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SNETHEN FAMILY WOMENS HISTORY

By Gary Snethen,
The Ninth Snethen

INTRODUCTION
This chapter was written as a companion piece to the Snethen Family History: Short
Biographies of Ten Generations of Snethen Family Men and Notable Uncles and Nephews from
1597-1964 Beginning with the Grandfather of the First Snethen and Continuing to the Father of
the Author of this Work, which concentrated primarily on the males of the family line. This
current work is focused on the females of the same family line, i.e. those who were the sisters
and daughters of the males. The wives and mothers were mentioned in the first work and are
alluded to here as well, but as they were Snethens by marriage and not by blood, they are
treated peripherally rather than centrally. Also, the order here is reversed, and the characters
are treated from most recent to most ancient rather than the other way around.


1. ALEXIA ANNE SNETHEN Sole daughter of Gary Linn, the tenth Snethen & Jennifer Griffin.
Born: 5-19-2007, Palo Alto, California.

2. The ninth Snethen no daughters.

3. The eighth Snethen no daughters.

4. SHIRLEY NADINE SNETHEN first daughter of Leo Everett, the seventh Snethen & Mildred
Prather. Born: 8-21-1922, Des Moines, Iowa. Married Frank Heuermann & Doyle Moon. Nine
children: five girls & four boys. Died 12-5-1982, Des Moines.
BEVERLY KAY SNETHEN second daughter. Born 8-28-1929, Des Moines, Iowa. Married Mike
Lake. Two sons. Died 10-13-1968, Des Moines.
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BETTY COLLEEN SNETHEN third daughter. Born 5-26-1931, Des Moines, Iowa. Married Paul
Strome & Sam Caligiuri. Five children: three girls & two boys. Died 5-3-2005, Des Moines.

5. LULA JANET SNETHEN sole daughter of David Fulk, the sixth Snethen & Isabelle Smith. Born
1894, Pleasanton, Iowa. Married Harley Leo Pyle. Eight children: three girls & five boys. Died 8-
20-1979 in Riverside, California.

6. The fifth Snethen no daughters.

7. CAROLINE SNETHEN first daughter of Joseph M, the fourth Snethen, & Sarah Earnest. Born
3-23-1810, Cumberland, New Jersey. Married Jacob Milford Mulford. No children. Died 7-13-
1832.
RACHEL M SNETHEN second daughter. Born 4-12-1815 Cumberland, New Jersey. Married
Henry Richer. No children. Died 2-20-1861.

8. The third Snethen no daughters.

9. PHEBE SNETHEN sole daughter of Joseph, Jr., the second Snethen & Rachel ? (Birth name
unknown.) Birth date unknown Salem, New Jersey. Married Isaac Hewes. Children, date and
place of death unknown.

10. JEANE SNETHEN - the first woman born with the name Snethen. Sole daughter of Joseph,
Sr., the first Snethen & Rachel ? (Birth name unknown.) Born 1697 Salem, New Jersey.
Marriage, children, date and place of death unknown.

ADDITIONAL:

11. Jeremiah, younger brother of the second Snethen no daughters.

12. MARY SNETHEN first daughter of Abraham I, nephew of the second Snethen & Elizabeth
Stewart. Born 1773 Salem New Jersey. Marriage, children, date and place of death unknown.
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POLLY SNETHEN second daughter. Born 1784 Salem, New Jersey. Marriage, children, date and
place of death unknown.
LYDIA SNETHEN third daughter. Born 1785 Salem New Jersey. Marriage, children, date and
place of death unknown.
ELIZABETH SNETHEN fourth daughter. Born 1787 Salem New Jersey. Marriage, children, date
and place of death unknown.
MARGARET SNETHEN fifth daughter. Born 1789 Salem New Jersey. Marriage, children, date
and place of death unknown.

13. ELIZABETH SNETHEN first daughter of John, the first great nephew of the second Snethen
& Susan Box. Born 1806 Estill, Kentucky. Married William Clark. Eleven children: eight girls &
three boys. Died 5-15-1882 Montgomery County, Missouri.
POLLY SNETHEN second daughter. Born 10-22-1807 Estill, Kentucky. Married John Cundiff.
Eleven children: six girls & five boys. Died 1881 place unknown.
SARAH DAVIS SNETHEN third daughter. Born 10-11-1814 place unknown (probably Kincaids
Fort, Missouri.) Married Major Holland Whiteside. Seven children: three girls & four boys. Died
2-26-1854 Montgomery County, Missouri
SALLY SNETHEN fourth daughter. Born 1815 Montgomery County, Missouri. Also married
Holland Whiteside. No children. Date and place of death unknown.
NANCY SNETHEN fifth daughter. Born 1823 Montgomery County, Missouri. Married James
Russell, Alfred Windsor, & Newton J Hunter. No children. Date and place of death unknown.
EMELINE SNETHEN sixth daughter. Born 1827 Montgomery County, Missouri. Married
Toleson Wolfgren Hunter. One son. Died 3-27-1878 Montgomery County, Missouri.
PRUDENCE MATILDA SNETHEN seventh daughter. Born 5-15-1829 Montgomery County,
Missouri. Married Benjamin F Clark. Four children: two girls & two boys. Died 1-27-1907
Montgomery County, Missouri.

14. SARAH SNETHEN first daughter of William, second great nephew of the second Snethen &
Hanah Castro. Born 1790 Kentucky. Marriage, children, date and place of death unknown.
HANNAH SNETHEN second daughter. Born 1796 Kentucky. Married William Martin Lewis.
Thirteen children: seven girls & six boys. Died 1885 Salem, Oregon.
ELIZABETH SNETHEN third daughter. Born 1814 Clay, Kentucky. Married William Alexander.
Eleven children: five girls & six boys. Died Transitville, Tippecanoe, Indiana, date unknown.
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15. HANNAH SNETHEN first daughter of Abraham, the Barefoot Preacher, great, great
nephew of the second Snethen & Lydia Richards. Born 1816 Cincinnati, Ohio. Married William
Martindale. Seven children: two girls & five boys. Died 1875 Kansas.
RUTH SNETHEN second daughter. Born 9-6-1818 Ohio. Marriage, children, date and place of
death unknown.
LOUISA SNETHEN third daughter. Born 1828 Ohio. Married William Morgan Haskins. Seven
children: three girls & four boys. Died 8-27-1913 Reynolds, White County, Indiana.
ELIZABETH SNETHEN fourth daughter. Born 1829 Ohio. Married Thomas H Jackson. Eight
children: three girls & five boys. Died 12-15-1899 Cowley, Kansas.
VANIAH SNETHEN fifth daughter. Born 12-12-1831 Ohio. No marriage or children. Died 9-23-
1851 Logansport, Indiana.
ELVINA SNETHEN sixth daughter. Born 1836 Ohio. Married Frederick Benham. Five daughters.
Died 2-5-1924 Sleepy Eye, Brown County, Minnesota.

16. Worthington G, The Abolitionist Snethen, great, great grandson of the first Snethen no
daughters.

17. ELIZABETH ANN SNETHEN first daughter of Nicholas, US House Chaplain and great
grandson of the first Snethen & Susan Hood Worthington. Born 1811 Maryland. Married John J
Pennington. Four daughters. Date and place of death unknown.
SUSAN M SNETHEN second daughter. Born 1814 Maryland. No marriage or children. Died 9-
26-1843 Clinton, Indiana.
M ARABELLA SNETHEN third daughter. Born 1815 Maryland. No marriage or children. Died 10-
30-1830 Merom, Indiana. (Her mother died ten days later.)
18. DEBORAH SNETHEN Sole daughter of Barack, grandson of the first Snethen & Ann Weeks.
Date and place of birth unknown. Married John Nair. One son. Date and place of death
unknown.

19. Nicholas I, older brother of the second Snethen, son of the first Snethen, father of Barack
Snethen no daughters.

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20. SARAH SNEDEN first daughter of Claes, father of the first Snethen & Marie ? (Birth name
unknown.) Born 1663 Flushing, New York. Married Garrett Allertson. One son. Date and place
of death unknown.
MARIA SNEDEN second daughter. Born 1664 Flushing, New York. Married Derreck Allertson,
Children, date and place of death unknown.
ABAGAIL SNEDEN third daughter. Born 1677 Flushing, New York. Also married Garrett
Allertson. Children, date and place of death unknown.


COMMENTARY:
It appears to me that Nicholas Snethen I, son of the first Snethen and older brother of
the second Snethen, may have first married Rachel, the woman who later became the second
Snethens wife and had a child with her who was named Jeremiah. Something happened,
perhaps an accident took the childs life, that caused Nicholas I to leave New Jersey and
abandon his family there. Maybe there was some kind of divorce. Joseph, Jr. then took Rachel
for his wife and had additional children with her while Nicholas moved back to New York,
invented the story about being the son of an immigrant widow and married Deborah Weeks. I
am basing this on the fact that Ancestry.com lists Rachel as the name of the spouse of both
Nicholas I and Joseph, Jr., Jeremiah as the name of Nicholas Is only child, and then loses
contact with both Nicholas I and the child, and on the fact that Ancestry.com lists the father of
Barack Snethen incorrectly as Nicholas Sneathan even though it lists his two children correctly
as Snethen, and that it lists this Nicholas Sneathans parents as unavailable. Ancestry.com
doesnt quite have it figured out. My opinion, of course, is that Ancestry.coms Nicholas
Sneathan, the father of Barack, and Nicholas Snethen, the son of Joseph, Sr. are, in fact, one
and the same person.
Furthermore, it is interesting to note that none other than Benjamin Franklins first
pseudonym was a woman named Silence Dogood, whom Franklin presented as a widow and
mother recently arrived in the colonies. Such a personality obviously elicited a natural, positive
sympathy and goodwill among colonists of good standing. This fact seems to lend credence to
my notion that Nicholas I made up the story of being an immigrant widows son to gain
sympathy with his community.
Finally, contributing to the notion that the line of Nicholas Snethen, the US House
Chaplain leads all the way back to Claes and Marie Sneden rather than to some unnamed
immigrant widow is the fact that two of their daughters married a man named Garrett and that
Nicholas, the chaplain, named one of his sons Worthington Garrettson.