Agnes Belle Lane Snyder 1870 - 1913

SNYDER, LANE, WRIGHT, DEFORD, BENNETT, OLIVER

Posted By: LuRee Runnells (email)
Date: 3/27/2005 at 15:55:35

MRS. AGNES B. SNYDER -- The subject of this sketch, Agnes Belle Lane, was born in Davis county, Iowa, April 4, 1870. During the period of her growth to womanhood, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Lane, took up their home in the Center Chapel neighborhood southeast of Keosauqua, Iowa where most of that period was passed. On April 3, 1900, at Miles City, Montana, she was married to the Rev. William E. Snyder, formerly of Van Buren County, Iowa, and then pastor of the M.E. church at Ekalaka, Montana. She took up for her husband the life of a truly devoted pastor's wife. They served the church at Ekalaka, one year, at Park City three years, at Pine Creek three years, at Clyde Park four years and at Twin Bridges two years. On account of lingering ill health the last year of her life was passed at Billings, Montana. She departed this life April 26, 1913, leaving to mourn her departure, her husband and two daughters, Willa Mae, age ten years, and Gertrude Grace, age eight and a half years. Besides these and many devoted friends wherever her home has been, her mother, Mrs. A.H. Lane of Keosauqua, Iowa, three sisters, Mrs. Stella Wright and Mrs. Ora DeFord of Keosauqua and Mrs. Lena Bennett of Haddam, Kansas, and three brothers, Edgar of Keosauqua, Alvis of Billings, Montana and Ferney of Brooklyn, New York, especially mourn her decease.

In the Center Chapel neighborhood, she will be remembered as church organist, teacher in the Sunday school; also as music treacher in that neighborhood. During the last half year of her life, she was a great sufferer, but was patient and hopeful that she might be spared to glorify her Heavenly Father in rearing her two daughters and being a true helpmate to her husband in his ministry.

Death had no fear for her. She frequently said to her husband during the last two or three months of her life, when it seemed she was about to pass over, "It is all right if He sees fit to take me now." During the last two days she at times was heard to sing in a feeble voice:

"I'm so glad I learned to trust Him,
Just to take Him at His word;
Just to rest upon His promise
And to know, "Thus saith the Lord."

The funeral services were conducted at the home of the husband's mother by Rev. S.A. Oliver, pastor of the M.E. church, April 29, [1913] after which the remains were laid to rest in the Billings cemetery. The many beautiful flowers and large attendance at the services indicated something of the esteem which she had won during a short residence at Billings.

I am not related; this Obit. is in an old family scrapbook, submitted for those who might have an interest.