When Spruce Coy Snyder was born on 15 September 1842, in Stokes, North Carolina, United States, his father, Lewis Harrison Snider, was 19 and his mother, Eliza Swaim, was 19. He married Elizabeth Alice Parks on 20 March 1869, in Forsyth, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Gilmer Township, Guilford, North Carolina, United States in 1910. He died on 2 September 1920, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 77.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schneider ‘tailor’ and of its Slavic(ized) variants, such as Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Šnajder, Czech Šnajdr (see also Snider 1).
Dutch: variant, archaic or Americanized, of Snijder, an occupational name for a tailor, from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch sniden ‘to cut’.
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