Snyder Community
Hale County, Texas
Snyder Community Families after 1923
John P. and Elsie (Hoxie) McGarr
The McGarrs, a Catholic family, came to Snyder Community with infant daughter Mary Lucille in October 1915. John farmed the Van Howeling farm north of Plainview for five years, running it as a model farm for prospective land buyers. In 1920, John and Elsie bought the Joel Guengerich farm, where they lived until 1969. That year they retired from farming and moved into Plainview.1
1920 Federal Census - Precinct 1, Hale County, Texas- [on same page as
Ferd
Rastetter]
John P. - aged 35, born in Iowa, father born in New York,
mother born in Vermont; stock farmer
Elsie M. - aged 30, born in Iowa, father born in Wisconsin,
mother born in Iowa
Marry L. - 5-year-old daughter, born in Iowa
1930 Federal Census - Justice Precinct 1, Hale County, Texas [on same page as
R.
L. Wilson]
John P. - aged 44, married at age 25, born in Iowa, father
born in New York, mother born in Vermont; farmer
Elsie M. - aged 39, married at age 20, born in Iowa, father
born in Wisconsin, mother born in Wisconsin
Mary L. - 15-year-old daughter, born in Iowa
Jack P. - 7-year-old son, born in Texas
Footnote
1. Gladys Rastetter Mason, compiler and Dorothy Watters Jamar, editor, "Growth of the Snyder Mennonite Colony of Hale County Texas," Hale County History Vol. VII (May 1977): pp. 19-21.
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