Mcminn-Blount County TN Archives Biographies.....Snyder, Robinson Montgomery Snider June 8, 1809 - March 31, 1887
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Source: Polk County Historical and Genealogical Society
Author: Sudie Clemmer 

McMinn County Sniders

An early Snider family was living in neighboring McMinn County, TN and is more
than likely related since there were few families by that name in our area. An
article from the Sudie Clemmer Scrapbooks with no source or date says:

"Robinson Montgomery Snider, a Trustee of McMinn County 1860 - 1864 was born in
Tuckaleechee Cove, Blount County, TN on June 8, 1809 and died March 3, 1887 in
McMinn. He was one of seven children of Peter Snider born 1776 in Shenandoah
County, Virginia and his wife, Mary 'Polly' Montgomery, born February 16, 1777
in Ireland, George Snider, born in Wurenberg Germany ca. 1733 and Elizabeth
Pence, born 1746 in Pennsylvania were the parents of Peter. They were among the
earliest settlers in what is now Blount County, Tennessee. Indian attacks were
frequent then and the settlers often had to take refuge in the several forts
built for protection. Tradition is that the Peter Snider family was living at
Fort Henry and Mary Montgomery's family was at Fort Gamble when the couple
married. The house Peter Snider built in Tuckaleechee Cove in 1801 or a little
later still stands. Peter was a farmer and storekeeper and learned enough of the
Cherokee language to trade with the Indians. He was an ensign in the
Revolutionary War and received his commission June 16, 1801. He died February
21, 1867 and Mary died March 26, 1869. Both are buried in the Myers Cemetery in
Townsend, Tennessee. 
Robinson Snider married March 3, 1831 in Blount County to Retty Stanton, a
daughter of Lewis and Elizabeth Smith Stanton, and within a few years moved to
McMinn County and settled in Mt. Verd community. Land there was purchased from
Tidence Lane. Robinson Snider's brother, Moses Snider, born April 4, 1804 and
married there in 1826 to Phoebe Roddy, moved to McMinn and settled on a farm
nearby. The two brothers had large families, thus are the ancestors of many
McMinn and Polk County citizens.

The children of Robinson and Retty Stanton Snider were:
Robinson Montgomery, Jr., who married Martha Guthrie
*George W. born November 12, 1833 married November 11, 1867 to Susan E. Denton,
daughter of John and Sarah Jane Dean Denton. John died at the Battle of Vicksburg.
Peter F., who moved to Texas in bitterness over the outcome of the Civil War.
4. *See article # 1111 on child No. 2, George W. Snider in the McMinn County
Heritage book.
Also see articles No. 985, 986 and 987 in the Heritage of Blount County,
Tennessee on the Peter Snider family. Lewis B., married Sallie Hale and moved to
Arkansas.
Mary L. married L. P. Guinn.
Sarah, born January 2, 1844, married Thomas Ensminger.
Martha married Pryor L. Foster.
Margaret J.
Moses A. did not marry.
Charles M., married Susan Gouldy.
John Henry, died in infancy.


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