Born to John Thomas Sneed, Jr., and the former Mecca Isabell Graham in Kentucky, Sebron Graham Sneed (1802-1879) moved with his family to Missouri, where he became a colonel in the state militia (1823) and Justice of the Peace of Clay County (1824-1825). In 1824, he married Marinda Adkins, and the couple had eleven children, including Thomas Eskridge (1832-1901) and Sebron Graham, Jr. (1836-1894). Moving to Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 1830, Sneed opened a law partnership with Williamson Simpson Oldham. He also served as the Fayetteville district’s prosecuting attorney (1831-1833), registrar of the United States Land Office (1839), district judge of Fayetteville District Court (1839), and judge of the Fourth Judicial District Court (1844-1848).
In 1848, the family moved to Austin, Texas, where Sneed helped organize the Travis County Democratic Party in 1857. The following year, he and William M. Walton formed a law firm, which Sneed’s son Thomas later joined. At the beginning of the Civil War, after the law firm dissolved, Thomas and Sebron, Jr., joined the Confederate Army, while Sneed, Sr., served as a Confederate provost marshal and volunteered his home as a recruiting station and military hospital. After the war, Sneed operated a farm until his death in 1879.
Source:
Koch, Mary Wilcox. Sneed, Sebron Graham. Handbook of Texas Online . Accessed February 24, 2011. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fsn01 .
From the guide to the Sneed, Sebron Graham, family papers 1923., 1830-1904, 1958, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)
