Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

OF GOSHEN TOWNSHIP. 567
A$f~wd fK S,ycIe72 son of Williain and Malay Snyder, as born in
Greene county, Pa., in 1827. Ere came to Stark county with his
parents, and, with the exception of the years from 1853 to IS57 spent
in Crdifornia, has been a permanent resident of the connty since 1840.
In 1850 he purcliasecl 160 acres where he live& t wenty-five yeam ; then
lrrovecl to sect1011 seventeen, where he improred a farm of 150 acres,
w\.llere he now resides. On March 10, 1558. he married Miss &Iztry E.
IIayes, born here in 1S-40, a daughter of Harry Hayes, a settler of
7 Tllep are the l~ar,.nts of five children : I3~aclforcl IT., Charles A.,
I1 erl~ert E., 1Ial.r~ A. ancl George A. In his time he 11as esperiencetl
all the oicissi tudes of pioneer life in Central Illinois, and of the 91'gonnuts
of 1853-7. Mr. Snyder is a illelnl~er of the Blue 1,odg-e of IAaftq
ette, and t~t ant1 wife belong to tlre Universalist churcll there.
A. B. IL S)~y(le~ settled at 1,afayette in the spring of 1855, was
I~c~rn in New Yorl;, Ulster count,v, in the gear 1SBti. April 7, ant1 is tit
son of John A. antl Jane (Beuier) Sn,vtler, natives of the same state,
~vllo eallle to Gosf;en township in the year 13%. Mr. Snyder. Sr., resi
tled in 1,afayette fourteen years, raetnrrlecl to Xe\v York, \~llere he
(lied in ISS2, agetl sisty-eight years. 3Ii11.s. Snrder died in 1,afttrette
in 1S5G aged sixty-t wo yews. Three children cn~ne \\~it.h their l~ui;ents7
via.: Ijerier. Jane, ~vife of J. Tyrel, and A. I:. 11. The elder Snyclers
were ~nerrlbers of the Congregational cl~urcb. Our subject, alone, of the
Yamil\~, resicles in Stark county, others in Texas. JIP. Snvder engaged in
stocl