The Greene & Pickens Black Families Association
The Snoddy Family originated from Ireland and migrated to Spartanburg County, South Carolina.  
Dr. Samuel Snoddy was the only member from his family that migrated to Greene County,
Alabama.  He was born in 1809 to Samuel Snoddy & Elizabeth Cowan.  He married Elizabeth Jane
Morrow and they settled in the Mantua area.  However, in that time it was Pickens County.  Dr.
Samuel Snoddy was a wealthy doctor who owned several slaves.  A few of his slaves were his
wife's inheritance.  There was a large population of Snoddys, which is why they made their own
community.  Most of the individuals that resided there were Snoddy and Morrow descendants.  

As for as the black Snoddy's, there is only a few sets of Snoddys.  However, several of them
claimed they are related to one another.  One interesting Snoddy slave was a man named Nimrod
Snoddy.  According to this descendants, he was not an original Snoddy.  In the early 1840's, he
escaped from a plantation in South Carolina and made his way to the Snoddy Plantation.  It was
then said that he somehow begged Dr. Snoddy to purchase him and that is how he became a
Snoddy.  When slavery ended, Nimrod wanted to distinguish himself from the other Snoddy,
which is why he took the surname of Nimrod.  He still has Snoddy and Nimrod descendants,
because his children married other Snoddys. Nimrod later became a pastor and so did one of his
sons, Aaron.  

Another Snoddy story is that three men named Sam Snoddy, Sam Colvin, & Sam Caldwell were
each charged with murdering a white man in 1869.  It seems that a white man was traveling the
dark dirt road and never made it to his destination.  No one actually saw anyone commit the crime.
 The only evidence the sheriff had was that Sam Snoddy was seen talking to Sam Caldwell, while
he was washing some blood off his shirt.  It is possible that the blood could have come from any
where.  The victim was white and the man observed was black.  By the end of the week, the three
named were each lynched.  
Dr. Samuel Snoddy & Family
Samuel Jackson Snoddy
The son of Samuel Snoddy & Anna
Elizabeth Pippen.  Grandson of
Timothy Snoddy & Mary Walker and
William Pippen & Sarah Carpenter
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Carrie Kirkland Shambley (1900-1985)
The daughter of Henderson Kirkland & Sarah Nimrod.
 Grandson of Rev. Aaron Nimrod & Frances Snoddy
Margaret Lucille Shambley-Snoddy
The daughter of Johnny Shambley &
Carrie Kirkland.  Grand dau of Rev.
Anderson Shambley & Susan Maxwell
and Henderson Kirkland & Sarah Nimrod.  
William Bill Snoddy (1921-1999)
The son of Timothy Snoddy & Susie Freeman.  
Grandson of Thomas Snoddy & Frances Nimrod and
Jane Freeman
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Tim Snoddy (1924-1995)
The son of Timothy Snoddy &
Susie Freeman.  Grandson of
Thomas Snoddy & Frances
Nimrod and Jane Freeman
SSGT John D. Barnes Jr. (1932-1992)
The son of John D. Barnes & Myrtice Burton.  Grandson of
Willis Barnes & Rosie Barnes and Elias Burton & Elizabeth
Snoddy
Charlotte Smith-Burton (1874)
The daughter of Providence
Smith & Mary Ann Snoddy.  
Grandson of Charlotte Snoddy
Henderson Anderson Shambley (1925-1996)
The son of Johnny Shambley & Carrie Kirkland.  
Grandson of Rev. Anderson Shambley & Susan
Maxwell and Henderson Kirkland & Sarah Nimrod.
Ethel Somerville-Snoddy
The daughter of Andrew "Ann" Somerville &
Luberta Horton.  Grand dau of Sam
Somerville & Martha Robertson and John
Horton & Amelia "Mela" Lavender.  Wife of
Ocie Snoddy.  Son of Percy Snoddy &
Pearlie Wilder
The Snoddy Sisters:
(L) Georgia Lee Snoddy-Jones (1920-1968) & Frances Snoddy (1924-1995)
The daughters of Timothy Snoddy & Susie Freeman.  Grandson of Thomas Snoddy & Frances
Nimrod and Jane Freeman
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