Edwin Franklin Snow

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Edwin Franklin Snow

Also Known As: "Edwin Snow"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, United States
Death: June 09, 1886 (77)
Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, United States
Place of Burial: Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Franklin Snow and Lydia Snow (Alcott)
Husband of Julia Snow
Father of Theodore Lewis Snow; Oliver Stillman Snow; Clemon Hastings Snow; Florence Helen Blackwell and Lucy Lydia Snow
Brother of Benjamin Franklin Snow; Lura Scovil; Rebecca Snow; Pamela Snow; Orpha Snow and 2 others

Occupation: Farmer
Managed by: Jessica Marie German
Last Updated:

About Edwin Franklin Snow

EDWIN SNOW

Early tradition says three brothers came from England in the Mayflower. From them came the ancestor of Edwin Snow.

His grandfather, Oliver Snow, resided at Beckett, Massachusetts; removing from there, he settled in Auburn, Geauga county, Ohio. About the year 1825, he died at Auburn.

Franklin Snow, his son, and father of Edwin Snow, was born at Beckett, Massachusetts, January 27, 1779. His business was farming; he married Miss Lydia Olcott. Eight children—five girls- and three sons— were born to them. Mrs. Lydia Snow died in 1820, and was buried at Mantua, Portage county, Ohio.

Mr. F. Snow remaining, had issue, one daughter, Hannah Snow. Burying his second wife at Avon, Ohio, in 1856, be, respected by all, died at Avon, Ohio, in 1863; aged eighty-four years and ten months.

Edwin Snow, son of the above, was born at Portage county, Ohio, February 17, 1809. He removed to Avon, Lorain county, Ohio, in 1837. When purchasing four hundred acres of land, be commenced life as a farmer, which he has ever since been engaged in with great success; married, in the year 1843, to Julia, daughter of Trueman and Lucy Lewis, of Orangeville, Wyoming county, New York. Five children, viz; Theodore L., Oliver 8., Clemon H., Florence H. and Lucy L., all living, perpetuate the many virtues of their parents.

Mr. Snow has been honored by his fellow townsmen with the office of trustee of the township, and now with every comfort around him, he looks back to the past with no regrets; to the future for the “All Good.”

Bibliographic information:

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  • Residence: Avon, Lorain, Ohio, United States - 1850
  • Residence: Avon, Lorain, Ohio, United States - 1860
  • Residence: Ohio, United States - 1870
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Edwin Franklin Snow's Timeline

1809
February 17, 1809
Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, United States
1845
September 16, 1845
Avon, Lorain County, Ohio, United States
1847
January 4, 1847
Avon, Lorain County, Ohio, United States
1848
September 22, 1848
Avon, Lorain County, Ohio, United States
1852
May 6, 1852
Avon, Lorain County, Ohio, United States
1856
July 20, 1856
Avon, Lorain County, Ohio, United States
1886
June 9, 1886
Age 77
Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, United States
1886
Age 76
Ridgelawn Cemetery, Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, United States