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George Travis Snider

23 Nov 1901 – 15 Apr 1980

Birth23 Nov 1901
Death15 Apr 1980
CemeteryMission Garden of Memories Cemetery
Clovis , Curry County , New Mexico , USA
Added byGene Hudson on 12 Apr 2023
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Bio

Travis was born in Robertson County, Texas, where he lived until he was about five years old and the family moved to Floyd County, Texas, to join his father's younger brother, Nathan Snider. His uncle had located a farm there that the brothers could farm as sharecroppers. Travis' father rented a box car and rode with the horses, wagon, livestock and belongings to Estelline, Texas, the closest to the rented farm by train. Travis, his mother and little sister, Omie, boarded a passenger train two days later and the two trains arrived at about the same time. Travis remembered his father running back along the train tracks to help them get off their train. His uncle was there to help unload the box car, assemble the wagon and continue their journey. The brothers put in a crop then rode by horseback to Quay County, New Mexico Territory, where each filed on 160 acres of Homestead Land. They returned to harvest their crop in Texas, and wait for the birth of another child in December. When the baby, Mack, was about a month old, they arrived at their homestead land on a cold January day in 1907. The men built a shelter and planted a crop, as required for ownership. Then they hitched up the wagon again and checked on homestead land in Arizona. Travis had memories of this time and the birth a a little sister, Lois, in 1910. They soon returned to the first homestead where Travis grew up with his siblings. He attended Montezuma Baptist College and taught school in Curry County where he met, courted and married another teacher, Vester McDonald. The couple lived many years in Forrest, New Mexico, where they raised their four children and Travis managed a store, operated a mechanic shop and farmed. After retirement, Travis and Vester lived in Hobbs, New Mexico, and he worked in his daughter's drapery shop until he suffered a fatal heart attack. In later years, Travis shared his memories and knowledge of family history, some of it recorded on tape, a great heritage for the descendants of John and Ada Snider. -Blanche Ada Keating Collie, niece Children: Geroge Travis Snider, Jr. 1927-1996 Mary Evelyn Snider Roach 1929- Dortha Louise Snider Cleveland Sturdevant 1931-1994 James Leon Snider 1933-

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