Samuel Miller Snoddy (1815-1898) was the seventh child and third son of Isaac Snoddy and Jane Crawford Snoddy. He operated a farm on Jordan Creek as a single man until his marriage to Rosa Benson in 1853. He served in the local militia, retiring as a colonel in the 1850s.

During the Civil War, he served as a captain in a company of state troops. After the War he returned to his farm and family. He died in 1898 at the age of eighty-three.