Capt. J. C. SNODGRASS shot

SNODGRASS, DOANE, CRAIL

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 7/13/2006 at 20:50:50

"Fairfield Ledger", July 7, 1886, Pg. 3, Col. 4

FATALLY SHOT. A letter received in this city Monday announces the probably fatal shooting of Capt. J. C. SNODGRASS, a former resident of this city and a gentleman highly respected, at Winterset, this state, Saturday. Mr. SNODGRASS was acting as city marshal and was shot by a drunken rough whom he was attempting to arrest. Two balls struck him, one in the arm, the other in the abdomen, and Mr. DOANE, a former army comrade, writes that the attending physician pronounced the wounds as likely to result fatally. Capt. SNODGRASS lived in this county for many years. He was a soldier in Company I, 17th Iowa Infantry, enlisting as a private and coming out a captain. He is a brother-in-law of B.F. and James D. CRAIL....

[Also posted to the Madison County Documents board]

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"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, August 18, 1886
Page 2, Column 6

A Winterset dispatch in Sunday's "Register" contains this item: "Capt. SNODGRASS, our city marshal, who was seriously and at the time supposed fatally wounded in making an arrest on the night of July 3d, has about recovered, being able to walk around with the aid of a cane."

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.

Note: Jefferson County Marriages lists John C. SNODGRASS and Ellenor CRAIL, married January 17, 1861.