Snowden S. Kirkland was born in 1835 in Alabama to Willis and Rebecca Kirkland. He grew up in Alabama and married his first cousin Ruthie around 1857. Snowden worked as a farmer.
Snowden S. Kirkland served as a private in Company B (Thomas R. Lightfoot's Company), 6th Alabama Infantry Regiment, under Field Officer Colonel James N. Lightfoot, during the Civil War. He enlisted August 19, 1861. He was wounded in the right thigh at the Battle of Gettysburg July 1, 1863. He was captured as a prisoner of war July 4, 1863. He was paroled at U.S.A. General Hospital, Baltimore, Md. on September 25, 1863. He returned to duty and was listed as permanently disabled on May 17, 1864. He served as a hospital ward for the remainder of the war.
Children include: Salina, Charles J, Archibald P, Olive, Dora Ann, Andrew B, Lucy B, Peyton W, Nellie R.
After the war, Snowden returned to Alabama, to his wife and children, and to his farm. Snowden and Ruthie raised a family of 10 children. Snowden died in 1915 and was buried in the Brackin/Kirkland Cemetery in Henry County, Alabama [8].
1. 1850 U.S. Census for the State of Alabama, Dale County, Southern Division (Snowden, age 16, born in Alabama, living in the household of Willis Kirkland). [Census available on ancestry.com.]
2.1860 U.S. Census for the State of Alabama, Dale County (Snowden S. Kirkland, age 24, born in Alabama, working a s a farmer). [Census available on ancestry.com.]
3. 1870 U.S. Census for the State of Alabama, Dale County, Beat 8 (S.S. Kirkland, age 35, born in Alabama, working as a farmer). [Census available on ancestry.com.]
4. On March 25, 1876, Snowden S. Kirkland was appointed and bound as guardian for his father-in-law Benjamin H. Kirkland, who was declared a lunatic and unable to care for himself. [Recorded in Orphan's Book X, Pages 255-256.]
5. 1880 U.S. Census for the State of Alabama, Dale County, Beat 8 (S.S. Kirkland, age 45, born in Alabama, working as a farmer). [Census available on ancestry.com.]
6. 1900 U.S. Census for the State of Alabama, Dale County, Precinct 8-Midland City (Snowden S. Kirkland, age 64, born in Alabama, married 43 years, working as a farmer). [Census available on ancestry.com.]
7. 1910 U.S. Census for the State of Alabama, Dale County, Precinct 8-Midland City (Snowden Kirkland, age 84, born in Alabama, living with his son-in-law Paton Kirkland). [Census available on ancestry.com.]
8. Mrs. Marvin Scott, Henry County, Alabama Cemetery Records (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Willo Publishing Company), page 41.
9. Find-a-Grave - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91656316/snowden-s.-kirkland
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