WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 207 Today's Topics: #2 Captain Snyder and His Twelve of W ["Koren Fae Rawlings" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000901c005a8$a975fb20$bd264dc6@default> Subject: Captain Snyder and His Twelve of WVa, by Carrie Harman Roy, 1977 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have not proven nor disproven this lineage. Koren page 40-42 Children of John and Lucinda Hensley Snyder 1. Elizabeth ( ) married Malan Wolford (1862-?) 2. Sampson (1840-1910) married Elizabeth Bonner (1844-1928) 3. Mary Jane (1843-1908) married Martin Van Buren Bennett (1839-1900) 4. George Washington (1845-?) married Margaret Carr 5. Henry (1847-1938) married Mary E. Bonner 6. Phoebe (1854-1916) married Daniel Cooper (1840-1915) 7. Lorenza Dow ( ) was shot during the Civil War 8. Hannah ( ) Died at the age of four of diphtheria 9. Eboline ( ) married Isaac Vandevender During the Civil War, John Snyder was a staunch Union man, and he had many narrow escapes from death. Once a large force of Confederates crossed into the Dry Fork area, with orders to find John Snyder and kill him. He didn't know the danger he was in, but somehow he escaped. He was a brave, courageous, and hardy man, ever ready to face dangers of war if it threatened his own family or his neighborhood. According to Pendleton County history, John Snyder was commissioned a captain in the army too. On one occasion only an accident saved his life. He was shot by bushwackers who had waylaid him, but he survived because of his great vitality and strength. During the was a Confederate newspaper published a song, which had been written in celebration of the attempt on his life. On another occasion, in 1862, at the time of Imboden's first raid on St. George, Snyder met the Confederates in the road near that village, and the fight he gave them received a special mention in Imboden's report of his expedition. Wnyder escaped through a laurel thicket. It was on that occasion that his daughter, Jane Snyder, performed her perilous ride in the night, down the Dry Fork, to notify the Union outpost that Imboden was coming. She saved the outpost from being captured and also saved her father's life. *************************************** Koren Fae Rawlings 304-358-3261 Pendleton Co, WVa Historical Preservation Association pendhist@access.mountain.net ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:45:53 -0400 From: "Koren Fae Rawlings" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000a01c005a8$ab5394c0$bd264dc6@default> Subject: Captain Snyder and HisTwelve of WV, by Carrie Harman Roy, 1977 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit page 51 CAPTAIN SNYDER (1840-1910) Captain Sampson Snyder was born on Dry Fork, Randolph County, WVa, August 19, 1840. Life was hard...for his family were among the early settlers of the county, and none of the luxuries of today were even known. Candles and oil lamps were used for lighting and wood for cooking and heating the home. He was the son of John and Lucinda Hensley Snyder. John Snyder had come from Pennsylvania, and Lucinda from Albemarle Co, VA. The Snyders, probably five brothers, had come over to America from Germany, and settled in Pennsylvania. There were several different ways to spell their name: Schneider, Snider, and Snyder. In the family Bible Grandfather [Sampson] spelled it with an "i", but later changed it to Snyder. Captain Sampson Snyder died March 10th, 1910, at his home near Harman. He developed asthma from exposure during the war. He smoked a corncob pipe, and often it would be filled with herbs from the fields, which Mother thought might help him to breathe. ************************ Koren Fae Rawlings 304-358-3261 Pendleton Co, WVa Historical Preservation Association pendhist@access.mountain.net ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:34:11 -0400 From: "Koren Fae Rawlings" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000b01c005a8$e7b33560$bd264dc6@default> Subject: Captain Snyder and His Twelve of WVa, by Carrie Harman Roy, 1977 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit page 53 Captain Sampson Snyder [Civil War service] Captain Sampson Snyder, son of John Snyder, was born and raised on Dry Fork [VA/WVa]. His education was limited to the common schools, and in his early years these were few and poor. In 1861, he joined the Federal Army at Beverly, volunteering in an Ohio company, and was soon in active service, fighting among the Allegheny Mountains as the Confederates were puched back across the range. He took part in the battle at McDowell in the spring of 1862, and sometime after that he was sent to the Southwest and became attached to General Grant's army, and took part in all the hard fighting leading up to the seige and capture of Vicksburg. But he was not present when Vicksburg surrendered. Before that event he was sent back to WVa to act as a guide for the Union forces among the mountains, where his intimate fitness or acquiantance with the rugged country gave him peculiar fitness for that duty. From that time till the close of the war, he was in constant and active service, often on posts of great responsibility and danger. On Feburary 29th, 1864, Governor Boreman commissioned him captain of the Independent Scouts of Randolph County. They belonged to the State Guards, were clothed and provisioned by the United States and paid by West Virginia. Captain Snyder proceeded to organize a company to operate in the mountains of Randolph, to prevent marauding and to protect the lives and property of loyal and peaceable citizens as well as to pursue or fight Confederate forces which might invade the county. The roll of this company, when discharged April 15th, 1865, showed forty-three men. There were more at an earlier date, but the casualities of war reduced the number. Following are the names of those who were once enrolled, in Captain Snyder's company. Sampson Snyder, Captain John W. Summerfield, 1st Sergeant Martin V. B. Bennett, 1st Sergeant John H. Middleton, 2nd Sergeant Samuel Harman, 3rd Sergeant George W. Snyder, 4th Sergeant John W. Harper, Sergeant Cyrus Simmons, Corporal John D. Harper, Corporal John Keller, Corporal Jesse Keller, Corporal Joseph Roy, Corporal Arbogast, George Arrington, F.M. Bennett, Daniel Bishop, George Champ, Thomas Colens, Mathew Cooper, Daniel Cooper, Elijah Cunningham, George Darrel, John S. Dugger, Benjamin Archard, Absalom Echard, Henry Everts, George Gennings, George Gray, Charles Harman, Andrew Harman, David H. Harman, Jesse Harman, Joseph Harman, Elijah Helmick, David Helmick, David Helmick, Mathias Helmick, William Huffman, Solomon Jordon, A.D. Jordon, Noah Judy, Harness Keller, Adam Keller, Job Keller, Philip Long, John W. Long, Samuel Mick, Absalom Mick, Sampson Mink, John Mowery, Henry Nazelrod, Elijah Nelson, David Pennington, Jesse Roy, Isaac Roy, John P. Roy, Solomon A. Rymer, George L. Simmons, Daniel Smith, Isaac Smith, Abraham Smith, Laban Snider, Benjamin Snider, John Snyder, Henry Stalnaker, Alfred Wheeler, John D. Wolf, Adam Wolf, George Koren Fae Rawlings 304-358-3261 Pendleton Co, WVa Historical Preservation Association pendhist@access.mountain.net