OBIT: Henry SNYDER, 1917, Clearville, Bedford County, PA

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OLDEST OLD TEACHER DEAD

  Henry Snyder, aged nearly 89, the oldest school teacher in the county, died 
Sunday Nov. 18, 1917 at his home near Clearville, Monroe township.  In his 
younger years he was one of the most successful teachers in the county and 
was in great demand.  He married Rebecca Fletcher who survives and is about 
the same age, and a son, George W. Snyder, living at Roaring Spring, who 
married Miss Zora Fletcher, both teachers.  J. Wesley Snyder, of Everett, is 
his only surviving brother, who is the last leaf of that Snyder family tree 
of 11 children.  Henry Snyder's characteristic as a teacher was to teach 
reading and spelling, being so careful that every syllable and sound was 
articulated clearly as many of the citizens of Monroe township will remember.  
His body was buried at Bethel Reformed church of which he was a lifetime 
member.

Bedford Gazette, December 7, 1917