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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    CLARKE SNOW, Merchant, Oxford, was born at this place July 5, 1846, and is a
son of Dudley and Priscilla (Munger) Snow. He was reared on the farm, and at
Howard College and the schools of Talladega acquired a fair English education.
At the age of twenty-one years, at Selma, he accepted a situation in a
mercantile establishment, remained there one year, returned to Oxford, and with
C. Snow & Co. embarked in the grocery business. In 1870 he formed a partnership
with C. J. Cooper in mercantile business, and from 1871 to 1874 devoted his time
to farming. In the latter year, associated with James Stewart, under the style
and firm name of James Stewart & Co., he engaged in the leather and carriage
business. This firm was dissolved in December, 1882, since which time Mr. Snow
has conducted the business alone, and has been thereat quite successful. In
addition to his mercantile business he is largely interested in various other
enterprises.

    In the fall of 1863, Mr. Snow entered the Fifty-first Alabama Cavalry, and,
though not an enlisted soldier, he participated with that command in the battles
of Maryville, Rockford, and Knoxville. In May, 1864, he regularly enlisted, and
thereafter took part in the battles of New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Rome,
and the battles around Atlanta. At Decatur, Ala., he was wounded, and at Salt
Creek participated in his last engagement. He was married, November 20, 1868, to
Miss Roxy C. Elston, of Davisville, and the children born to this union are:
Corinne, Ada, Ruth, Maxie, Norman, and Mary.

    Dudley Snow was born in Graceland County, Va., December 25, 1803, and his
parents, John and Elizabeth (Hale) Snow, migrated to North Carolina in 1812.
From there they moved to Tennessee in 1832, and from Tennessee Dudley Snow moved
to Oxford, where he died in 1863.

    The Snow family came originally from England, and the Mungers from Germany,

    Henry Snow, a brother of Clarke, entered the Confederate Army from Texas, as
a private in the First Texas Infantry. At the re-organization of this regiment,
in 1862, he was made first lieutenant, and he participated in all the battles of
Northern Virginia, and at the Seven Days' Fight around Richmond was seriously
wounded.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.

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