MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - James C. Snell
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JAMES C. SNELL, farmer, is a son of John A. and Mahala (Bills) Snell, who
were natives of North Carolina.  The father was born in 1809 and his wife
in 1814.  They were brought to Tennessee when young, and were married in
Marshall County.  Of their ten children eight are living.
They were well-to-do farmers, and in former days raised cotton on the
ground where the court house of Lewisburg stands.  The father was constable
four years, and was a Democrat in politics.  He died in 1869, and his widow
has since resided with her children.  James C. was born July 22, 1833, in
Marshall County, and received such education as could be obtained in his
day.  He began renting land at the age of twenty-one, but at the end of
twelve years purchased 137 acres of land where he now lives.  In 1857 he
married Fannie Elliott, born in Marshall County in 1832, and died in
1877.  In 1878 Mr. Snell was united in marriage to Melissa Ewing, who was
born May 6, 1851, in Marshall County.  Our subject has no children by
either marriage.

Surnames: Bills, Elliott, Ewing, Snell
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."