Bernard SNOW

                   Bernard Snow & Louisa King   by Eleanor Law Johnson    22 Jan 2003  Las Vegas, Nevada

Bernard Snow was born 22 Jan 1822 Pomfret,Windsor,Vermont. His parents were Ebenezer Snow & Polly Hayes.  He married in Cambridge,
Massachusetts 24 Nov 1841 to his cousin, Louisa King,  daughter of William King and Lucy Snow. . They had four children: 1) Stillborn male child bn November 1842 in Cambridge      2)Sidney Alfred b 13 Apr 1844 d. 19 Oct 1952 in Salt Lake City,Utah 3)Flora Melissa  b 1 Jan 1846 in Cambridge,Mass d. 1846 in Cambridge,Mass.; Bernard Snow b. 10 May 1847 Cambridge,Mass.  d. 10 Sep 1847 in Cambridge......Bernard and Louisa must have been broken hearted over the loss of these three children. 
      Bernard is found in California in 1850 Census so probably went to the gold fields.  Louisa was lonely and in poor health but decided to cross the plains to Salt Lake with her surviving son, Sidney, in the Wilford Woodruff Wagon Train group of Mormon pioneers.  Her sister, Melissa, was already in the Salt Lake Valley.  Melissa, had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Boston along with her husband, Howes Crowell.  They gathered to Nauvoo, Illinois with the main body of the  Latter-day Saints.  He and their children died and she remarried and came west when the mobs ran the church members out of their homes in Nauvoo in the winter of 1846.  They stayed for a time in Winter Quarters, near Omaha, Nebraska and traveled on into the Salt Lake valley in 1847. 
       Louisa wanted so much to see her sister and her husband but she never made it to the valley.  Somewhere along the way, Louisa, became sick and died 6 July 1850.  Her grave is unknown.  Her son came on into the valley with the company of Saints. Bernard came from California and learned of her passing.  Then his only remaining child, Sydney died in 1852.  It's a sad, sad story.  Bernard wrote a letter to his wife, who was already dead, not knowing till later of her passing.  Bernard married later and has a huge posterity in the church.  He died in Idaho in 1893 at the age of 71.  Louisa only lived to the age of 26.  I consider them to be my precious relatives.



Research compiled by Eleanor L. Johnson, 530 S.4th St.,Las Vegas, NV 89101

Journal History of the Church  BYU Library  Bx No 19, Reel 10 (Wilford Woodruff Company).
June 2, 1850-January 24, 1852   ( JH Supp after 31 Dec 1850, p 17-18)
"Snow, Mrs. of Cambridgeport (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Died July 6,
1850."
Old letter dated February 29, 1842, In my possession Eleanor L. Johnson, c/o 530 S. 4th St., Las Vegas, Nevada 89101...mentions that Louisa married.
Additional Old Letter:  Stated that she was"going to have an addition to her family."
Letter dated December 1842....

Marriages & Deaths:
FHL/SLC  974.44/cl  V2b  Vol 2  Vital Records of Cambridge Massachusettes to the Year 1850...Marriages and Deaths:
p.362  "Bernard Snow and Louisa M. King of Boston, int.  Nov. 3, 1841.
p.741  "Snow,________,s. of Bernard, bur. November 24, 1842. Stillborn.
p.741  "Snow,Bernard,b. in Brighton, s. of Bernard and ________, Sept.10,
1847, a  4 mo. Colera infantum.
p.742 "Snow, Flora M., d. of Bernard and _____, bur. Mar. 12, 1846, a.
2 y. 4 m.  Lung fever. (Died in Brighton, dup.)
BYU Library   H/R Ref.  BX  8672.2  D457a   1989/90  Deseret News 1989-1990
Church Almanac  P. 175 "Kayesville, Iowa  Organized Camp 20 Jun (8)ld
Wilford Woodruff  about 209  ABT 44  14 Oct 1850 (Arrival SL City)  J.H Supp.
After 31 Dec 1850, p 17-18.

In my notes on her, I have a mention that her husband, Bernard Snow, was in California while she was crossing the plains. Bernard Snow's History confirms this information.  (Sue Hughes, Las Vegas, Nevada is a direct relation) Copy of history in my possession.
Decendent has history supporting the fact that he sailed around the cape to California.
Bernard Snow remarried later on after coming to Utah...Find him in 1856 Census of Salt Lake City, Utah with a wife, Alice & 2 Children.  Bernard had several wives and a total of 27 children.

Old Letter:
Old letter in my possession, dated 26 July 1846, Lucy Snow King writing to her distant dughter, Edna Farnsworth (my 2nd great, grandmother), in Ohio from her daughter's in York, Maine. "Louisa's health is very poor.  She has lost her babe.  She is gone up to Vermont to see if it won't help her.  She expects to spend the summer."

IGI 1988 Edition...find Bernard Born: 1847...this is the child that is mentioned in the Vital Records of Cambridge..(above)

Probate papers for her brother, William, who died in Pomfret, Vermont, mention her allotment from estate....Probate Court, District of Hartford, P.O. Box 275,
Woodstock, Vermont 05091...Bernard Snow is also listed in papers regarding this estate.

Cambridge Vital Records to 1850  Las Vegas Family History Library.
US/CAN Book  9744.44//c  V2 btw P.230 "Louisa M. King, of Boston, and  Bernard Snow, int. Nov.3, 1841  (Cambridge Marriages).

Old letter, in my possession, dated: Newbury Port (Mass) Dec.10,1842..letter to Edna King Farnsworth from her sister Lucy King Holbrook....mentions Louisa expects an addition to her family soon." Note:  It appears that she did not know as yet that the baby had died in November....buried November 24, 1842...Stillborn according to the Cambridge Deaths in Vital Records of Cambridge...sighted reference above.