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SNELSON, JOSEPH, renter, Sec. 36, P.O. Kane. In relating the life history of Joseph Snelson, it will be well to enter in to as full a description as possible of the ancestry of our subject. His grandfather, L. L. Snelson, was a native of Pennsylvania, of German origin; a farmer during the early years of his life. He married in Pennsylvania, Miss Mary McLoughlin. In 1820, he moved to Bond County, Illinois, where he became a prominent stock dealer and farmer; afterwards a resident of Missouri, where he was elected to the House of Representatives; he died in Missouri in 1858, after a long, honorable and energetic life. To the care of his wife he left a large family of nine children, although fourteen were born of the marriage. John C. Snelton was the second child; who passed his boyhood in Bond County, where he married Miss Ann Craig, of Bond, a daughter of Andrew Craig, of Alabama, who emigrated to the West in an early day. John Snelton became a prosperous farmer, who died in Missouri, where he afterwards removed. None of his success was due to chance, or what is called good fortune, but was the result of wise forethought, and prudent management. He left to the care of his wife, who died in 1865, a family of twelve children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third child, who passed the greater portion of his life in Missouri, removing to Greene County in 1873, where he has since followed farming. He was married in 1876, to Miss Susan White, a daughter of James and Mary White.