{"id":102619,"date":"2025-04-23T08:48:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=102619"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:23:56","slug":"mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-43-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-43-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 43 (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Introduction:<\/em><\/strong><em> In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing on the family lines of Hopkins descendant Kenneth Souder Snow Jr. Melissa is a genealogist who has a website, <a href=\"http:\/\/americana-archives.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">americana-archives.com<\/a>, and a Facebook group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/HistoryGenNEFamilies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New England Family Genealogy and History<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today I continue with my series on \u201cMayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who,\u201d focusing on the family lines of Kenneth Souder Snow Jr. (1937-2008), one of the six children born to Kenneth Souder \u201cSnowbird\u201d Snow Sr. and Anne Mary (Lovett) Snow.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a photo of Kenneth Souder Snow Jr. taken on Memorial Day in 1990 outside the Vet Memorial Home, Landis Avenue, Vineland, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102621\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102621\" style=\"width: 1011px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo-0423-2025-kenneth-snow-jr.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kenneth Souder Snow Jr. Credit: Dominick Joseph Rebeck; New Jersey State Library.\" width=\"1011\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo-0423-2025-kenneth-snow-jr.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo-0423-2025-kenneth-snow-jr-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo-0423-2025-kenneth-snow-jr-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1011px) 100vw, 1011px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kenneth Souder Snow Jr. Credit: Dominick Joseph Rebeck; New Jersey State Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Snow is a 12th generation lineal descendant of <em>Mayflower<\/em> passengers Stephen Hopkins and his daughter Constance Hopkins (who married Nicholas Snow). Nicholas Snow arrived in Plymouth on the ship <a href=\"https:\/\/mayflowerhistory.com\/anne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Anne<\/em><\/a> in 1623.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102623\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102623\" style=\"width: 1063px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/collage-0423-2025-constance-snow-grave-marker.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: grave marker for Constance (Hopkins) Snow. Credit: Mark Wentling.\" width=\"1063\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/collage-0423-2025-constance-snow-grave-marker.jpg 1063w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/collage-0423-2025-constance-snow-grave-marker-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/collage-0423-2025-constance-snow-grave-marker-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/collage-0423-2025-constance-snow-grave-marker-768x518.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1063px) 100vw, 1063px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos: grave marker for Constance (Hopkins) Snow. Credit: Mark Wentling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Lineage<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stephen Hopkins and Mary (Kent?)<\/li>\n<li>Constance Hopkins and Nicholas Snow<\/li>\n<li>Mark Snow and Jane Prence<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Snow and Lydia Sears<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Snow and Rachel Nickerson<\/li>\n<li>Samuel Snow and Mary White<\/li>\n<li>Samuel Snow and Elizabeth (Hooper) Frost<\/li>\n<li>Richard Dowse Snow and Sally Quimby Foss<\/li>\n<li>Richard Dowse Snow Jr. and Jane McCullough<\/li>\n<li>Robert Kellock Snow and Sarah Alzira Souder<\/li>\n<li>Kenneth Souder Snow and Ann Mary Lovett<\/li>\n<li>Kenneth Souder Snow Jr. married Joyce \u201cJoy\u201d Linville Winfeldt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 1990 Kenneth Souder Snow Jr. was featured in a newspaper article entitled \u201cLike His Ancestors, He Travels the World.\u201d In this article, Snow provides some insights into his ancestors, and I supplement his account with further historical details.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102624\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102624\" style=\"width: 1443px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A124ABFFE25150BEB%40GB3NEWS-1870DAD9F5156225%402448230-1870D65AA9EAC3EE%4010-1870D65AA9EAC3EE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bridgeton-evening-news-newspaper-1204-1990-kenneth-snow.jpg\" alt=\"An article about Kenneth Snow Jr., Bridgeton Evening News newspaper 4 December 199\" width=\"1443\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bridgeton-evening-news-newspaper-1204-1990-kenneth-snow.jpg 1443w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bridgeton-evening-news-newspaper-1204-1990-kenneth-snow-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bridgeton-evening-news-newspaper-1204-1990-kenneth-snow-1024x314.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bridgeton-evening-news-newspaper-1204-1990-kenneth-snow-768x236.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1443px) 100vw, 1443px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bridgeton Evening News (Bridgeton, New Jersey), 4 December 1990, page 11<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Snow, like his <em>Mayflower<\/em> ancestor Stephen Hopkins, was an explorer and loved adventure. He traveled the world during his 30 years serving in the United States Navy and visited over 35 countries. His impressive career would have made Hopkins proud.<\/p>\n<p>Snow tells the press about Hopkins sailing to Bermuda, Virginia, and then Plymouth, which you can read all about at the links at the end of this article.<\/p>\n<p>This photo, from the Plymouth Tercentenary Pageant, shows reenactors representing Stephen Hopkins, his wife Elizabeth, and their children \u2013 including infant son Oceanus, the only child born during the <em>Mayflower\u2019s<\/em> journey across the Atlantic. This photo was taken in August 1921 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, by Edward P. McLaughlin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102625\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102625\" style=\"width: 1112px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo-0423-2025-hopkins-family.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: reenactors representing the Hopkins family, at the Plymouth Tercentenary Pageant. Credit: in the collection of the Plymouth Public Library, courtesy of Digital Commonwealth.\" width=\"1112\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo-0423-2025-hopkins-family.jpg 1112w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo-0423-2025-hopkins-family-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo-0423-2025-hopkins-family-1024x658.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo-0423-2025-hopkins-family-768x494.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1112px) 100vw, 1112px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: reenactors representing the Hopkins family, at the Plymouth Tercentenary Pageant. Credit: in the collection of the Plymouth Public Library, courtesy of Digital Commonwealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to this article, Snow\u2019s interest in history began at an early age, but it was his uncle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/138470178\/marvin_e-snow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marvin Earl Snow<\/a>, governor of the Cinnamon Township New Jersey Society of Mayflower Descendants, who piqued his interest in genealogy. Snow comments that his children benefit in school studies from knowledge of their pioneer ancestors, \u201cespecially when they study history and government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Snow not only has genealogical ties with the Pilgrims who landed in Plymouth in 1620, but also to one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence: John Hart.<\/p>\n<p>Snow was a member of both the Society of Mayflower Descendants and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dsdi1776.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Descendants of Signers<\/a>,\u201d for those who are direct descendants of signers of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>Snow\u2019s membership application for the Society of Descendants of Signers was proven through the marriage of his grandfather Robert Kellock Snow (1886-1969) to Sarah Alzira Souder, a direct descendant of John Hart (1713-1779) of New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Another distinguished ancestor in Kenneth S. Snow\u2019s lineage is Plymouth Governor Thomas Prence, whose daughter Jane (1637-1712), born to his second wife Mary Collier, married Captain Mark Snow (1628-1695).<\/p>\n<p>A relic of the Collier family, a pewter plate dating back to the mid-17th century, is housed in the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston and was part of the exhibition \u201cNew England Begins: The Seventeenth Century,\u201d in 1982.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102626\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102626\" style=\"width: 1195px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102626\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/collage-0423-2025-pewter-plate.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: views of the Collier pewter plate, part of the 17th-Century New England: Brown-Pearl Hall Gallery, courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.\" width=\"1195\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/collage-0423-2025-pewter-plate.jpg 1195w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/collage-0423-2025-pewter-plate-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/collage-0423-2025-pewter-plate-1024x615.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/collage-0423-2025-pewter-plate-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1195px) 100vw, 1195px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos: views of the Collier pewter plate, part of the 17th-Century New England: Brown-Pearl Hall Gallery, courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The plate\u2019s stamped touchmark is a crowned Tudor rose in shield shape, bearing the initials of Mary (Collier) Prence\u2019s parents William and Jane Collier.<\/p>\n<p>William Collier, a merchant adventurer from London, provided the <em>Mayflower<\/em> and the resources to outfit it for its voyage to New England in 1620.<\/p>\n<p>Collier came to New England with his family in 1633, and the following year he served as an assistant to Plymouth governors, first under Gov. William Bradford and later under his son-in-law Gov. Thomas Prence. In 1659 Collier was designated \u201crichest man in the Colony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to antiquarians the plate has an excellent provenance of American ownership. It descended to the Colliers\u2019 daughter Mary, wife of Governor Thomas Prence, and then to their daughter Judith (Prence) Barker and remained in the family until Mrs. Harriet (Westcott) Lawrie gifted the plate to the MFA. Mrs. Lawrie was the daughter of Stephen and Mary (Barker) Westcott and wife of William Lawrie.<\/p>\n<p>Another characteristic Snow inherited from his ancestors was a charitable nature. His deep need to be of service reveals itself in newspaper articles.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one from the <em>Trentonian<\/em>, who covered him and Lodge members making some veteran soldiers very happy during the holidays.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102627\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102627\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A14445B534B5AB507%40GB3NEWS-189A380BA64A976C%402447570-1897E160E15A20F6%40148-1897E160E15A20F6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102627\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/trentonian-newspaper-0212-1989-veterans-home.jpg\" alt=\"An article about a veterans home, Trentonian newspaper 12 February 1989\" width=\"840\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/trentonian-newspaper-0212-1989-veterans-home.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/trentonian-newspaper-0212-1989-veterans-home-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/trentonian-newspaper-0212-1989-veterans-home-768x664.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trentonian (Trenton, New Jersey), 12 February 1989, page 149<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This article reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Veterans Committee of the Bordentown Elks Lodge 2085 and Auxiliary visited the Vineland Veterans Home recently and distributed individual gifts consisting of socks, wool hats, tissues, stationery, pens, fruit and surprise items.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Snow is among the lodge members, volunteers, and vets shown in the photo features, appearing in the photo on the upper left. That photo caption reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Showing off some of the gifts that were distributed are (from left): Denise Pikolycky, recreation supervisor; Edward DeBosky, Veterans Committee chairman; Robin Spaulding, volunteer service assistant; and Ken Snow Jr., chief executive officer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The holiday cheer was spread through the Vet Memorial Home by gifts distributed by Santa, the singing of Christmas carols, and an obvious caring spirit.<\/p>\n<p>During his Vietnam tour of duty Snow worked to improve living conditions of orphans in DaNang, Vietnam. He received the Legion of Merit Medal.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more on Snow\u2019s amazing life and his Marblehead, Massachusetts, kin.<\/p>\n<p>Explore over 330 years of newspapers and historical records in GenealogyBank. Discover your family story! <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/sign-up\">Start a 7-Day Free Trial<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Note on the header image:<\/em><\/strong> \u201cMayflower in Plymouth Harbor,\u201d by William Halsall, 1882. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related Articles:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/stephen-hopkins-the-wreck-of-the-sea-venture.html\">Stephen Hopkins &amp; the Wreck of the \u2018Sea Venture\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/stephen-hopkins-the-wreck-of-the-sea-venture-part-2.html\">Stephen Hopkins &amp; the Wreck of the \u2018Sea Venture\u2019 (part 2)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3xrY5KW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayflower Mutiny &amp; Other Musings on Stephen Hopkins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3IxRl4j\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayflower Mutiny &amp; Other Musings on Stephen Hopkins (part 2)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-38-part-1.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 38 (part 1)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing on the family lines of Hopkins descendant Kenneth Souder Snow Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":102630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[12,59014,18761],"class_list":["post-102619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-genealogy","tag-kenneth-souder-snow-jr","tag-mayflower-and-pilgrims"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/illustration-0720-2016-mayflower.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102619"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102634,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102619\/revisions\/102634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}