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Surnames: SMITH, SNYDER
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Friday, March 22, 1907, Volume
XXXI, Number 16, Page 6, Column 3, “OBITUARY. SNYDER.” [Transcribed 27 Jan 2002 from
Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.]
Mrs. Ollie M. SNYDER, wife of Alonzo SNYDER, died at their home near the Norman
schoolhouse in Fairplay Township last Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock, death resulting
from blood poisoning after a ten days illness.
She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George SMITH, former residents of that community. Her
father now resides in Illinois. When she was only two years old her mother died and she
was taken and raised by Mrs. J. M. HARRAH.
She was born October 10, 1879; died March 17, 1907; aged twenty-seven years, five months
and seven days.
October 9, 1897, she was united in marriage to Alonzo SNYDER and to this union were born
five children—two sons, Ralph and Raphael, and three daughters, Mamie and Pearl, and a
little daughter but ten days old at the time of the mother’s death.
When but a child she united with the M. E. church at Hope and remained loyal to the church
of her choice and a devoted follower of the Master until called to the home “not made with
hands.”
In her untimely death her husband has lost a loyal and helpful companion and her children
will miss a patient and devoted and self-sacrificing mother, and a host of friends will
mourn the loss of one whom all respected and esteemed.
None could say ought of harm against her for she possessed those virtues that make
womanhood truly beautiful. Her manner was so kindly and her disposition so agreeable that
none could know her without becoming her friend.
The funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon from Prairie Chapel in Washington
Township, conducted by the Rev. Allen KENWORTHY, of Lyons, and the remains were tenderly
laid to rest in the cemetery at that place.
To the bereaved husband and children the entire community extends its deepest sympathy.