William Snook,  (son of Casper),  of whom we are descended from, was born in Beaver County, Penn. in 1811. He married Margaret Summers and they lived in Richland Co., Ohio. , until they moved with their family  to Iowa for a short time until they settled in Linn County, Kansas, where he lived until his death.

The County History of Linn County relates that he moved to Linn County in 1857. He picked a terrible time to live there as that was the period when all the fighting was going on between the Southern Sympathists and the Northern Sympathists. Both sides wanted Kansas to vote their way.  There were people pulled from their homes and massacred in the middle of the night, all for the cause. Luckily, William Snook's family escaped notice.

One story about Margaret Summers Snook is that she  is where the Snook temper comes from. One day she sent William to town to get her some material she wanted. When he returned without the particular one she asked for, she had a tantrum.

William and Margaret had six sons and -three daughters. Three sons and one daughter died young.  It was a hard life back then. One son, Silas, died of Rubella in Fayetteville, Arkansas during -the Civil War.  He is buried in Linn County,  Kansas so he must have been brought home.


Williarn Snook's obituary in the LaCygne Journal Jan.12, 1884 Died: At 7:30 o'clock Thursday morning, from chronic bronchitis, at his home in Scott Township, age 76 years. He had not been well since injured by his team running away at the time the Fair was held in this city last fall. Mr. Snook or "Uncle Billy" as his intimate friends knew him, was man of most excellent character, with a large circle of friends, and his death will be widely regretted.

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