LOTTIE BELLE
&
MINNIE LEE SNELL
(c. 1885)
Minnie Lee and Lottie
Belle Snell were born in Hunt Co., Texas,
two of eleven children
born to William Henry Snell and Margaret
Lucretia Mitchell. The
family moved to Turnersville in Coryell County and
farmed the land next
to their cousins the Wallaces. The Snell property is now
part of the Wallace farm
which still exists today. William Snell also owned a
cotton gin in Turnersville.
The Snells moved to Clifton, Bosque County
sometime after their
last child, Lena Mae (1894-1994) was born. Minnie
Lee Snell married Simon
Fleetwood Snider (1866 AL-1930 CO) and had
four children,
Oliver Lee,
Ruth Alline,
Maurice Locke
and Minnie Margaret.
Lottie married Marion N. Grimland and had one son, Y.C. Grimland.
By Nancy Protzman, protzman@mail.slc.edu