Hi kath,
That time in VA history has been a brick wall to me I would like to have
your help in finding a distant ancestor named Jesse Snyder b. abt 1807 who
married Mary Huffman born abt 1815 in Monongalia County in VA and died in Jay
County Indiana. This text about his son is all I have on Jessie:
This text was on page 853 of a bookTitled, "History of Adams and Wells
counties" published in 1918..
FRANKLIN SNYDER is one of the oldest residents of Adams County, has passed
the age of fourscore, and for fully three-quarters of a century has been a
resident of this County He is also honored and respected as a surviving
veteran of the great war which freed the slaves and made this a united
country. Mr. Snyder's home is a well improved little farm of forty-four acres
in section 32 of Jefferson Township. His daily mail delivery is on Route No.
2 from Geneva.
Mr. Snyder was born in Champaign County, Ohio, August 16, 1834, a son of
Jesse and Mary (Huffman) Snyder. His Father and mother were both natives of
Virginia, where they grew up and married and then moved to Champaign County,
Ohio, locating north of Urbana. The father, a Blacksmith, built a shop and
rendered service to the farmers of a large community. In 1840 he sold out his
interests in Champaign County, Ohio, and came to Adams County, Indiana, which
was then virtually a wilderness. In 1843 h located at New Corydon, Indiana,
in Jay County, where he set up a shop and gave The services of his trade to
the community for a long period of years. Both parents died at New Corydon.
His father was a republican.
Franklin Snyder was eight years old when his father moved to New Corydon and
there he attended the common schools and his early experiences were as a farm
boy.
August 16, 1862, he enlisted in Company E of the Eighty-ninth Indiana
Infantry, and was mustered in at Wabash, Indiana, and from that time to the
close of hostilities was with his regiment in all the campaigns, marches and
battles and rendered faithful duty as a soldier. He is a member of Grand Army
Post No. 83 and was formerly officer of the day of the post at New Corydon.
Mr. Snyder votes the republican ticket.
He married Sarah E. Fogle Who died in May 1917. Their only surviving child is
James Snyder, until recently clerk in the post office at Portland, Indiana,
But now with his father on the farm. Mr. Franklin Snyder has five
grandchildren.
Thank you, Gordon Smith, Westford, Mass