Joshua Snowden of SC
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Descendants of Joshua Snowden
Generation No. 1
1.JOSHUA1 SNOWDENHe married ELIZABETH EVANS September 20, 1729 in St. Andrews Parish, Charleston, S. C..
Notes for ELIZABETH EVANS:
Widow (Evans might be her first husband's surname)
Child of JOSHUA SNOWDEN and ELIZABETH EVANS is:
2. i. CHARLES2 SNOWDEN.
Generation No. 2
2.CHARLES2 SNOWDEN (JOSHUA1)He married ANNE LAWRENCE, daughter of ESTELL LAWRENCE and ELIZABETH.
Child of CHARLES SNOWDEN and ANNE LAWRENCE is:
3. i. WILLIAM ESTELL3 SNOWDEN, b. 1790; d. 1844.
Generation No. 3
3.WILLIAM ESTELL3 SNOWDEN (CHARLES2, JOSHUA1) was born 1790, and died 1844.He married LYDIA GAILLARD November 1816 in Charleston, S. C., daughter of PETER GAILLARD and ELIZABETH PORCHER.She was born 1787, and died August 07, 1850.
Children of WILLIAM SNOWDEN and LYDIA GAILLARD are:
4. i. DR. WILLIAM4 SNOWDEN, b. Bet. 1817 - 1827, S. C.; d. WFT Est. 1847-1908.
ii. JOSHUA LAWRENCE SNOWDEN1, b. Bet. 1817 - 18271; d. WFT Est. 1838-18991; m. ISABEL SARAH YATES1, WFT Est. 1838-18691; b. November 15, 18101; d. February 20, 18811.
5. iii. CHARLES JOHN SNOWDEN, b. February 20, 1825, Charleston, S. C..
6. iv. ANNE LAWRENCE SNOWDEN, b. March 19, 1819, Charleston, S. C.; d. 1871, Charleston, S. C..
Generation No. 4
4.DR. WILLIAM4 SNOWDEN (WILLIAM ESTELL3, CHARLES2, JOSHUA1)1 was born Bet. 1817 - 1827 in S. C.1, and died WFT Est. 1847-19081.He married MARY ARARINTHIA YATES1 18571, daughter of JOSEPH YATES and ELIZABETH SAYLOR.She was born September 10, 1819 in Charleston, S. C.1, and died February 23, 18981.
Notes for MARY ARARINTHIA YATES:
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Snowden Chapter proudly took its name from a prominent Charleston lady who was very active in community service before, during and after the War Between the States. We hope you will read more about the life and accomplishments of Mary Amarinthia Yates Snowden. We should have an article up very soon, so please check back.
Mrs. Snowden continued to hold the office of president of the Confederate Home until her death, on February 23, 1898. A friend wrote concerning her:"Faithful unto death - this her glory, And this the record of her day; No brighter guerdon can we give her, Nor words of nobler praise."
Mary Amarinthia Yates was born in Charleston, in 1819, and educated for some years in Philadelphia, where the family temporarily resided. Later she was a pupil at the Barhamville School, near Columbia, South Carolina. A beautiful, intelligent and popular woman, she refused many suitors before her marriage in 1857 to William Snowden, M.D., a member of an old South Carolina family. Her two children are Yates Snowden, LL.D., Professor of History and Political Science at the University of South Carolina, and a daughter, known affectionately to many generations of students of the Confederate College as "Miss May."
Mrs. Snowden's first public work was in connection with her brother, the Rev. William B. Yates, and his "School Ship Lodebar," a mission for seamen.
In 1854 she organized the Calhoun Monument Association, which after long years of work was able to erect a fitting memorial to South Carolina's great statesman on Marion Square, in Charleston. Of this association the then Miss Yates was elected treasurer. Having continued to hold this office, the perils of the War Between the States found her still the custodian of this fund, so that when Mrs. Snowden, with her sister and children, after the evacuation of Charleston, took refuge in Columbia, these bonds, to the amount of over $39,000.00, were carried there with their other valuables.
The actual war work of Mrs. Snowden was of the greatest importance. The Red Cross was yet to be born, but the same work was done by various women's societies with excellent organization and co-operation. Mrs. Snowden was one of the founding officers of at least one Soldiers' Relief Association
One trip she made to Warrenton, Virginia, ten miles from Manassas, during the second battle of that name, to bear comforts to the wounded, both housed and in the open field; here, lying out on Academy Hill, she found one hundred and eighty wounded South Carolinians, who were helped by her ministrations. After the burning of Columbia, she received special permission, to care for Confederate prisoners in the South Carolina College, for which purpose she added supplies received from the Federal troops to the pitifully meager, but heartfelt gifts of the women who crowded Columbia.
After the surrender of the Southern forces, she traveled from battlefield to battlefield, arranging for the bringing home of the dead. By then widowed, and with property greatly depreciated, she set herself to the problem of living and the care of her children.
But loyalty to her country's heroes still inspired her, and in 1866 she organized the Ladies Memorial Association, which has since cared for the graves of the Confederate dead in Magnolia Cemetery
Her next project was arranging for 84 SC men killed at Gettysburg to be brought home for burial in Magnolia Cemetery in 1871. She traveled to Gettysburg herself to locate their graves, and then found the materials to create more than 800 head stones and the base of the monument in the Confederate section of the cemetery. On the base of this monument there is a tablet inscribed to the memory of Mrs. Snowden. Both she and Rev. Ellison Capers were present at the dedication.
Mrs. Snowden would not yet be satisfied while bereaved mothers, widows, and orphaned girls were lacking proper care and educational opportunities. So with other like-minded women to help her, the Home for the Mothers, Widows, and Daughters of Confederate Soldiers was established as a tentative effort to provide for an exigency that they thought would soon pass.
This institution was founded in Charleston, South Carolina, in those dark days of reconstruction that followed the War Between the States, and was known as the Home for the Mothers, Widows, and Daughters of Confederate Soldiers. The association was organized on August 12, 1867, at a meeting of nine women, and the Rev. Charles Stuart Vedder, of the Huguenot Church. The funds in hand were one dollar, given by a widow living in a charitable institution in Baltimore, and money enough to pay one year's rent for the Old Carolina Hotel. The leader of these nine women, the widowed Mrs. Mary Amarinthia Snowden, who, with her sister, Mrs. Isabella Snowden, a widow also, had mortgaged their home for this purpose, raised this money.
Children of WILLIAM SNOWDEN and MARY YATES are:
i. YATES5 SNOWDEN, b. 1858; d. 1933.
Notes for YATES SNOWDEN:
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SNOWDEN
1965; Men's Residence Hall
A Charleston native, Yates Snowden (1858-1933) was elected to the chair of history in 1906. Snowden went on to introduce advanced courses in the French Revolution and the Reconstruction period of the United States. The dashing Snowden was known as the "Incarnation of the Old South" for he wore a black cape and was handsome, charming, and witty.
ii. MAY SNOWDEN.
5.CHARLES JOHN4 SNOWDEN (WILLIAM ESTELL3, CHARLES2, JOSHUA1) was born February 20, 1825 in Charleston, S. C..He married HARRIET LEE HOWARD Abt. 1850 in Charleston, S. C..
Child of CHARLES SNOWDEN and HARRIET HOWARD is:
i. WILLIAM ETZEL5 SNOWDEN, b. November 04, 1855, Charleston, S. C..
6.ANNE LAWRENCE4 SNOWDEN (WILLIAM ESTELL3, CHARLES2, JOSHUA1) was born March 19, 1819 in Charleston, S. C., and died 1871 in Charleston, S. C..She married PETER CHARLES GAILLARD December 06, 1838 in Charleston, S. C., son of JAMES GAILLARD and HARRIET PORCHER.He was born December 29, 1812 in St. Johns, Berkeley,, and died January 11, 1889 in Charleston, S. C..
Child of ANNE SNOWDEN and PETER GAILLARD is:
i. ETSELL5 GAILLARD, b. September 15, 1849.
Endnotes
1.Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 2, Ed. 1,(Release date: November 29, 1995), "CD-ROM," Tree #6253, Date of Import: Dec 18, 2001.
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