SNIDER, James 1824 - 1897

SNIDER, SMITH, WRIGHT, CALDWELL, SICELOFF, HICKENBOTTOM, MCKEE

Posted By: Charlene Hixon
Date: 3/21/2006 at 11:13:24

"The Fairfield Tribune"
Wednesday, June 2, 1897
Page 6, Column 2

OBITUARY.

James SNIDER was born in Rush County, Indiana, Nov. 19, 1824. He was married in the year 1844 to Mary Isabel SMITH, who was born and reared in the same neighborhood, but in the adjoining county of Hancock. They removed to Iowa in 1845 and settled in Jefferson County, near Abingdon, and lived in that immediate vicinity the remainder of their years. Mrs. SNIDER died in 1865. There were born to them five children, all of whom lived to manhood and womanhood -– David who married Rhoda E. WRIGHT, and died at Belle Plain, Kansas, in 1889; Nancy J., wife of J. A. CALDWELL, died in 1876 near Abingdon, Iowa; Mrs. Luther SHELTON, of Abingdon; Mrs. John SICELOFF, of Belle Plain, Kansas, and Miss Lizzie, of this city. After the death of his first wife, Mr. SNIDER was married to Miss Mary E. HICKENBOTTOM, who resided in this county near Glasgow, and who survives him. They have two sons, James SNIDER and Benjamin R. SNIDER, both living near Abington. Mr. SNIDER had 21 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren....He was buried by the Masonic orders, of which he had been a member for thirty years or more. His was one of the largest funerals ever held at Abingdon.

[Ed. note: James is buried at Abingdon Cemetery, as are both of his wives; he is buried next to his first wife, and the second is buried under her second marriage name of McKEE.]