Researched by Eleanor Law Johnson...narrative by ELJ
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Bernard Snow & Louisa King by Eleanor Law Johnson 22 Jan 2003 Las Vegas, Nevada
Bernard Snow was born 22 Jan 1822 Pomfret,Windsor,Vermont. His parents were Ebenezer Snow & Polly Hayes. He married in Cambridge,
Massachusetts 24 Nov 1841 to his cousin, Louisa King, daughter of William King and Lucy Snow. . They had four children: 1) Stillborn male child bn November 1842 in Cambridge 2)Sidney Alfred b 13 Apr 1844 d. 19 Oct 1952 in Salt Lake City,Utah 3)Flora Melissa b 1 Jan 1846 in Cambridge,Mass d. 1846 in Cambridge,Mass.; Bernard Snow b. 10 May 1847 Cambridge,Mass. d. 10 Sep 1847 in Cambridge......Bernard and Louisa must have been broken hearted over the loss of these three children.
Bernard is found in California in 1850 Census so probably went to the gold fields. Louisa was lonely and in poor health but decided to cross the plains to Salt Lake with her surviving son, Sidney, in the Wilford Woodruff Wagon Train group of Mormon pioneers. Her sister, Melissa, was already in the Salt Lake Valley. Melissa, had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Boston along with her husband, Howes Crowell. They gathered to Nauvoo, Illinois with the main body of the Latter-day Saints. He and their children died and she remarried and came west when the mobs ran the church members out of their homes in Nauvoo in the winter of 1846. They stayed for a time in Winter Quarters, near Omaha, Nebraska and traveled on into the Salt Lake valley in 1847.
Louisa wanted so much to see her sister and her husband but she never made it to the valley. Somewhere along the way, Louisa, became sick and died 6 July 1850. Her grave is unknown. Her son came on into the valley with the company of Saints. Bernard came from California and learned of her passing. Then his only remaining child, Sydney died in 1852. It's a sad, sad story. Bernard wrote a letter to his wife, who was already dead, not knowing till later of her passing. Bernard married later and has a huge posterity in the church. He died in Idaho in 1893 at the age of 71. Louisa only lived to the age of 26. I consider them to be my precious relatives.
My relationship to Bernard: 1C4R
My relationship to Louisa: She is my 2nd Great Aunt
Ancestral File.
MARRIAGE: : Cambridge Marriages P..362..
".SNOW, BERNARD AND LOUISA M. KING,OF BOSTON, INT. NOV. 3, 1841. ACTUAL MARRIAGE: 24 NOV. 1841.
PROBATE OF WILLIAM KING (JR) OF POMFRET,VT. FROM HARTFORD DIST.PROBATE COURT
PO BOX 275, WOODSTOCK, VT 05091 "LOUISA SNOW WIFE OF BERNARD SNOW."
HISTORY: BERNARD SNOW HISTORY
1850 CENSUS ...UTAH....NILL
1856 CENSUS...SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH STATE & SPECIAL CENSUS REGISTER, FILM #
505,913 WARD 12 BERNARD SNOW, ALICE SNOW, ALICE W. SNOW & MAY SNOW.
OLD LETTER TO EDNA KING FARNSWORTH, CENTER TWP, WILLIAMS CO, OHIO FROM HER
SISTER IN BOSTON, ELIZA P. PAINE. "LOUISA WAS MARRIED LAST THANKSGIVING TO
COUSIN BERNARD SNOW, BROTHER TO HERMAN SNOW". LETTER DATED: FEB 29, 1842.
Letter in possession of Eleanor L. Johnson, Las Vegas, NV
REF.DESK. BYU LIB. 4TH FLOOR:
FHC LDS DIARIES....GUIDE TO MORMON DIARIES & AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, BERNARD SNOW P.
330 #2332....DIARY 1856-1858. MICROFILM OF HOLOGRAPH, 134PP. HDC (MSF 87 #3)
BRITISH MISSION, 1856-1858...SPECIAL COLLECTIONS.
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1850 Census California
SNOW
BARNARD
San Joaquin County
CA
292
St.Ockton Division
Federal Population Schedule
CA 1850
Federal Census Index
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