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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: William Snook Note Born: 23 Oct 1811 at Beaver Co., , , Pa. Married: Abt 1833 at Beaver Co. PA, , , Died: 10 Jan 1884 at Scott Township, , Linn Co., Kansas Father: Casper Snook Mother: Esther Gillian
WIFE
Name: Margaret Summers Born: 4 Jul 1817 at Buffalo Twp.Washington Co.PA, , , Died: 17 Nov 1886 at Linn Co.Iowa, , , Father: John Summers Mother: Nancy Noble
CHILDREN
Name: Casper Snook Born: 23 Apr 1834 at Beaver Co.PA, , , Died: 2 Apr 1909 at Fellsburg, , , Edwards Co.KS Wife: Mary Jane Barnes
Name: Esther Snook Born: 1 Jan 1838 at Richland Co.Ohio, , , Died: 2 Apr 1895 at Linn Co.KS, , , Husband: William (robison) Robinson
Name: John S. Snook Born: 6 Apr 1840 at Ohio, , , Died: 21 Nov 1877 at Linn Co, , , Kansas Cadmus L 17 Wife: Ellen O.
Name: Elias Snook Born: 1842 at Iowa, , , Died: Wife: Sarah M. Mcelderry
Name: Silas Snook Born: 27 Jan 1844 at Iowa, , , Died: 10 Jan 1863 at Fayetteville, , Ark Died Of Rubella, While In Civil War
Name: Sharon Snook Born: 5 Sep 1850 at Iowa, , , Died: 17 May 1866 at Linn Co Kansas Cadmus Cem L 17 , , ,
Name: Noble Freeman (pode) Snook Born: 8 Mar 1853 at Fairfield, , , Iowa Died: 16 Jan 1933 at Parkhill Twp.Cherokee Co.OK, , , Wife: Eliza Jane Lounsbury
Name: Elizabeth Snook Born: 17 Sep 1855 at Fairfield Jefferson Co Iowa, , , Died: 6 Feb 1912 at MT Vernon, , , WA Husband: Ira Prather
Name: Sarah Snook Born: 28 Jun 1861 at Linn Co KS, , , Died: 9 Jan 1882 at Linn Co KS, , , Husband: Albert Rookstool
NOTES
1). 18401.ged Merged General Note IN 1850, WILLIAM AND HIS FAMILY WERE ON, THE CENSUS OF VAN BUREN COUNTY, IOWA JUST SOUTH OF JEFFERSON COUNTY. BY 1860, HE AND HIS FAMILY WERE IN LINN COUNTY, KANSAS WHERE HE LIVED UNTIL HIS DEATH. THE COUNTY HISTORY OF LINN COUNTY RELATES THAT HE MOVED TO LINN COUNTY IN 1857. HE PICKED A TERRIBLE TIME TO LIVE THERE AS THAT WAS THE PERIOD WHEN ALL THE FIGHTING WAS GOING ON BETWEEN THE SOUTHERN SYMPATHISTS AND NORTHERN SYMPATHISTS. BOTH SIDES WANTED KANSAS TO VOTE THEIR WAY. THERE WERE PEOPLE PULLED FROM THEIR HOMES AND MASSACRED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, ALL FOR THE CAUSE! LUCKILY, WILLIAM SNOOK S FAMILY ESCAPED NOTICE. ONE STORY ABOUT MARGARET SUMMERS SNOOK IS THAT SHE IS WHERE THE SNOOK TEMPER COMES FROM. ONE DAY SHE SENT WILLIAM TO TOWN TO GET HER SOME MATERIAL SHE WANTED. WHEN HE RETURNED WITHOUT THE PARTICULAR ONE SHE ASKED FOR, SHE HAD A TANTRUM. WILLIAM AND MARGARET HAD SIX SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS. THREE SONS AND ONE DAUGHTER DIED YOUNG. IT WAS A HARD LIFE BACK THEN. ONESON SILAS, DIED OF RUBELLA IN FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS DURING THE CIVIL WAR. HE IS BURIED IN LINN COUNTY, KANSA, SO HE MUST HAVE BEEN BROUGHT HOME. WILLIAM SNOOK S OBITUARY IN THE LaCYGNE JOURNAL, JANUARY 12, 1984 DIED AT 730 O CLOCK THURSDAY MORNING, OFCHRONIC BRONCHITIS, AT HIS HOME IN SCOTT TOWNSHIP, AGE 76 YEARS. HE HAD NOT BEEN WELL SINCE INJURED BY HIS TEAM RUNNING AWAY AT THE TIME THE FAIR WAS HELD IN THIS CITY LAST FALL. MR. SNOOK OR UNCLE BILLY AS HIS INTIMATE FRIENDS KNEW HIM, WAS MAN OF MOST EXCELLENT CHARACTER, WITH A LARGE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS, AND HIS DEATH WILL BE WIDELY REGRETTED.

						

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