Photograph of a handwritten note written by Philip Snapp in 1796.
It says, "I do agree that John Newell may have my daughter to enter into a state of metrimony [sic]." The note is dated December 12, 1796 and signed (an "X" has been made) by…
His parents were Frank Kern and Elizabeth (Newell) Stickley, a farming couple from the Davis District of Shenandoah County. He married Sarah Irene Stickley (1903-1968), from Frederick County, and lived…