John Wesley Snell

Brief Life History of John Wesley

When John Wesley Snell was born on 5 October 1834, in Waldo, Maine, United States, his father, Cyrus Phillips Snell, was 24 and his mother, Rhoda Barnes, was 18. He married Anna Lucilla Beck on 11 February 1857, in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 10 September 1911, in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Spanish Fork City Cemetery, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Wesley Snell
1834–1911
Anna Lucilla Beck
1838–1918
Marriage: 11 February 1857
Lucy Hannah Snell
1858–1938
Margaret Adelene Snell
1860–1933
Rhoda Snell
1862–1897
Anna Lucilla Snell
1864–1887
Cyrus Grant Snell
1866–1867
Emily Rebecca Snell
1867–1915
John Wesley Snell
1869–1870
Alfred Rogers Snell
1870–1871
Joseph Ellison Snell
1872–1872
Lucretia Jane Snell
1873–1874
Eunice Ellen Snell
1874–1949
Joseph Herbert Snell
1876–1947
Cyrus Alma Phillips Snell
1882–1917

Sources (61)

  • John Snell, "United States Census, 1860"
  • John W. Snell, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
  • Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961

World Events (8)

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1848

Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Davis, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Davis, Utah, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

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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Cyrus Snell

CYRUS SNELL -, Eaton, Carroll, New Hampshire. Just how he met Rhoda Barnes, a native of Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada has not been determined, but they were probably married when she was 17 years o …

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