Notes for George F. SNOW

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Notes for George F. SNOW

The family Bible kept by Maria Morrison Snow beginning 1864 and currently in the possession of Susan Persia Thurtell Miller shows George F. Snow, Maria's son, was born December 6, 1867, in Dallas County, Iowa, and died July 29, 1887, age 18 years, seven months and 23 days. The year of death was written as 1886 but appears to have been corrected to 1887.

Notices that appeared in the newspaper, the "Bulletin" of Hawthorne, Nevada, glued in the back of the Bible show that George Snow was a compositor (writer) employed by the "Bulletin" and that he died due to typhoid fever. He is described as "a young man of the best habits; kind and faithful, industrious and capable."

The Descendents of Timothy Morrison genealogy record received in 1997 from Jim Dresser of Groton, Vermont (Jim@@Dresser.net) shows the date of death for George F. Snow as July 19, 1886.

George M. Snow is shown as a white male age 2 born in Iowa in the 1870 U.S. Census on Pages 1and 2 (or Page 640 on the right side) living in Walnut Township, Dallas County, Iowa. The census was ennumerated August 2, 1870, and shows the Post Office as Dallas Center. This shows Charles B. Snow, age 37, a white male, born in Pennsylvania, whose occupation is shown as a farmer. The value of his real estate is shown as $13,375, and the value of his personal estate is shown as $1035. Living with them are Maria, age 28, a white female born in Vermont, whose occupation is shown as keeping house and Charles W. Snow, a white male age 5 born in Iowa. Shown with an occupation of "lives in family" is Julia A. Snow, a white female age 49, who was born in Pennsylvania. This is undoubtedly Charles Blanchard Snow's sister. John Kelley, age 17, a white male born in New York, is listed with them with an occupation of farm laborer.

The U.S. Census for 1880 for Nevada (Nye County, Grantsville Precinct, NV 030, Page 17, Supervisor's District 81, E.D. 37) shows Charles B. Snow as a white male age 47, born in Pennsylvania, whose occupation was Justice of the Peace, with a health problem of asthma. It shows both his parents were born in Pennsylvania. He is living with his wife, Maria P, age 38, a dress maker, who was born in Vermont, as were both her parents. It shows their three children, all of whom were born in "Ioway," were living with them. Charles W., age 15, was a carpenter and had also attended school in the prior year. George F., age 12, and Mary J., age 9, were both in school. The census was ennumerated on the 21st and 22nd of June, 1880, with information as of June 1, 1880.

The notice in the "Nevada State Journal" of October 15, 1890, on page 3, column 2, available in microfilm from the Nevada Historical Society, Reno, Nevada, regarding the death of Charles W. Snow shows that he was being buried in Hawthorne, beside his father and brother. In 1890 Hawthorne, Nevada, was in Esmeralda County, although it became the county seat of Mineral County, Nevada, after 1911.

No obituary for George F. Snow was located in the microfilm newspaper records at the Nevada Historical Society, Reno, Nevada, during a search done in November 2000. The Mineral County, Nevada, Library, Hawthorne, Nevada, had no newspapers or microfilm copies of newspapers going nearly as far back as 1890 according to information received by telephone in November 2000.

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