Nicholas T Sneed  b. 1826

WORSHIPFUL MASTER

SPRING HILL MASONIC LODGE

 

1858

1862

1863

1864

1865

 

Nicholas T Sneed, a son of Rev. Joseph Perkins Sneed..1804-1881... migrated from Williamson Co. Tennessee to Navarro Co. Texas at some point prior to 1858, perhaps as early as 1854.  Joseph Perkins Sneed was born near Brentwood, Tennessee January 10, 1804, a son of James William Sneed.

 

Nicholas T Sneed was 5' 10" tall when he enlisted in the Dresden Cavalry in 1862 and was named as a farmer, born Williamson Co Tenn.  R J "Uncle Bob: Wright stated that Sneed was serving as a Captain when they were discharged.

 

INTERESTING NOTE

 

Nancy Ann Snead  c1762....married Richard Wilkes 1762 who was born Lunenberg Co VA and lived at Sumner Co & Maury Co Tenn.   Their children included Minor Wilkes (Giles Co TN) , John Wilkes, and  Richard Stone Wiles......

 

Milton Alexander Wilkes, who married Jane Wright, settled Liberty Hill area...exactly where Sneads were.   Their children were:   James LaFayette Wilkes, A B Wilkes, Joe Thompson Wilkes, Alice Wilkes, Willis P Wilkes, John T Wilkes, Merrell Alexander Wilkes, Duncan Brown Wilkes, :Lillian Elura Wilkes

 

James William Sneed b. 1764 VA, d. 1853  Brentwood TN.  was a son of Zachariah and Martha Patsy Nance Snead-Sneed who had lived Henrico Co. Virginia prior to moving to Tennessee.   He married 1789 Bethenia Harden Perkins 1770-1812, daughter of Charles & Mary Tate Perkins   She died in 1812 when Joseph was eight.   Their children were:

 

Constantine Perkins Sneed   1790-1864

married Susannah Perkins Hardeman

Their son, Robert Scales Sneed,

born Williamson Co Tennesseee March 20, 1835.  

 

Their daughter, Bethenia Perkins Sneed born May 10, 1828.

 

 

Charles Ellis Sneed                          1792-1838

b. Pittsylvania Co VA             m. Ann T Beamis

Migrated to Tuscaloosa Co AL

 

James Pleasant Sneed  1794-1853

            m.  1836  Julia C Herbert  Williamson Co Tenn

 

Martha Nance Sneed              1796-1835

            m. William H Simmons

            Migrated to KY...had ten children

 

Nicholas Tate Sneed              1798-1822

            Unmarrried

           

Geo. Washington Sneed 1799-1851

b. Pittslvania Co VA...Lived Williamson Co Tenn

            m. Mary Polly DeLoach Sneed...a 2nd cousin 

Methodist Preacher found in  Maury Co Tenn

 

William Temple Sneed            1801-1869

            m.  Elizabeth Guinn Critchlow

            Lived Williamson Co Tenn

 

Joseph Perkins Sneed            1804-c1881

            m.  Achsah Bond Harris

            Moved to Texas 1838

 

Bethena Harden Sneed            1807-1865

            m. c1824  Josiah Crenshaw Nance at Charles City VA

 

Sarah Perkins Sneed              1810-1822

 

Alexander Ewing Sneed            1812-1852

            m. Elizabeth Gutherie

            Lived Williamson Co Tenn

 

James William Sneed remained a widower for ten years after the death of Bethenia Harden Perkins.   He remarried in 1823 Miss Mary Polly Hunt  1788-1851.

 

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THE SNEEDS...

 

George Washington Sneed...married Carrie Ann Herring...lived OK

            Uncle Wright & Aunt Price were in their family

            Burials at memorial Park..Tulsa

 

Col. Richard A Sneed...buried Lawton  Sect of State OK

            Sneed Cem...Canton MS

            (Susan Brogdon..Greystone Cir  Atlanta GA)

            Family gave 130 boxes info Museum of Gr Plains..Lawton

            Sneed Reunions..alternate Dallas & Ft Worth...Brentwood TN

 

Sam W Graham...m. Margaret Crisp..dau of Mansel Crisp

            went to TX by way of AR

 

Check out Jordans...Carthage, Smith Co TN

            Samantha Sneed & sister Cornelia Sneed..both

            married..John B Jordan

 

            Israel Sneed Jordan...b. 1793...Richmond Co VA

 

John W Wilhite...m. Frances Herring....1867  Morgan Co AL..Decatur

            Herring Cem....Near Massey, Morgan Co AL

 

BILLS...John Dysart Jr 1804-1870  buried Bills Cem..Marshall TN

Gideon Blackburn Dysart             m. Mary Polly G Bills

Mary S Dysart                         m. James A Ewing

Jennie B Ewing                          m. John Will Turner

 

Rebecca BARNES...m. 1834  Thomas Langford  KY..moved to Davies Co MO

           

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Relationship  to other Sneeds unknown

 

Nancy Sneed b. 1795 NC.....dau of Robert Sharpe Sneed of Wake Co NC....

sister Sarah Sneed

m. 1806  Green Hill  b. 1801 NC    Brother John Hill b. 1806 NC

married in Maury Co Tenn   - 

Rachael Sneed.......dau William  & Kizzia Graham Sneed, early settler of  Arkansas

m. 1818   John Ramsey...Son married Mary Ann from Georgia

Mary Ann "Something"Ramsey  1825-1879  buried Spring Hill Cem.

 

William A Sneed  m. Catherine Lucretia Wilhoit 1832-1912 , dau of Claiborne Wilhoit b. 1802 Green Co Tenn.  She  is buried Ward Cem. McMinn Co Tenn.   Catherine had a brother whose name was John James WILEY Wilhoit.   The Wilhoit name became Wilhite and a Wilhite family owned land in the area where the Sneeds settled in Western Navarro Co.   Wiley Wihite married daughter of Dr. Livingston Barnes

 

           

 

William A Sneed  b. Blount Co TN 1827, son of Zachariah Taylor & Frances Sneed

Also had....Andrew J, Minerva Jane, and Rachael

 

Many Wilhites were found in Blount, Bradley, and McMinn Cos..Tenn

 

N J  Sneed may have married a lady whose name was Hill.    The 1862 Will of John R Hill indicates that he was a nephew of Benjamin J C Hill and a cousin to siblings Mary Jane and Benjamin J C Hill Jr.    This would indicate that John R Hill was a son of George Washington Hill, a son of John Ashley and Lucinda Langston Hill.    John R Hill, also, left property to Anna C Sneed, daughter of N T Sneed.

 

NOTE; THE GEO. WASHINGTON HILL ABOVE WAS NOT THE DR GEO. WASHINGTON HILL (1814-1860) FOR WHOM HILL CO WAS NAMED

 

There was a large contingent of Hill  family members in Warren Co Tenn...as were Sneeds

 

Bethenia  Perkins Sneed married John R Ogilvie  born May 17, 1826 and was listed as coming to Navarro Co Texas 1854.   John Ogilvie served with Winklers 4th Texas Volunteers as a 2nd Lt.  He resigned in October 1861 and returned to Texas....possibly due to the illness of his wife who died in 1864.  One John Randolph Ogilvie..born 1826...near Nashville, Tenn....married 1881 at Bellvue LA to Theodocia "Docia" Baker....born 1844 Jasper AL.   He was said to have been a son of William & Matilda Burton Ogilvie.  He was reported to have been a Union Soldier in the Civil War and was buried at the Harris Ogilvie Cemetery,  Ogelsby Tenn in 1906.

 

John R and Bethenia Harden Perkins Sneed Ogilvie lived in the Liberty Hill area, possibly on the Joseph Sneed properties.   Traditions holds that they were both buried at Spring Hill Cemetery, but no such record has been discovered.

 

Ogilvie Children......

George Allen Ogilvie            1849-1910    m.            Maggie A Hanson                

                                                            Jan 16, 1873

Mary Eliz Ogilvie            1851-1883    m.             Robert Dysert Bills   

            This Bills family was from Marshall Co Tenn...

cousin to Gersham Alexander Bills

Eugenia M Ogilvie            1854-1917    m            Gersham Alexander Bills                

Dec 24, 1872

Eduora M Ogilvie              1855-1881    m            J F Freeland                                

Feb 2, 1871

Willie Ida Ogilvie            1859-1939    m.            J Harry McReynolds  

        son   Will McReynolds  lived at Dawson  until his death 1939                       

Robert Ogilvie            1863-1886    `            Never married          

 

                        G A Ogilvie filed for a Cattle Brand              NavCo              1866

                        Sarah C Ogilvie filed for a Cattle Brand NavCo                        1867

 

 

 

When Joseph Perkins Sneed was fourteen, his Father sent him to one of the family owned farms in Alabama, in all likelihood, to be overseer.    Such responsibility being placed upon a fourteen year old boy speaks well of the abilities of Joseph, that he was mature beyond his years.      He remain in that position for ten years, but no record exists for him during that period.    It is probable that he married and had several children before 1829.    N J Sneed became Grand Master in 1858 and could not have been a child of the 1842 marriage.   However, had he been born when Joseph was twenty-two, N J..whose name was Joseph….would have been thirty-six when he first served as Grand Master of the Spring Hill Lodge.

 

Joseph Sneed was twenty-four when he experienced a "Conversion."     There is suspicion that he had married, had children.    His wife may have died attempting to give birth to still another child.  He may have turned to the church in the midst of his grief.     He began serving as  Junior Preacher when he was twenty-four.   Two years later, he was appointed as a full time minister of the Methodist church, serving in the swamps of Mississippi and Louisiana.   He became a circuit rider in 1838, serving in the State of Texas.   He would remain there for four years. The fact that he was a circuit rider gives some indication that he may have been single during that time.

 

He returned to Tennessee in 1842.     Friends introduced thirty-eight year old Joseph to  eighteen year old Achsah Bond Harris, daughter of a wealthy Nashville family.   They were married in October of that year.      They immediately left for Texas with several wagons and a number of slaves.

 

The Harris name is of interest in that the Lowrimore family; who came to the area from Maury Co Tenn via Tishomingo Co MS....in the 1870s....with the Walkers.  The Lowrimore family descended from a Rev. Harris who was a preacher in Maury Co.

 

Joseph Perkins Sneed had married well in Tennessee.  His holdings included land and sufficient slaves to work the land, but he foresaw early that a threat to slavery was looming over the nation.  He liquidated his Tennessee holdings and on Christmas Eve 1858 purchased 2800 acres of land in the far west of Navarro Co. Texas.  The total price was $1400.

 

His family members are mentioned in Navarro Co. Texas History

            N J Sneed filed a Cattle Brand in NavCo              1860                NavCo

            W O Sneed served in Dresden's Texas Cavalry

Sally Sneed             m. J H Burgess, a  Spring Hill Justice of the Peace

            Martha Sneed               m. Alfred E Treadwell                    1855                NavCo

            Fanny Sneed  m. C A Mobley                                   1879                Navco

 

Mrs. Mary D Sneed, possibly a daughter-in-law,   m. James E Patton  1854  NavCo

                       

                        Jim Sneed fmc-m. Mrs. Ellen Wade                          May 1892    NavCo

                        James Sneed fmc - m. Rena Gasper                        July 1882         "