Snow, Hedick, Grubbs, McKeown Families

Photo Info

Cora (McKeown) Snow, Sallie (Lee) Hedick, Anna (Mein) McKeown, Mary McKeown (in lap), Ella Maud (Snow) Hice, Jim Snow, Robert Grubbs, Edgar Snow

3rd and 4th generation Hernando County families in 1908. Brooksville business owners, local politicians and community leaders in the photo and in the generations to come.

Anna Mein McKeown, who can be seen in the center of the photo with her daughter, Mary McKeown, was know as ‘Sweetheart of Snow HIll’. She, as a young girl, took an interest in books and mastered Blue Black Speller, McGuffy’s Reader, and Smith’s Grammar. In 1888 she married Addison Porter McKeown who ran the Add post office just north of Brooksville on Snow Hill. Anna’s eldest daughter can be seen on all the way to the left in the photo, Cora McKeown (Snow). Cora. Cora was know to be lively and fun. She was know for her love of all children. Cora raised three step daughters and had nine of her own children, of which seven lived to adulthood. Cora’s son Gene went on to own and operate the Brooksville Lumber Yard and her other son, Roy Snow went on to own and operate several successful Brooksville businesses, most notably, Snow and Bell, Inc . Roy Snow also served on the Hernando County Board of County Commissioners from 1965-1967.

CITATIONS/CREDITS:

http://www.fivay.org/hernando.html