Hi Wilford: This is one of the messages I tried to send you earlier. The Memorium for John Snead identifies the father of Snead's second wife (Nancy Marietta Woolsey) as John C. Snead of Kentucky. Isaac Gray Woolsey baptized Snead several years before he and Nancy were married. If Isaac and John C. Woolsey were brothers(there was also a sister Agnes - this would make 3 of Zephaniah's 4 children), as you have speculated, then Isaac could very well have taken in Nancy and her sister Agnes (named after her aunt?) when the girls were orphaned and introduced Nancy to Snead. Another point of interest: Isaac lived in Locust Grove, Ga approximately 1865 - 1875. Snead and Nancy (according to her grandaughter, my mother) lived there also for a while. Their first child, John Woolsey Snead, was born in Woolsey, Ga 1889. So it would appear Nancy was connected to Isaac, probably his niece. Apparently in Biographical Sketches of Prominent Baptist, which I am trying to locate, Isaac is reported as the youngest of 4 children of Zephaniah and Anna Crouch Woolsey. Would be interested in your thoughts. More to follow. Gail -----Original Message----- From: TrtFisher@aol.com <TrtFisher@aol.com> To: jrbco@erols.com <jrbco@erols.com>; gail-h@mindspring.com <gail-h@mindspring.com> Date: Sunday, June 18, 2000 4:12 PM Subject: John (Adams) Snead Info. >Hi Gail and Michael, > >I was doing some research at the Georgia Archives in Atlanta on Saturday and >ran across some information about John (Adams) SNEAD that you might not have >seen before. It comes from the Antioch Baptist Church Minutes. I found two >entries, one recorded in Aug. 1881 at the time he joined the church and one >recorded in Feb 1894 shortly after he had died. I had seen most of the >information from other sources but it does show a different date of birth. >Thought you both might be interested since you are in his line. > > >Ken Snead > > > >"Antioch Baptist Church Minutes 1829-1917 (Fayette County)" (Georgia >Archives; Dwr 10, Box 84; p82; extracted 6/15/2000 by NKS) >February 1894 - In Memoriam. > Brother John Snead was born in North Carolina Feb. 15th, 1837 and died >Nov. 27th, 1893. He entered the confederate service in the 44th Ga. Regiment >Infantry in 1862 and continued in the service of his country till the close >of the war. He was in the battle of seven Pines and in most of the battles >in which his command took part. He was the Representative of the Co. of >Fayette in the lower branch of the Georgia Legislature during the years 1888 >& 1889. > He joined the Baptist Church at Antioch in August 1881* and was baptized >by Dr. I. G. Woolsey who was pastor and was a faithful member till his death. > His first wife was a daughter of William Walls by whom he had four sons two >living, his second wife was a daughter of John C. Woolsey of Kentucky by whom >he had two children a son and a daughter, both small. > Bro. Snead was confined for nearly three months. He bore his afflictions >with Christian fortitude and resignation and died in the triumph of Christian >faith. He was faithful in all the relations of life as husband, father, son, >and Brother and was especially kind to the poor and those who needed help and >will be much missed by them. > The Church at Antioch entered their warmest sympathies to all the bereaved >family. > W. R. Whitaker, W. C. Head, C. R. >Woolsey (Committee) > > *August 1881 Record: Wednesday (Aug 9) came forward John Snead and was >received by reference.