Alvan "Al" Snowden: Manslaughter

Alvan Snowden was born 3 Feb 1868 in Athens, OH to Preston Snowden (1840-1927) & Sarah Ellen Gates (1843-), they would divorce.



Inmate: #9087 Montana State Prison
Rec: 18 Jan 1929
Crime: Manslaughter
Age: 61





Here's another article I found.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52869210/al-snowden/


Before coming to Montana in 1893 he was working for the North Pacific Railroad in Mandan, ND. I lived there for 30 some years, beautiful place, it's a twin city to Bismarck divided my the Missouri River.

Al had the following siblings:

Spouse (Married 22 Nov 1860 in Morgan, OH)
Sarah Ellen Gates (1843-)
Sherman Snowden
1865–1947
Alvan "Al" Snowden
1868–1939

Spouse (married 29 dec 1865 in Tipton, IN)
Martha A Baker

Sarah Ellen Gates would marry and have more children

Spouse & Children 
Jerry Voter
1840–
Merrevy J Voter
1872–
John Voter
1875–
Archa Voter

1879–

I found Sarah and Jerry in 1880 census with her children from her first marriage and the children she had with Jerry in Salisbury, Meigs, Ohio. He was a farmer. He was also listed as being mulatto as were their children, she and her children from first marriage are listed as white. I found that to be astounding for that time period. There were only a little over 6,000 people living there in 2000. 


It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Al's father Preston Snowden, who is listed on his prison record, so I am wondering if a marriage date for one of his wives are wrong. as AL was born in 1868, or he was a bigamist and had 2 wives and at some point Srah found out and divorced him.

Preston was a Corporal in the Civil War, I found this application for a headstone.



I didn't find any marriages or children for Al. Al died 3 Dec 1939 in Reno, NV.

I wonder if the dogs were fighting each other on their own because they didn't like each other or if they were holding a dog fights. 


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