Freestone County, Texas
Biographies 



Biography of Dr. William Newton Sneed 
     (Sep 17, 1844-Mar 28, 1922, buried Fairfield Cemetery in Fairfield, TX.)

A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, 
  Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1893; pages 739-740

    "Dr. W. N. Sneed, physician and surgeon of Fairfield, Freestone county, is one 
of the most prominent men in his profession in that vicinity. He is the son of 
Kithron W. Sneed, an old settler of Freestone county.  *1*
    The subject of this sketch was born in Monroe county, Georgia, September 17,
1844. His early years were passed in Chattahoochee county, Georgia, his parents
having moved to that county when he was a child. They came thence to Texas in 
1859, settling in Freestone county, and the youth of our subject was therefore
spent in the above named county. His literary education was obtained at the male
high school in Fairfield, which was at that time an institution of some pretensions,
one of the best for several counties around. He then read medicine with Dr. S. F.
Starley, then of Fairfield, an old and eminent practitioner of that day. Dr.
Sneed then attended lectures at the University of Louisiana, at New Orleans (now
Tulane), and graduated in March 1870. After this event Dr. Sneed began practice
at Fairfield, and has continued here ever since, steadily increasing his practice.
Since the date of his graduation he has returned to New Orleans and taken special
courses in the university three different times, his idea being to perfect himself
his profession. Our subject has followed a general practice all these years, and
enjoys a good and lucrative business. Dr. Sneed is a member of the Freestone 
County Medical Society, of which he is president. He is also a member of the 
State Medical Society, and takes an active interest in the deliberations of that
body. He has been Health Officer of that county for three years, and is now
serving on his second term.
    Dr. Sneed married, in 1875, Miss Alice E. Johnson, daughter of Colonel J. B.
Johnson, an old settler of Freestone county, a native of Florida, who came to
the State of Texas many years ago and took up his residence in Freestone county,
where his daughter, Mrs. Sneed, was born.   Mrs. Sneed died, and Dr. Sneed married
again, October 28, 1891, Miss V. D. Lillard, of Fairchild [sic, Fairfield]. Dr. 
Sneed has five children, all by his first marriage.
    Dr. Sneed became a Mason in 1870, joining Fairchild [sic, Fairfield] Lodge,
No. 103, of which he is still a member. He is also a member of Chapter No. 42,
and of the Knights of Honor Lodge, of Fairfield, of which he has been Medical
Examiner since its organization in 1881."


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Question: "Is this correct that William Newton Sneed was son of Kithron?  I have 
  him incorrectly as the son of Alfred Wren."
Answer: Billie Bournias - 1/25/2015 - "This is my great grandfather and 
he WAS the son of Alfred Wren Sneed.  I’m thinking maybe Alfred Wren was 
sometimes called “Kithron or Kit” as a nick name. There was a brother of W.N. 
Sneed Sr. in Wortham who was also a DR. that was also sometimes called Kit Sneed 
– at least that is how daddy always referred to him -  Kenneth Wren “Kit” Sneed 
md. Mary Caroline Stubbs."