"History of Ritchie County" written by Minnie Kendall Lowther; Published 1911; excerpt from "Chapter VI South Fork Settlers - Continued"

William Snodgrass - William Snodgrass, an uncle of Jeremiah, was the first one of the name to come to Ritchie county. He was a native of Pennsylvania and a soldier of the war of 1812 . In 1807, he was married to Miss Nancy King [married 14 Mar 1807, Anne King daughter of John], who passed on in 1824, from their home in Marion county [it was Monongalia County until 1842], leaving eight children to his care. Two years later, he was again married to Miss Mary Pritchard - half sister of Peter Pritchard [they wed 12 Sep 1827; William Snodgrass married Mary Prichard daughter of Thomas], and in 1841 he came to this county, and penetrated the unbroken forest on Turtle run - a small tributary of the South fork - above Berea, and reared the first cabin on the farm that is now the home of his youngest son, T.C. [Thomas Corbin] Snodgrass; and here he died in 1879 [Ritchie Co Death Reg. p. 33: died 30 Apr 1878, age 95y 2m 21d], at the age of ninety-six years, and at White Oak he sleeps. The children of his first marriage were: John Wesley Snodgrass [1811-1903], who died in Iowa, a few years ago, at the age of ninety-one years- having been a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church for seventy-three years; Mrs. Frances [b. ca 1807] (Nicholas) Baker, and Mrs. Martha [b. ca 1809; 1850 Marion in Nicholas Baker household as Martha Snodgrass 41] (Elijah) Morgan, who sleep in Marion county; Mrs. Naoma [m. 1833] (Davis) Meredith, late of Tyler county; Mrs. Nancy Pierce [m. Washington Co. OH 1846 Parren Pierce], Mrs. Comfort Ewins [Ewing] [m. 1841 Washington Co OH ; (Absolom David Ewing)], and Mrs . Isabel [b. 1826] (Jared) Hawkins, of Ohio; and Sarah [b. 1824], who married [16 Nov 1848, Marion Co] Solomon Hawkins and lived and died in this county. The children of the second marriage were five in number and were as follows: W.F., who rests in Kansas; B.F., in the state of Washington; Eliza, who died in infancy; Mrs. Margaret A., who married George Carder [George Carter] and lives in Ohio; and T.C. Snodgrass, who lives at the old homestead. Mrs. Snodgrass died at the home of her daughter in Ohio, and there she sleeps.