Snider, Margaret (Martin) 1821-1907

SNIDER, MARTIN, COULSON, MILLIGAN, SUTTON, COBUN, PETERSON

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 1/9/2014 at 14:47:57

The Grinnell (IA) Herald
Nov. 8, 1907

MRS. MARGARET SNIDER

Margaret Martin was born in West Virginia on April 19, 1821 and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. G.W. Milligan, 1503 Fourth Ave., on October 31, 1907, following a stroke of paralysis which left her unconscious the last week of her life.

She was married on March 21, 1841, to Samuel W. Snider, with whom she lived during 62 years of perfect love, until his death here a few years ago. They moved to Iowa immediately following the war in which Mr. Snider rose through merit to the rank of Colonel, in 1865, and then to Grinnell seven years ago.

To this happy union were born eleven children, three of whom died in infancy. The eight who survive their parents are Silas S. Snider, Mrs. Margaret M. Coulson, and Mrs. Belle V. Milligan of this city; Morris M. Snider and Mrs. Jennie B. Sutton of Des Moines; Rev. S.E. Snider of McKeesport, Pa.; Mrs. Eliza J. Cobun of Huron, S.D.; Mrs. Ida V. Peterson of Slater, Iowa.

The deceased was one of the kind of women who live to make the world better and to prove that the noblest of God's creations is a good, loving Christian mother. She was converted on January 1, 1839 and for her sixty eight remaining years was a consistent member of the Methodist church, a pattern and inspiration to all who knew her.

Funeral services were in charge of the Rev. I.N. Busby of Brooklyn assisted by the Rev. Elias Handy of this city. The former had known Col. and Mrs. Snider as pastor and physician for long years. The last of his eloquent tribute to the memory of the deceased was the words of the angel to John on Patmos: "Who are these arrayed in white raiment." Dr. Busby referred touchingly to the long acquaintance of forty years with the family and of the increasing regard which had come with every passing year for the virtues of the deceased and expressed the joy which she must now be sharing with the redeemed in glory.