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Robert Howard Snider

Birth	:	1924 High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA
Death	:	16 May 1938 Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA
Burial	:	Con Smith, Elkton, Giles County, USA
Coordinate	:	35.0481970, -86.8365260
Description	:	Robert, who was 14 and had just completed his school year in nearby Greensboro, North Carolina took a trip to Atlanta, Georgia with his father William, who was a hosiery salesman in High Point, North Carolina. Robert's father booked a room in the Atlanta Terminal Hotel. Both perished in a fire at the hotel. 27 HOTEL GUESTS PERISH IN A FIRE AT ATLANTA, GA. Early Morning Blaze Claims Victims in Sleep, Scores Missing or Injured. ATLANTA. (AP). A pre-dawn fire that turned the 30 year old Terminal hotel into a flaming horror in ten minutes killed 27 persons and left... Read More	Robert, who was 14 and had just completed his school year in nearby Greensboro, North Carolina took a trip to Atlanta, Georgia with his father William, who was a hosiery salesman in High Point, North Carolina. Robert's father booked a room in the Atlanta Terminal Hotel. Both perished in a fire at the hotel. 27 HOTEL GUESTS PERISH IN A FIRE AT ATLANTA, GA. Early Morning Blaze Claims Victims in Sleep, Scores Missing or Injured. ATLANTA. (AP). A pre-dawn fire that turned the 30 year old Terminal hotel into a flaming horror in ten minutes killed 27 persons and left a score more missing or injured. Engineers estimated it might be two days before the wreckage was cleared and the full toll determined. The hotel register was lost. The blaze broke out in the basement of the five story brick and frame building about 3 a. m., when most of its guests were asleep. Flames and smoke shot skyward and in a moment every floor was ablaze. Home to many railroad men, the $1 and up a day hotel was situated opposite the terminal station on Spring st., in downtown Atlanta. Traffic for blocks around was jammed as police roped off the area against danger of falling walls. Thousands, some of them relatives, pressed against the fire lines, thruout [sic] the day. Bellhop Charlie Labon, a veteran of 20 years service, was in the lobby when the blaze caught. He said he heard a kitchen messboy scream: "Oh lawdy, fire" then there was a muffled blast below and flamed puffed upward. Labon dived for the elevator and Ben L. Berry, 78 year old clerk turned to the switchboard to warn the guests. But the blaze burned out the connections. The flames spread so quickly I had to jump from the elevator cage on the second floor and run, said Labon. Berry got burned trying to ring the phones. There wasn't anyone got out except those that jumped or got down the fire escape. Several were killed leaping from the flaming building. The fire choked off fire escapes and stairs a few seconds after it caught. WILLIAM OSCAR WEBSTER, a Columbus, Ga., railroad engineer, jumped from a fourth floor window. His body tumbled across the street. He was dead when rescuers reached him. One victim was found dead on a second floor ledge of the hotel court, where he had struck in a leap for safety. Some were burned to death and others suffocated. Many of the bodies were horribly mangled in the collapse of floors and steel work. Firemen told of finding one group, apparently a family. A woman dead in a rocking chair, a little girl knelt by the bead and a man and a little boy lay stretched across it. One couple, awakened by the smell of smoke, escaped by climbing thru a second floor window and walking a narrow ledge 200 feet to a corner where a ladder was placed. George P. Jones, hotel manager, said at a hospital he was too sick to talk, but estimated at least 75 persons were in the structure. The Identified Dead. A revised list of identified dead in the fire: JAMES C BONDS, 31 Knoxville, Tenn a truck driver L A BUNN McBean Ga D D WILSON Muscadine, Ala Western Union employe [sic] A YOUTH of about 15 listed as the son of William Howard Snider of High Point N. C. DR GORDON JOHNSON, Lecompte La CARL E ROBERTS Birmingham W J MORRIS, Fitzgerald, Ga , railroad engineer R B SUTTLEWORTH, Nashville Tenn JIMMY OVERSTREET 10, Knoxville Tenn JEAN OVERSTREET his twin JACQUELIN OVERSTREET 13, Knoxville MRS. JOSEPHINE BACON OVERSTREET mother of the children MISS ESTHER THOMES Atlanta MR O F COLLAR High Springs Fla W O WEBSTER Columbus Ga MARK WICKER clerk at hotel W R RUSSELL 41 Birmingham Ala GEORGE C PARKER Atlanta jeweler A WOMAN tentatively listed as Mrs. Parker KENNETH HENRY, Knoxville store manager A C. WITHERS, Anderson S C The Nebraska State Journal, Lincoln, NE 17 May 1938

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Robert Howard Snider's memorial is located at: Con Smith, Elkton, Giles County, USA.
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Robert Howard Snider death on 16 May 1938 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA
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Latitude: 35.0481970
Longitude: -86.8365260

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Coordinate: 35.0481970, -86.8365260

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Coordinate: 35.0377998, -86.8343964

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7. Corpier Cemetery
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Coordinate: 35.0247002, -86.8238983

8. Lewter Cemetery
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Coordinate: 35.0177994, -86.8405991

9. Ewing Cemetery
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Coordinate: 35.0508003, -86.7968979

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Coordinate: 35.0214005, -86.8602982

11. Eagin Cemetery
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Coordinate: 35.0811005, -86.8478012

12. Wray Cemetery
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13. White Cemetery
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Coordinate: 35.0119019, -86.8135986

14. Old Union Hill Cemetery
Elkton, Giles County, USA
Coordinate: 35.0499950, -86.8885520

15. Saint Elizabeth Baptist Church Cemetery
Elkton, Giles County, USA
Coordinate: 35.0496556, -86.8893194

16. Bull Cemetery
Elkton, Giles County, USA
Coordinate: 35.0508530, -86.8894930

17. Park Cemetery
Elkton, Giles County, USA
Coordinate: 35.0647011, -86.8899994

18. Elliott Cemetery
Ardmore, Giles County, USA
Coordinate: 35.0135994, -86.8771973

19. Elkton Cemetery
Elkton, Giles County, USA
Coordinate: 35.0505981, -86.8972015

20. New Grove Cemetery
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Coordinate: 35.0647011, -86.7786026

21. Ezell Cemetery
Giles County, USA
Coordinate: 35.0071983, -86.8728027

22. Franklin Cemetery
Lincoln County, USA
Coordinate: 35.0040600, -86.8037100

23. Cross Cemetery
Lincoln County, USA
Coordinate: 35.0306015, -86.7767029

24. Austin Cemetery
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Coordinate: 34.9949989, -86.8356018