Our Minnesota Cousins ~ descendants of Jacob Snidow
(b. 1763)
Thanks to Ellen Holden Hadley of Anoka, MN who very kindly shared her lineage and some treasured family photos as well as some great pictures shot in their beautiful state of Minnesota. Here are excerpts of notes from Ellen:
We descend from Jacob Snidow, 1763-1847 through his son Edward Augustus Snidow, b. 1812 in Pembroke, VA. Edward Augustus married Elizabeth Webb, and their son, Jacob Milton Snidow, was born there in 1843. Then they moved to Missouri.
Jacob Snidow 1763-1847 --> Edward Augustus Snidow 1812-1897 --> Jacob Milton Snidow 1843-1922 -->
Daisy Myrtle Snidow 1881-1962 --> Juanita Myrtle Tye 1904 -1998 --> Donald Milton Holden --> Ellen Elise Holden Hadley
In 1862, Jacob Milton Snidow married Temperance Maxey in Grundy, Missouri. The U.S. Census shows them living there in 1870, 1880, and 1900. The couple had 8 children, the youngest being Daisy Myrtle Snidow, born March 27, 1881. At age 18, on November 5, 1899, Daisy married our great-grandfather Thomas Milford Tye, in Livingston, Missouri. I knew Daisy and Tom well, as Tom lived to be 102 years old and was legendary here in Minnesota!
Front row: Juanita "Myrtle" (my grandmother), Thomas Milford Tye, Daisy Myrtle Snidow Tye, Eula Mae "Dude" Tye
Back row: Ruby Genevieve, Robert "Bob", James "Jim", Ross, Richard Jacob "Jake" and Tempa Tye.
Daisy and Tom tried farming in Clearwater, Miner County, South Dakota, where they appear in the 1910 Census. But by 1920, they became forester/farmers in the pine forests of northern Minnesota, first in Pine River, and then west of Backus, Cass County, MN. Daisy bore eight children, four girls and four boys. The third oldest was my grandmother, Juanita Myrtle Tye Holden, born 1904 in Missouri. Grandma had seven children, the second oldest my father, Donald Milton Holden, born 1926, who is nearing age 86 and still riding horses and golfing!
Our family is deeply connected to the forests and lakes of northern Minnesota. We have many, many family members who were born or raised in Cass County, and who gather for hunting and fishing there on our family land to this day. While most have moved to larger towns, or out of state, some do live "up north", as we call it here in the Twin Cities.
The pictures above right are of Daisy Myrtle Snidow Tye and the one below her is four generations, with me as the
child, taken in 1955 or so. Daisy and Tom Tye are with their daughter, my grandmother, "Myrt" Tye Holden, and my dad Donald Milton Holden. I just LOVE knowing that his middle name, Milton, came from Jacob Milton Snidow, born in Pembroke in 1843!!! None of us had any idea of such a thing until the Snidow website opened the door for us!!
~ Ellen Holden Hadley
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