Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Snyder was born on 8 August 1803, in Mifflinburg, Union, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Henry Snyder, was 36 and her mother, Mary "Molly" Smelker, was 29. She married Robert B Holmes about 1820, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Marion Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 16 April 1893, in Jacksonville, Marion Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Lick Run Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Jacksonville, Marion Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Sources (8)
- Mary Holmes in household of Robert Holmes, "United States Census, 1860"
- Mary Holmes, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Mary Snyder Holmes, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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