Snodgrass Family History Book

Snodgrass Family Photographs
Figure 10.2. The William James Snodgrass, Sr. and Winifred (Winnie) Norton (Bradley) Snodgrass Family. This photograph
was made in near the John Summer's store in Summers, Washington Count:y, Arkansas in about 1876.
William James Snodgrass, Sr. and Winifred (Winnie) Norton (Bradley) Snodgrass arc show in the photo with their 9 children in the wagon.
Mother Snodgrass, \Vinifred (\Vinnie) Norton (Bradley), is holding baby Elnora (Note) Snodgrass (Haws) in her lap. \\iinifred (\Vinnie) Lou
Snodgrass (Rauch) is seated in her father's lap. Thomas Laf3)'ette (Fate) Snodgrass is standing behind his mother. John Phillip Snodgrass is
standing behind his father and mother. William James (Bill) Snodgrass, Jr. is the boy in white with a black hat. George Washington Snodgrass
is the bo~' seated. Margaret Jane Snodgrass (Rich) is the girl with a hat standing behind Bill, Jr. Mary Francis Snodgrass (King) is the girl with
a hat seated. Florence Amanda Snodgrass (Hargrove) is the girl in the back of the wagon, Martha Alice Snodgrass is not show in the photo as
she died of Malaria in Cabin Creek, Johnson Count)", Arkansas in 1873.
Traveling the Hard Way
Since Williatn Ja1nes Snodgrass, Sr. was in poor health, he and his wife Winifred "\Vinnie" Norton Bradley decided to 1nove west after
the Civil War in about 1870 to see if his health would i1nprovc. Winnie had several cousins that lived at Cabin Creek, Johnson County,
Arkansas. They decided to go to Cabin Creek. They sold 1nost of their household furnishings and loaded what was left of their
processions in two wagons with two gocx::I tea1ns of horses and their children.
Willimn and Winnie Snodgrass and their children traveled overland to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Fro1n Chattanooga they loaded their
tea1ns of horses, wagons and possessions on a flatboat and floated do\.\-'n the Tennessee River to the Ohio River and to Paducah,
Kentucky. They then floated down to the Mississippi River and later changed to the Arkansas River. They then traveled by stemnboat
up the Arkansas River to Big Piney River, near Clarksville, Johnson County. Arkansas.
Winnie had several cousins living in Cabin Creek, Arkansas. Williain and Winnie farmed and lived near Clarksville at Cabin Creek,
Johnson County, Arkansas for about two or three years. Their daughter Martha Alice Snodgrass died of 1nalaria in 1873 at Cabin
Creek. After Martha Alice died Williatn and Winnie decided to 1nove again.
Winnie had two cousins. Becky and Mint Ehns living in Su1n1ners, Washington County, Arkansas. After a visit to the Elins, in about
1872, they decided to 1nove near Lincoln, Washington County, Arkansas. While there, Winnie and Willimn traded one ¥/agon and tea1n
of horses for a four roo1n log house, sealed inside \Vi th \\leather board and outside with siding. The fann had about one hundred acres of
good fannl and.
According to the old Rauch Fmnily Bible, Winifred "Winnie" Lou Snodgrass \.\ 1 as born in Cabin Creek, Arkansas. It is not sure where
the next child Elnora (Note) Snodgrass was born. However the two children born after Elnora were born in Washington County,
Arkansas. These two other children were E1n1na D. and Anna Augusta .Snodgrass.
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