THIS IS THE CORRECTION. On his father’s cert, he put Elizabeth Fowler down as the FATHER’s mother’s maiden name. Can’t read his informant’s sig. Died of cancer. Victoria, Victoria, Texas

Texas Death index 1903-2000

  • Samuel T Snead Jackson County, Texas July 2 1914
  • Samuel Alexander Snead Victoria, Texas March 30 1935