Snyder Community
Hale County, Texas
Snyder Community Families after 1923
Robert L. & Telitha Eugenia (Griffeth) Wilson
(These are the basic facts I have for this family, listed here to help guide the research process. As photos, family stories, and other data are submitted, I hope to develop a narrative.)
Robert and Telitha Wilson purchased the Jonas Kreider place in 1917, when the Mennonite minister returned to Ohio. The Wilsons, who came from Birmingham, Alabama, were Methodists.1
1920 Federal Census -
Justice Precinct 1, Hale County, Texas [same pages as Peter B. Snyder]
Robert L. - aged 52, born in Alabama, father born in
South Carolina, mother born in Alabama; farmer
Talitha - aged 57, born in Georgia, father born in Georgia,
mother born in Georgia
Emma E. - 20-year-old single daughter, born in Texas; public
school teacher
Eugene H. - 19-year-old single son, born in Texas; laborer on
the home farm
Harold G. - 11-year-old son, born in Texas
1930 Federal Census - Justice Precinct 1, Hale County, Texas [same page as
John
P. McGarr]
Robert L. - aged 60, married at age 21, born in Alabama,
father born in South Carolina, mother born in Alabama; farmer
Talitha E. - aged 65, married at age 26, born in Georgia,
father born in Georgia, mother born in Georgia
Emma L. - 29-year-old single daughter, born in Texas; public
school teacher
Harold G. - 22-year-old single son, born in Texas; farm
laborer
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):22-24.
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