Ancestry of
Richard A. Snelling

76th and 78th Governor of Vermont

William Walter Snelling

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• • Great-grandfather of Richard A. Snelling — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • John Snelling 
  • Mother:
  • Charlotte Swan   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT Apr 1829 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Oct 1863 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Susan Otheman Macreading
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1858 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Walter Comonfort Snelling (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  • Notes: 

  • William Snelling died on board a government transport while on his way home from Washington while a soldier in the Union Army.

• Sources for William Walter Snelling

  • ¹ Boston Daily Advertiser (Boston, Massachusetts), 07 OCT 1863, p. 2, Death notice for William W Snelling.
  • ² Federal Census, KS, Arapahoe County, 1860, Nevada Gulch, p. 510, Image 20 of 22.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/09/2025).
  • ⁴ Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915, Death record for William W Snelling, while traveling home from Washington.
  • ⁵ The Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 07 OCT 1863, p. 2, Obituary for William W Snelling.
  • ⁶ The Springfield Daily Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), 06 OCT 1863, p. 4, "Death of a Massachusetts Soldier".
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 789.