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Updated: 06-15-2019 12:06:50.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Catherine Snook: Birth: 15 MAR 1807 in New Sewickley Twp., Beaver Co., Pa.. Death: 22 SEP 1875 in Jefferson Co., Iowa

  2. Peter Gillian Snook: Birth: 17 AUG 1809 in New Sewickley Twp., Beaver Co., Pa.. Death: 14 AUG 1886 in Wymore, Gage Co., Nebraska

  3. Kaziah SNOOK: Birth: 1810.

  4. William Snook: Birth: 23 OCT 1811 in New Sewickley Twp., Beaver Co., Pa.. Death: 10 JAN 1884 in Scott Twp., Linn Co., Kansas

  5. Margaret Snook: Birth: ABT 1814 in New Sewickley Twp., Beaver Co., Pa.. Death: 16 MAY 1864 in Fairfield , Iowa

  6. John Snook: Birth: 9 JUL 1818 in Allegheny, Beaver Co., Pa.. Death: 8 FEB 1888 in Fairfield , Iowa

  7. Amy Snook: Birth: 16 MAY 1820 in New Sewickley Twp., Beaver Co., Pa.. Death: 15 DEC 1882 in Fairfield , Iowa

  8. Esther Hattie Snook: Birth: 6 MAR 1823 in Beaver Co., Pennsylvania. Death: 17 NOV 1888 in Fairfield Jefferson Co, Iowa


Sources
1. Source:   Russell Snook (by wife Dorothy)
2. Title:   Snook from Joan Caldwell <joca@@midusa.net> May 2001.FTW
3. Title:   Birth of Casper Snook is "NJ" per 1850 census Jefferso Co., Iowa

Notes
a. Note:   MET HIS FUTURE WIFE AT A HUSKING BEE, WHERE THE TWO WERE PARTNERS. THEIR >ACQAINTANCE PROGRESSED FAVORABLY IN SPITE OF THE DIFFICULTY IN CONVERSING, >FOR IN HIS YOUTH, YOUNG CASPER SPOKE DUTCH MORE FLUENTLY THAN ENGLISH. A >GRANDNIECE, WHO REMEMBERED ESTER GILLIAN SNOOK, (CASPER'S WIFE) IN THE >LAST YEARS OF HER LIFE, DESCRIBED HER AS A PRETTY, OLD LADY WITH PINK >CHEEKS AND VERY BLUE EYES, WEARING A WHITE CAP. CASPER MPVED TP BEAVER >CPUNTY, PENN., BEFORE 1819, WHERE HE SERVED FROM IN THE WAR OF 1812 UNDER >CAPTAIN THOMAS HENRY AND COLONEL MILLER. AT THAT TIME HE WAS LIVING ON A >FARM WITHIN THE TOWN OF ECONOMY, WHERE JE LIVED FOR SEVERAL YEARS. BEFORE >1830 CASPER MOVED TO RICHLAND COUNTY, OHIO, WHERE HE LIVED UNTIL 1835. IN >1840 CASPER'S SON WILLIAN AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO IOWA AND IN SEPTEMBER, >1841. HIS SON JOHN WAS MARRIED TO MARY FOWLER AMD IMMEDIETELY AFTER THEIR >MARRIAGE, THE YOUNG COUPLE, ACCOMPANIED BY CASPER'S DAUGHTER ESTHER SNOOK >KAUFFMAN AND HER HUSBAND AND FAMILY, LEFT FOR IOWA TO SPY OUT THE LAND. >THEY STOPPED IN LEE SOUNTY, WHERE THEY STAYED. IN MAY OF 1842 THEY JOINED >THE PRESBYTERIAN COUNTY CHURCH AT FAIRFIELD BEING AMONG THE FIRST ONES TO >BE ADMITTED TO MEMBERSHIP. > >AS THEY WERE WELL PLEASED WITH THE REPORTS SENT BACK, THE TWO BROTHERS, >CASPER AND PETER SNOOK, AND THE REST OF THEIR CHILDREN, WITH THE EXCEPTION >OF PETER'S ELDEST SON AND DAUGHTER WHO REMAINED IN PENN., FOLLOWED. ALL >TRAVELED BY WAGON PROBABLY PULLED BY OXEN, NINE FAMILIES IN ALL. CASPER >AND ESTER SNOOK BECAME MEMBERS OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF >FAIRFIELD IN FEBRUARY 1843. > >CASPER AND PETER REMAINED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY UNTIL THEY DIED IN 1851. >THEY AND THEIR WIVES ARE BURIED ON THE SAME LOT IN THE EVERGREEN CEMETERY >AT FAIRFIELD, IOWA, A FEW YEARS AGO, THE DAR PLACED A MARKER ON THEIR >GRAVES WITH APPROPRIATE CEREMONIES, AND INVITED ALL RELATIVES TO ATTEND. >SNOOK FAMILY MEMBERS STILL LIVE IN FAIRFIELD. > >CASPER LIVED ON A FARM ABOUT TWO MILES NORTHWEST OF FAIRFIELD, JOINING THE >FARM OF HIS SON JOHN. AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE IN 1846, HE MADE HIS >HOME WITH HIS DAUGHTER, ESTER KAUFFMAN ON THE COLLEGE ROAD. IN 1850 >CASPER RECEIVED BOUNTY LAND FOR HIS SERVICE IN THE WAS OF 1812. > >***from Don Snook file April 1999****

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