G.M.D. SNEAD

SNEAD, INMAN, FIFE

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 7/19/2009 at 12:15:35

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

G. M. D. SNEAD, farmer, Sec. 15; P.O. Livingston; born in Richmond, Va., in 1845; in 1858, came to this county; his father, John S., was a cabinet maker by trade; afterward on the police force at Richmond; died there during the cholera of 1851; his mother then married James Inman, and with them he came to this county; his mother died here in 1864; his stepfather afterward removed to Ohio. During the year 1863, en enlisted in the 8th I.V.C., Co. H, Capt. Waldren; was at Chattanooga and all the battles from that to Atlanta; wounded at Newman and taken prisoner; held at Andersonville most of the time for nine months, then taken to Florida and turned loose without even a shirt and bare footed; succeeded in reaching our lines in April 1865, and was discharged under act of Congress regarding prisoners, June 6, 1865. Returned home in November 1866, and married Miss Sarah Fife; she was born in Lee Co., Iowa, in 1849; her father was a pioneer of that county from Floyd Co., Ind., but now a resident of Putnam Co., Mo.; they have six children - Louisa B., David R., John, Clarence and infant twins not named. Republican; she is a member of the Baptist Church. He has held the school offices and Township Trustee; was elected to that office again at the last election.