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Lorenzo D. (1809-18523) and Julia Ann Brown (1816-19045) Snyder

Key words: Lorenzo and Julian Snyder, Lorenzo D. and Julian Snyder, Lorenzo Snyder, Lorenzo D. Snyder, Julia Ann Brown Snyder, Julia Ann Browne Snyder, Lorenzo and Julia Ann Brown Snyder, Lorenzo d. and Julia Ann Brown Snyder, Lorenzo and Julia Ann Browne Snyder, Lorenzo D. and Julia Ann Browne Snyder

Lorenzo Snyder married Julia Ann Brown or Browne on June 16, 1832 in Trumbull County, Ohio.1  when he was about 23 and she was 14. 7  They had the following children, who were listed in the 1850 and 1860 census records:

Mary Jane b. c.1834 in New York
William b. c.1836 in Ohio
Theodore b. 27 Aug 1844 in Cattaraugus, New York, m. Anthunette VanNess6
Lydia A. b. c.1846-7 in Michigan
Daniel b. c.1849 Michigan
Phoebe b. c.1851 Michigan

 

In about 1832 or 1833, Lorenzo and Peter moved to Trumbull Co., Ohio. Peter lived with Lorenzo for about year and afterwards worked by the month doing farm work during five months in the summer and attended school in the winter.2  Yet Mary Jane was recorded as being born in New York in about 1834.   Did Lorenzo return to New York just briefly or was this a longer-term move?  Is a return to New York the reason why Peter only lived with Lorenzo for a year in Trumbull County?  Was Peter living with Peter Snyder (b. c.1793) after Lorenzo and Julia Ann returned to New York?

In 1835, Lorenzo and his wife Julia Ann bought the southwest quarter of section 14 in Bath Township, Allen Co., Ohio. This is in the northwest part of the township where many other immigrants from northeastern Ohio settled, including the Bassitts and Edgecombs. It is not known where Lorenzo and Julia Ann were living at that time, but by Sep 1838, when they sold the north half of this land, they were described as "of Allen County, Ohio"4 so William may have been born there.   Sometime between 1838 and 1840 they moved to Hinsdale, Cattaraugus Co., NY and sold the rest of their land in Bath Township, while Lorenzo's brother Peter married and remained in Bath Township. 

Sometime between 1844 and 1847 Lorenzo and his family moved to Michigan.  Lorenzo died on December 3, 18523 and his mother Mary (Sharpsteen) Snyder died at their home there2 on 11 May 1853.4  After Lorenzo died, Julia Ann married Charles Smith and based on the 1860 census, they apparently had a child, Samuel.  Also living with the family was an Alice Snyder, but it is not clear whose child Alice was.  Julia Ann died in 1904.5

This account was created after the publication of History of the Edgecomb, Bassitt, and Snyder Families of Allen County, Ohio by Steven J. Bassett Baskauf, 2007 and is therefore not included in that edition. 
This portion of the book is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.  On the web, a link to this page would be helpful.
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References:

1. Most of this information was received from Theresa Wirth in emails from November 2008-Jan 2009.  Thanks for sharing, Theresa!

2.  History of Allen County, Ohio. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885. p.587-88.

3. Tombstone of Lorenzo Snyder, Austin Cemetery Section 22, 15 Mile Road, Convis Township, Calhoun Co., MI.  "LORENZO SNYDER  Died Dec. 3, 1852 AE 43 ys. 9 ms. & 22 ds." (as best as can be read from the image of the stone).  This gives a birth date of 9 or 11 Feb 1809 depending on how the subtraction is done.

4. J. Max Anderson.  2006. A History of Johann Jost Snyder and Anna Magdalena Elizabetha Flagler of Palatine Immigrants to America in 1710.  Salt Lake City, Utah.  p. 45.

5. Tombstone of Julia Ann Snyder, Austin Cemetery Section 22, 15 Mile Road, Convis Township, Calhoun Co., MI.  "JULIA  A.  WIFE OF L. SNYDER 1816-1904"

6. Email from Theresa Wirth, 23 Feb 2009

7. The marriage application was taken out by Julia Ann Brown's step-father Stephen Brown and required his consent because she was only fourteen.  An explanation for the similar last names maybe as described by Rick Gustafson: The 1830 census "for Milton, Trumbull Co, Ohio has a Stephen Brown listed with his family members and two lines down is a listing for a Lydia Brown and her family members, but no male that would be her husband.   She has a daughter between the ages of 11 and 15 (this could be Juliann). Then a Lydia Brown married a Stephen Brown in January 1831 in Newton, Trumbull Co, Ohio (see image of marriage license and recording of the marriage).  Per Google Maps Newton, Oh and Lordstown, Oh are only about 7 miles apart.  The distance between Milton, Oh and Newton, Oh is about 12 miles.  My guess is that Lydia's first husband was Stephen Brown's brother.  I think Stephen's first wife, can't find any proof of this, died during 1830 and he, Stephen, married his brother's wife, Lydia, and they combined families.  If this was in fact the case the family would have about 15 to 17 members in 1831/32."  The marriage was performed by her father, Peter, who was a justice of the peace.   

Census records

U.S. Census of 1840 for Hinsdale, Cattaraugus Co., NY. p. 44.  [blank 1840 form]

U.S. Census of 1850 for Marshall Twp., Calhoun Co., MI, p. 148.    [blank 1850 form]

U.S. Census of 1860 for Convis Twp., Calhoun Co., MI, p. 182.  [blank 1860 form]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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