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Kasper Snyder, born in Germany or Holland, came in his youth to Pennsylvania, USA, about 1775. His son Jacob, born in Pennsylvania, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Jacob came to Jefferson County, KY, and settled 10 miles southeast of Louisville, in 1802.
Jacob's son, William Washington Snyder, born August 20th, 1820, was a mechanic, teacher and Methodist minister. In his private journal is recorded, Wm. W. Snyder and Elizabeth C. Rager, both of New Albany, Indiana were joined together as husband and wife December 23, 1841, at 8 P.M. by Rev. William Daniel, their pastor. The groom in his 22nd year, and the bride in her 18th year, having first stepped before the footlights on the stage of action April 20th, 1824, handsome in person, a lady of culture and a Christian by grace and practice. She was the only surviving daughter of an excellent Methodist family. They lived together as one for 62 years less two months.
On the twentieth of October 1903 as the golden sun was dipping the horizon, she left earth for Heaven. In October, 1903 the writer of these fragments was received into the Indiana Conference and served as pastor in 13 stations and eleven circuits. Under his ministry, 2,200 were added to the church. He made a trip to Europe and was a chaplain in the army. After forty-seven years active service superannuated and so remains at this writing 1904) in the same relation.
Their fourth child, William McKendree, was born in Liberty, Indiana, Dec. 20th, 1848, according to his grave marker in the East section of Springdale Cemetery, in Madison, Indiana. (Another biographer, Wilbur Peate in "Pioneer Artists of Indiana" has recorded the birth date at 1849.) In trying to authenticate the date I went to the Liberty, IN courthouse only to find that all of their vital statistics prior to 1880 have been destroyed due to the collapse of a new courthouse building. Blame was assigned for the collapse to the contractors shorting the ingredients in the concrete and plaster used in the building. The Liberty Methodist Church could shed no light on the subject as all of their early records had been sent to the Methodist Archives at DePauw University, Greencastle, IN. Upon tracing further, the archivist there could find no information of the child from either birth or we can deduce that the child was named William McKendree after the famous early Methodist minister, William McKendree, who was a Bishop in this area.
William was an artist, portrait and landscape painter with a national reputation. He married Miss Allen B. Rodeker, a highly endowed and educated vocalist, as such, commanding remuneration of the churches. Both families are Methodists. They have one child, a daughter, Lena Pearl, who is wedded to Mr. John Patrick Wade, a member of an opera company, brilliant in his profession. The youthful wife by her comely personality, and her inherited and cultivated vocal powers, has been called to the same artistic profession. They had a daughter, Mary Evelyn, a sunbeam in their home. Mary Evelyn was married to a Mr. Windnagle and had one daughter, Patricia, who is now Mrs. Barney Eglet of Newport Beach, CA.
In remarks by W.W. "In all 250 or more names mentioned, covering a period of 180 years, "there is not found a single case of physical deformity, facial blemish or mental derangement."
The name has been changed from the German Schneider to the English, "chne" dropped and i, as it has the sound of e in German has been changed for Y, Snyder.
Manville is situated by the Indian-Kentuck creek in southern Indiana, boys used to like to wade in the creek.
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