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Note: Notes from Karlen Bruner Bain
Harvey was living in Amarillo when father Carrick died in 1929. Harvey's wife Jennie died when son Rip was 7. After that, Harvey and the children lived with or near Roy and Belle (Snodgrass) Bruner, and according to Ry Harvey Snodgrass, Belle raised them along with her own six children.
After Jennie's death, some sort of trouble arose between the Shipley and Snodgrass families and eventually resulted in Jennie's relatives actually killing Harvey. Details can be found in Floyd County public records.
Floyd County Hesperian: April 15, 1926
Headline: "Harve Snodgrass Shot and Instantly Killed on Street Tuesday Afternoon"
H. D. (Harve) Snodgrass of this city was shot and instantly killed Tuesday afternnon at 3 o'clock while standing on the edge of the curb at the southwest corner of the square in front of the first National Bank; and Mac Shipley, Frank Shipley and D. D. Shipley have been arrested and placed in jail on charges of murder. According to eyewitnesses Mac Shipley, who lives four miles south of Floydada fired the fatal shots, using a .32 automatic pistol.
The town was full of people on the first sunny day of more than two weeks and crowds surged about the body of the dead man who was picked up from a position between his car and the sidewalk by P. G. Stengall (sp?), R. B. Smith and another man who were standing close by when the firing started. Indications were that ten shots entered the body, head and arms. No words were spoken either by the assailant or the deceased that witnesses heard.
Within a few minutes, the body was removed to the Harmon Undertaking Parlor where it was prepared for burial and taken to the home of Glad Snodgrass on West California Street that same evening.
Mac Shipley and Frank Shipley immediately following the shooting boarded a car that was standing nearby and left town in it. Frank, according to a statement of R. D. Smith, a deputy sheriff, had a shotgun in his hands when he got into the car. They and their father D. D. Shipley, were arrested in Lubbock County about two hours later, when they were accosted by Deputy Sheriff Vernice Ford and a Lubbock Policeman, to who they surrendered on the highway about eight or ten miles this side of Lubbock. They told the officers they were enroute to Lubbock to surrender. They surrendered a double-barrel shotgun, a 25-20 rifle and two pistols, which were in a Studabaker roadster belonging to the elder Shipley in which the three were riding.
Ex-shriff J. A. Grigsby and Deputy H. S. Bolin of this county went to Lubbock Tuesday nifgt and returned with the prisoners about 3 o'clock.
The men were charged with murder in connection with the death of Mr. Snodgrass and the victim are of pioneer families in this county. D. D. Shipley has large farming intrest here and ranching interests in New Mexico near Clovis. He is 52 years of age. Mac Shipley spends part of his time here and part in New Mexico on his father's ranch. Frank lives on a farm near his father.
Obituary for H. D. Snodgrass - 15 Apr 1926
Funeral services for H. D. Snodgrass were held yesterday afternoon from the home of Glad Snodgrass, and interment was made in Floydada Cemetery. Rev. G. I. Britian of Plainview conducted the the services. The slain man is survived by three children, three brothers, three sisters and his father C. Snodgrass. The children are Rip Snodgrass, employee of the Motor Supply Co., city; Miss Opal Snodgrass, teacher in Lockney Public Schools; Miss Cleo Snodgrass, teacher of rural schools in Hale County. His brothers are G. L. Snodgrass of McCoy community, Glad Snodgrass city; and H. L. Snodgrass of Amarillo. The sisters are Mrs. Willie Reeves, of Jericho, Mrs. R. K. Bruner, of Hereford and Mrs. Tom B. Triplett, of Amarillo. All of the family were here except Mrs. Bruner, who is sick. He was born in Titus County but came to Floyd County with his parents when a boy of 16. Except for a year spent in New Mexico, he has resdided in this county ever since. He was widely known in this section and had extensive property in and around Floydada.
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