Railroad engineer, George Stilwell (left) and Dr. J.E. Sneed (right), were hunting buddies in Teague about 1912-1914.

Dr. J.E. (Jim) Sneed and his brother Dr. W.N. (Billie) Sneed attended A&M College and then went to Tulane University in New Orleans for their medical degrees in 1906. Billie decided to practice in Fairfield where their father was a doctor, and Jim opened his office in Teague where he became associated with Dr. W.P. Harrison. Both Dr. Harrison and Dr. Sneed were appointed local physicians for the railroad.

Dr. J.E. Sneed married Miss Sallie Bell Bonner in 1907. She was born at Stewards Mill, Texas, and was the daughter of Irvin H. Bonner and Jane Robinson Bonner. Dr. and Mrs. Sneed?s only daughter, Jane Bonner Sneed, was born in Teague, was graduated from Teague High School in 1933. Dr. and Mrs. Sneed were active members of the Presbyterian Church in Teague. Dr. Sneed died on October 15, 1918 in Teague and is buried in the Fairfield Cemetery.

George Stilwell engineered the first train that pulled into Teague in 1906. He and Mrs. Stilwell were the parents of Miss Eva Stilwell, popular young lady who served as queen of the mammoth 1907 Labor Day celebration, one of the biggest events ever held in the history of early day Teague.

This photograph was donated to the B-RI Railroad Museum by George Stilwell?s granddaughter, Harriette Willoughby Glenn of Douglas, Arizona, the daughter of Eva Stilwell.