When Frederick Snetsinger was born on 14 September 1793, in Cornwall, Stormont, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Mathis Snetsinger, was 38 and his mother, Christine Curtis, was 34. He married Margaret Ross on 22 September 1817, in Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 23 January 1881, in Roxborough, Stormont, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 87, and was buried in South Stormont, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada.