Snelling, William Amos, 1856-1907.
Biographical notes:
William Amos Snelling, merchant and educator, was born 16 October 1856, in Florida, and died 25 May 1907, in Pinehurst, Georgia. He married Nancy (Nannie) Jackson Palmer (1857-1950) on 28 December 1882 and the couple had seven children. Before their marriage, William Snelling taught school near Tennille, Georgia, had a store at Ball's Ferry on the Oconee River, contributed poems and writings to the local newspaper, and worked in Savannah for cotton factors, J.S. Wood & Brothers; the couple lived in Savannah, Sun Hill (Washington County), Macon, and Pinehurst (Dooly County), Georgia, where the family remained after William's death and the donor, a daughter, was living in 1970.
From the description of William Amos Snelling papers, 1873-1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81966222
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Subjects:
- Methodist Church
- World War, 1914-1918
Occupations:
- Merchants
Places:
- Washington County (Ga.) (as recorded)
- Macon (Ga.) (as recorded)
- Galveston (Tex.) (as recorded)
- Oconee (Ga.) (as recorded)
- Pinehurst (Dooly County, Ga.) (as recorded)
- Georgia (as recorded)
- Tennille (Ga.) (as recorded)
