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From: "Jeanne W. Muse" <>
Subject: Fw: Whitney/Snyder
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 08:10:45 -0400

Hello again WRG! The below is from another e-mail correspondent, Nina
Wolfe, who has sent me information on more descendants of John Whitney and
Elinor.

This line pertains to:
REBECCA-8 WHITNEY (John-7, Nathan-6, David-5, Nathan-4, Nathaniel-3,
Benjamin-2, John-1), daughter of REV. JOHN WHITNEY and SARAH HENSEL.

Rebecca Whitney (I had previously spelled her name RAbecca) married ANDREW
SNYDER.

Write directly to Nina Wolfe < > if you have any questions.
Hope this helps someone!

;-) Jeanne

-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Wolfe Family <>
To: Jeanne Muse <>
Date: Friday, August 07, 1998 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: Whitney/Snyder

>>
>> Well, I've found a few minutes and will send youwhat I can at this
>> time. Leslie Wright of Forsyth, Mo. send me this info. Andrew's
>> tombstone reads as follows:
>
>Grandfather
>Andrew Snyder
>Born Feb. 5 1816
>Died 1888
>Born
>New Berger, Germany (which we are sure is Neuberg)
>Bavaria Posen
>God is Love
>Leslie is the granddaughter of Andrew and her father was Martin Thomas
>Van Buren Bowman Snyder and she says he always said they came from a
>town in Germany called Neuberg that was 30 miles from Munich. She also
>assumes that they were not Catholics as Calvin is a name of their son,
>in fact my great grandfather is son Calvin Andrew Snyder. So, searching
>Catholic records doesn't help much. Anyway, my mother has Calvin
>Andrew's bible in which he wrote that they were from Bavaria and that
>Andrew's mother and father were Nicholas and Barbara Snyder. They came
>over with 3 daughters and one son. Only one daughter has been
>identified: Margaret, she married a John Jacob Dornbusch and in a
>published history of Wheeling, Ohio, West Virginia in a personal
>history; she says she was born in Glisenbarsh, Germany, 20 Aug. 1813.
>Nicholas and Barbara are thought to have immigrated to Wheeling and died
>there in 1839. This has not been documented thoroughly. The info I
>have on Andrew's family is as follows:
>Andrew b 5 Feb 1818, Neuberg, Germany, d 7 Apr 1888 Flora, Clay, Ill
>married Jan 1846 to
>Rebecca Whitney b 12 June 1827, d 20 June 1909 in Flora(John Whitney,
>Sarah Hensel)
>children:
>Margaret Jane b 1847 married a Benjamin Chaney
>Hannah M. b 1848
>Mariah (Sarah) b 1849
>John Nicholas b 28 Mar 1851 in Wheeling, WV
>Josephus Lee b 1853
>Calvin Andrew b 13 Jan 1854 in Marion, Marion, Ohio; married Florence
>May Eaton
>Ann Eliza b 1858
>Martin Thomas Van Buren Bowman b 14 Mar 1860, Hills, Monroe, Ohio,
>married Trophie Jane
> Amerman
>Rhoda Luella b 1862
>Daisy Emmaline married a Hodges
>Violet married a Wilson
>
>Leslie said the reason the Snyders came to America was to prevent
>Andrew's forced induction into the German army. She also says he
>attended school in Baltimore and learned to speak flawless English.. I
>just caught that as I reread one of her letters. Hmm, wonder if there
>might be some school records that far back. Well, hope this gives you
>some info. There is lots and lots on the Whitneys but the Snyders has
>been slow picking. I am so grateful for Leslie she has been a great
>correspondent. If you have other questions please ask. for now, Nina

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