Snodgrass Family History Book

Snodgrass Family Documents, Stories & Articles
Snodgrass of Lincoln; and six sisters. Mrs. Mary King. Mrs.
Amanda Hargrove, Mrs. Lou Rauch, Mrs. Annie Collins all
of Lincoln and Mrs. Emma Davis of Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Document I 0.69. Obituary for Mildred Bernice Snodgrass
Cheatham.
Mrs. Mildred Bernice Snodgrass Cheatham. 2 L died
unexpectedly Saturday afternoon 9 January 1954 at a Prairie
Grove Hospital. She was born 23 February 1932. Funeral
services were held at 2:00 pm Wednesday January 13 at the
Holiness Church in Lincoln. Arkansas with the Rev. Charlie
Cook of Westville, Oklahoma assisted by the Rev. Coy Page
of Morrow, officiating. Burial was at the Cheatham
Cemetery.
Surviving her arc her husband, Wayne Cheatham; a son
Shere! Wayne; and infant daughter Lagena Kay; five sisters,
Mrs. Clara Risley of Lincoln, Mrs. Jeanette Green of
Kilgore, Texas, Mrs. Geneva McCratic of Morrow, and Mrs.
Ruth Jones of Brentwood, California. Three brothers;
Wilson, & Ambrose Snodgrass of Lincoln and Elden
Snodgrass of Woodbridge, California.
Document 10. 70. Obituary for Samuel Denver Snodgrass.
(27 May 1976)
Samuel Denver Snodgrass, 82, born February 13, 1894 at
Lincoln, Arkansas passed away Thursday. May 27, 1976 at
the Veterans I-Iospital in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He was the
son of Thomas Lafayette Snodgrass and John Dec Nunley.
Denver was a member of the Lincoln First Baptist Church, a
Life Member of the American Legion Beaty Bibb Post 171
of which he received a 50-yer pin, a member of the VFW
Post 4675, a 32"d degree Scottish Rite, Eastern Star #351, the
Masonic Lodge #615, Lincoln Senior Citizens and a Veteran
of World War I.
Survivors include his \Vifc Ruth Katherine Corley
Snodgrass, one son Thomas Keith of Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma; one daughter Frances Dee Logan of Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil; six grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren.
Three brothers, Homer, Sr. of Lincoln, Claude of
Sacramento, California and Bruce of Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Five sisters, Mrs. May Saunders of Cushing, Oklahoma,
Mrs. Ray Rainwater of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, Pearl Johnson of
Lodi, California and Elsie Pasley and Muriel Leach of
Lincoln.
Services were held on Monday May 31, 1976 at the First
Baptist Church in Lincoln. I-le is buried in the National
Cemetery in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
j Document 10.71. Obituary for Victor Cavalier Risley.
Victor Cavalier Risley, 68, of Springdale died Friday,
December 22. 2000, at Springdale. Born July 3, 1932, in
Cane Hill, he was the son of Adrian and Tina Campbell
Risley.
He was married to Elaine Bullard Risley for 49 years. He
was a Baptist, a Mason and a U.S. Army veteran of the
Korean \Var.
Survivors include his \vif'c, Elaine Risley of Springdale: a
son, Kevin Risley of Springdale; a daughter, Vickie Artman
of Springdale; two brothers, John Risley of Lincoln and
Jacob Hensley of Siloam Springs; a sister, Bonnie Ross of
Jerome, Idaho: and six grandchildren.
Graveside service will be at 2 p.m. today at Friendship
Cemetery with the Rev. Arthur Lee Galloway officiating.
Visitation will be from I 0:30 a.m. to I p.m. today at the
Backstrom-Pyeatte Funeral Home in Springdale, Arkansas.
Document 10.72. My Life's Story by Homer Lawson
Snodgrass Sr.
I was born January 18,1896 about 2 miles south of Lincoln.
Arkansas in a log cabin about day light, on what was known
as Sugar Hill Mountain. We lived there about 1 or 2 years
and then moved about 1 mile to another farm known then as
the Hay's place. We lived there about a year or so and then
about 1898 or 1899 we moved again south of Summers.
Arkansas. It was about 2 miles closer to Possum Holler
School. It was on a place that Alva Thomas Father had
bought. We farmed the place and about 1899 the Frisco
Railroad was building a Railroad from Fayetteville to
Muskogee, Oklahoma. So one weekend Father took the
family for a visit with U. S. Hargrove. I think that was in the
fall of 1899. It was on a Sunday and the people dedicated the
road between Lincoln and Prairie Grove, Arkansas. Just east
of Lincoln about 2 miles, they had built two log cabins and
were working several convicts with white and black stripe
clothes and each man had a ball and chain on their right leg.
We went to sec them come out of their cabin with guards all
around them. It was quite a sight for a lad of 4 years old. A
memory I will never forget.
In 1900 or 1901 Father had taken a contract to furnish the
Frisco Railroad with several ties and pilings to make the
bridge just East of Summers, Arkansas. Some of the pilings
were 20 feet long or longer. My Father had hired several
1ncn and their families to camp on our place and make ties
and Pilings. They would have to take the bark off the pilings.
Father would help them and show them what tall trees to cut
and then my oldest brother Henry and Denver and 1 would
take the1n to Summers, Arkansas where they were building
the bridge. 1 lenry would drive the first team, and Denver
would drive the second team and your old Dad, Homer,
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