We had a great find the other night. My husbands great grandfather was
George Washington Snider born 1844 in Orange County, Indiana, but lived shortly
after that in Crawford, County, Indiana. We knew little of his childhood and
knew that he spent his early adult life in the Macon County, Missouri area. We
decided to go to Indiana and see if we could find anything. We knew his
mothers first name was Matilda and that she had later married a Ruberson. We hit a
gold mine in Indiana and found not only is fathers first name George, Sr., but
we found land and probate records and drove close to where land records
showed the familles land to have been. We found that his father had died when he
was two months old, but that he also had an older brother named Daniel F.
(never knew he had a brother)
While there we joined the Crawford County Historical society and in reading
the last issue Friday night discovered a reprint of an article written in 1914
telling of a visit by Daniel F. Snider to his boyhood home telling how is
father had died and when he was about 8 years he had moved West to live with
relatives. We knew that Matilda had remarried Jonah Ruberson in 1848 and the
family had moved to Missouri by 1950. The Daniel Snider visiting in 1914 said he
was living in Montana. Did a little investigating
ancestry.com and discovered
this has to be my husbands great uncle. Now trying to get in touch with the
person who submitted the information to ancestry and see if we can make more
links. The towns he mentioned and the areas he mentioned visiting, match the
land areas that we saw. We also discovered that Daniel and our ancestor George
had been living in the same are of Macon Missouri (Ten Mile) for most of their
lives. Daniel had moved to Montana after the 1900 census and we think that
George had moved to Kansas about the same time.
We think we found that Daniel and George's grandparents were David and
Barbara Snider. David had died shortly before his son George did and Barbara
appears to have married a Mr. Black after that. We also think now that we have the
family traced back to a Melchoir Schneider who originally came in the
1600-1700s first settling in Maine and then going to NC and Indiana in the 1820s --
1840s.
We are so grateful that we joined the Crawford County Historical society
never would have found this information if we had not.
Other names that might include Tyree and Pendock, Pendoch, Penrod etc.
A relative indicated that Matilda George's mother was a Penrod. The Indiana
records show Matilda Blevins marrying George Snider in 1840 and the former
Matilda Snider marrying Jonah Ruberson in 1848. But, a search on
familysearch.org found a Matilda Penrod marrying Jonah same date and place. But, the
newspaper article mentioned the name Pendoch. We know that Matilda was widowed in
1844 but did not marry Jonah until 1948. Was she living with other relatives in
the meantime? Was there another marriage how is this Penrod, Pendoch name
connected.
Ah more questions to ask and puzzle pieces to find.
Nadine