When Melvina Snawder was born on 11 December 1840, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Joseph Snawder, was 44 and her mother, Luvinah Collins, was 39. She married John F. Rarden on 28 December 1859, in Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Woods Magisterial District, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Meadow Lawn, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States in 1880. She died on 5 December 1893, at the age of 52, and was buried in Wilson-Snawder Cemetery, Valley Station, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Perhaps an Americanized form of Dutch Sneider , German Schneider .
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