After retiring, he resided in Washington, D.C., and Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania. In 1940, he published a memoir "Signposts of Experienece." He died in Washington on February 27, 1947, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Section South, Site 3953.
Snow was the recipient of the U.S. Army Distinguished Service Medal for his World War I service. and the British Order of Bath (Companion) and the French Legion of Honor (Commander).
On 1892, Snow married Isabel O'Hear Locke (1872-1944) of Atlanta, Georgia and had a son named William A. Snow (1894-1940), who was also a graduate of West Point. The son was a veteran of World War I who attained the rank of lieutenant colonel and an engineer. I have already written, he constructed what is today called Snow's Cut near Wilmington, North Carolina, which connects the Cape Fear River to sounds along the Intercoastal Waterway.
William J. Snow was survived by two grandchildren, Margaret (1922-2011) and William J. Snow II (1923-2011) Margaret Payne Snow Coburn's first husband, John Harrell Hill (1911-1980) who served during WW II in the Pacific Theater and her second one, Melville Brown Coburn (1912-1992) who was an Army major general and graduated from West Point as well.
William J. Snow II also was a West Point graduate in and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.
A West Point Family. --Cooter
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