Wilma Schlyter

Family/Spouse: Fred Zimmerman. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married Nellie Evalyn Long on 08 Sep 1916. Nellie (daughter of Charles W. Long and Olive Anna Snelson) was born on 12 Nov 1895 in Genoa, Nance County, Nebraska; died on 04 Feb 1968 in Colorado; was buried in St Edwards Cem., St Edwards, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Olive Anna Snelson. Olive (daughter of James Henry Snelson and Mary Elizabeth Gatewood) was born on 16 Sep 1876; died on 13 Apr 1965. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

James Henry Snelson is my 2nd Great Granduncle.

James married Mary Elizabeth Gatewood on 22 Feb 1862. Mary (daughter of Richardson Hunt Gatewood and Olive Ann Broyles) was born on 03 Nov 1839 in Indiana, USA; died on 16 Mar 1905 in Genoa, Nance, Nebraska, USA; was buried in Valley View Cem., Genoa, Vance County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary Elizabeth Gatewood Snelson, was the wife of my 2nd Granduncle, James Henry Snelson. She was therefore my 2nd Grandaunt by marriage. She was the Grandaunt of Orville and Wilbur Wright, who flew the first airplane almost 900 feet in 59 secondnds at Kitty Hawk, South Carolina, on December 16, 1903. My grandfather played with Orvile and Wilbur Wright brothers when he was a young child living near Oskaloosa, Iowa. The Wright brothers made their first flight one day after Grandpa Tripp's 32nd birthday. Mary Elizabeth Gatewood Snelson was tough! She married a couple of times after her husband, James Henry Snelson died. They had a homestead farm in northern Jewel County Kansas, which was just south of Superior, Nebraska. She married a Mr. Fitzsimmons and a Mr. Riley. None of the marriages lasted more than a few months or a year or two. They threatened her in various matters, one put her in the buggy and then frightened the horses so they ran, upset the buggy. She survived. Another time the nut on the wheel was removed and another "run-away," she survived. Another time her life was threatened if she didn't deed the property over, but the pluckey, spirited Mary Elizabeth did not budge. She rid herself of each of the greedy lechers. A Hank Peterson even tried to help one of the would be leachers by trying to trick Mary into signing over the deed to him with a promise to give her some money in a few days, but to no avail, she wasn't easily fooled. She d divorced the first and scared to death the other, Ella Snelson Sabin said, she did not really know what happened to the other one. Around 1900 she moved to Genoa, Nebraska, bought a home and her son Jackson lived with her till he married. Laterr, before her death, she deeded the farm to a Dr. Davis in Genoa to pay her medical bill. She had been quite ill for a few years, and in 1905 she passed away, buried in Genoa Cemetery, I think she would have been fun to know, says my third cousin Annie June Meese Hofmann, of Holdredge, Nebraska.