Mary Isabel (Renick) Snyder (1821 - 1887)

Born 14 Jun 1821 in Greenbrier County, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Charles L Snyder — married about 1840 in Greenbrier, West Virginia

Descendants

Died 21 Mar 1887 at age 65 in Ocean Springs, Jackson County, Mississippi, United States

This profile is part of the Renick Name Study.

Biography

Mary Isabel Renick was born on 14 June 1821 in Falling Springs, Greenbrier County, Virginia, the fifth of nine known children and the first of four daughters of William and Rebecca Renick Renick.

In 1840, when she was still in her teens, she married Charles Snyder, a wealthy tanner, about 1840 in Greenbrier County.

They moved to his hometown of Salem, Roanoke County, Virginia and had at least nine children: ^{[1] [2] [3]}

1. Sarah Elizabeth Snyder Cridlin (1842-1886)
2. Isabel Snyder (1844-)
3. Logan Clarence Snyder (1845-1892)
4. William Renick Snyder (1846-1919)
5. Charles Henry Snyder (1850-1913)
6. Robert Lewis Snyder (1854-1915)
7. J Vernor Snyder (1854-)
8. Mary M Snyder (1857-)
9. Franklin Snyder (1861-).

Residence

Home in 1850: District 57, Roanoke, Virginia, USA^[4]

Household Members: Charles Synder (35), Mary J Synder (28), Sarah R Synder (8), Iesabella Synder(6), William R Synder (4), Logan Synder (3), William Marquis (56), John Anderson (19), Henry Snyder (23), Harrison Lutes (24), Thomas Hendson (12), James Snyder ||18, Jacob Parrish (21) worker, Joseph Jackson (22) handyman.^[5][6]

During the Civil War, Charles Snyder was a Commissary agent for the Confederate War Department. He slaughtered cattle at the Homestead Inn and Tavern near Covington, Virginia, a business they bought in the 1850's, and sold the meat to feed the Confederate Army, according to the "Roanoke Times". He tanned hides for them also. When he died in 1863, he was owed money from the Confederate War Department. The executor of his estate was Mary Isabel Snyder's brother James H Renick, who was also a commissary agent for the South.^[7]

Mary accidentally drowned while fishing on 21 March 1887 at the age of 65, in Ocean Springs, Jackson County, Mississippi, at the home of her son, William Renick Snyder, where she was living at that time.^[8]

Citations

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," FamilySearch URL: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8DL-ZNP : accessed 8 June 2016), Roanoke County, Virginia.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHMS-4CG : accessed 8 June 2016), Mary Snyder in entry for Charles Snyder, 1860.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFG4-6YT : accessed 8 June 2016), Mary J Snyder, Virginia, United States; citing p. 24, family 156, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 553,174.
4. ↑
5. ↑ 1850 Census, Diistrict 57, Roanoke County, Virginia; Roll: M432_973; Page: 284A; Image: 153. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C
6. ↑ Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2014. Original data: Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013Name: Chas. L. Snyder Gender: Male Spouse: Mary A. Renick Child: Clarence L. Snyder
7. ↑ according to the Confederate Citizens File at Fold3. Confederate Citizens File at Fold3; URL: https://www.fold3.com/image/52601740; 109 pages total. Shows his executor was brother-in-law, James H Renick.
8. ↑ Page 2, Staunton Spectator, 6 Apr 1887, Newspapers.com. URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/72091547/?terms=%22mary+snyder%22&xid=637; obituary

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Renick-60 was created through the import of Vicki Norman family tree v2 (3).ged on Aug 1, 2012 by Vicki Norman.

Sources

• Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files.

• Confederate Citizens File at Fold3; https://www.fold3.com/image/52601740; 109 pages total. Shows his executor was brother-in-law, James H Renick.

• Staunton Spectator, 6 Apr 1887, pg 2 at Newspapers.com, URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/72091547/?terms=%22mary+snyder%22&xid=637; obituary.

• United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8DL-ZNP : accessed 8 June 2016), Mary J Snyder in household of Charles Snyder, Roanoke county, part of, Roanoke, Virginia, United States; citing family 353, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• United States Census, 1860, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHMS-4CG : accessed 8 June 2016), Mary Snyder in entry for Charles Snyder, 1860.

• United States Census, 1870, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFG4-6YT : accessed 8 June 2016), Mary J Snyder, Virginia, United States; citing p. 24, family 156, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 553,174.

• Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940 Ancestry.com. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2014; http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60214&h=5032732&ssrc=pt&tid=80762435&pid=48572185092&usePUB=; Original data: Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.