Lila Simpson Snow

Thad & Lila Snow
Frances & Emily

My Nana was interviewed by a professor at Southeast Missouri State University in 1999 for a book that was being published about my great-grandfather, Thad Snow. My mom recently found a copy of the interview and I just loved these excerpts about my own daughter's namesake.

Q: Can you tell me about your mother?

A: She was a native of this town, born in the town [Charleston, MO]. Her maiden name was Simpson. Born on a farm over on Big Lake. Lila Simpson Snow. For a woman at that time she was quite scholarly. She went to a little college around Independence [MO]. She had college work.

Q: Did she read a lot?

A: Yes, yes. She and Dad [Thad Snow] spent their time with their noses in books when he wasn't farming. In fact they met over a copy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She had a copy, and he heard about it, and he went and asked if he could borrow it. That's how they met.