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1.	Title: U.S. Federal Census
2.	Title: U.S. Federal Census Page: 1940 Warren County, North Carolina,Fork Twp.,E.D.93-3, Image 2, #12:
3.	Title: Death Certificate/or Death Record Page: WALTER SNEED DEATH CERTIFICATE
4.	Title: HALIFAX COUNTY MARRIAGE REGISTER, 1867 -1903, Vol. 1 - 5 Publication: Microfilm C.047.63002
5.	Title: NORTH CAROLINA, MARRIAGE RECORDS, 1741-2011 Publication: Ancestry.com Text: North Carolina County Registers of Deeds. Microfilm. Record Group 048. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC.
6.	Title: WARREN COUNTY MARRIAGE REGISTER 1885-1978, Volumes, A -G; H-P, Q-Z Author: North Carolina State Archives, Microfilm C.100.63003; C.100.63004

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Note: w Vance Co.)North Carolina. Although, he apparently thought he was born about 1843, as listed in most of his census records). He was the son of the then owner of the land, WILLIAM MORGAN SNEED son of DR. RICHARD SNEED. His mother was the slave named NANCY who was born December 10, 1822 in Granville,(now Vance) of the slave named MATILDA.
Thanks to information sent to me in 2002 by Daniel Mahar, which contained the Slave Birth Records of RICHARD SNEED, who had carried the old SNEED Family Bible from Granville County, NC to Henderson County, KY when he moved there around 1853. Among the Slaves listed in it was my great-grandfather, WALTER, and his mother, NANCY, and also the name of NANCY's mother, MATILDA, which no one had known before, along with all of MATILDA's children & their children, showing each of their exact dates of birth. (see the file of MATILDA, 1803-1841, for the complete listing).
From family sources, by the way, Great-Grandpa said his full name was WALTER VAN SNEED.
"A FAMILY STORY FOLLOWS, AS TOLD TO HIS DAUGHTER, NANNIE, AND RELATED HERE BY SAMUEL SNEAD WILLIAMS, GRANDSON OF WALTER VAN SNEED"
My Mother always said that Grandpa Walter told them time and time again that Bill Sneed was his father. Grandpa told of how Bill Sneed used to take him on most of his local trips, as soon as he was old enough to go. He became his chauffeur (buggy or surrey driver) and took him everywhere he went. The black people in the community, mostly because they were jealous, encouraged Grandpa to leave "that old white man" because he wasn't going to give him anything, he was just being used. Grandpa, being just 18, young and foolish, listened, and ran away from his father, in Granville County, and ended up in Halifax County. Never to see his father again. He said that people told him later that Bill Sneed inquired about his whereabouts and asked if anyone saw him, tell him to come back, he wanted to give him his share of the property (a Grist Mill and 200 acres of land.) Bill died not ever seeing Grandpa again. Grandpa Walter always felt sorry for what he did and didn't talk about it very much, but let his children know from whence he came.
***Note: WALTER apparently didn't know the exact date that he was born because various dates were used on records throughout his life. His Death Certificate incorrectly shows his age as 93 (b. 1847), and his father just as "MAJOR SNEEDE,"; the informant was WALTER's son, SAMUEL SNEED, and according to my uncle, he knew his grandfather's full name, but maybe he wasn't thinking so much about that at the time. But from the Slave Records of RICHARD SNEED, it shows WALTER's birth as June 16, 1852.
Note: WALTER SNEED was born into slavery , June 16, 1852 on the Sneed Plantation, at Granville (no

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