SNELGROVE, Kate and Robert
Visited the Bell Farm in 1886 - Robert Snelgrove (1855-1937) and Kate Marshall (1858-1929) were both born in England. They were married in the spring of 1886 and immigrated to Canada shortly thereafter. The newlyweds went directly to Indian Head, and spent their first night there on the Bell Farm.
Robert initially worked on the railroad, and later as a gardener at the Dominion Experimental Farm at Indian Head, planting rows of trees. In 1889 Robert and Kate acquired their own homestead in the Red Fox district, near Sintaluta, where they raised their family.
Kate and Robert returned to England in 1904 for their first visit home in almost 20 years. In 1910, Robert again travelled to England to visit his aging parents. However, on the day he returned home to the farm near Sintaluta, their house and most of their possessions burned down. For a while the family lived in another house, then built an Eaton’s "catalogue house" in 1912.
Kate and Robert raised four sons: Harry, Walter Sidney and Robert Jr., and added Elsie McQuatt to their family after her mother (Susan) died in 1904. Robert Jr., joined the infantry during World War I and was killed in 1918.