Jeff B. Snyder - Submitted for the USGenWeb by Richard P. Sevier 1/29/2012 USGenWeb NOTICE: All documents placed in the USGenWeb remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities, when written permission is obtained from the contributor, so long as all notices and submitter information are included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. ************************************************************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. ************************************************************************************************ Jeff B. Snyder - Madison Parish, Louisiana From Tallulah Madison Journal, October 19, 1951 Jeff B. Snyder Succumbs Thursday At Vicksburg Hospital. Body of Prominent Figure Lay In State at Tallulah Courthouse Thursday Jeff B. Snyder, 92-year old prominent figure of Tallulah, and legal circles, succumbed Thursday morning, October 18th at a Vicksburg Hospital following a lingering illness. He would have been 92 years of age on January 18th. Mr. Snyder, who was District Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District for more than 43 years, was a native of Tensas Parish. He was born in St. Joseph, La., on January 19, 1859, and had been resident of this community for many years. He retired from office of District Attorney at the age of 89 years, 6 months, and 17 days. He took his first oath of office District Attorney on December 1904. He was elected to the Louisiana Legislature in the 1890's and served half a term, when he resigned to accept an appointment le by President Grover Cleveland as Naval Officer of Customs of the Port of New Orleans, which once he filled for more than four years until the Republicans regained possession of the government and Democratic officials came out. He was a graduate of the Tulane University Law School, and resumed the practice of law at Tallulah on his return from New Orleans. He was elected a delegate from Madison Parish to the Constitutional Convention of 1898. He also elected a delegate from Madison Parish to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1921, which body he was unanimously elected First Vice-President. At one time, Mr. Snyder was publisher of the old Madison Journal. His body lay at state in the Court House of Tallulah Thursday afternoon and night and was moved to the Trinity Episcopal Church, where he lay in state until o'clock this morning (Friday), when funeral services were conducted by the Rev. J. Daniel Gilliam under direction of Young's Funeral Home in the Silver Cross Cemetery. Pallbearers were R. M. Webb, Ira Baxter, C. E. Hester, W. P. Sevier, Jr., W. Mc F. Long, Emmett Craig, R. R. Spigner, Maxwell Yerger. Honorary pallbearers were Senator Russell Long, Rep. Otto Passman, Chief Justice of State Supreme Court John B. Fournet, Judge Ben C. Dawkins, Judge Portere, District Attorney Thompson L. Clarke, Judge Frank Voelker, Ex-Senator Joseph Ramsdell, Sen. Allen Ellender, Fred Hudson, Frank Thomas, H. C. Massey, Nolan Harvey, Hall Allen, Dr. George W. Webb, Geo. W. Webb, Sr., Edgar Lancaster, Sr., W. W. Burnside, Dr. Joseph Whittaker, Joe Curry, Dick Whitney, David Lide, Sen. A. L. Sevier, James R. Linton, Sam Scurria, Sr., M. M. Bloom. Judge Snyder is survived by one sister, Mrs. Kate Watson, Tallulah; three nephews, Robert S. Vickers, Donaldsonville, La.; Harry S. Stiles, Jr., New Orleans, La.; Ernest L. Watson, Tallulah; seven nieces, Mrs. Mable T. Snyder, Sadie and Jeanette Vickers, Mrs. Ella Braunick, Mrs. Aldwida Simmons, all of New Orleans; Mrs. W. K. Anderson, Clarksdale, Miss.; Mrs. Gladys Sturges, Baton Rouge. La.