On a hilltop in Hudson, Wisconsin, overlooking the St. Croix River, is this stone for Silas Snell:
SILAS
SNELL
BURIED HERE
1847
I have not been able to find out much about Silas Snell. Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848, so Silas died while Wisconsin was still a Territory. Wisconsin was the last state entirely East of the Mississippi River admitted to the Union.
The marker for Silas Snell is located in a park on the bluffs of the St. Croix River, in Hudson, Wisconsin.
A Grave Curiosity 
toni
July 31, 2012 at 1:38 pm
According to the Hudson Star Observer, Silas Snell was the first one man to die in Hudson. http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/event/article/id/44291/