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William Roy Snook was born in 1885, in Kansas. He was married first to Leafie Cumbus and second to Mary Martha Gertrude Rhea. After he was married to Gertrude Rhea, he followed the grain harvesters, even all the way up into Canada, to work with them.
He had a Bowling Alley (called a Box Ball
Alley) for awhile, and he made whiskey and sold it by the barrel for awhile too. He was a farmer also, raising sugar cane, cotton, corn, watermelons and hay. He made Hominy for the Osage Indians. All of this was in Oklahoma.
In 1942 or 43, William Roy sold all their goods, except for what they could load in an old truck, and headed out to California, to a better life, he hoped. Tragedy struck in Parser, Arizona, when the truck with all their goods and family overturned on the highway. When the accounting came, two little girls were lost. Ruth age 10, and Amilda age 6. They were left behind in Parker Cemetery.
When they finally arrived in California, William Roy worked in the fruit for a time, in the areas of Visalia, Hanford, Tulare, etc. Then he met a Mr. .McKernan and made a deal to cut shakes and post out of redwood trees in Santa Cruz, Calif. They lived there for about two years, then moved to Yuba City, Calif. to work for Harter Packing Company on a peach ranch. He did irrigating, pruning etc.. He retired and moved to Sheridan, Calif., in about 1954. He built his house there, and there he lived until he died in 1962.
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