Career
Childhood
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, where they raised four children: Nellie, Miles, Billie, and Bertie.
The relatively isolated ranch life gave her 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 died in her sleep. She is buried on North Platte Cemetery in North Platte, Nebraska.
