Snider, Melissa Ann

1836 - Abt 1901  (64 years)

• Name	Snider, Melissa Ann
  Born	3 Jan 1836	Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	Abt 1901	Robertson County, Texas, USA
  Buried	Mount Pleasant Cemetery - Franklin, Robertson, Texas, USA
  	Findagrave.com Memorial #69119681
  Person ID	I8058	Coursey-Sansing Tree
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Snider, John G,   b. 17 Feb 1807, Washington County, Georgia, USA ,   d. 5 May 1895, Schley County, Georgia, USA  (Age 88 years)
  Mother	Whitaker, Susan,   b. Abt 1812, Washington County, Georgia, USA ,   d. 16 Oct 1839, Coweta County, Georgia, USA  (Age ~ 27 years)
  Family ID	F3249	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mauk, James A,   b. 21 Feb 1828, Sumter County, Georgia, USA ,   d. 13 Jan 1897, Wheelock, Robertson County, Texas, USA  (Age 68 years)
  Married	20 Jan 1856	Sumter County, Georgia, USA
  Children	1. Mauk, Seleta Lucille,   b. 20 Jul 1859, Ellaville, Schley County, Georgia, USA ,   d. 28 Jun 1930, New Baden, Robertson County, Texas, USA  (Age 70 years)
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020
  Family ID	F3332	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Biography   Melissa Ann Snider was born in Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia, the third child and oldest daughter of six children. Twin siblings were born, a boy and a girl, when she was almost four years old. The baby girl did not survive and six months later, Melissa Ann's mother died. Her father was left with five children under six years of age. Ten years later he married again, this time to a younger woman and they had eight children. The family moved south to Schley County, Georgia, where Melissa Ann grew up, married and lived with her husband and his widowed mother during the Civil War. After the death of her mother-in-law, they joined the migration to Texas where her brother, William H. Snider, and other Mauks had settled. Melissa Ann traveled to Texas with her mother's gold wedding ring (Susan Whitaker Snider) and other pieces of gold tied into a knot In the hem of her under skirt. When her brother married, she gave him their mother's wedding ring for his bride. The ring was in a little box in the dresser of the brother's son, John Travis Snider, when he died many years later in New Mexico. It passed to his daughter and then her daughter and is a treasured family heirloom. Note: Many years after her death, descendants of the two sons of her brother, William Hardy Snider, placed the present headstone at her grave. - Blanche Keating Collie, family researcher