Is there anyone on the list researching the Snelling family especially Pleasant Hugh(P.H.) Snelling found on the 1870 Bedford Co. census ? thanks Betty Landers

Betty, (and anyone else interested) I am not really researching Snellings but your post hit home with me. I have never ran across anyone who was researching the Snelling family but if you are, there is something that I'd like to ask you. My gr-gr-grandmother was Louisa Jane Riley; she married William Reed, a son of Robert and Elizabeth Reed. I know that they married in Branchville and I think her family may have been living there at the time. William and Louisa had about 5 or 6 children, among them the oldest was my gr-grandfather George Washington Reed. Sometime in the 1850's when everybody seemed to be going to TX, William abandoned his family and went to TX to join three of his brothers who were already there. He went to war for TX and died near his TX home on the way back after Lee's surrender. His brothers could never get a word out of him about why he left his wife and family and they never saw him again. There was talk among his nephews in TX that he had taken a Cherokee wife out west but no confirmation. George being his oldest son took responsibility for his mother and siblings and was the head of his family in the absence of a father. It is said that Louisa died at or near Normandy and I always wondered if Riley's Creek might have gotten it's name from her family. I apologize for taking so long to get to the Snelling thing but finally, here it is: Louisa Jane Riley Reed is buried in the Mt. Olivet Methodist Cemetery off the Wartrace Pike near some Snellings. I always figured maybe one of her sisters might have married a Snelling. I feel that another sister of hers may have married a Chandler as George Reed corresponded with a cousin who signed himself A.J. Chandler, from Woodville AL. A.J. Chandler spoke of one of his sisters marrying a Frazier and living at Scottsboro AL. Do you have any idea why Louisa Jane Riley Reed would be buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery near the Snellings? Does any of this ring a bell? Sorry to broadside you like this but your mention of Snellings triggered an avalanche! Thanks, Donnie Porter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doyle Landers" <dclander@bellsouth.net> To: <TNBEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:24 PM Subject: [TNBEDFOR] Pleasant Hugh Snelling > Is there anyone on the list researching the Snelling family especially Pleasant Hugh(P.H.) Snelling found on the 1870 Bedford Co. census ? > thanks > Betty Landers > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNBEDFOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >