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Carrie Louisa Granger

Carrie Snyder

22 March 1853—25 July 1880

Born 22 Mar. 1853 in Hardwick, Worcester Co., Massachusetts.1 Daughter of Henry H. Granger and Lucy Minerva Woodward.2 Niece of EBW.3 Father died during the Civil War, 30 Oct. 1864.4  Attended school in Mattoon Township, Coles Co., Illinois, 1870.5 Living in Salt Lake City, 1873; taught at Miss Cook’s School and at the district school in the Salt Lake City Ninth Ward.6  Married George Snyder, 1 Oct. 1874, in Saline Co., Kansas; two children.7 Lived in Salt Lake City, 1875–1876.8 Died 25 July 1880 in Atchison, Atchison Co., Kansas.9  

Footnotes

  1. 1 Massachusetts, Secretary of Commonwealth, Births, Marriages (1841–1895), and Deaths (1841–1899), Births, vol. 74, p. 168, Carrie Louisa Granger, 22 Mar. 1853, microfilm 1420836, DGS 4285087, image 795/883, FHL. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 31 Oct. 2019), Carrie Louisa Granger (LH6M-L3X). 

  2. 2 Massachusetts, Secretary of Commonwealth, Births, Marriages (1841–1895), and Deaths (1841–1899), Births, vol. 74, p. 168, Carrie Louisa Granger, 22 Mar. 1853, microfilm 1420836, DGS 4285087, image 795/883, FHL. U.S., Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861–1934, Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War Veterans, ca. 1861–ca. 1934, database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com, accessed 7 Apr. 2021).

  3. 3 Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017), 503.

  4. 4 U.S., Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861–1934, Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War Veterans, ca. 1861–ca. 1934, database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com, accessed 7 Apr. 2021).

  5. 5 1870 U.S. Census, Mattoon Township, Coles Co., IL, p. 55, Carrie Hewling.

  6. 6 “In Memoriam,” Woman’s Exponent, 15 Aug. 1880, 45.

  7. 7 Saline Co., KS, Probate Court, Kansas County Marriages, 1855–1911, Marriage Affidavits, 1873–1879, George E. Snyder and Carrie S. Granger, 1 Oct. 1874, microfilm 2383751, DGS 4665235, image 162/2026, FHL. 1880 U.S. Census, Atchison City, Atchison Co., KS, ED 1, p. 8D, George E. Snyder.

  8. 8 EBW, Diary, 13 June 1875; 6 Feb. 1876; 7 May 1876.

  9. 9 “Died,” Atchison (KS) Patriot, 31 July 1880, 3. Saline County Journal (Salina, KS), 29 July 1880, 3. EBW, Diary, 22 Mar. 1892 and 22 Mar. 1894.