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Lottie Belle and Minnie Lee Snell (c. 1885)


Minnie Lee and Lottie Belle Snell were born in Hunt Co., Texas, two of eleven children born to William Henry Snell and Margaret Lucretia Mitchell. The family moved to Turnersville in Coryell County and farmed the land next to their cousins the Wallaces. The Snell property is now part of the Wallace farm which still exists today. William Snell also owned a cotton gin in Turnersville. The Snells moved to Clifton, Bosque County sometime after their last child, Lena Mae (1894-1994) was born. Minnie Lee Snell married Simon Fleetwood Snider (1866 AL-1930 CO) and had four children, Oliver Lee, Ruth Alline, Maurice Locke and Minnie Margaret. Lottie married Marion N. Grimland and had one son, Y.C. Grimland.


By Nancy Protzman, protzman@mail.slc.edu

copyrighted by Nancy Protzman and Bobbie Ross Jan.2001