Brief Life History of Elizabeth Jane
When Elizabeth Jane Snyder was born on 27 May 1835, in Gore, Frederick, Virginia, United States, her father, Abraham Studebaker Snider Sr., was 72 and her mother, Catherine Miller, was 37. She married Michael Pitzer on 9 May 1867, in Berkeley, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Hedgesville, Berkeley, West Virginia, United States for about 40 years. She died on 13 August 1910, in Berkeley, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Snider Cemetery, Jones Springs, Berkeley, West Virginia, United States.
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- Elizabeth Pitzer in household of Michael Pitzer, "United States Census, 1870"
- Elizabeth Jane Snyder, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Jane Pitzer in entry for George M Pitzer and Maria Bear, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1844 · Lumpkin's Jail
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Name Meaning
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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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