Anna Maude Corwin was the first of two daughters born to Bryant E. Corwin and Mary Edna Eyerly. Her mother was a music teacher. Her father was an educator, serving as school principal, and a lawyer, also serving as city solicitor in Monroe, Iowa. The 1880 U.S. Census revealed a large household. Anna’s grandmother, Mary Eyerly (age 65), and her aunt, Nancy Eyerly (age 31), had come to live with Bryant and Mary Edna. Additionally, another aunt, Alice Ferrin (age 22), and her two young children, Eugene (age 4) and Carrie (age 2), were staying with the family while their father, Aurthur Ferrin, was in Colorado prospecting for silver. Later that year in October, Anna’s sister, Edna, was born.
In August of 1882 Anna’s grandmother, Mary Eyerly, married Hiram Lovelace. In December of 1882 Aunt Nancy married John Catterlin. The Ferrin’s had returned to their own home in Holt County, Missouri. The previously extra-large household was reduced to a family of four: father Bryant, mother Mary Edna, and the two daughters Anna and Edna.
Mary Edna and Bryant were raising their two young daughters together when, in mid-September 1883, Anna’s father, Bryant, was taken with bleeding at the lungs. He made “a heroic struggle for life,” but day by day he grew weaker. The condition finally culminated in his premature death just a month before Anna’s fifth birthday. Anna’s mother, Mary Edna, had just passed her twenty-ninth birthday. She was left a young widow with two daughters, Anna (age four) and Edna (age three).
Anna’s mother remained single with her two daughters for six and a half years, residing in Monroe, Iowa. Then on April 16, 1890 Anna’s mother married Joseph McGinnis, eleven years her senior, at Newton in Jasper County, Iowa. Anna was eleven years old. Mary, Anna, and Edna moved to Joseph’s farm near Winterset, Iowa.
Joseph McGinnis had been recently widowed and had two teen-aged sons, Theodore Judson McGinnis (age 19) and Bert Byron McGinnis (age 12). Joseph was characterized as “a man of upright character and clean morals; highly respected by everyone and thoroughly reliable and trustworthy.”
The 1895 Iowa State Census shows the family living on Joseph’s farm in Union Township near the city of Winterset, in Madison County. The household included three children, Burt (age 17), Anna (age 16), and Edna (age 14). Joseph’s elder son Theodore McGinnis and his wife Elizabeth were living next door to them.
Four years later Anna’s younger sister, Edna, married Allen Joseph Pyle in October of 1899 at Winterset and moved to Polk County, Iowa. On the 1900 U.S. Census the McGinnis household, living on Brown Street in Winterset, consisted of Joseph, a landlord age 56; Mary Edna, housewife age 44; Joseph’s son Bert, a shoe salesman age 23; and Anna, a music teacher age 21. The next year Anna married Amza Anderson Snyder, a twenty-nine-year old “designer” from Fort Dodge, Iowa. They were married in September 1901 at Winterset, Iowa, and then moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Anna and Amza’s first child, a daughter named Freda Margaret, was born at home in March of 1903. A second daughter, Vera Marjore, was born in January of 1907. Anna’s third and final child, a son they named Melvin Eugene, was born in January of 1915. Amza worked as a skilled carpenter and millwright. The family rented a four-bedroom, 1744 square-foot home at 312 North Tenth Street in Fort Dodge, Iowa. This would be the family’s residence for nearly thirty years while their children were born, passed through childhood and adolescence, and attended local schools.
From recollections shared by her daughter, Freda, Anna was orderly, keeping a clean and tidy home. She loved and had a talent for music. Anna passed this love on to her children. Freda became an accomplished pianist and Mel excelled on the trumpet.
Anna was devoted to her mother. By 1925 Anna’s mother, Mary Edna (age 70) and her stepfather, Thomas Low (age 79), had come to live in the Snyder household.
Education was encouraged and supported. Freda attended the University Iowa in Iowa City from 1921 through 1925.
Both of Anna’s daughters were married from their home in Fort Dodge. While attending the University of Iowa, Freda met and courted law student Harry Larson. Freda and Harry married immediately after graduation in 1925 settling in Sioux City, Iowa. The following year Vera married Samuel Burch, a partner in the Burch family tent and awning business of Fort Dodge.
Sometime in the late 1920’s, and perhaps in response to economic concerns resulting from the onset of the Great Depression, Anna and Amza moved three hundred sixty miles east to Chicago. The 1930 U.S. Census shows Anna and Amza, along with their son Melvin (age 15), living in an apartment at 6617 Stewart Avenue. Amza performed apartment repair work.
In 1934 the Snyder family separated. Mel, age 19, moved west to live in the household of his older sister, Freda, in Altadena, California. Amza removed to a cabin near the area of his youth, west of Evansville, Indiana. Responding to her love and devotion for her mother, Anna departed for Stuart, in Adair County, Iowa, to provide support and care for her mother and stepfather, both in their eighties.
The 1935 Iowa State Census shows Anna in the household of her parents, Thomas and Mary Edna Low, ages eighty-nine and eighty. Meanwhile, Anna’s husband, Amza Snyder, moved west from Indiana to Altadena, California, living in the household of his daughter, Freda, and her husband Harry Larson. Amza remained in the Larson household, working as a millwright and cabinet maker, until his death in 1943.
Anna stayed in Iowa to care for her parents in their home on Harrison Street in Stuart. Thomas Low, Anna’s stepfather, passed away in May of 1943 at the age of 97. Anna’s mother, Mary Edna, lived for three more years, dying in July of 1946, age 91.
Released from her caregiving role, Anna settled affairs in Iowa and moved west to the household of her daughter, Freda, in Altadena, California, in October of 1948. Unfortunately, Anna succumbed to complications associated with a duodenal ulcer and died at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, on March 25, 1949, at age seventy. She was buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, California, next to her husband, Amza.
In August of 1882 Anna’s grandmother, Mary Eyerly, married Hiram Lovelace. In December of 1882 Aunt Nancy married John Catterlin. The Ferrin’s had returned to their own home in Holt County, Missouri. The previously extra-large household was reduced to a family of four: father Bryant, mother Mary Edna, and the two daughters Anna and Edna.
Mary Edna and Bryant were raising their two young daughters together when, in mid-September 1883, Anna’s father, Bryant, was taken with bleeding at the lungs. He made “a heroic struggle for life,” but day by day he grew weaker. The condition finally culminated in his premature death just a month before Anna’s fifth birthday. Anna’s mother, Mary Edna, had just passed her twenty-ninth birthday. She was left a young widow with two daughters, Anna (age four) and Edna (age three).
Anna’s mother remained single with her two daughters for six and a half years, residing in Monroe, Iowa. Then on April 16, 1890 Anna’s mother married Joseph McGinnis, eleven years her senior, at Newton in Jasper County, Iowa. Anna was eleven years old. Mary, Anna, and Edna moved to Joseph’s farm near Winterset, Iowa.
Joseph McGinnis had been recently widowed and had two teen-aged sons, Theodore Judson McGinnis (age 19) and Bert Byron McGinnis (age 12). Joseph was characterized as “a man of upright character and clean morals; highly respected by everyone and thoroughly reliable and trustworthy.”
The 1895 Iowa State Census shows the family living on Joseph’s farm in Union Township near the city of Winterset, in Madison County. The household included three children, Burt (age 17), Anna (age 16), and Edna (age 14). Joseph’s elder son Theodore McGinnis and his wife Elizabeth were living next door to them.
Four years later Anna’s younger sister, Edna, married Allen Joseph Pyle in October of 1899 at Winterset and moved to Polk County, Iowa. On the 1900 U.S. Census the McGinnis household, living on Brown Street in Winterset, consisted of Joseph, a landlord age 56; Mary Edna, housewife age 44; Joseph’s son Bert, a shoe salesman age 23; and Anna, a music teacher age 21. The next year Anna married Amza Anderson Snyder, a twenty-nine-year old “designer” from Fort Dodge, Iowa. They were married in September 1901 at Winterset, Iowa, and then moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Anna and Amza’s first child, a daughter named Freda Margaret, was born at home in March of 1903. A second daughter, Vera Marjore, was born in January of 1907. Anna’s third and final child, a son they named Melvin Eugene, was born in January of 1915. Amza worked as a skilled carpenter and millwright. The family rented a four-bedroom, 1744 square-foot home at 312 North Tenth Street in Fort Dodge, Iowa. This would be the family’s residence for nearly thirty years while their children were born, passed through childhood and adolescence, and attended local schools.
From recollections shared by her daughter, Freda, Anna was orderly, keeping a clean and tidy home. She loved and had a talent for music. Anna passed this love on to her children. Freda became an accomplished pianist and Mel excelled on the trumpet.
Anna was devoted to her mother. By 1925 Anna’s mother, Mary Edna (age 70) and her stepfather, Thomas Low (age 79), had come to live in the Snyder household.
Education was encouraged and supported. Freda attended the University Iowa in Iowa City from 1921 through 1925.
Both of Anna’s daughters were married from their home in Fort Dodge. While attending the University of Iowa, Freda met and courted law student Harry Larson. Freda and Harry married immediately after graduation in 1925 settling in Sioux City, Iowa. The following year Vera married Samuel Burch, a partner in the Burch family tent and awning business of Fort Dodge.
Sometime in the late 1920’s, and perhaps in response to economic concerns resulting from the onset of the Great Depression, Anna and Amza moved three hundred sixty miles east to Chicago. The 1930 U.S. Census shows Anna and Amza, along with their son Melvin (age 15), living in an apartment at 6617 Stewart Avenue. Amza performed apartment repair work.
In 1934 the Snyder family separated. Mel, age 19, moved west to live in the household of his older sister, Freda, in Altadena, California. Amza removed to a cabin near the area of his youth, west of Evansville, Indiana. Responding to her love and devotion for her mother, Anna departed for Stuart, in Adair County, Iowa, to provide support and care for her mother and stepfather, both in their eighties.
The 1935 Iowa State Census shows Anna in the household of her parents, Thomas and Mary Edna Low, ages eighty-nine and eighty. Meanwhile, Anna’s husband, Amza Snyder, moved west from Indiana to Altadena, California, living in the household of his daughter, Freda, and her husband Harry Larson. Amza remained in the Larson household, working as a millwright and cabinet maker, until his death in 1943.
Anna stayed in Iowa to care for her parents in their home on Harrison Street in Stuart. Thomas Low, Anna’s stepfather, passed away in May of 1943 at the age of 97. Anna’s mother, Mary Edna, lived for three more years, dying in July of 1946, age 91.
Released from her caregiving role, Anna settled affairs in Iowa and moved west to the household of her daughter, Freda, in Altadena, California, in October of 1948. Unfortunately, Anna succumbed to complications associated with a duodenal ulcer and died at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, on March 25, 1949, at age seventy. She was buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, California, next to her husband, Amza.
Anna Maude Corwin was the first of two daughters born to Bryant E. Corwin and Mary Edna Eyerly. Her mother was a music teacher. Her father was an educator, serving as school principal, and a lawyer, also serving as city solicitor in Monroe, Iowa. The 1880 U.S. Census revealed a large household. Anna’s grandmother, Mary Eyerly (age 65), and her aunt, Nancy Eyerly (age 31), had come to live with Bryant and Mary Edna. Additionally, another aunt, Alice Ferrin (age 22), and her two young children, Eugene (age 4) and Carrie (age 2), were staying with the family while their father, Aurthur Ferrin, was in Colorado prospecting for silver. Later that year in October, Anna’s sister, Edna, was born.
In August of 1882 Anna’s grandmother, Mary Eyerly, married Hiram Lovelace. In December of 1882 Aunt Nancy married John Catterlin. The Ferrin’s had returned to their own home in Holt County, Missouri. The previously extra-large household was reduced to a family of four: father Bryant, mother Mary Edna, and the two daughters Anna and Edna.
Mary Edna and Bryant were raising their two young daughters together when, in mid-September 1883, Anna’s father, Bryant, was taken with bleeding at the lungs. He made “a heroic struggle for life,” but day by day he grew weaker. The condition finally culminated in his premature death just a month before Anna’s fifth birthday. Anna’s mother, Mary Edna, had just passed her twenty-ninth birthday. She was left a young widow with two daughters, Anna (age four) and Edna (age three).
Anna’s mother remained single with her two daughters for six and a half years, residing in Monroe, Iowa. Then on April 16, 1890 Anna’s mother married Joseph McGinnis, eleven years her senior, at Newton in Jasper County, Iowa. Anna was eleven years old. Mary, Anna, and Edna moved to Joseph’s farm near Winterset, Iowa.
Joseph McGinnis had been recently widowed and had two teen-aged sons, Theodore Judson McGinnis (age 19) and Bert Byron McGinnis (age 12). Joseph was characterized as “a man of upright character and clean morals; highly respected by everyone and thoroughly reliable and trustworthy.”
The 1895 Iowa State Census shows the family living on Joseph’s farm in Union Township near the city of Winterset, in Madison County. The household included three children, Burt (age 17), Anna (age 16), and Edna (age 14). Joseph’s elder son Theodore McGinnis and his wife Elizabeth were living next door to them.
Four years later Anna’s younger sister, Edna, married Allen Joseph Pyle in October of 1899 at Winterset and moved to Polk County, Iowa. On the 1900 U.S. Census the McGinnis household, living on Brown Street in Winterset, consisted of Joseph, a landlord age 56; Mary Edna, housewife age 44; Joseph’s son Bert, a shoe salesman age 23; and Anna, a music teacher age 21. The next year Anna married Amza Anderson Snyder, a twenty-nine-year old “designer” from Fort Dodge, Iowa. They were married in September 1901 at Winterset, Iowa, and then moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Anna and Amza’s first child, a daughter named Freda Margaret, was born at home in March of 1903. A second daughter, Vera Marjore, was born in January of 1907. Anna’s third and final child, a son they named Melvin Eugene, was born in January of 1915. Amza worked as a skilled carpenter and millwright. The family rented a four-bedroom, 1744 square-foot home at 312 North Tenth Street in Fort Dodge, Iowa. This would be the family’s residence for nearly thirty years while their children were born, passed through childhood and adolescence, and attended local schools.
From recollections shared by her daughter, Freda, Anna was orderly, keeping a clean and tidy home. She loved and had a talent for music. Anna passed this love on to her children. Freda became an accomplished pianist and Mel excelled on the trumpet.
Anna was devoted to her mother. By 1925 Anna’s mother, Mary Edna (age 70) and her stepfather, Thomas Low (age 79), had come to live in the Snyder household.
Education was encouraged and supported. Freda attended the University Iowa in Iowa City from 1921 through 1925.
Both of Anna’s daughters were married from their home in Fort Dodge. While attending the University of Iowa, Freda met and courted law student Harry Larson. Freda and Harry married immediately after graduation in 1925 settling in Sioux City, Iowa. The following year Vera married Samuel Burch, a partner in the Burch family tent and awning business of Fort Dodge.
Sometime in the late 1920’s, and perhaps in response to economic concerns resulting from the onset of the Great Depression, Anna and Amza moved three hundred sixty miles east to Chicago. The 1930 U.S. Census shows Anna and Amza, along with their son Melvin (age 15), living in an apartment at 6617 Stewart Avenue. Amza performed apartment repair work.
In 1934 the Snyder family separated. Mel, age 19, moved west to live in the household of his older sister, Freda, in Altadena, California. Amza removed to a cabin near the area of his youth, west of Evansville, Indiana. Responding to her love and devotion for her mother, Anna departed for Stuart, in Adair County, Iowa, to provide support and care for her mother and stepfather, both in their eighties.
The 1935 Iowa State Census shows Anna in the household of her parents, Thomas and Mary Edna Low, ages eighty-nine and eighty. Meanwhile, Anna’s husband, Amza Snyder, moved west from Indiana to Altadena, California, living in the household of his daughter, Freda, and her husband Harry Larson. Amza remained in the Larson household, working as a millwright and cabinet maker, until his death in 1943.
Anna stayed in Iowa to care for her parents in their home on Harrison Street in Stuart. Thomas Low, Anna’s stepfather, passed away in May of 1943 at the age of 97. Anna’s mother, Mary Edna, lived for three more years, dying in July of 1946, age 91.
Released from her caregiving role, Anna settled affairs in Iowa and moved west to the household of her daughter, Freda, in Altadena, California, in October of 1948. Unfortunately, Anna succumbed to complications associated with a duodenal ulcer and died at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, on March 25, 1949, at age seventy. She was buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, California, next to her husband, Amza.
In August of 1882 Anna’s grandmother, Mary Eyerly, married Hiram Lovelace. In December of 1882 Aunt Nancy married John Catterlin. The Ferrin’s had returned to their own home in Holt County, Missouri. The previously extra-large household was reduced to a family of four: father Bryant, mother Mary Edna, and the two daughters Anna and Edna.
Mary Edna and Bryant were raising their two young daughters together when, in mid-September 1883, Anna’s father, Bryant, was taken with bleeding at the lungs. He made “a heroic struggle for life,” but day by day he grew weaker. The condition finally culminated in his premature death just a month before Anna’s fifth birthday. Anna’s mother, Mary Edna, had just passed her twenty-ninth birthday. She was left a young widow with two daughters, Anna (age four) and Edna (age three).
Anna’s mother remained single with her two daughters for six and a half years, residing in Monroe, Iowa. Then on April 16, 1890 Anna’s mother married Joseph McGinnis, eleven years her senior, at Newton in Jasper County, Iowa. Anna was eleven years old. Mary, Anna, and Edna moved to Joseph’s farm near Winterset, Iowa.
Joseph McGinnis had been recently widowed and had two teen-aged sons, Theodore Judson McGinnis (age 19) and Bert Byron McGinnis (age 12). Joseph was characterized as “a man of upright character and clean morals; highly respected by everyone and thoroughly reliable and trustworthy.”
The 1895 Iowa State Census shows the family living on Joseph’s farm in Union Township near the city of Winterset, in Madison County. The household included three children, Burt (age 17), Anna (age 16), and Edna (age 14). Joseph’s elder son Theodore McGinnis and his wife Elizabeth were living next door to them.
Four years later Anna’s younger sister, Edna, married Allen Joseph Pyle in October of 1899 at Winterset and moved to Polk County, Iowa. On the 1900 U.S. Census the McGinnis household, living on Brown Street in Winterset, consisted of Joseph, a landlord age 56; Mary Edna, housewife age 44; Joseph’s son Bert, a shoe salesman age 23; and Anna, a music teacher age 21. The next year Anna married Amza Anderson Snyder, a twenty-nine-year old “designer” from Fort Dodge, Iowa. They were married in September 1901 at Winterset, Iowa, and then moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Anna and Amza’s first child, a daughter named Freda Margaret, was born at home in March of 1903. A second daughter, Vera Marjore, was born in January of 1907. Anna’s third and final child, a son they named Melvin Eugene, was born in January of 1915. Amza worked as a skilled carpenter and millwright. The family rented a four-bedroom, 1744 square-foot home at 312 North Tenth Street in Fort Dodge, Iowa. This would be the family’s residence for nearly thirty years while their children were born, passed through childhood and adolescence, and attended local schools.
From recollections shared by her daughter, Freda, Anna was orderly, keeping a clean and tidy home. She loved and had a talent for music. Anna passed this love on to her children. Freda became an accomplished pianist and Mel excelled on the trumpet.
Anna was devoted to her mother. By 1925 Anna’s mother, Mary Edna (age 70) and her stepfather, Thomas Low (age 79), had come to live in the Snyder household.
Education was encouraged and supported. Freda attended the University Iowa in Iowa City from 1921 through 1925.
Both of Anna’s daughters were married from their home in Fort Dodge. While attending the University of Iowa, Freda met and courted law student Harry Larson. Freda and Harry married immediately after graduation in 1925 settling in Sioux City, Iowa. The following year Vera married Samuel Burch, a partner in the Burch family tent and awning business of Fort Dodge.
Sometime in the late 1920’s, and perhaps in response to economic concerns resulting from the onset of the Great Depression, Anna and Amza moved three hundred sixty miles east to Chicago. The 1930 U.S. Census shows Anna and Amza, along with their son Melvin (age 15), living in an apartment at 6617 Stewart Avenue. Amza performed apartment repair work.
In 1934 the Snyder family separated. Mel, age 19, moved west to live in the household of his older sister, Freda, in Altadena, California. Amza removed to a cabin near the area of his youth, west of Evansville, Indiana. Responding to her love and devotion for her mother, Anna departed for Stuart, in Adair County, Iowa, to provide support and care for her mother and stepfather, both in their eighties.
The 1935 Iowa State Census shows Anna in the household of her parents, Thomas and Mary Edna Low, ages eighty-nine and eighty. Meanwhile, Anna’s husband, Amza Snyder, moved west from Indiana to Altadena, California, living in the household of his daughter, Freda, and her husband Harry Larson. Amza remained in the Larson household, working as a millwright and cabinet maker, until his death in 1943.
Anna stayed in Iowa to care for her parents in their home on Harrison Street in Stuart. Thomas Low, Anna’s stepfather, passed away in May of 1943 at the age of 97. Anna’s mother, Mary Edna, lived for three more years, dying in July of 1946, age 91.
Released from her caregiving role, Anna settled affairs in Iowa and moved west to the household of her daughter, Freda, in Altadena, California, in October of 1948. Unfortunately, Anna succumbed to complications associated with a duodenal ulcer and died at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, on March 25, 1949, at age seventy. She was buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, California, next to her husband, Amza.
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