Ella May Wright

Life and Recollections

Ella Snyder was very much the center of husband William Wright's life. He defied his family to marry her, in fact.
She was a short woman but was sweet of nature and loved my grandfather's boisterous humor and love of laughter. In many ways they were the perfect early 20th-century couple: he worked for the Treasury Department, and she worked in a department store, and they raised two children in a leafy suburb of Philadelphia.

Heart disease, however, claimed her at an early age. Because of that, I have no recollection of my paternal grandmother at all.

Origins

There are two birth records for Ella May Snyder; one for Jan 21, 1888, and another for May 12, 1888. The first has father Fred W Snyder and mother Mary M Snyder. The second has same father but mother Mary Snyder. I have picked the former as representing the true birth date.

Note that in addition to the 1900, 1910, and 1930 census, Ella shows up living with her mother in the 1920 census:

• https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10133-191222588/ella-m-w...