Name: My North Carolina Roots-Nov 19, 2020

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. William Morgan Sneed: Birth: 7 Aug 1843 in Montpelier/Granville County,North Carolina. Death: 1895 in Shelby County, Tennessee

  2. Richard Golsten Sneed: Birth: 21 Mar 1845 in Woodlawn,Granville County,North Carolina. Death: ABT 1922 in Vance County,North Carolina

  3. Mary Bethel Sneed: Birth: 25 Jul 1848 in Forest Home Pl,Granville County,North Carolina. Death: 17 May 1933 in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina

  4. Lucy Henderson Sneed: Birth: 11 Dec 1850 in Forest Home Pl,Granville County,North Carolina. Death: 25 Dec 1907 in Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina

  5. Walter Alves Sneed: Birth: 1853 in Granville County, North Carolina. Death: 1895/1899 in Shelby County, Tennessee

  6. Louise Bethel Sneed: Birth: 28 Mar 1862 in Forest Home Pl,Granville County,North Carolina. Death: 26 May 1955 in Denver, Colorado


Family
Marriage:
Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Walter Van Sneed: Birth: 16 Jun 1852 in Sneed Plantation, Granville County,North Carolina. Death: 31 Jul 1941 in Shocco, Warren County,North Carolina

  2. Emily Sneed: Birth: 1853 in Sneed Plantation, Granville County,North Carolina.


Sources
1. Title:   DANIEL'S HOMEPAGE
Author:   Daniel Mahar = mahard@jps.net
Publication:   www.geocities.com/heartland/Farm/4162
Text:   Welcome to Daniel's Homepage American Family History
2. Title:   Other--
Page:   NARA Film Number M230 roll 36
3. Title:   U.S. Federal Census
4. Title:   U.S. Federal Census
Page:   1880 Granville County ,North Carolina, Townsville, Image 16, #155/166:
5. Title:   NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
Page:   Henderson Gold Leaf
6. Title:   Other--
Page:   http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/vanc/cem008.htm
7. Title:   NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
Page:   Oxford Public Ledger
8. Title:   Marriage Index or License
Page:   MARRIAGES OF GRANVILLE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA 1753-1868 (Ancestry.com)

Notes
a. Note:   l feet, which he took great pride in. William was a lawyer, who became Clerk of the County Court and an officer in the Civil War. At the close of the Civil War, the county was in chaos and lawlessness was at a high. So when James Madison Bullock's slain body was found alongside a Granville road, no one was surprised, however, the footprints of a small man were found near the body. Initially, the crime was assumed to have been committed by a travelling vagrant or recently freed slave, but eventually suspicion was placed on Sneed who began to court Bullock's widow. Sarah's family, the Lewis', donated the land for the first Episcopal Church at Nutbush and were later associated with St. John's. The story relates that William Sneed, who was known to have been infatuated with James' wife, married James widow within weeks ofthe death. Because of William's prominence in the community, questions were raised behind closed doors. There seems to have been a cover-up, since the law never acted upon the suspicion. Months later, William was seen in public wearing a watch similar to one imported from Europe by the deceased James Bullock. After Bullock's death and Sneed's marriage, William became master of "Ashlawn", the Bullock seat in Granville. The marriage was received coolly by Granville Society. The scandal continued when both William's wife and one of his personal black attendants died suddenly. Rumors came about claiming that they had discovered William's secret and paid for it with their lives. (re : Zeb's Black Baby). There are many discrepancies in this tale which makes it highly unlikely that Sneed really did these things including the following: He married Sarah 2 years after Bullock's death. Sarah's will was made in 1872 and she died in 1878, but nothing suggests anything out of the ordinary. It seems that although the Sneed family had great wealth and political prestige, they weren't well liked by many people. William, his wife and their children are buried at Williamsboro in the cemetery of St. John's.
  (I wish to thank Mr. Daniel Mahar for his generous contribution to my Sneed Research. All of above is taken from his notes for which I am forever grateful and which started me in the right direction in discovering my roots.
 I also thank him for the quotes from the book "Zeb's Black Baby")
  ALSO:
 Served in Confederate Army- Civil War , 12 North Carolina Infantry, Regiment, Company B.
 In as: Private, out as Lieutenant (NARA FILM #M230 , ROLL 36)
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 Chas. Emerson's North Carolina tobacco belt directory : embracing the counties of Alamance, Durham, Forsyth, Granville, Guilford - Published 1886; (Ancestry.com, May 9, 2008)
  Vance County, North Carolina- Landowners :
 WILLIAM B.G. SNEED - Middleburg - 490 Acres
 W. M. SNEED - Townsville - 742 Acres
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 NOTES from ENSLAVED ANCESTORS ABSTRACTED FROM GRANVILLE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA DEED BOOKS, 1746 - 1828
 by Barnetta McGhee White,
 http://www.afrigeneas.com/library/ncdeeds/1828-1864[o-z].html
  Sneed, Richard to William M. Sneed. "...a Negro man named Peter about the age of thirty-seven years which said Negro is a Blacksmith..." (BOS-1843, p. 127, book 15)
Note:   William M. Sneed was known as a dandy. He was of slight physical stature with unusually smal

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