Brief Life History of Barbara N.
When Barbara N. Snyder was born on 5 November 1859, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jacob Witmer Snyder, was 38 and her mother, Veronica Bomberger Nissley, was 37. She lived in Rapho Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and East Petersburg, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. She died on 5 June 1895, in East Petersburg, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, at the age of 35, and was buried in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Sources (5)
- Barbara Snyder in household of J W Snyder, "United States Census, 1870"
- Barbara Anna Snyder, "Pennsylvania Deaths and Burials, 1720-1999"
- Barbara Snyder in household of Jacob W Snyder, "United States Census, 1860"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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