Pennsylvania Family Group Sheet for Christian SNYDER Family *********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: rayswork Email address: lour2@juno.com Husband: Christian SNYDER Birthdate: 7/3/1807 Birthplace: PA Death date: 3/3/1880 Place of death: Jackson Twp., Cambria Co., PA Father: Thomas SNYDER Mother: Mary Marriage date: About 1829 Marriage place: PA Wife: Barbara STIFFLER Birthdate: 8/14/1810 Birthplace: Hollidaysburg, Blair Co., PA Death date: 4/20/1895 Place of death: Cambria Co., PA Father: Henry STIFFLER Mother: Nancy HOOVER CHILDREN Child No. 1: Mary SNYDER Sex: F Birthdate: 11/27/1830 Birthplace: Blair Co., PA Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Daniel WALTERS Child No. 2: Nancy SNYDER Sex: F Birthdate: 6/4/1832 Birthplace: Blair Co., PA Death date: 6/11/1885 Place of death: Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., IA Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Samuel STRAYER Child No. 3: John SNYDER Sex: M Birthdate: 11/16/1833 Birthplace: Blair Co., PA Death date: 4/9/1917 Place of death: Cambria Boro, Cambria Co., PA Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Mary A. WALTERS Child No. 4: Catherine SNYDER Sex: F Birthdate: 12/24/1836 Birthplace: Blair Co., PA Death date: 9/6/1919 Place of death: Westmont Boro, Cambria Co., PA Marriage date: 4/1857 Marriage place: Spouse's name: Benjamin Solomon BENSHOFF Child No. 5: Sarah SNYDER Sex: F Birthdate: 12/24/1836 Birthplace: Blair Co., PA Death date: 6/11/1855 Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 6: Susan SNYDER Sex: F Birthdate: 9/16/1840 Birthplace: Duncansville, Blair Co., PA Death date: 1/9/1931 Place of death: Johnstown, Cambria Co., PA Marriage date: 2/19/1858 Marriage place: PA Spouse's name: William FORD Child No. 7: Henry H. SNYDER Sex: M Birthdate: 6/21/1845 Birthplace: Vinco, Jackson Twp., Cambria Co., PA Death date: 12/11/1931 Place of death: Grand Rapids, Michigan Marriage date: 11/19/1862 Marriage place: PA Spouse's name: Cornelia WARD Child No. 8: Jane H. SNYDER Sex: F Birthdate: 1/23/1852 Birthplace: Vinco, Jackson Twp., Cambria Co., PA Death date: 8/30/1930 Place of death: Tampa, Hillsborough Co., FL Marriage date: 1870 Marriage place: Spouse's name: Elias REAM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Documentation: CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS ALWLAYS WELCOME 1850 Christian and Barbara appear on the 1850 census for Jackson Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, dwelling number 132, family number 140. He is 43 years old and is working as a farmer. She is 40. She cannot read or write. There are 5 children shown. 1860 Christian and Barbara appear on the 1860 census for Jackson Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, dwelling number 2923, family number 2961. He is 53 years old and is working as a farmer. She is 50 years old. There are 2 children and 1 grandchild shown. 1870 Christian and Barbara appear on the 1870 census for Jackson Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, dwelling number 109, family number 109. He is 63 years old and is working as a farmer. She is 59 years old. There are 1 child shown. 1880 Barbara appears on the 1880 census for Jackson Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, dwelling number 126, family number 129. She is a widow, age 69. OBITUARY - Johnstown Tribune 3/4/1880 Died in Jackson Township on the third, Mr. Christian Snyder, aged about 68 years. OBITUARY - Johnstown Tribune, 4/20/1895 Mrs. Barbara Snyder, relict of Christian Snyder, whose serious illness this paper mentioned yesterday, passed peacefully away at the resident of her son-in-law and daughter - Burgess Benjamin Benshoff and wife - of Rosedale Borough, at 7:30 o'clock this morning, after a week's illness of pneumonia. Mrs. Snyder was in her 85th years. She was born near Hollidaysburg, Blair County, where her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stiffler, died many years ago. Mrs. Snyder's husband died 15 years ago in Jackson Township, near Vinco, where they lived for many years. Since the death of her husband she made her home among her children. She is survived by 3 daughters and 2 sons: Catharine, wife of Benjamin Benshoff; Susan, wife of William Ford, of Jackson Township; Mrs. Jane Ream and Henry, of Michigan, and John, of East Taylor Township. She is also survived by 1 brother, John Stiffler, of Blair County. The funeral will take place at 1 o'clock on Monday afternoon. Services will be held in Wesley Chapel, Rev. Stephen Hildebrand to officiate. Interment will be made in the church cemetery. Other sources: WFT Volume 36, Tree #793 LDS Ancestral File AF93-104919 submitted by Lloyd C. Austin LDS Ancestral File AF92-108097 submitted by Daniel Stifflear Information from the work of Charles A. Jones - Rootsweb