OBIT: William Cassidy SNYDER, 1934, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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WILLIAM C. SNYDER
Died from Injuries Received in Motor Wreck

  Last evening at 8:30 o'clock, William C. Snyder, well known retired 
Pennsylvania railroad passenger conductor, died in the State hospital, 
Philipsburg.  The readers of the Herald are acquainted with the sad 
accident that occurred on the Sandy Ridge cut-off on Sunday night, in 
which Mr. Snyder received injuries that proved fatal.  Early this week 
pneumonia set in that called him away suddenly last evening.
  William Cassidy Snyder was born at Bald Eagle, May 10, 1860, the son 
of the late David and Anna Williams Snyder.  On July 13, 1885, at 
Tyrone, he was united in marriage with Miss Anna Kreiss who, with the 
following daughters and sons survive to mourn his going away; Mrs. B. 
W. Johnson, Tyrone; Mrs. Frank Hall, Milesburg; Fred Snyder, William D. 
Snyder, Miss Mamie Snyder, Miss Verna Snyder, Miss Louise Snyder, Oscar 
C. Snyder, and Chester K. Snyder, all of Tyrone.  Twenty-one 
grandchildren, three great grandchildren, one brother, Samuel Snyder, 
and one sister, Mrs. Minnie Peary, of Tyrone, also survive.
   Mr. Snyder was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors and 
Tyrone lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
   William Snyder had railroaded nearly fifty-three years and at the 
time of his death was a member of the P.R.R. honor roll.  He began 
railroading in the days when railroading was dangerous, when trains 
were coupled with the old link and pin.  One of the most dangerous 
wrecks he was ever in was the Walter L. Main wreck at McCanns Crossing 
on May 30, 1893.  He was a man of quiet demeanor, a kind and loving 
husband and father, a good neighbor and citizen.
   Funeral services will be conducted at the family home, 107 Meadow 
street, on Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, by Rev. Bert A. Salter, 
assisted by Rev. Samuel W. Strain.  Interment in Grandview cemetery.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa, August 18, 1934