Jackson County AlArchives Biographies.....Snodgrass, Alexander 1820 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 September 8, 2011, 7:52 pm Source: See below Author: Smith & De Land, publishers ALEXANDER SNODGRASS, Postmaster, Scottsboro, son of James D. Snodgrass, was born in Washington County. Va., October 1, 1820. James D. Snodgrass was born in the same place about 1790. He was a weaver by trade, as was his father before him, and he was also a farmer. He married Abigail Dunlap, of Scotch descent and they had nine children. Alexander Snodgrass was born in the ancestral home; educated at the common schools and Duffield Academy, Elizabeth, Tenn., and at Abingdon, Va. He came to Alabama in 1843; has been tax assessor, and was receiver of public money at the land offices at Lebanon and Centre for six years. He represented Cherokee County in the State Legislature two years, and was State agent for shipping salt for a year or two during the war. After the war, he established the Alabama Herald at Scottsboro. In 1872 he was elected to represent Jackson, Marshall and DeKalb counties in the State Senate, and served there four years. He continued the publication of the Herald until January 16, 1887, when, on account of his appointment as postmaster by President Cleveland, the paper was discontinued. In 1843, Mr. Snodgrass was married to Miss Lucetta Byrd, of this vicinity, by whom he had one daughter, Mary A., married to C. W. Daughdrill, and now living in Gadsden. In 1853 the first Mrs. Snodgrass died, and in December, 1854, Mr. Snodgrass was married to Miss Susan Jane Hill, a lady related to a family of that name well known in Georgia and Tennessee. The children of this marriage are John Nathaniel, who died in infancy; Fannie Y,. now widow of F. R. King of New Orleans and for some time known as junior editress of the Herald. She has become quite famous throughout the State as a writer under the nom de plume of "Rex" in the Birmingham Age; Susan Cornelia, wife of D. K. Caldwell, of this county, and living in Scottsboro; Jesse Alexander, wife of Dr. Beech, a dentist of Scottsboro; Irene, and Minnie, yet at home. Mr. Snodgrass is a member of the Episcopal Church and the Masonic fraternity. 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. CEREAL BELT. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/jackson/bios/snodgras861gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb