This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Snodgrass, Bobbitt, Jenkins, McCain, Hume, Sliger, Howard, Ettleman, Porter, Cummings Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4302 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. February 13, 1941. "M.M. SNODGRASS, EARLY PIONEER, IS TAKEN BY DEATH".-- The death of M. M. Snodgrass which occurred Thursday, Feb. 6, takes from the Waubonsie Hills of the western part of Fremont county one of its early pioneers. He lived for seventy-one years on the farm on which his father settled in 1869. Mr.Snodgrass as a lad of six when the family came from Ringgold county to make their home in this part of the state. Mr. Snodgrass was born at Kellerton, Iowa, April 30, 1863, during the Civil War. They landed in Fremont county Dec. 2, 1869. He shared the pioneer experiences so typical of that early day. He was a boy of eight when the flood waters of 1881 covered the Missouri river valley from bluff to bluff. He was ten years old when the destructive hail storm of 1883 passed over this region. He was fourteen when the raging blizzard of Jan. 12, 1888 swept in from the north. With the passing of Mr. Snodgrass another of the early pioneer homes has gone. He was personally acquainted with the first settlers of that community. The history of the Knox neighborhood socially, politically and religiously was very familiar to him. He was married to Miss Jane Bobbitt, June 3. 1891. Four children were born to them, a son, Orren, at home, and three daughters: Fern, now Mrs. C. D. Jenkins, living on the home farm; Fay, now Mrs. Mae McCain from Tacoma, Washington; and Florence, now Mrs. Robert Hume of Thurman. Five grandchildren share their sorrow. Mr. Snodgrass also leaves one brother. B. W.Snodgrass of Atlanta, Nebr., and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Bobbitt of Eagle Lake, Minn., and Mrs. Wm. Sliger of Vermillion,S. D. Mr. Snodgrass for a number of years was the director of the school in his neighborhood, the Spring Valley school. He was a man of deep moral convictions. He was respected by his neighbors because of his integrity. He honored his promises, he kept his word. He was a helpful neighbor. He always found time to minister to those who were sick or to share of his physical strength when they were in need. For a number of years he has been confined in the home because of illness. He was a very interesting man to visit with because of his knowledge of the early settlers and of their trying experiences. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 in the Crawford Funeral Home at Sidney conducted by the Rev. Peter Jacobs, pastor of the Congregational church at Tabor. The singers, Mrs. Maude Ettleman and Mrs. Vernon Johnson, with Mrs. Dartha Mae Cook at the piano, sang three number, "Face to Face," "Home of the Soul" and "Shall We Meet." Those who bore the casket were: Charles Blackburn, Leonard Blackburn, Fred Detrick, Alfred Snell, Elmer Spurlock, Wm. Elliott. Interment was made in the Sidney cemetery. Those in attendance from a distance were Mr. and Mrs. William Snodgrass, Yorktown, Ia.; R. B. Snodgrass, Mrs. and Mrs. Claire Snodgrass, Mrs. Don Howard, all of Shenandoah; B. W. Snodgrass, Atlanta, Nebr.; Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Ettleman, Percival; Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Porter, Hamburg, and Mr.and Mrs. Joe Cummings of Farragut. N.B.: Darby mentions this family in connection with the Lacy Grove neighborhood; however, this obituary appears to put the Snodgrass family in the Spring Valley neighborhood south of Knox -- definitely outside of the reach of Lacy Grove. So, when Rev. Jacobs further speaks of the Waubonsie Hills as the area of western Fremont county where the family resided, he again confuses the picture as I understand the location in Fremont county of the Waubonsie Hills. My understanding is that Pinkey's Glen was located in the Waubonsie Hills, not far from where Chief Waubonsie of the Pottawatomies lived, along Waubonsie Creek.......I am going to post the Snodgrass family as indicated by Darby's outline as residents of Lacy Grove, although I tend to think it to be incorrect to do so. Just maybe, his father owned two farms, one south of Knox and another northwest of Sidney, and they spent time at both places.--W.F.