When Sophrona Snell was born on 8 October 1828, in Herkimer, New York, United States, her father, John Frederick Snell, was 25 and her mother, Nancy Timmerman, was 29. She married Horace Charles Garlock about 1847, in Orleans, Jefferson, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Murray, Orleans, New York, United States for about 5 years and Home Township, Nemaha, Kansas, United States in 1880. She died on 16 August 1866, in Seneca, Nemaha, Kansas, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Seneca City Cemetery, Seneca, Nemaha, Kansas, United States.
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English: nickname for a quick, lively, or courageous person, from Middle English snel(l) ‘swift, vivacious, brisk, bold’ (Old English snel(l), Old Norse snjallr). See also Sneller , Snelling .
English: from the Middle English personal name Snel(l) (Old English Snell, Old Norse Snjallr, with the same origins as the nickname above).
Americanized form of German Schnell ‘quick’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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