189. . . The Snodgrasses are of Irish origin. Three brothers, William, James and Michael Snodgrass, came for Ireland and settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania. Michael wandered away, and was never heard from again, and William and James removed to Monongalia - now Marion - county, (W.) Virginia, in 1787; and three years later James met a tragic death at the hands of the Indians, on Fishing creek in Wetzel county, while in quest of his horse that he had lost while on a buffalo chase. His remains were afterwards found and buried, but not until the flesh had been torn from the bones by the fangs of wolves.
William married Miss Kathrine Yost, a German maiden, and from his sons, William, junior, Isaac and Franklin, the Ritchie county Snodgrasses are descended. Isaac was the father of the late Mrs. John Parker, of Nathan, who went West, and of Elias Snodgrass, who died in Doddridge county.