Margaret Beele Snow

In the 1880 U.S. Federal Census for Kanosh, Millard County, Utah, Margaret Beele "Maggie" Freeman was 6 years old and living with her parents and siblings, and they were listed as follows in the census record: Columbus, 41, Lydia C., 39, Malcolm L., 16, John L., 15, Lydia C., 14, Columbus R., 8, Margaret B., 6, William M., 4, and Orilla M. Freeman, 2 years old. Columbus was working as a laborer. He was born in Missouri and both of his parents in Kentucky. Lydia was born in Kentucky and both her parents in Tennessee. All of their children were born in Utah.

Columbus, Lydia, and their children left Utah not long after 1880 and moved to Safford, Graham County, Arizona, as did Lydia's sister, Nancy Malinda West Rollins, and her husband, John Henry Rollins, Sr. Another of their sister, Emma Seraphine West was the first of the five wives of Jesse Nathaniel Smith, a first cousin to Joseph Smith, the Prophet of the Mormon Church. Jesse had been sent by the church to explore the Arrizona territory in the late 1870's in order for the area to be colonized, and most of the related families began moving there by late 1879 or early 1880.

Maggie Freeman was married to Warren P. Snow on March 31, 1890, at her brother-in-law, H. J. Dowdle's, ranch in Graham County, Arizona by Probate Judge, John Blake, in the presence of H.J. Dowdle and Marietta Bennett, witnesses. Warren was the son of Green Preston Snow and Louisa Eliza Denson, Previous to Warren's marriage to Maggie, he had been living with his widowed father and siblings in 1880 Brackettville, Kinney County, Texas, and they were listed as follows in the census: Green a 66-year old widower, Warren, 18, Marrel, 14, Ardena, 15, Betty, 12, and Calvin, 10. Green was working as a farmer. His wife Louisa Eliza had passed away in 1873, just 3 years after Calvin was born.

In the 1900 U.S. Federal Census, Warren Snow, 31, and Maggie Snow, 24, had been married for almost ten years, but they did not yet have any children. Warren was born in Texas, his father in Tennessee and his mother in Missouri. Warren was a stock raiser and he owned his own home free from a mortgage.

Living nearby was Maggie's aunt, Nancy Malinda West Rollins, a 56-year old widow, her husband having passed away in 1887 at the relatively young age of 46 years old. She had also lost 4 of her children to death at an early age including, Ephraim, John Henry, Jr., Moses Porter, and Charles Watson Rollins, when he was still a baby. Living with Nancy were her two youngest daughters, Margaret, 19, and Emma, 17.

Also living nearby was William Rollins, 32, and his wife, Ida, 37, and children May, 15, Edward, 13, Irving, 12, Ella, 10, Wilmirth, 6, Delila, 4, Lourie, 2, and Guy, 6 months old. William was the son of Nancy Malinda West Rollins, and his wife, Ida, had previously been married to William's brother, Ephraim, who also died young at the age of 25 year sold in 1887, the same year of his father' death. The year after Ephraim died, William married Ida, and became the step father to May, Edward, and Ervin, the 3 children born to Ida and Ephraim. Then they had more children together.

Also living nearby was James R. Welker, 34, and his wife Louisa, 34, and their children Chloe, 12, Willard, 6, and Lawrence, 1 year old. James was the son of James Wilburn Welker, whose younger brother, John Welker, was the grandfather of Dortha Roxana Madsen Rollins, the daughter-in-law of Nancy Malinda West Rollins. Nancy's son John Henry, Jr. had married Dortha in 1885, and they had two children, Dortha Evelyn in 1886, and John Delbert Rollins in 1888, then sadly John Henry died in a tragic accident in 1889 at the age of just 24 years old when he fell from a wagon in which he was riding and it crushed his skull. He left Dortha a 20-year old widow with 2 young children to raise on her own. She did not remarry until 8 years later in 1897 when she married Arizona Sheriff Joseph Thomas McKinney and they had 4 more children. Living not far away was Dortha Roxana Madsen Rollins' sister, Musette Madsen Bingham, 25, and her husband Hyrum, 29, and their two year old son Glenn.

Sadly just four years later, Maggie passed away at the very young age of 29 years old on May 11, 1904. I do not know the cause of her death, however. I'm not sure if her husband Warren ever remarried, because I did not find him again until the 1920 census for Safford, Arizona, where he was living with his sister Mildred Roby, 59, who was a widow, and Warren, 58, was also listed as a widower. Warren was working as a farmer.

Warren was living in Deep Creek, Routt County, Colorado, in the 1930 census, and was living as a boarder with a family by the name of Luytier, to whom he may or may not have been related. Warren was listed as 73, but he would have probably been only 68 based on his age in the 1920 census. Herman Luytier, 30, and Edith Luytier, 26, and a 2 year-old son also named Herman. Warren was still working as a farmer and Hermon as a farm manager.