Andrew Snyder, Sr. (1878)

MOSIER, SNYDER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 8/26/2007 at 09:10:12

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, January 10, 1878
Page 6

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Mr. Snyder, father of Hardesty and Samuel Snyder, of this place died last Friday at his home, one mile east of town. He had arrived at the age of 3 score years and ten, and died at the expiration of the alloted time for man's existence in this world, peaceful and happy.
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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, January 17, 1878
Page 3

OBITUARY

Died, at his late residence in Union township, Madison county, Iowa 2 1/2 miles northeast of Winterset, Jan. the 4th, 1878, Andrew Snyder Sr., in the 75th year of his age.

Father Snyder was born in Steuberville, Jefferson county, Ohio, in the year 1803 and was married to Elisabeth Mosier in the year 1825 and raised a family of eleven children which are all living but one. He moved to the State of Missouri where he remained nine years, and then removed to Warren county, Iowa, and settled where the town of Norwalk now is. The country there was a wilderness then. He remained there twenty-five years, he then moved to Madison county where he lived until his death.

Father Snyder was an honest man in every sense of the word. His children were all with him during the last days of his affliction, but two sons, and he received every attention that loving hands could bestow. He leaves ten children, forty-seven grand-children and one great grand child. Father Snyder professed religion and joined the Methodist Episcopal church in August last, and was sustained by the grace of God, during a painful and protracted affliction. His dying request to his children was that they would meet him in Heaven. His remains were taken to Norwalk, Warren county, on Monday the 7th inst. accompanied by his family and a number of his neighbors, where the funeral services were attended to at the M. E. Church. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Scoles. Text, 1st Corinthians, 15th chapter and 57th verse. After which the procession moved to the cemetery a short distance east of town, where the remains were deposited by the side of his daughter, some time since deceased, while the large company composed of his old friends and neighbors showed the respect and esteem in which the departed was held.

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