Grace Snyder

Grace Bell McCance Snyder (April 23, 1882 – December 8, 1982), is an American quilter, former pioneer and centenarian, whose story is known through the books No Time on My Hands and Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie.

Grace Snyder
Born(1882-04-23)April 23, 1882
Cass County, Missouri
DiedDecember 8, 1982(1982-12-08) (aged 100)
North Platte, Nebraska
Spouse(s)
Albert Benton Snyder
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(m. after 1903)​

Biography

Childhood

Grace McCance went to Nebraska with her parents in 1885 to homestead in a sod house in Custer County. She had nine siblings. As a small child, she pieced quilt blocks while tending the family's cows.

Adulthood

McCance married Bert Snyder in 1903 and lived on a ranch forty miles (70 km) northwest of North Platte,[1] where they raised four children: Nellie Snyder Yost, Miles, Billie, and Bertie.[2]

The relatively isolated ranch life gave McCance ample time for quilting, and she became nationally recognized for the skill and complexity of her quilts. The Congress of Quilters Hall of Fame in Arlington, Virginia, inducted her in 1980, as did the Nebraska Quilters Hall of Fame in 1986.

McCance lived to be 100 years old. She is buried in North Platte Cemetery in North Platte, Nebraska.

Books

McCance is remembered by her own memoir No Time On My Hands as told to her daughter Nellie Snyder Yost. Her story is also told in the children's biography Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie by Andrea Warren (Morrow Junior Books, 1998).

Sources

References
  1. "What's New & News". Quilter's Newsletter Magazine. 14 (150): 41. March 1983.
  2. Yost, Nellie Snyder (1963). No Time on My Hands. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd. pp. 341, 347, 412, 448. ISBN 0-8032-9164-7.


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