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Surnames: Snider, Snyder
Classification: Query
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Nel,
Try Smith. That's a good one, too. My great-great-great-grandfather, John D. Smith,
lived in Marion County, Ohio in 1850 with his wife Polly. Her real name was Mary. Just try
finding John and Mary Smith! We don't have her maiden name, either.
I also have an apparent Jones line, but this depends on whether or not there were 3
Benjamins. Eleanor Jones married one of them, and opinions differ on whether he was
Benjamin Jr. or Benjamin III. If III, Eleanor was not my ancestor.
Speculation is good. I have yet to find any Jacobs among the Snider/Snyders, but my Nancy
had a brother named Henry Wallace Snyder. There are also Williams in my line. No proof, of
course, as there were many Henrys and Williams in most lines (not all of them named after
a King of England...lol).
Yes, I had seen Martin L.'s bio online. My computer time is limited, but I had done
some online research here and there. Were you aware that your James is mentioned in
several of the WorldConnect files? The ones that mention Sarah spell her maiden surname as
"Backus."
This just gets better and better. I know my John was in Tippecanoe County by 1830, because
his daughter Sarah was born there (this from a history of McFall, Missouri; but the 1850
census confirms a birth in Indiana).
If so many Snider/Snyders had a son John, then maybe there were two or more Johns in
Tippecanoe County? There are all kinds of reasons why the Tippecanoe County land might not
have appeared in the estate record. I know I have the right estate because the same
children appear in the 1850 census.
I also know for sure that there was a Sarah Snider/Snyder whose estate had something to do
with my John. I had always assumed that this Sarah predeceased him, but maybe not. Well, I
know where my photocopies are, maybe this weekend I'll have time and energy enough to
take another look and see what the exact wording is.
I'm out of time for now and must dash. This is definitely intriguing!
Thanks,
Alma