When Winnie was here, Mike said he was taking a class on genealogy and had been trying to track down his ancestors.
Then Winnie thought I had spelled the name Snead instead Sneed. Look, See, Sneed. Winnie needs to get her eyes checked.
I went on Ancestry.com and found several census records and a couple of Missouri death certificates for him. I uploaded these images here.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~powell/Sneed/To view the images, you click on the underlined link and the image will load. Click the back button on your browser to go back and look at a different image.
Missouri death certificates can be found online here:
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/For many of the certificates, you can actually get the actual certificate. You can type in the surname Sneed and choose Franklin County in the drop down box and they have I think 4 or 5 results (James, Amanda, Collie and I think some still born children). James and Amanda list their parents. Collie died single at age 32. It lists his parents with their middle names, James Nicholas Sneed and Sarah Elizabeth Maupin.
On the 1850 census, James Sneed is already in Franklin Co. MO living with Joseph Gibson and his wife Nancy. In 1850, no relationship is listed, but remember in 1880 Jefferson Sneed is with Nancy Gibson and it says he is her nephew. James and Jefferson are on the same page of the census so they were living close together.
The LDS site is here
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.aspEverytihng here is free.
Source Information:
Census Place
Lyon, Franklin, Missouri
Family History Library Film
1254686NA Film Number
T9-0686
Page Number
148BHousehold:
Name
Relation
Marital Status
Gender
Race
Age
Birthplace
Occupation
Father's Birthplace
Mother's Birthplace
Jas N. SNEEDSelf
M
Male
W
43
VA
Farmer
VA
VA
Susan E. SNEEDWife
M
Female
W
39
MO
Keeps House
KY
MO
George W. SNEEDSon
S
Male
W
16
MO
Farming
VA
MO
Amos E. SNEEDSon
S
Male
W
12
MO
VA
MO
Lizzie SNEEDDau
S
Female
W
10
MO
VA
MO
Ida B. SNEEDDau
S
Female
W
8
MO
VA
MO
Jas R. SNEEDSon
S
Male
W
5
MO
VA
MO
Callie SNEEDSon
S
Male
W
3
MO
VA
MO
Dollie SNEEDDau
S
Female
W
3M
MO
VA
MO
Source Information:
Census Place
Lyon, Franklin, Missouri
Family History Library Film
1254686NA Film Number
T9-0686
Page Number
148BHousehold:
Name
Relation
Marital Status
Gender
Race
Age
Birthplace
Occupation
Father's Birthplace
Mother's Birthplace
Nancy L. GIBSONSelf
W
Female
W
64
VA
Farming And Keeps House
VA
VA
Jefferson SNEEDNephew
S
Male
W
18
MO
Farmer
MO
MO
Mary C. MAUPINGDau
S
Female
W
12
MO
MO
MO
This is the Jefferson Davis Sneed on WorldConnect
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=delia1rose1&id=I08476You might try emailing this person and see if they know more about them.
Susan Mapuin is here
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rhi&id=I6034Susan Elizabeth Maupin wife of James Nicholas Sneed
/
James Nicolas Sneed b: ABT 1837
Jefferson Sneed b: 1862 /
John Downey Maupin b: 6 SEP 1786 d: 6 OCT 1814 /
Amos W. Maupin b: 4 MAY 1808 /
John Richardson b: 1690 d: 1745 /
Amos Richardson b: 1721 d: 1785 \
Catherine Connaway d: 1746 /
Daniel Richardson b: ABT 1761 d: 16 NOV 1820 \
Lucy Caldwell b: 1738 d: 1787 \
Elizabeth Richardson b: 1 JAN 1788 d: 20 DEC 1850 \
Nancy Townsend d: 1835 \
Susan Elizabeth Maupin b: ABT 1841 \
Rebecca Heatherlyhttp://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rhi&id=I0180· D: I0180
· Name: John Downey Maupin
· Sex: M
· Birth: 6 SEP 1786 in Madison Co., Ky.
· Death: 6 OCT 1814 in powder mill explosion
· Reference Number: 9291
· Note:
"Early powder mills in Missouri": one powder mill with two persons employed, 1050 capital invested, manufactured 7,500 pounds of powder in 1840 in Franklin Co. (Missouri Hist. Rev., Oct. 1925, p 125)"St. John's Township - Jack Maupin started a powder mill about 1812 .. . from the War of 1812, while his brother Daniel manufactured guns as demands were made, and was in his day one of the best gunsmiths west of the Allegheny Mts. The former was so injured from an explosion of his powder works that he died a few hours after the accident." (Atlas Map of Franklin Co., Mo., 187, p. 16)"John Maupin, son of Mosias, was killed by the explosion of a powder mill and Benjamin Brown came very near losing his life by the same accident. John Maupin's children were John, Amos, Wilkinson, Daniel and two daughters one of whom married James Heatherly and the other William McDonald.""This powder mill was probably about Newport, now Dundee, 61 mi. west of St. Louis. (Franklin Co. was part of St. Louis Co. until Dec. 11, 1818, and Gasconade Co. was taken from Franklin Co., Nov. 25, 1820) " (History of Franklin Co., 1888, p 223)______________From Lois Seed:John’s mother was Leah Downey and there is some speculation that John was Leah’s illegitimate son prior to her marriage to Mosias Maupin. [ also see below] I think there is still some work that needs to be done still on that line. There may be other reasons why Leah and Mosias’s marriage date seems to be after John’s birth date: prior marriage? incorrect dates? We don’t know. Leah has also been known as Leah Sol as well as Leah Downey over the years. Things are murky in that generation. There is ample information about Mosias and his siblings and Maupin ancestors readily available on the web, but it goes back to French Huguenots who immigrated in 1700 and settled in Williamsburg.______________From Lois Seed:John may have been an illegitimate son of Leah Downey prior to her marriage to Mosias MAUPIN, or possibly from an earlier unknown marriage. Mosias may have adopted John. Tax record in KY that states he "paid taxes for his wife's son"
That should get Mike started.
