[2] By the time Snowden was a teenager he had five different enslavers in Anne Aundel County in Maryland.

"[1] John and Margaret spent the rest of their lives in and around Westminster, where they had their 14 children, eight of whom reached adulthood.

Snowden was a member of the Baltimore and Washington Methodist Episcopal conferences during most of his life.

Snowden died in 1885 and was buried near his wife at the Ellsworth Cemetery in Carroll County, Maryland.

[1] Scholars Howard and Judith Sacks have theorized that Daniel Decatur Emmett, the blackface minstrel usually credited with writing the minstrel song "I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land", actually adapted it from a song originally composed by his Knox County neighbors, the Snowden family.