Lovell Snow (1773 - 1851)

Born 4 Sep 1773 in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut, New England

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah Maynard — married 7 Apr 1791 (to 2 Sep 1802) in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut, United States

Husband of Freelove Aurilla (Dutcher) Forrest — married 31 Jan 1821 (to about 1830) in York, Athens Co., Ohio, USA

Descendants

Died 1851 at about age 77 in Columbia, Whitley County, Indiana, USA

Biography

Lovell Snow was born on September 4, 1773, in Ashford, Windham Co., Connecticut, New England. He was the son of Robert Snow and his wife Sarah (Chubb) Snow. Both parents were from Mansfield, Connecticut.

On April 7, 1791, in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut, USA, Lovell Snow married Sally (Sarah) MAYNARD (aka Mainer). They had 3 children and moved to Kentucky and then Ohio.^[1]

1. Robert SNOW, a son, b: 8 FEB 1798 in Kentucky
2. L. A. SNOW, a daughter, b: 23 FEB 1800
3. B. SNOW, a daughter, b: 5 JAN 1802

On September 2, 1802, Sally (Maynard) Snow divorced Lovell Snow on the grounds of "desertion & adultery". After several years, Lovell SNOW married Freelove Aurilla Dutcher (b: 20 Dec. 1802 in Erie PA), on January 31, 1821, in York Twp., Athens Co., Ohio. They had 5 sons:^[2]

1. Abraham Snow b: 3 JAN 1822 in Ohio;
2. John Dutcher Snow b: 28 NOV 1823; d: as a child
3. Commodore Perry Snow b: 13 JUN 1825 in Dresden, Muskingum, Ohio; d: 1915 in Washington Co., Ohio
4. Newman Summer Snow b: 31 DEC 1826 in Trumbull Co., Ohio; d: 1909 in Jasper Co., Indiana
5. Philander Larkin Snow b: 13 JUN 1828 in Meigs Co., Ohio; d: 1907 in Carroll Co., Arkansas

A family genealogy^[3] states that in 1828, the family was living in a cave in Meigs County, Ohio. Freelove Aurilla (Dutcher) Snow, apparently fed up with Lovell Snow's inability or unwillingness to provide for his family, deserted him and their 4 sons, having her last son: Philander Larkin Snow, alone back at her girlhood home in Erie, Erie Co., Pennsylvania. Freelove then lived up to her name by running off with a prosperous local Ohio farmer, James Forrest, in about 1830. They went down the Ohio & Mississippi Rivers to Seacy County, Arkansas Territory, where his legal wife, Mazy Forrest, divorced him. They then married and moved to Ozark County, Missouri, where they had 9 children together. James Forrest died fighting (for the Union) in the Civil War but Freelove (Dutcher) Forest lived into her 80s, dying in Ozark County, Missouri, on May 2, 1888.^[4]

Not knowing what to do, it's said that one day after she left, Lovell Snow told his young boys to "go play with your friends down by the river and then go home with them." At least one, Newman Summer Snow, moved in with John Harris' family nearby.

Lovell Snow then moved away to Whitley County, Indiana, where he married Harriet Brown, a young widow, b: ca. 1803 in Vermont. Lovell and Harriet (Brown) Snow had 3 daughters:^[5]

1. Emily Snow, b: ca. 1839 in Newton Twp., Whitley Co., Indiana
2. Lucy A Snow, b: ca. 1845 in Newton Twp., Whitley, Indiana
3. Hannah A Snow, b: ca. 1847 in Whitley Co., Indiana

The 1850 US Census for Newton Twp., Whitley County, Indiana, lists Lovell Snow as married and living there with his wife, Harriet Snow, and their 3 daughters. He was 76 years old and she was 47.^[6]

Lovell Snow died in 1851 in Whitley County, Indiana. Harriet (Brown) Snow remarried to James Jones (1860 Census). Lovell Snow's exact grave site is not known but he does have a Find A Grave memorial #165901363.^[7]

The Dowling Family Genealogy says:^[8]

ID: I591088

Name: Lovell SNOW

Sex: M

Birth: 4 SEP 1773 in Ashford, Windham Co., CT

Death: ABT 1851 in Whitley Co., IN

Father: Robert SNOW b: 19 DEC 1732 in Mansfield, Tolland Co., CT

Mother: Sarah CHUBB b: 24 JUL 1729 in Ashford, Windham Co., CT

Marriage: Sarah MAYNARD, b: 1777 [Divorced Sept. 2, 1802 for "desertion & adultery"]^[9]

Children:

1. Robert SNOW b: 8 FEB 1798 in Kentucky

Sources

1. ↑ Chubb, Peck, Woodcock, Morrison Genealogy - Lovell Snow
2. ↑ Lovell Snow on Trbailey.net
3. ↑ James Forrest on The Forrest Genealogy
4. ↑ See Notes 1 & 2. Also see her Find A Grave memorial: Find A Grave: Memorial #7374896 Freelove Aurilla Dutcher Forest
5. ↑ Chubb, Peck, Woodcock, Morrison Genealogy - Lovell Snow
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHVX-4XX : 19 December 2020), Lovell Snow, Whitley, Indiana, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
7. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #165901363 Lovell Snow
8. ↑ Dowling Family Genealogy - Lovell Snow
9. ↑ Chubb, Peck, Woodcock, Morrison Genealogy - Lovell Snow. This family genealogy says Lovell Snow had 2 more wives and a total of 11 children in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana before his death in 1851 in Indiana.

• Dowling Family Genealogy - Lovell Snow

• Chubb, Peck, Woodcock, Morrison Genealogy - Lovell Snow