Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 43 (part 2)

Introduction: In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing again on the family lines of Hopkins descendant Kenneth Souder Snow Jr. Melissa is a genealogist who has a website, americana-archives.com, and a Facebook group, New England Family Genealogy and History.

Today I continue with my series on “Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who,” once again looking at the familial relations of Kenneth Souder Snow Jr. (1937-2008), a 12th generation lineal descendant of Mayflower passengers Stephen Hopkins and his daughter Constance Hopkins.

Here are some photos of (clockwise from upper left): Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins’ house at Plimoth Plantation, a reconstruction of Plymouth Colony; a reenactor as Stephen Hopkins standing outside the home; and a reenactment of Stephen Hopkins meeting with the colonists’ Wampanoag Indian interpreter Hobbamock outside his home at Plimoth Plantation.

Constance Hopkins married Nicholas Snow, who arrived in Plymouth on the ship Anne in 1623.

To recap: My last story (Part 1) covered Kenneth Souder Snow Jr., one of the six children born to Kenneth Souder “Snowbird” Snow Sr. and Anne Mary (Lovett) Snow. Kenneth Snow Jr. was featured in a 1990 newspaper story entitled “Like His Ancestors, He Travels the World.” Snow’s lineage can be viewed in Part 1.

Snow was a career Navy man who loved adventure, like his ancestor Stephen Hopkins. His retirement was spent sailing, scuba diving, and traveling the world – and he always lent a hand to assist in philanthropic causes.

Below is a photo of Kenneth S. Snow Jr. from the Bridgeton Evening News.

This photo caption reads:

Kenneth S. Snow Jr., right, chief executive officer of the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home at Vineland, receives a check for $1000 from Karl H. Brandt, center, commander of Nabb-Leslie American Legion Post 82 of Millville [NJ] and Cliff Van Doren, left, the post’s junior vice commander. The funds will go toward the Alzheimer’s disease unit at the home. The Vineland facility, opened in 1899, is the oldest of [the] state’s three veteran’s nursing homes.

Other connections to this Snow line are Marblehead, Massachusetts, sea captains and merchants all found in Old Marblehead Sea Captains and the Ships in Which They Sailed.

The first Snow to show up in Marblehead was Samuel, a soldier in the Revolutionary War who served in Captain William Blackler’s company and Colonel John Glover’s regiment.

He married Mary White, and one son – Samuel Snow II (1767-1819), a mariner and fisherman – married widow Elizabeth (Hooper) Frost, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Tutt) Hooper. The Hooper family was one of the wealthiest families in Marblehead.

Several scions can be traced from this marriage. I begin with one son, Joseph White Snow (1806-1858), a merchant marine sailor, fisherman, and later a shoe manufacturer. He was a noted abolitionist and a member of the Free-Soil Party.

He married Mary Quiner (1805-1882), daughter of Henry Newcomb and Hannah B. (Newhall) Quiner.

Below is a page from Old Marblehead Sea Captains and the Ships in Which They Sailed featuring Quiner mariners, including Mary’s father, Henry N. Quiner, and her grandfather, Captain Nicholas Quiner.

In 1835 Joseph White Snow and his wife must have had a spat, and Mary left the nest. He placed this notice in the newspaper.

This notice reads:

Whereas my wife Mary has left my bed and board, this is to caution all persons against harboring or trusting her on my account, as I shall pay no debts of her contraction. Joseph W. Snow, Marblehead, April 24, 1835.

A document in the Marblehead archives reveals that Mary Snow ran into trouble with the law. The record states:

Mary Snow, wife of Joseph W. Snow, June 4, 1847, on [the] complaint of Peter Bateman for being a “common railer and brawler, and for making a great noise and disturbance on Marblehead streets, using profanity, making menacing speeches and committing divers other disorders and quarrels”; committed to workhouse for 10 days. Joseph M. Rowell, Constable.

Whatever transpired between Mr. and Mrs. Snow they must have reconciled on and off, as more children were born. Mary would relocate to the Almshouse in town after their births.

One daughter born to their marriage was Mary Ann Snow (1833-1907), who married Jonathan Cole (1833-1903), son of Issiah and Sarah (Mayo) Cole. He was also a Mayflower descendant through his maternal line.

Jonathan Cole is a direct descendant of William and Mary Brewster through their daughter Patience, who married Gov. Thomas Prence. Their daughter Hannah married Nathaniel Mayo. Their son Samuel married Ruth Hopkins.

Ruth Hopkins is the daughter of Giles and Katherine (Wheldon) Hopkins. Her father Giles traveled over on the Mayflower when he was 12 years old with his father Stephen Hopkins.

Below is a photo of Jonathan Cole’s mother Sarah, daughter of Heman and Lettice (Cole) Mayo. Sarah married Isiah Cole, son of Nathan and Anna (Snow) Cole.

Jonathan Cole died on 12 May 1903, and his obituary was published in the Lowell Sun.

Stay tuned for more Snow Mayflower lines with Bible records and more photos!

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Note on the header image: “Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor,” by William Halsall, 1882. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

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