Patrick Edward Snider

Jack married Mary Eileen Gaines [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1910, S. Washington St., Siloam Springs, Benton County, AR
• Occupation: 1910, Siloam Springs, Benton County, AR; telegraph operator

Notes:

Edmund Pendleton Gaines, according to a letter dated 9 Oct 1915, from him to the Hon. Z. M. P. Inge (1856-1920) of Mobile, was in Regiment No. 103764, 33rd Divisional Signal Co. Royal Engineers, New Expeditionary Forces, and his address was Hut 34 - No. 9 Lines Bulford Camp, Salisbury Plain Wiltshire, England; and he was expecting to go to the front on about 1 Dec 1915. A letter received from his aunt, Mrs. Helen Marr Gaines Duke, in late Dec 1915, mentioned that he had been wounded and was in a hospital in London. Later he lived in Denver, Colorado.

Edmund married Margot Persen on 27 Jul 1929 in Denver, Denver County, CO. Margot was born in 1897 in Oslo, Norway; died on 3 Sep 1932; was buried in Fairmount Cem., Denver, CO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Greenwood, Sebastian County, AR
• Occupation: 1900, Greenwood, Sebastian County, AR; commercial traveler

Notes:

Marshall Strother Gaines was educated in Fayetteville, Ark. and began clerking in a store in that city at the age of eighteen. After several years he moved to Greenwood, Ark. and established a mercantile business of his own. In 1883 he formed a partnership with Thos. E. Little and the firm was named L & G. This company continued until December 1887 when the partnership was dissolved by mutual agreement and the firm became M. S. Gaines and Company. Their stock of merchandise was the largest in Greenwood and the business was successful. He was a Democrat; a member of the school board of Greenwood. for six years; a Master Mason; a K of H; and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. (The foregoing was adapted from History of North West Arkansas - author unknown; publisher and date of publication, unknown.)

Marshall married Rebecca Ann Hodgens on 25 May 1877 in Greenwood, Sebastain County, AR. Rebecca (daughter of Joseph Hodgens and Martha Elizabeth) was born in 1861 in Mississippi; died on 20 Mar 1887 in Greenwood, Sebastian County, AR; was buried in Greenwood Cem., Greenwood, Sebastian County, AR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]