Some give his birth date March 12, 1770.
Some researchers call him John Johnson Snow; others, Johnson Snow "nicknamed John."
Johnson Snow, born circa 1770-74 Albemarle County, Virginia, died 1860-70 in Roane or Loudon County, Tennessee, was the son of Frost And Snow Sr. and Elizabeth Johnson Snow. His grandparents were John and Sarah Snow, John Johnson and Eleanor Davis Johnson.
Frost And Snow Sr. (born circa 1730 Albemarle County, VA-died circa 1813 Surry County, NC) married Elizabeth Johnson (daughter of John Johnson and Eleanor Davis) born in Orange County, VA., died before 8/1822 Surry County, NC. Frost's parents were John Snow (died before 7/1784 in Albemarle County, VA) and Sarah Jackson (died before 2/11/1783).
There is a great deal of contradiction and confusion between the family above and the family of Frost And Snow Jr. (born circa 1756 Albemarle County, VA-died 3/6/1852 Surry County, NC) in family trees on the internet. Frost Jr.'s family used nearly all the same names as the previous generation. Frost Jr.'s son Johnson Snow is said by some researchers to have married first Martha "Patsy" Hale Burrus (or Mrs. Hale) and later married 20 Feb 1844 in Surry Co., N.C., to Mary McCollum, though others say Martha married his uncle "John" Johnson Snow. This Johnson Snow and wife Patsy are referred to on page 28 in the famous stories in "Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters" (N.Y.: Harper Bros., 1859) by Harden E. Taliaferro (1811-1875) which have been reprinted in numerous Americana folklore books. A story about Frost Snow also appeared in the Farmers Almanac in recent decades. Frost And Snow Sr. died in 1813. Frost Snow Jr.'s children were all born between 1785 and 1809, one of these being Frost Snow III. Frost Snow Jr. or III married Elizabeth Ballard while the other apparently married Elizabeth Fortner. Some say that Frost Snow Sr. married Elizabeth Ballard as his second wife on 17 April 1783 in Fredricksville Parish, Albemarle County, Virginia, after the death of Elizabeth Johnson c1782. Elizabeth Ballard Snow's father Thomas Ballard left slaves to Frost Snow in his will in 1809. Some say Elizabeth Ballard Snow was the daughter of Thomas Ballard Jr. & Mary Elizabeth Powers and was born before 1770 in Albemarle County, VA., died 1840-1852 in Surry County, NC). The Heritage of Surry County (N.C.) (1983), page 498, states: Frost Snow, Jr. "came to Surry County from Albemarle County, Virginia, around 1769." The second paragraph states, "Family tradition has it that Frost, Jr., married Elizabeth Faulkner or Fortner. Mrs. Jessie Belle Blackwelder, also a descendant of Frost, says that her grandmother told her that Frost's wife was indeed Elizabeth Fortner. Mrs. Blackwelder has a considerable amount of Frost's estate papers."
Johnson "John" Snow, the son of Frost Snow Sr., is sometimes listed as born in 1772-74 and a twin brother of Adra Snow who married Benjamin Taliaferro. One reference gives his birth as March 12, 1770. He was born in Albemarle Co., VA. (as the 1850 census indicates) or in Surry County, N.C., where he grew up (as the 1860 census indicates). Some researchers show his first wife as Martha "Patsy" but may be confusing him with his nephew of the same name. John Snow lived in Greenville County, S.C., in 1808 when his son Richard H. Snow was born there, as confirmed by the 1850 and 1870 censuses. The 1810 census shows him in Greenville Co., S.C., but also in 1810 he or another John Snow was supposedly living on Paul's Creek in Grayson Co., VA.(sometimes a part of Surry Co, N.C.), and in a dispute with three Allen brothers, neighbors.
The Snows went back and forth a good bit between Surry County, North Carolina and Roane County, Tennessee (the part in present-day Loudon County), a distance of 250 miles, probably traveling by riverboat most of that distance.
In Fisher's River Sketches, Hardin E. Taliaferro refers to "Uncle Frost Snow
," a native of Albemarle, Virginia, and his son John Snow who married Miss Easley. John Snow (1790-1851) married 12 OCT 1812 in Surry County, North Carolina, Frances "Franky" Easley (1793-1859), daughter of William & Sarah (Smith) Easley; granddaughter of Warham and Nancy Ann (Woodson) Easley. (FindAGrave 9569366)
The 1820 census of Surry Co., N.C., shows John Snow Sr. and Jr., while a different John Snow married Elizabeth Lowery/Lauer 4 March 1800 in Orange Co., Virginia and was in the 1820 Albemarle Co., VA. census. This third John Snow also went to Roane County and Rhea County, Tennessee, and died in Meigs County, Tennessee in 1845. In 1815 one John Snow was apparently Priscilla Garner's guardian as he held possession of her farm in trust.
Johnson (John) Snow is shown by various Snow researchers as having married Elizabeth Burrus, sister of Martha Patsy who married his nephew (sources not shown).
DNA matches indeed indicate that John Snow's wife was a Burrus.
The much younger Elizabeth shown in his household in 1850-60, she appears to be a widowed daughter-in-law rather than his wife.
From 1815-21 John Snow was in Madison County, Decatur County and what is now Marshall County, Alabama, before returning to Tennessee. John Snow appears on the tax lists of Madison County, Alabama, 1815-16.
HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA (1935), by John Robert Kennamer: In 1821 Decatur County was created out of Jackson Co. and the part of Madison Co. east of Flint River.
Decatur County...included...the whole of the present Marshall County's territory, as well as a great part of DeKalb, Etowah and Blount Counties.
A commission was appointed to select a seat of Justice, which consisted of the following persons: Robert MCCAMEY, James G. HOLMES, John KENNAMER, John SNOW, Alex W. DULANEY, David BOSHART, Aaron RICE, William LEGG, and Mr. BARNETT (who lived near the mouth of the Paint Rock River).
Around 1821 John Snow returned to Roane County, Tennessee, where he appears on the censuses 1830-60 and where he was a charter member of Prospect Baptist Church, July 1826. (ref., Prospect Baptist Church, Roane County, (now Loudon County), Tennessee, 1826-1863 - by Wanda Daughtery Kelley). Descendants still attended church here as recently as 1998.
1830 Roane Co., TN Census:
Page 18 shows one Michael Selvige 17 households away from another M.K. Selvage:
Stephen West (the bondsman)
Wm Selvage
M.K. Selvage (married Nancy Snow)
Wm. Ballard
Jefferson Branham
John Selvage
Richard Taliaferro
p.19: Richard Snow
p.59: John Snow
p. 6: John Renfro (married Mary Snow b.1804 d.1892)
A family tree online gives John Johnson Snow as dying 31 JUL 1835 in "Roane or Morgan County, Tennessee" and his wife's name as Sally Wicker. No source is cited; however, Sally Wicker is known have married Ebenezer Snow in Sept. 1783 in Surry Co., N.C.
The 1840 Roane Co., TN census shows #574 Hiram Lain (Lane)(who married Sarah Snow) next door to 573 Stephen West (the bondsman) and 576 Richard Snow, also near 570 John Snow and 566 William Snow.
Minutes of Prospect Baptist Church:
Sept. 1842: "Restored John Snow"
1850 Roane Co., TN. census index:
SNOW, Benj., Family # 1301
SNOW, John, Family # 364
SNOW, Richard, Family # 380
SNOW, Thomas, Family # 441
#364 John Snow 76 VA
Elizabeth 37 f N.C. (b. c1813)
Frankey 26 f N.C.
Adra 23 f N.C.
Lorenzo D. Lane 15 m Tenn
Mary C. Snow 8 f Tenn (later married Mr. Morris)
Sarah Snow 2 f Tenn
1860 Roane Co., TN.:
931/860 John Snow 90 m farming 40. N.C. (VA. Per 1850)
Betsy Snow 40 f (47 per 1850) N. C.
Lorenzo D. Lane 28 m laborer Tennessee
Sarah Snow 11
Adrar 35 f North C.
John Snow died here between 1860-70. His supposed younger second wife, Elizabeth, is possibly confused with his daughter or a daughter-in-law Elizabeth. His children were:
1.) probably Mary (Polly) Snow b.10 MAY 1804 N.C. married John Renfro (marriage bond 18 Dec 1829 Roane Co., TN), M.K. Selvidge bondsman. Moved to Polk Co., Missouri.
2.) Richard H. Snow, Sr. (b. 1808 S.C.) married Sarah E. Morphew
3.) William Snow
4.) Nancy J. Snow b.1813 N.C. (1811-14) married Michael K. Selvidge (Selvage), moved to Madison Co., AL.
5.) possibly a son whose widow was Elizabeth Snow (b. c1813) (or she was a second wife of Johnson Snow); 1880 census shows she was the mother of Mary C Snow b1841 (m.John Morris) and also Sarah b.1850. John b.1830 is linked as a son of hers (but may be a stepson) See Memorial 35628192
6.) Sarah Snow married Hiram Lane
7.) Frances (Franky) Snow (b. 1824) married after 1850 William Pharis (Faires)
8.) Adra(h) Snow (b. 1825-27)
7. Thomas Snow (b. 1829) married Louvina Pharis (Faires)
9.) possibly Jane Snow who married Joseph Selvidge, nephew of Michael.
10.) And possibly other children.
The names of the first eight children listed above are shown in the estate record of Lorenzo Lane, son of Sarah Snow and Hiram Lane. Census records for 1850 and 1860 show that Lorenzo was living with his grandfather John Snow. Lorenzo Lane was a Civil War soldier and prisoner of war who died at Andersonville Prison in Georgia.
Some researchers call him John Johnson Snow; others, Johnson Snow "nicknamed John."
Johnson Snow, born circa 1770-74 Albemarle County, Virginia, died 1860-70 in Roane or Loudon County, Tennessee, was the son of Frost And Snow Sr. and Elizabeth Johnson Snow. His grandparents were John and Sarah Snow, John Johnson and Eleanor Davis Johnson.
Frost And Snow Sr. (born circa 1730 Albemarle County, VA-died circa 1813 Surry County, NC) married Elizabeth Johnson (daughter of John Johnson and Eleanor Davis) born in Orange County, VA., died before 8/1822 Surry County, NC. Frost's parents were John Snow (died before 7/1784 in Albemarle County, VA) and Sarah Jackson (died before 2/11/1783).
There is a great deal of contradiction and confusion between the family above and the family of Frost And Snow Jr. (born circa 1756 Albemarle County, VA-died 3/6/1852 Surry County, NC) in family trees on the internet. Frost Jr.'s family used nearly all the same names as the previous generation. Frost Jr.'s son Johnson Snow is said by some researchers to have married first Martha "Patsy" Hale Burrus (or Mrs. Hale) and later married 20 Feb 1844 in Surry Co., N.C., to Mary McCollum, though others say Martha married his uncle "John" Johnson Snow. This Johnson Snow and wife Patsy are referred to on page 28 in the famous stories in "Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters" (N.Y.: Harper Bros., 1859) by Harden E. Taliaferro (1811-1875) which have been reprinted in numerous Americana folklore books. A story about Frost Snow also appeared in the Farmers Almanac in recent decades. Frost And Snow Sr. died in 1813. Frost Snow Jr.'s children were all born between 1785 and 1809, one of these being Frost Snow III. Frost Snow Jr. or III married Elizabeth Ballard while the other apparently married Elizabeth Fortner. Some say that Frost Snow Sr. married Elizabeth Ballard as his second wife on 17 April 1783 in Fredricksville Parish, Albemarle County, Virginia, after the death of Elizabeth Johnson c1782. Elizabeth Ballard Snow's father Thomas Ballard left slaves to Frost Snow in his will in 1809. Some say Elizabeth Ballard Snow was the daughter of Thomas Ballard Jr. & Mary Elizabeth Powers and was born before 1770 in Albemarle County, VA., died 1840-1852 in Surry County, NC). The Heritage of Surry County (N.C.) (1983), page 498, states: Frost Snow, Jr. "came to Surry County from Albemarle County, Virginia, around 1769." The second paragraph states, "Family tradition has it that Frost, Jr., married Elizabeth Faulkner or Fortner. Mrs. Jessie Belle Blackwelder, also a descendant of Frost, says that her grandmother told her that Frost's wife was indeed Elizabeth Fortner. Mrs. Blackwelder has a considerable amount of Frost's estate papers."
Johnson "John" Snow, the son of Frost Snow Sr., is sometimes listed as born in 1772-74 and a twin brother of Adra Snow who married Benjamin Taliaferro. One reference gives his birth as March 12, 1770. He was born in Albemarle Co., VA. (as the 1850 census indicates) or in Surry County, N.C., where he grew up (as the 1860 census indicates). Some researchers show his first wife as Martha "Patsy" but may be confusing him with his nephew of the same name. John Snow lived in Greenville County, S.C., in 1808 when his son Richard H. Snow was born there, as confirmed by the 1850 and 1870 censuses. The 1810 census shows him in Greenville Co., S.C., but also in 1810 he or another John Snow was supposedly living on Paul's Creek in Grayson Co., VA.(sometimes a part of Surry Co, N.C.), and in a dispute with three Allen brothers, neighbors.
The Snows went back and forth a good bit between Surry County, North Carolina and Roane County, Tennessee (the part in present-day Loudon County), a distance of 250 miles, probably traveling by riverboat most of that distance.
In Fisher's River Sketches, Hardin E. Taliaferro refers to "Uncle Frost Snow
," a native of Albemarle, Virginia, and his son John Snow who married Miss Easley. John Snow (1790-1851) married 12 OCT 1812 in Surry County, North Carolina, Frances "Franky" Easley (1793-1859), daughter of William & Sarah (Smith) Easley; granddaughter of Warham and Nancy Ann (Woodson) Easley. (FindAGrave 9569366)
The 1820 census of Surry Co., N.C., shows John Snow Sr. and Jr., while a different John Snow married Elizabeth Lowery/Lauer 4 March 1800 in Orange Co., Virginia and was in the 1820 Albemarle Co., VA. census. This third John Snow also went to Roane County and Rhea County, Tennessee, and died in Meigs County, Tennessee in 1845. In 1815 one John Snow was apparently Priscilla Garner's guardian as he held possession of her farm in trust.
Johnson (John) Snow is shown by various Snow researchers as having married Elizabeth Burrus, sister of Martha Patsy who married his nephew (sources not shown).
DNA matches indeed indicate that John Snow's wife was a Burrus.
The much younger Elizabeth shown in his household in 1850-60, she appears to be a widowed daughter-in-law rather than his wife.
From 1815-21 John Snow was in Madison County, Decatur County and what is now Marshall County, Alabama, before returning to Tennessee. John Snow appears on the tax lists of Madison County, Alabama, 1815-16.
HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA (1935), by John Robert Kennamer: In 1821 Decatur County was created out of Jackson Co. and the part of Madison Co. east of Flint River.
Decatur County...included...the whole of the present Marshall County's territory, as well as a great part of DeKalb, Etowah and Blount Counties.
A commission was appointed to select a seat of Justice, which consisted of the following persons: Robert MCCAMEY, James G. HOLMES, John KENNAMER, John SNOW, Alex W. DULANEY, David BOSHART, Aaron RICE, William LEGG, and Mr. BARNETT (who lived near the mouth of the Paint Rock River).
Around 1821 John Snow returned to Roane County, Tennessee, where he appears on the censuses 1830-60 and where he was a charter member of Prospect Baptist Church, July 1826. (ref., Prospect Baptist Church, Roane County, (now Loudon County), Tennessee, 1826-1863 - by Wanda Daughtery Kelley). Descendants still attended church here as recently as 1998.
1830 Roane Co., TN Census:
Page 18 shows one Michael Selvige 17 households away from another M.K. Selvage:
Stephen West (the bondsman)
Wm Selvage
M.K. Selvage (married Nancy Snow)
Wm. Ballard
Jefferson Branham
John Selvage
Richard Taliaferro
p.19: Richard Snow
p.59: John Snow
p. 6: John Renfro (married Mary Snow b.1804 d.1892)
A family tree online gives John Johnson Snow as dying 31 JUL 1835 in "Roane or Morgan County, Tennessee" and his wife's name as Sally Wicker. No source is cited; however, Sally Wicker is known have married Ebenezer Snow in Sept. 1783 in Surry Co., N.C.
The 1840 Roane Co., TN census shows #574 Hiram Lain (Lane)(who married Sarah Snow) next door to 573 Stephen West (the bondsman) and 576 Richard Snow, also near 570 John Snow and 566 William Snow.
Minutes of Prospect Baptist Church:
Sept. 1842: "Restored John Snow"
1850 Roane Co., TN. census index:
SNOW, Benj., Family # 1301
SNOW, John, Family # 364
SNOW, Richard, Family # 380
SNOW, Thomas, Family # 441
#364 John Snow 76 VA
Elizabeth 37 f N.C. (b. c1813)
Frankey 26 f N.C.
Adra 23 f N.C.
Lorenzo D. Lane 15 m Tenn
Mary C. Snow 8 f Tenn (later married Mr. Morris)
Sarah Snow 2 f Tenn
1860 Roane Co., TN.:
931/860 John Snow 90 m farming 40. N.C. (VA. Per 1850)
Betsy Snow 40 f (47 per 1850) N. C.
Lorenzo D. Lane 28 m laborer Tennessee
Sarah Snow 11
Adrar 35 f North C.
John Snow died here between 1860-70. His supposed younger second wife, Elizabeth, is possibly confused with his daughter or a daughter-in-law Elizabeth. His children were:
1.) probably Mary (Polly) Snow b.10 MAY 1804 N.C. married John Renfro (marriage bond 18 Dec 1829 Roane Co., TN), M.K. Selvidge bondsman. Moved to Polk Co., Missouri.
2.) Richard H. Snow, Sr. (b. 1808 S.C.) married Sarah E. Morphew
3.) William Snow
4.) Nancy J. Snow b.1813 N.C. (1811-14) married Michael K. Selvidge (Selvage), moved to Madison Co., AL.
5.) possibly a son whose widow was Elizabeth Snow (b. c1813) (or she was a second wife of Johnson Snow); 1880 census shows she was the mother of Mary C Snow b1841 (m.John Morris) and also Sarah b.1850. John b.1830 is linked as a son of hers (but may be a stepson) See Memorial 35628192
6.) Sarah Snow married Hiram Lane
7.) Frances (Franky) Snow (b. 1824) married after 1850 William Pharis (Faires)
8.) Adra(h) Snow (b. 1825-27)
7. Thomas Snow (b. 1829) married Louvina Pharis (Faires)
9.) possibly Jane Snow who married Joseph Selvidge, nephew of Michael.
10.) And possibly other children.
The names of the first eight children listed above are shown in the estate record of Lorenzo Lane, son of Sarah Snow and Hiram Lane. Census records for 1850 and 1860 show that Lorenzo was living with his grandfather John Snow. Lorenzo Lane was a Civil War soldier and prisoner of war who died at Andersonville Prison in Georgia.
Some give his birth date March 12, 1770.
Some researchers call him John Johnson Snow; others, Johnson Snow "nicknamed John."
Johnson Snow, born circa 1770-74 Albemarle County, Virginia, died 1860-70 in Roane or Loudon County, Tennessee, was the son of Frost And Snow Sr. and Elizabeth Johnson Snow. His grandparents were John and Sarah Snow, John Johnson and Eleanor Davis Johnson.
Frost And Snow Sr. (born circa 1730 Albemarle County, VA-died circa 1813 Surry County, NC) married Elizabeth Johnson (daughter of John Johnson and Eleanor Davis) born in Orange County, VA., died before 8/1822 Surry County, NC. Frost's parents were John Snow (died before 7/1784 in Albemarle County, VA) and Sarah Jackson (died before 2/11/1783).
There is a great deal of contradiction and confusion between the family above and the family of Frost And Snow Jr. (born circa 1756 Albemarle County, VA-died 3/6/1852 Surry County, NC) in family trees on the internet. Frost Jr.'s family used nearly all the same names as the previous generation. Frost Jr.'s son Johnson Snow is said by some researchers to have married first Martha "Patsy" Hale Burrus (or Mrs. Hale) and later married 20 Feb 1844 in Surry Co., N.C., to Mary McCollum, though others say Martha married his uncle "John" Johnson Snow. This Johnson Snow and wife Patsy are referred to on page 28 in the famous stories in "Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters" (N.Y.: Harper Bros., 1859) by Harden E. Taliaferro (1811-1875) which have been reprinted in numerous Americana folklore books. A story about Frost Snow also appeared in the Farmers Almanac in recent decades. Frost And Snow Sr. died in 1813. Frost Snow Jr.'s children were all born between 1785 and 1809, one of these being Frost Snow III. Frost Snow Jr. or III married Elizabeth Ballard while the other apparently married Elizabeth Fortner. Some say that Frost Snow Sr. married Elizabeth Ballard as his second wife on 17 April 1783 in Fredricksville Parish, Albemarle County, Virginia, after the death of Elizabeth Johnson c1782. Elizabeth Ballard Snow's father Thomas Ballard left slaves to Frost Snow in his will in 1809. Some say Elizabeth Ballard Snow was the daughter of Thomas Ballard Jr. & Mary Elizabeth Powers and was born before 1770 in Albemarle County, VA., died 1840-1852 in Surry County, NC). The Heritage of Surry County (N.C.) (1983), page 498, states: Frost Snow, Jr. "came to Surry County from Albemarle County, Virginia, around 1769." The second paragraph states, "Family tradition has it that Frost, Jr., married Elizabeth Faulkner or Fortner. Mrs. Jessie Belle Blackwelder, also a descendant of Frost, says that her grandmother told her that Frost's wife was indeed Elizabeth Fortner. Mrs. Blackwelder has a considerable amount of Frost's estate papers."
Johnson "John" Snow, the son of Frost Snow Sr., is sometimes listed as born in 1772-74 and a twin brother of Adra Snow who married Benjamin Taliaferro. One reference gives his birth as March 12, 1770. He was born in Albemarle Co., VA. (as the 1850 census indicates) or in Surry County, N.C., where he grew up (as the 1860 census indicates). Some researchers show his first wife as Martha "Patsy" but may be confusing him with his nephew of the same name. John Snow lived in Greenville County, S.C., in 1808 when his son Richard H. Snow was born there, as confirmed by the 1850 and 1870 censuses. The 1810 census shows him in Greenville Co., S.C., but also in 1810 he or another John Snow was supposedly living on Paul's Creek in Grayson Co., VA.(sometimes a part of Surry Co, N.C.), and in a dispute with three Allen brothers, neighbors.
The Snows went back and forth a good bit between Surry County, North Carolina and Roane County, Tennessee (the part in present-day Loudon County), a distance of 250 miles, probably traveling by riverboat most of that distance.
In Fisher's River Sketches, Hardin E. Taliaferro refers to "Uncle Frost Snow
," a native of Albemarle, Virginia, and his son John Snow who married Miss Easley. John Snow (1790-1851) married 12 OCT 1812 in Surry County, North Carolina, Frances "Franky" Easley (1793-1859), daughter of William & Sarah (Smith) Easley; granddaughter of Warham and Nancy Ann (Woodson) Easley. (FindAGrave 9569366)
The 1820 census of Surry Co., N.C., shows John Snow Sr. and Jr., while a different John Snow married Elizabeth Lowery/Lauer 4 March 1800 in Orange Co., Virginia and was in the 1820 Albemarle Co., VA. census. This third John Snow also went to Roane County and Rhea County, Tennessee, and died in Meigs County, Tennessee in 1845. In 1815 one John Snow was apparently Priscilla Garner's guardian as he held possession of her farm in trust.
Johnson (John) Snow is shown by various Snow researchers as having married Elizabeth Burrus, sister of Martha Patsy who married his nephew (sources not shown).
DNA matches indeed indicate that John Snow's wife was a Burrus.
The much younger Elizabeth shown in his household in 1850-60, she appears to be a widowed daughter-in-law rather than his wife.
From 1815-21 John Snow was in Madison County, Decatur County and what is now Marshall County, Alabama, before returning to Tennessee. John Snow appears on the tax lists of Madison County, Alabama, 1815-16.
HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA (1935), by John Robert Kennamer: In 1821 Decatur County was created out of Jackson Co. and the part of Madison Co. east of Flint River.
Decatur County...included...the whole of the present Marshall County's territory, as well as a great part of DeKalb, Etowah and Blount Counties.
A commission was appointed to select a seat of Justice, which consisted of the following persons: Robert MCCAMEY, James G. HOLMES, John KENNAMER, John SNOW, Alex W. DULANEY, David BOSHART, Aaron RICE, William LEGG, and Mr. BARNETT (who lived near the mouth of the Paint Rock River).
Around 1821 John Snow returned to Roane County, Tennessee, where he appears on the censuses 1830-60 and where he was a charter member of Prospect Baptist Church, July 1826. (ref., Prospect Baptist Church, Roane County, (now Loudon County), Tennessee, 1826-1863 - by Wanda Daughtery Kelley). Descendants still attended church here as recently as 1998.
1830 Roane Co., TN Census:
Page 18 shows one Michael Selvige 17 households away from another M.K. Selvage:
Stephen West (the bondsman)
Wm Selvage
M.K. Selvage (married Nancy Snow)
Wm. Ballard
Jefferson Branham
John Selvage
Richard Taliaferro
p.19: Richard Snow
p.59: John Snow
p. 6: John Renfro (married Mary Snow b.1804 d.1892)
A family tree online gives John Johnson Snow as dying 31 JUL 1835 in "Roane or Morgan County, Tennessee" and his wife's name as Sally Wicker. No source is cited; however, Sally Wicker is known have married Ebenezer Snow in Sept. 1783 in Surry Co., N.C.
The 1840 Roane Co., TN census shows #574 Hiram Lain (Lane)(who married Sarah Snow) next door to 573 Stephen West (the bondsman) and 576 Richard Snow, also near 570 John Snow and 566 William Snow.
Minutes of Prospect Baptist Church:
Sept. 1842: "Restored John Snow"
1850 Roane Co., TN. census index:
SNOW, Benj., Family # 1301
SNOW, John, Family # 364
SNOW, Richard, Family # 380
SNOW, Thomas, Family # 441
#364 John Snow 76 VA
Elizabeth 37 f N.C. (b. c1813)
Frankey 26 f N.C.
Adra 23 f N.C.
Lorenzo D. Lane 15 m Tenn
Mary C. Snow 8 f Tenn (later married Mr. Morris)
Sarah Snow 2 f Tenn
1860 Roane Co., TN.:
931/860 John Snow 90 m farming 40. N.C. (VA. Per 1850)
Betsy Snow 40 f (47 per 1850) N. C.
Lorenzo D. Lane 28 m laborer Tennessee
Sarah Snow 11
Adrar 35 f North C.
John Snow died here between 1860-70. His supposed younger second wife, Elizabeth, is possibly confused with his daughter or a daughter-in-law Elizabeth. His children were:
1.) probably Mary (Polly) Snow b.10 MAY 1804 N.C. married John Renfro (marriage bond 18 Dec 1829 Roane Co., TN), M.K. Selvidge bondsman. Moved to Polk Co., Missouri.
2.) Richard H. Snow, Sr. (b. 1808 S.C.) married Sarah E. Morphew
3.) William Snow
4.) Nancy J. Snow b.1813 N.C. (1811-14) married Michael K. Selvidge (Selvage), moved to Madison Co., AL.
5.) possibly a son whose widow was Elizabeth Snow (b. c1813) (or she was a second wife of Johnson Snow); 1880 census shows she was the mother of Mary C Snow b1841 (m.John Morris) and also Sarah b.1850. John b.1830 is linked as a son of hers (but may be a stepson) See Memorial 35628192
6.) Sarah Snow married Hiram Lane
7.) Frances (Franky) Snow (b. 1824) married after 1850 William Pharis (Faires)
8.) Adra(h) Snow (b. 1825-27)
7. Thomas Snow (b. 1829) married Louvina Pharis (Faires)
9.) possibly Jane Snow who married Joseph Selvidge, nephew of Michael.
10.) And possibly other children.
The names of the first eight children listed above are shown in the estate record of Lorenzo Lane, son of Sarah Snow and Hiram Lane. Census records for 1850 and 1860 show that Lorenzo was living with his grandfather John Snow. Lorenzo Lane was a Civil War soldier and prisoner of war who died at Andersonville Prison in Georgia.
Some researchers call him John Johnson Snow; others, Johnson Snow "nicknamed John."
Johnson Snow, born circa 1770-74 Albemarle County, Virginia, died 1860-70 in Roane or Loudon County, Tennessee, was the son of Frost And Snow Sr. and Elizabeth Johnson Snow. His grandparents were John and Sarah Snow, John Johnson and Eleanor Davis Johnson.
Frost And Snow Sr. (born circa 1730 Albemarle County, VA-died circa 1813 Surry County, NC) married Elizabeth Johnson (daughter of John Johnson and Eleanor Davis) born in Orange County, VA., died before 8/1822 Surry County, NC. Frost's parents were John Snow (died before 7/1784 in Albemarle County, VA) and Sarah Jackson (died before 2/11/1783).
There is a great deal of contradiction and confusion between the family above and the family of Frost And Snow Jr. (born circa 1756 Albemarle County, VA-died 3/6/1852 Surry County, NC) in family trees on the internet. Frost Jr.'s family used nearly all the same names as the previous generation. Frost Jr.'s son Johnson Snow is said by some researchers to have married first Martha "Patsy" Hale Burrus (or Mrs. Hale) and later married 20 Feb 1844 in Surry Co., N.C., to Mary McCollum, though others say Martha married his uncle "John" Johnson Snow. This Johnson Snow and wife Patsy are referred to on page 28 in the famous stories in "Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters" (N.Y.: Harper Bros., 1859) by Harden E. Taliaferro (1811-1875) which have been reprinted in numerous Americana folklore books. A story about Frost Snow also appeared in the Farmers Almanac in recent decades. Frost And Snow Sr. died in 1813. Frost Snow Jr.'s children were all born between 1785 and 1809, one of these being Frost Snow III. Frost Snow Jr. or III married Elizabeth Ballard while the other apparently married Elizabeth Fortner. Some say that Frost Snow Sr. married Elizabeth Ballard as his second wife on 17 April 1783 in Fredricksville Parish, Albemarle County, Virginia, after the death of Elizabeth Johnson c1782. Elizabeth Ballard Snow's father Thomas Ballard left slaves to Frost Snow in his will in 1809. Some say Elizabeth Ballard Snow was the daughter of Thomas Ballard Jr. & Mary Elizabeth Powers and was born before 1770 in Albemarle County, VA., died 1840-1852 in Surry County, NC). The Heritage of Surry County (N.C.) (1983), page 498, states: Frost Snow, Jr. "came to Surry County from Albemarle County, Virginia, around 1769." The second paragraph states, "Family tradition has it that Frost, Jr., married Elizabeth Faulkner or Fortner. Mrs. Jessie Belle Blackwelder, also a descendant of Frost, says that her grandmother told her that Frost's wife was indeed Elizabeth Fortner. Mrs. Blackwelder has a considerable amount of Frost's estate papers."
Johnson "John" Snow, the son of Frost Snow Sr., is sometimes listed as born in 1772-74 and a twin brother of Adra Snow who married Benjamin Taliaferro. One reference gives his birth as March 12, 1770. He was born in Albemarle Co., VA. (as the 1850 census indicates) or in Surry County, N.C., where he grew up (as the 1860 census indicates). Some researchers show his first wife as Martha "Patsy" but may be confusing him with his nephew of the same name. John Snow lived in Greenville County, S.C., in 1808 when his son Richard H. Snow was born there, as confirmed by the 1850 and 1870 censuses. The 1810 census shows him in Greenville Co., S.C., but also in 1810 he or another John Snow was supposedly living on Paul's Creek in Grayson Co., VA.(sometimes a part of Surry Co, N.C.), and in a dispute with three Allen brothers, neighbors.
The Snows went back and forth a good bit between Surry County, North Carolina and Roane County, Tennessee (the part in present-day Loudon County), a distance of 250 miles, probably traveling by riverboat most of that distance.
In Fisher's River Sketches, Hardin E. Taliaferro refers to "Uncle Frost Snow
," a native of Albemarle, Virginia, and his son John Snow who married Miss Easley. John Snow (1790-1851) married 12 OCT 1812 in Surry County, North Carolina, Frances "Franky" Easley (1793-1859), daughter of William & Sarah (Smith) Easley; granddaughter of Warham and Nancy Ann (Woodson) Easley. (FindAGrave 9569366)
The 1820 census of Surry Co., N.C., shows John Snow Sr. and Jr., while a different John Snow married Elizabeth Lowery/Lauer 4 March 1800 in Orange Co., Virginia and was in the 1820 Albemarle Co., VA. census. This third John Snow also went to Roane County and Rhea County, Tennessee, and died in Meigs County, Tennessee in 1845. In 1815 one John Snow was apparently Priscilla Garner's guardian as he held possession of her farm in trust.
Johnson (John) Snow is shown by various Snow researchers as having married Elizabeth Burrus, sister of Martha Patsy who married his nephew (sources not shown).
DNA matches indeed indicate that John Snow's wife was a Burrus.
The much younger Elizabeth shown in his household in 1850-60, she appears to be a widowed daughter-in-law rather than his wife.
From 1815-21 John Snow was in Madison County, Decatur County and what is now Marshall County, Alabama, before returning to Tennessee. John Snow appears on the tax lists of Madison County, Alabama, 1815-16.
HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA (1935), by John Robert Kennamer: In 1821 Decatur County was created out of Jackson Co. and the part of Madison Co. east of Flint River.
Decatur County...included...the whole of the present Marshall County's territory, as well as a great part of DeKalb, Etowah and Blount Counties.
A commission was appointed to select a seat of Justice, which consisted of the following persons: Robert MCCAMEY, James G. HOLMES, John KENNAMER, John SNOW, Alex W. DULANEY, David BOSHART, Aaron RICE, William LEGG, and Mr. BARNETT (who lived near the mouth of the Paint Rock River).
Around 1821 John Snow returned to Roane County, Tennessee, where he appears on the censuses 1830-60 and where he was a charter member of Prospect Baptist Church, July 1826. (ref., Prospect Baptist Church, Roane County, (now Loudon County), Tennessee, 1826-1863 - by Wanda Daughtery Kelley). Descendants still attended church here as recently as 1998.
1830 Roane Co., TN Census:
Page 18 shows one Michael Selvige 17 households away from another M.K. Selvage:
Stephen West (the bondsman)
Wm Selvage
M.K. Selvage (married Nancy Snow)
Wm. Ballard
Jefferson Branham
John Selvage
Richard Taliaferro
p.19: Richard Snow
p.59: John Snow
p. 6: John Renfro (married Mary Snow b.1804 d.1892)
A family tree online gives John Johnson Snow as dying 31 JUL 1835 in "Roane or Morgan County, Tennessee" and his wife's name as Sally Wicker. No source is cited; however, Sally Wicker is known have married Ebenezer Snow in Sept. 1783 in Surry Co., N.C.
The 1840 Roane Co., TN census shows #574 Hiram Lain (Lane)(who married Sarah Snow) next door to 573 Stephen West (the bondsman) and 576 Richard Snow, also near 570 John Snow and 566 William Snow.
Minutes of Prospect Baptist Church:
Sept. 1842: "Restored John Snow"
1850 Roane Co., TN. census index:
SNOW, Benj., Family # 1301
SNOW, John, Family # 364
SNOW, Richard, Family # 380
SNOW, Thomas, Family # 441
#364 John Snow 76 VA
Elizabeth 37 f N.C. (b. c1813)
Frankey 26 f N.C.
Adra 23 f N.C.
Lorenzo D. Lane 15 m Tenn
Mary C. Snow 8 f Tenn (later married Mr. Morris)
Sarah Snow 2 f Tenn
1860 Roane Co., TN.:
931/860 John Snow 90 m farming 40. N.C. (VA. Per 1850)
Betsy Snow 40 f (47 per 1850) N. C.
Lorenzo D. Lane 28 m laborer Tennessee
Sarah Snow 11
Adrar 35 f North C.
John Snow died here between 1860-70. His supposed younger second wife, Elizabeth, is possibly confused with his daughter or a daughter-in-law Elizabeth. His children were:
1.) probably Mary (Polly) Snow b.10 MAY 1804 N.C. married John Renfro (marriage bond 18 Dec 1829 Roane Co., TN), M.K. Selvidge bondsman. Moved to Polk Co., Missouri.
2.) Richard H. Snow, Sr. (b. 1808 S.C.) married Sarah E. Morphew
3.) William Snow
4.) Nancy J. Snow b.1813 N.C. (1811-14) married Michael K. Selvidge (Selvage), moved to Madison Co., AL.
5.) possibly a son whose widow was Elizabeth Snow (b. c1813) (or she was a second wife of Johnson Snow); 1880 census shows she was the mother of Mary C Snow b1841 (m.John Morris) and also Sarah b.1850. John b.1830 is linked as a son of hers (but may be a stepson) See Memorial 35628192
6.) Sarah Snow married Hiram Lane
7.) Frances (Franky) Snow (b. 1824) married after 1850 William Pharis (Faires)
8.) Adra(h) Snow (b. 1825-27)
7. Thomas Snow (b. 1829) married Louvina Pharis (Faires)
9.) possibly Jane Snow who married Joseph Selvidge, nephew of Michael.
10.) And possibly other children.
The names of the first eight children listed above are shown in the estate record of Lorenzo Lane, son of Sarah Snow and Hiram Lane. Census records for 1850 and 1860 show that Lorenzo was living with his grandfather John Snow. Lorenzo Lane was a Civil War soldier and prisoner of war who died at Andersonville Prison in Georgia.
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