{"id":7130,"date":"2018-12-09T13:19:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T18:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/?p=7130"},"modified":"2018-12-09T13:29:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T18:29:20","slug":"clemon-hastings-snow-1848-1918-52-ancestors-49-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/clemon-hastings-snow-1848-1918-52-ancestors-49-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemon Hastings Snow (1848-1918) – 52 Ancestors # 49 Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although it isn\u2019t officially winter yet, here in the Northeast of the United States it has been cold enough and dark enough to feel like winter already.\u00a0 Plus, I have one family line carrying the last name Snow, which is a pretty wintry name.\u00a0 I have written about other Snow ancestors (here<\/a> and here<\/a>) but not my great grandfather Clemon Hastings Snow.\u00a0 So here is a short summary of what I know about him at this point.<\/p>\n

\"RM-Snow,<\/a>Clemon was born 22 Sep 1848 in Avon, Lorain, Ohio to Julia Lewis and Edwin Snow.\u00a0 He was their third and last son but had two younger sisters, so was a middle child.\u00a0 A biographical sketch from 18941<\/a><\/sup> noted that his early education was in the local schools but as a young man he attended Oberlin College, first in the prep course and then in the college course.\u00a0\u00a0 After Oberlin he went to Cleveland and spent a year learning civil engineering work.\u00a0 Once finished there he returned to Avon and spent a number of years farming as his father did, although he also pursued his profession when there was work.\u00a0 In 1886 he was appointed county surveyor for Lorain County and then was elected to the position.\u00a0 And from 1887 he also served as the civil engineer for the city of Elyria.<\/p>\n

Clemon married Mary M. Sweet in May 1880.\u00a0 She came from a farm family in the same township and county as Clemon and they likely knew each other from church, school, and social activities.\u00a0 Clemon and Mary were enumerated a month later in the federal census as a household of just the two of them, so presumably Clemon had a house to bring his new wife to.\u00a0 Their son, Franklin C.<\/a> was born in Avon in 1882.\u00a0 My guess is that the young family moved into Elyria before Franklin started school, since Clemon was made the civil engineer for the city in 1887 when Franklin was only 4-5.\u00a0 There were around 5000 people living in Elyria at this point, and there were multiple churches, stores, mills, and at least one newspaper.\u00a0 Even then, Elyria was seen as close to Cleveland, and by the 1890s or early 1900s it could serve as a bedroom community for men who commuted into Cleveland for work (and Elyria had grown to 8000).\u00a0 Elyria was the county seat of Lorain county, so the courthouse was there.\u00a0 It was also the home of the Lorain County Fair every year which must have been a time of socializing and maybe competing for prizes.<\/p>\n

Clemon, or C.H. as he often appeared in records and newspaper reports, was involved in town offices aside from his engineering work.\u00a0 He served on the Board of Education for some time.\u00a0 As noted in his biography, the Snow family attended the Methodist Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n

There are two mysteries about Clemon.\u00a0 The first is where his middle name of Hastings originated.\u00a0 In my database there is a Hastings Snow who was a great uncle of Clemon’s, born in 1780.\u00a0 The Hastings name has also been passed down several times more recently in the Snow-Denman family line.\u00a0 I don’t see Hastings any earlier than this 1780 birth, although I haven’t tracked the Wadsworth grandparent line back.\u00a0 The possibilities include one of the families having come from Hastings, England originally, or that there was either a famous person of that name or a more local personage.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The second mystery is what he died of.\u00a0 Since he died in 1918 in Ohio, his death certificate is digitized and available on familysearch.org and I have a copy.\u00a0 As can be seen, the physician who signed the certificate had not seen him alive (must have been called in at the time of his death) and the cause of death was said to be ” acute Indigestion (?)”\u00a0 The physician was asked officially to report any other information about the cause of the indigestion but he reported not knowing what the cause was.<\/p>\n

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  1. Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain.\u00a0 Volume II.\u00a0 Chicago: J.H. Beers and Co., pp 919-920, 1894 ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Although it isn\u2019t officially winter yet, here in the Northeast of the United States it has been cold enough and dark enough to feel like winter already.\u00a0 Plus, I have one family line carrying the last name Snow, which is …<\/p>\n

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