Barbara Ann (Schultz) Snyder (1845 - 1936)

Born 26 Mar 1845 in Baden, Wilmot, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Died 13 Sep 1936 at age 91 in Mount Vernon, Knox, Ohio, United States

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Her future husband went to Canada to escape the Civil War. He earned the nickname "Canadian Hank". Was befriended by the Schultz family who were a Mennonite farm family. They lived near Baden, Ontario and were professional weavers who had emigrated from Alsace-Lorraine. He had to marry Barbara Schultz. They left Canada and traveled to Morrow County, Ohio. Ila Jean Sowers searched for an explanation for the W. in Henry's name. Her best guess was Wilhelm from his Mother's maiden name. He and Barbara moved to their own farm after first staying with relatives. The land that lies between the present town of Johnsville and the Richland County Line was, according to Ila Jean, bought piecemeal from the Shaucks. There is some history associated with Shauck family. Land was granted to the Shauck family by the U.S. government when James Madison was president. (According to the notes by Ila Jean they have the original deed signed by President Madison) According to Ila Jean, Henry and Barbara lived on the farm east of Shauck Cemetery, which they eventually turned over to their son and his wife, Ed & Minnie. The farm west of the cemetery became the home of daugher Anna Jane who married Lyman Lewis. An adjoining farm to the south was given to son Jacob, and one to the north to the youngest daugher Ella ( Barbara Ellen). Ella's farm was always rented. She never lived ther, but lived instead in Bellville and Mt. Vernon. When Ed and Minnie took over the home farm, Henry and Barbara built a home besides their daughter, Anna and lived there. Mennonites call such a house, built for the old forks,a "dawdy house". Early Settlement and activity in the community centered not where Johnsville is now, but in the area that later became the Snyder Farms. The first post office and a school were opened in a building that stood where the Cottrell home now stands. The four-room frame building was moved up the road and became the home of Anna and Lyman Lewis. A large brick house replaced the old school/post office and was the home of Jake Snyder and Wife Fan (Oberlin). The post office and school were moved to the present site of Johnsville. The town was platted by John Ely ( who named it Johnsville for himself) and William Shauck who, not to be out-done, applied for a post office called "Shauck", a name it still retains. Just across the road from the Lewis home on land still owned by the Shuacks, were the Shauck mills, a grist mill and a sawmill. They were water-pwered through a mill race that took off from the Clear Fork a mile or more to the north and roughly parallel to the creek, with a storage pond at the back of the Lewis farm. Both mills burned in a spectacular fire in the early 1900's. Jake Snyder's brick house burned in the 1920's. The road crossed the Clear Fork over a covered bridge, which washed out in the flood of 1913. Beyond the bridge the road climbed a hill to the cemetery. Local lore states that once there was a school on that hill. A school

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