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Note: From the History of Titus County by Traylor Russell, 1965, Pages 15-17
Buried in the Snodgrass cemetery is Luther Snodgrass, born 1873 died 1890. He died of poison. He was a son of Thomas J. Snodgrass. Whit L. Russell was killed by Jim Lasater in 1883. He was survived by his wife, Eugenia Jennie Russell, and five children. The family lived in the Snowhill Community of Titus County. Within a year or so after his death, Eugenia Jennie Russell married Thomas J. Snodgrass, but the marriage did not last long and (page 17) somewhere around 1889, she divorced him. She then began courting T. J. Holmes, who had moved into the community from Georgia. He was living with a sister of his by the name of Mrs. Leeves. T. J. Holmes loved whiskey, especially if it was someone else�s whiskey, and probably if he had been living today he would be called an alcoholic. Thomas J. Snodgrass did not like the idea of him courting his former wife, so he decided that he would put strychnine in some whiskey and give it to Mr. Holmes. He did so, but his son, Luther, got into the whiskey, drank some of it, and died of the poison, thereby saving Mr. Holmes� live.
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