Snider, George Travis Sr.

1901 - 1980  (78 years)

• Name	Snider, George Travis
  Suffix	Sr.
  Born	23 Nov 1901	Robertson County, Texas, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Apr 1980	Hobbs, Lea County, New Mexico, USA
  Buried	Mission Garden of Memories Cemetery - Clovis, Curry County, New Mexico, USA
  	Findagrave.com Memorial #27605609
  Person ID	I8003	Coursey-Sansing Tree
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Snider, John Travis,   b. 30 Nov 1877, Robertson County, Texas, USA ,   d. 15 Mar 1960, Quay County, New Mexico, USA  (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Robertson, Ada,   b. 6 Feb 1882, Robertson County, Texas, USA ,   d. 5 Sep 1959, Quay County, New Mexico, USA  (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F3310	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	McDonald, Thelma Vester,   b. 7 Jun 1903, Comanche County, Texas, USA ,   d. 7 Feb 1998, Hobbs, Lea County, New Mexico, USA  (Age 94 years)
  Children	1. Snider, George Travis Jr.,   b. 5 Feb 1927, New Mexico, USA ,   d. 15 Apr 1996, Concord, Contra Costa County, California, USA  (Age 69 years)   2. Snider, Mary Evelyn   3. Snider, Dortha,   b. 13 Jan 1931, New Mexico, USA ,   d. 18 Jul 1994, Parkland Hospital - Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA  (Age 63 years)   4. Snider, James Leon
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020
  Family ID	F3311	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Biography Travis was born in Robertson County, Texas, where he lived until he was about five years old and the family moved to Floyd County, Texas, to join his father's younger brother, Nathan Snider. His uncle had located a farm there that the brothers could farm as sharecroppers. Travis' father rented a box car and rode with the horses, wagon, livestock and belongings to Estelline, Texas, the closest to the rented farm by train. Travis, his mother and little sister, Omie, boarded a passenger train two days later and the two trains arrived at about the same time. Travis remembered his father running back along the train tracks to help them get off their train. His uncle was there to help unload the box car, assemble the wagon and continue their journey. The brothers put in a crop then rode by horseback to Quay County, New Mexico Territory, where each filed on 160 acres of Homestead Land. They returned to harvest their crop in Texas, and wait for the birth of another child in December. When the baby, Mack, was about a month old, they arrived at their homestead land on a cold January day in 1907. The men built a shelter and planted a crop, as required for ownership. Then they hitched up the wagon again and checked on homestead land in Arizona. Travis had memories of this time and the birth a a little sister, Lois, in 1910. They soon returned to the first homestead where Travis grew up with his siblings. He attended Montezuma Baptist College and taught school in Curry County where he met, courted and married another teacher, Vester McDonald. The couple lived many years in Forrest, New Mexico, where they raised their four children and Travis managed a store, operated a mechanic shop and farmed. After retirement, Travis and Vester lived in Hobbs, New Mexico, and he worked in his daughter's drapery shop until he suffered a fatal heart attack. In later years, Travis shared his memories and knowledge of family history, some of it recorded on tape, a great heritage for the descendants of John and Ada Snider. -Blanche Ada Keating Collie, niece Children: Geroge Travis Snider, Jr. 1927-1996 Mary Evelyn Snider Roach 1929- Dortha Louise Snider Cleveland Sturdevant 1931-1994 James Leon Snider 1933-