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Ella Snyder - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From The Madison Journal June 20, 1913

MRS. ELLA SNYDER

Many friends were grieved to learn of the death of Mrs. Ella Snyder which occurred in the Presbyterian 
Hospital in New Orleans on June 12th, 1914. Mrs. Snyder had been in declining health for some time and 
was carried to New Orleans in the hope of prolonging her life, but the skill of physicians and nurses 
and the care of devoted sons and daughters was of no avail. 

She was accompanied to New Orleans by a trained nurse, her son Mr. Jeff B. Snyder and her daughter 
Mrs. Tullis Watson of Tensas parish, the latest named who remained in close attendance and in this faithful 
daughter's arms the death Angel claimed the wearied mother who has lain down to rest. Mrs. Snyder had 
three daughters, Mrs. May Vickers and Mrs. Harry Stiles who reside in New Orleans, and Mrs. Tullis Watson 
of Tensas parish and two sons, Mr. Jeff B. Snyder of Tallulah and Mr. Ike Snyder of Baton Rouge.	

Everything that love could suggest, everything that could be done to bear attestation of the devotion of 
her children was unstintingly bestowed but the end was inevitable and we feel that she has been received 
into the glory of a better world. Mrs. Snyder was a resident; of Tallulah, making her home with her son, 
Mr. Jeff B. Snyder. She often expressed regret that her strength would not permit her to make even more 
beautiful the home of one whom she held in such affectionate regard. In this home she presided with gentle 
dignity and grace. Mrs. Snyder vas a grand woman and has done a noble part in the world by giving sons and 
daughters in whom she had a just feeling of pride. Will not this with other noble things she has done for 
the world praise her in the gates which have opened to receive her in the light of a new life? Her passing 
away after a long and useful life was like the going down of the sun upon a summer day, and the twilight 
of her life was filled with the sweetness and beauty of the years gone before. Her scintillating intellect 
and charm will long be remembered by many admiring friends.

Friendship's love
Will never die
When earnest kind and true; It borrows brightness
From the sun,
From Heaven, a perfect hue,
There is no death
For friendship's love
For it will live the same, Though death remorseless
With fell force
Extinguish life's weak flame! For Love is mighty
will live on
There is no death can sever 
The ties. Which bind
Our earthly life
Will stronger grow forever
M. B. Y.

From the Times-Picayune

Mrs. Ella H. Snyder, mother of the late Robert H. Snyder, formerly Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, and at one 
time Speaker of the house died Friday at the Presbyterian Hospital. She had been undergoing treatment for a 
lingering illness, and her death was a relief horn suffering.

Mrs. Snyder had reached the advanced age of eighty-three years, and was a great grandmother. She was the widow 
of Robert H. Snyder of St. Joseph, La., and the mother of eleven children, five of whom are living. She was married 
twice, her first husband having been James Carson of Louisville, Ky., by whom she had one child, Mrs. M. V. Vickers 
of this city. The other living children are Jeff B. Snyder, a prominent attorney of North Louisiana; 
Mrs. H . W. Stiles of New Orleans; J. Tullis Watson of St. Joseph, La., and I. H. Snyder of Baton Rouge.

Mrs. Snyder was the daughter of Charles Julius Hadermann of Germany, who was a distinguished scholar and a graduate 
of Heidelberg University. Her mother was Miss Mathilde Norman of Maryland. Mrs. Snyder was one of those splendid 
characters of womanhood for which the South is famous. She possessed a rare beauty and a voice of such modulation 
and sweetness that she charmed all with whom she came in contact, and she was loved and admired by a large number 
of persons throughout the State.

No funeral services were held here, as the body was sent direct from the hospital to Tallulah, La., her old home, 
were it was interred Saturday .---Times-Picayune.

Seldom has a community sustained a greater loss than that of Mrs. Ella H. Snyder. None knew her but to love her. A 
more intimate acquaintance would only have revealed the treasures of her mind and her lofty character; her gifts were many.

To the bereaved sons and daughters and to her sister, we extend our heartfelt sympathies.

A FRIEND