OBIT: James L. SNYDER, 1940, Stoystown, Somerset County, PA

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JAMES L. SNYDER

  James L. Snyder died May 1, 1940, at the home of his son, Charles, in 
Stoystown, at the age of 87 years, 5 months and 18 days.  He was born November 
13, 1852, in Huntingdon County.  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Susan (Wagaman) 
Snyder; two sons, Charles, of Stoystown; Leroy, of Swissvale, and Mabel, wife of 
Charles Love, of Rockwood.  Nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren also 
survive.
  For many years Mr. Snyder was a member of the Glencoe Evangelical and Reformed 
Church, where funeral services were conducted on Friday afternoon, May 3, by the 
pastor, Rev. J. E. Gindlesperger.  Interment was made in the Mt. Lebanon 
Cemetery, in charge of John H. Blanset, Stoystown mortician.
  He served the Glencoe Evangelical and Reformed Church as deacon a number of 
years and in 1925 was elected elder and served in that capacity since that time.
  He saw forty-four years of service for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 
Company, forty-two of which were spent in Glencoe.  He retired twenty-three 
years ago.

Meyersdale Republican, May 16, 1940