By: Velma Huff Snook 1989       
( This is revised from the original record written by Carrie Snook Pattison and Mary Betty Snook.)
In our family, and in some others too, there is a tradition that the immigrant  family consisted of a father, a mother, and three sons in their teens. -They had converted all their property into gold, which they carried in a churn. They all died and were buried at sea, except two of the sons. When they landed in New York, the boys went ashore, but  left their goods aboard the ship.  During the night there was a storm that wrecked the ship and they lost all. So the two boys started life in America penniless

  From Harvey Edgar Snook 1925
My Great-Great Grandfather Snook came from Germany. My Great Grandfather Snook was a Revolutionary Soldier and fought with Washington at Valley Forge. He married a German woman by the name of Goss. I don't know what her first name was. The father of Casper and Peter Snook supposedly lived to be over 100 years old and is buried near Williamsport, Penn.. He was said to have served in the Revolutionary War under General Anthony Wayne and General Van Rensulaer. His name was Peter Snook. or Peter Koonrad Snook. His funeral was the first one that Henry, son of Peter Jr.,. Had ever remembered attending. At that time, the door of the wall sweeper clock being ajar, and the pendulum and weights showing, he hung on them until removed by force.  Henry was born in 1815.

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