Snowden, Mrs. Rachel 1853-1936

SNOWDEN, BARRETT

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 4/6/2009 at 16:37:37

OBITUARY OF MRS. RACHEL SNOWDEN

Following is the obituary of Mrs. Rachel Snowden as was published in the Springfield, S.D. Times:

Funeral services for the late Mrs. Rachel Snowden were held last Friday afternoon in the Springfield Congregational church, being conducted by Rev. A.C. Warner. The burial was in the Springfield cemetery.

Mrs. Snowden’s maiden name was Rachel Barrett; she came of Scotch-Irish ancestry, her grandparents having migrated to America from the north of Ireland and settled in Ohio, where she was born August 13, 1853. She was one of a family of eight children, only two of whom survive her: a brother, Alpheus residing at Quenemo, Kans., and a younger brother, James, living at Antioch, Washington.

On March 17, 1869, she was united in marriage at Dayton, Ohio, to Peter Weller Snowden, a union that was unbroken for over 61 years, when it was severed by the death of Mr. Snowden in September, 1930, at the age of 85. In the fall of 1869 the young couple came to Plymouth County, Iowa, where they homesteaded a farm, which was their home for 41 years, when they moved to Hinton, Iowa. During these recent winters, Mrs. Snowden has made her home with her son, Oscar and his family in Springfield, but through the rest of the year she has maintained her home in Hinton doing her own work. Some months ago she came again to Springfield, but it was manifest this time to her friends here that she would not be returning, and she had become steadily weaker until death came to her Tuesday afternoon, March 3.

~Source: The Hinton Gazette, March 19, 1936