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Ada Robertson Snider
6 Feb 1882 – 5 Sep 1959
| Birth | 6 Feb 1882 |
| Death | 5 Sep 1959 |
| Cemetery | Portales Cemetery Portales , Roosevelt County , New Mexico , USA |
| Added by | Joyce Gore Locke on 21 Jan 2005 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10353392 |
Bio
Ada Robertson was born in Robertson County, Texas, originally part of a Mexican land grant awarded Nashville Land Company to settle pioneers in Texas. The grant was named Robertson Colony after Nashville promoters, Sterling Clack Robertson and his cousins, one of which was Ada's great grandfather. It was to this part of Texas, Ada's father as a single young man, made his way many years later. There had been no schools for him to attend in the rural south after the Civil War and it was very important to him that his children have schooling. When Ada started to school, she came home each day and taught her father what she had learned that day. One of her teachers said later, that Ada Robertson was the brightest student he ever taught. She graduated from Franklin High School at age sixteen and was an assistant teacher the next year. When John Snider ask her to marry she said, "I'll have to study on it." She did and they were married in her parents home. Next day they went to town to buy 'necessaries', table, chairs, bed, dishes and pots and pans. John told her he had enough money left to buy her a wedding ring or a churn. She chose the churn, which became known to her descendants as the wedding ring churn. She and John traveled by covered wagon to homestead in Quay County, New Mexico Territory in January of 1907. They had three small children, one about a month old. She was a farm wife, a teacher in McAlister School, and taught Sunday School in McAlister Baptist Church. She cherished the grandchildren when they arrived and they spent time in the summers on the grandparents' farm. She was their defender, protector and always the teacher. She raised chickens, milked the cows, helped in the fields and even jumped rope with the grandchildren when they were younger. Her biscuits with home churned butter were a breakfast delight. She made wonderful 'Wonderberry Shortcake' served on the old Ironstone platter brought to Texas by her spouse's ancestors during the Texas Revolution. She pieced quilts, raised a garden and excelled in everything she did. She left a vacant place in her family. She will always live in their hearts. -Blanche Ada Keating Collie, granddaughter
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IN GOD WE TRUST
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Family
Parents
Spouse
Siblings
- Lydia A. Robertson 1880–1880
- Arthur J Robertson 1884–1958
- McKinza C "Shorty" Robertson 1892–1963
- Clara Belle Robertson Robertson 1897–1966
Children
- George Travis Snider 1901–1980
- Omie Veda Snider Keating 1904–2000
- Mack C. "Mackie" Snider 1906–1967
- Lois Margie Adaline Snider Starkey 1910–1959
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