Wife of Joseph Walker Snoddy Sr., War of 1812 veteran, from Kentucky and early Howard County Missouri pioneer. Married him in March of 1819. Lived on the old Missouri homestead farm the family built until she died in 1889. She had 11 known children and two son`s killed in the War Between the States. Two daughters married Denny`s(one in 1857)just before the war broke out who where Unionists. Because the Snoddy`s and most of their relatives where on the side of the south during the War Between the States they where targeted by the Federals in the area. Narcissa`s daughter Mary Ann who`s brothers served in the Confederate Army was married to Alexander Denny a Captain in the local Enrolled Missouri Militia. This was a Federal Mounted Company. This outfit and probably others raided our family farms taking all the horses, livestock, and fodder. This was so they could not aid any Confederates in the area and probably to punish them as well. Howard county was really "behind" the lines and Confederate bushwackers where everywhere. Many famous Confederate partisans where from these parts. It was a hard and dirty job to stop them. The Federal soldiers even burned the barns and several outbuildings of their farms to keep anybody from helping these desperate southern men.
This family saga raged for years after the war and many in the families carried grudges until the day they died. A cousin(Marilyn Duke)of this compiler wrote me in 1993 that even as a girl, in the 1930`s, she did not know why many in these families disliked each other so much. It was not until later in her life that family research uncovered these stories and explained to her what had happened. The Denny`s and others had become much better off after the war than our family too and much of this was a direct result of the war conflict and later problems. Poor Narcissa had to live through all of this and I often wonder what many of her relationships with her children and other relatives where like. Loosing two sons and others during the war and two daughters marring "Yankees" before the war. Having their farms almost destroyed and ruined by federal soldiers married into the family must of been hard to take.
She had several body servant slaves before the war. One named Henry is known to have helped her and worked on the farm. Narcissa`s children where;

1. Foster died young on the farm
2. Nancy 10/04/1820 - 11/13/1903
3. John 4/13/1823 - 5/31/1895
4. Samuel Walker 2/15/1829 - 2/03/1873
5. Robert M. 1/31/1831 - 7/08/190
6. Jefferson Henry / /1834 - WBTS
7. Mary Ann 8/03/1836 - 11/30/1939
8. Margaret Elizabeth 5/06/1839 - 11/23/1932
9. Joseph Walker, Jr. / /1843 - WBTS
10. Narcissa 12/06/1845 - 6/17/1930
11. unnamed infant buried on farm