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Actual Wording of the Historical Marker SNOWDEN FAMILY BAND The Snowden Family Band was an acclaimed African-American string band whoperformed in and around Knox County for nearly seventy years, from the 1850s into the 1920s. Buried in Morris Chapel Cemetery are Thomas Snowden (1803-1856), his wifeEllen Cooper Snowden (1817-1894), and their nine children: Oliver, Sophia, Mary, Ben, Lew, Phebe, Martha, …
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