Snook, Hercules A. 1818 - 1899

BROWN, HIATT, KOONTZ, SNOOK, SUMMES, TULLER, WATTS

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The Fairfield Ledger
Sept. 24, 1946
Sec. I
Page 8 col. 3

SETTLER OF 1842. HERCULES A. SNOOK, one of two families of SNOOKS who settled in Jefferson County in 1842, was born in Tioga County, Penn., Jan. 27, 1818. When he was 16 years of age he with his parents moved to Richland Co., Ohio. Here in 1840 he married JANE SUMMES and two years later they moved to Fairfield….HERCULES SNOOK and wife settled on what is now East Jefferson St. In 1859, they moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where the wife died in April, 1862. About this time there were so many threats of raids on Lawrence by QUANTRELL and other Missouri outlaws that MR. SNOOK decided to leave the place and return to Fairfield. QUANTRELL raided Lawrence early in 1863, burned the town and murdered 140 persons. MR. SNOOK, had however, returned here in the summer of 1862. In Nov. 1862, he married ANN TULLER, and spent the remainder of his life in Fairfield. He was the father of three children—A. A. SNOOK and MARY J. BROWN, children of the first marriage; and MRS. WILLIAM HIATT, daughter of the second marriage. He died in Fairfield in 1899. Descendants of HERCULES SNOOK, living in Jefferson County at this time are MRS. HATTIE KOONTZ and MRS. HAROLD WATTS of Fairfield, and ED SNOOK of Perlee.