He was a peddler at death. His address in Sioux City, Iowa, was in the 900 block of Jackson St., matching that of his mother, Emaline, his survivor and signer of his death record. The undertaker was named on the death record, with instructions to send the body to Ponca, Nebraska for burial. That town had been the burial place of his father many decades earlier. A special coffin had been developed which permitted shipping by rail.
His mother, maiden name Emaline da Noton, had remarried after the death of Harold's father, buried as Tufel Snow in Ponca, mis-spelled as Truffel Snow on the record. Emaline's second husband, Mr La Gow, had also left her a widow. When his mother signed his death record, she had guessed his father was born in New York, maybe as she had been born there and the two families knew each other from that place. However, in reality, his father, Mr Snow, was French Canadian, from Quebec. A tree at Family Search states that his father's French name was Theophile Chenard, Tuffel a nickname. Howeve,r the father dropped Chenard called himself John Henry Snow for his Censuses, hs a stint in the federal military at the end of the Civil War, but was in the military records s Tuffel Snow.
His mother, maiden name Emaline da Noton, had remarried after the death of Harold's father, buried as Tufel Snow in Ponca, mis-spelled as Truffel Snow on the record. Emaline's second husband, Mr La Gow, had also left her a widow. When his mother signed his death record, she had guessed his father was born in New York, maybe as she had been born there and the two families knew each other from that place. However, in reality, his father, Mr Snow, was French Canadian, from Quebec. A tree at Family Search states that his father's French name was Theophile Chenard, Tuffel a nickname. Howeve,r the father dropped Chenard called himself John Henry Snow for his Censuses, hs a stint in the federal military at the end of the Civil War, but was in the military records s Tuffel Snow.
He was a peddler at death. His address in Sioux City, Iowa, was in the 900 block of Jackson St., matching that of his mother, Emaline, his survivor and signer of his death record. The undertaker was named on the death record, with instructions to send the body to Ponca, Nebraska for burial. That town had been the burial place of his father many decades earlier. A special coffin had been developed which permitted shipping by rail.
His mother, maiden name Emaline da Noton, had remarried after the death of Harold's father, buried as Tufel Snow in Ponca, mis-spelled as Truffel Snow on the record. Emaline's second husband, Mr La Gow, had also left her a widow. When his mother signed his death record, she had guessed his father was born in New York, maybe as she had been born there and the two families knew each other from that place. However, in reality, his father, Mr Snow, was French Canadian, from Quebec. A tree at Family Search states that his father's French name was Theophile Chenard, Tuffel a nickname. Howeve,r the father dropped Chenard called himself John Henry Snow for his Censuses, hs a stint in the federal military at the end of the Civil War, but was in the military records s Tuffel Snow.
His mother, maiden name Emaline da Noton, had remarried after the death of Harold's father, buried as Tufel Snow in Ponca, mis-spelled as Truffel Snow on the record. Emaline's second husband, Mr La Gow, had also left her a widow. When his mother signed his death record, she had guessed his father was born in New York, maybe as she had been born there and the two families knew each other from that place. However, in reality, his father, Mr Snow, was French Canadian, from Quebec. A tree at Family Search states that his father's French name was Theophile Chenard, Tuffel a nickname. Howeve,r the father dropped Chenard called himself John Henry Snow for his Censuses, hs a stint in the federal military at the end of the Civil War, but was in the military records s Tuffel Snow.
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Paper death record cites body removal from Sioux City to Ponca, Nebraska, where his father lies buried.
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