William Snowden Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submmitted by Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: William Snowden: a son of William Snowden Sr., was born in 1802 in Hancock County, West Virginia. Married Mary Pugh in 1824. She bore him six children, four sons and two daughters. She died in 1851. He then married Miss Elizabeth Davidson, a few years later, who bore him one child. He lived on the farm now owned by William D. Snowden, and followed farming as his vocation, residing until his death, which occurred in 1873. His wife still survives him.