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• Miscellaneous as specified: 1863, Mount Etna, Pennsylvania, USA; GEORGE D . SNYDER . The career of George D. Snyder, of Bluffton, has been in many ways a typical American success. Coming to Indiana a poor boy, working on farms and in stores, he proved his capacity and fidelity in small things and was promoted to increasing responsibilities, finally getting into business for himself and now for many years has enjoyed an enviable position in business and civic affairs. At the present time Mr. Snyder is district agent at Bluffton for the People’s Life Insurance Comp any at Frankfort, Indiana. He is also a stockholder in the company. Mr. Snyder was born at Mount Etna in Berks County, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1863, son of Aaron and Lavina ( Lebo ) Snyder. His parents spent all their lives in Berks County. His father was a man of good education, taught in public schools, and later practiced law and became well known both in the law and in democratic politics. He was a member of the German Reformed Church. There were thirteen children in the family, ten sons and three daughters. Ten of the children are still living, Emma, Robert, George D., Keturah, Matthew, Kate, Carrie, J. L., William and Lester. George’s brother J. L. also lives at Bluffton. A member of a large family of children, George D. Snyder early acquired a sense of serious responsibility. His father was moderately well - to - do in financial circumstances but with such a l arge family it devolved upon the children as early as possible to become self supporting. George D. Snyder lived at Mount Etna until he was seventeen years of age He attended public school as opportunity offered, and at the age of nine began contributing to the support of the family. He worked in a general store and at other lines of employment. On coming to Indiana he found work in a livery barn, was there three months, then went out to Washington County, Kansas, where he found something more to his liking in a - dry goods store. Mr. Snyder came to Bluffton, Indiana, in 1881 and entered the dry goods store of that old pioneer merchant, S . M. Dailey. After three and a half years he transferred his services to another well known old time merchant, G. F. McFarren. Mr. Snyder began his employment at Bluffton at wages of a week. When he left Mr. McFarren he was getting a year. He gave up his employment in the McFarren store to enter the boot and shoe business for himself, and conducted a very successful store at Bluffton for about ten years. In the meantime he had bought the Bluffton shoe factory. The weight of business responsibilities finally undermined his health and he spent two years recuperating in Asheville, North Carolina. On leaving Bluffton he had divided his stock with a partner. He also had a brief experience in the jewelry business and later resumed the boot and shoe trade. For a short time Mr. Snyder lived with his family in California. On returning to Bluffton he entered the life insurance business, and in that line has had a very marked success. June 12, 1887, he married Miss Ida A. Sturgeon. She was born in Jefferson Township of Wells County, the only child of S. H. and Harriett (Caston) Sturgeon. Mrs. Snyder lived on the old farm with her parents until she was ten years of age. She was liberally educated, attending both the grammar and high schools at Ossian, and she also graduated in the scientific course at Valparaiso University with the degree Bachelor of Science. She took up teaching, being employed in Noble County, Indiana, and two years in the schools of Ossian. Both Mr. and Mrs. Snyder are active members of the Baptist Church and Mrs. Snyder teaches the woman’s class in the Sunday school. Mr. Snyder is affiliated with Bluffton Lodge No. 114, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and with the Knights of Pythias. He and his wife have owned several good properties in Bluffton and their prosperity is a source of satisfaction not only to themselves but to their many friends. Mr. Snyder has always been a leader in temperance work and some of the early meetings to promote temperance were held in his store. He and his wife had two children : Raymond G, born September 12, 1890, was educated in the grammar and high schools of Bluffton and married Miss Pearl Shardelow of Dayton Ohio. Ruephell, the daughter, was born November 16, 1892, was educated in the local schools and in a business college, and is now the wife of Thomas E. Miller.
• Miscellaneous as specified: 6 Oct 1917, Muncie, Indiana, USA; Hosted her sister Mildred's marriage ceremony.
• Residence: 1933, Blufftown, Indiana, USA; Living here when her mum dies
• Residence: 13 May 1954, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA; Living here when sister Mildred dies.

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Died:
Divorcee at death. Died of coronary occlusion after 15 years of general arteriosclerosis

Pearl married SNYDER, Raymond Oscar on 27 Sep 1909 (Remarry each other 24/2/1923 Franklin County Ohio?) in Newport, Campbell, Cincinnati, Kentucky, USA. Raymond (son of SNYDER, George and STURGEON, Ida Alice) was born on 12 Sep 1890 in Blufftown, Indiana, USA; died on 23 May 1972 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. SNYDER, Roderic Shardelow was born on 16 Nov 1910 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA; died on 19 Aug 1987 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA.
2. SNYDER, Georgia Sturgeon was born on 6 May 1915 in Blufftown, Indiana, USA.

Pearl married SNYDER, Ray O on 24 Feb 1923 in Franklin County, Ohio, USA. Ray was born on 12 Sep 1889 in Blufftown, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Pearl was a divorcee having married Ray Snyder in 1909, aged 20. It seems bizarre that she would have married Ray A Snyder in 1909, divorced him then married Ray O Snyder in 1923, aged 33 - but that's what it looks like.
They divorced and then remarried but 2nd marriage definitely says she was a divorcee and him not.
This is work in progress.

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• Professional position/status: 12 Feb 1898, Harker Street, Dayton, Ohio, USA; Appointed Fish and Game Warden of the Montgomery county.
• Professional position/status: 20 Aug 1914, Dayton, Ohio, USA; Printer at time of his death Member of Dayton Typographical Union

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Died:
Died of heart trouble unexpectedly at home
Dayton Herald reports, spells his name Louis

Lewis married KAUTT, Rose in 1886. Rose (daughter of KAUTT, Johan Cristoph and Living) was born in 1868 in Ohio, USA; died on 4 Feb 1933 in Indiana Avenue, New Castle, Indiana, USA; was buried on 6 Feb 1933 in Southmound Cemetery, New Castle, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1925, Bluffton to New Castle, Indiana, USA; Moves. Source Death notice in The Star Press, Muncie, Indiana.

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Died:
Dunreith is 32 miles south of Muncie.
Died of a heart attack.

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• Departure: 1838, Calais, Maine, USA; The three brothers "shipped aboard different vessels and the sister went to live with a family in Calais". Source is 1909 Dayton Herald article about Joseph.
• Miscellaneous as specified: 1840, New Brunswick, Canada; Shipwrecked off the coast of New Brunswick. Source: Dayton Herald article 1909.
• Miscellaneous as specified: 1846; Enlisted in US Navy to fight in Mexican War
• Miscellaneous as specified: 25 Oct 1854, Balaklava, Sebastapol, Crimea, Russia; Joe witnessed the charge of the Light Brigade
• Professional position/status: 15 Jun 1857, New York, New York, USA; Enlists with US Navy Source is US Naval Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938
• Professional position/status: 15 Jun 1859, New York, New York, USA; Discharged from US Navy Source is US Naval Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938
• Miscellaneous as specified: 1861, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Enlists in USA Navy to fight for the Union in the American Civil War. Assigned to the sloop-of-war Lancaster, now a guardship. Severely wounded and laid up for some time, then returns.
• Miscellaneous as specified: 10 May 1861, St Louis, Missouri, USA; Dayton newspaper story states he volunteers on Mississippi gunboats on 18 May 1862, boarding packet at St Paul, Minnesota and took passage for St Louis (500 miles journey). Worked on the Essex, signed up for one year but was compelled to stay until the end of the war (1865). Wounded again at Vicksburg, Mississippi. According to US Naval Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938, this was 10 May 1861 - official record likely to be more accurate than his own story given to newspaper.
• Professional position/status: 4 Oct 1864, Cairo, Illinois, USA; Discharged from US Navy Source is US Naval Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866-1938
• Miscellaneous as specified: 1 Dec 1900, New York, USA; Joseph Shardalow (a not e) is named as one of many defendants in a New York Tribune newspaper notice of summons to the New York state Supreme Court. No indication of the offence/accusation. Other defendants include E N Little & Sons which was a New York painting company ("Little the big painter"). nb Joseph Shardelow was at this time residing in the Soldiers Home in Dayton, Ohio but after his sailor/soldier career he was a painter.
• Residence: 9 Mar 1909, Soldiers Home, Ohio, USA; Dayton Herald article about Joe says he was living here. Is this the same place he was living in the 1910 Census? The article includes a photo of him standing and tells his life story as a sailor who travelled the world and fought in four wars. He witnessed the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava.
• Residence: 15 Apr 1910, Jefferson, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; 1910 USA Census shows Joseph as an inmate in the National Military Home here. It states he was born in Indiana although we think it was Calais, Maine because that was what a Dayton Herald newspaper article in 1909 says that is where he was born and specifies his precise date of birth. The 1910 Census also says his father and mother were born in Kentucky.

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Birth:
1920 USA Census says Harry Shardelow's father (Joseph) was born in Maine.
1910 USA Census says Daniel J Shardelow's father (Joseph) was born in Maine.
1909 Dayton Herald newspaper article says Joseph was born in Calais, Maine.
1900 USA Census says Joseph was born in Maine and that his father was born in England and his mother in Scotland.
1900 USA Census also says Lewis' father (Joseph) was born in "Canada (Eng)".
1880 USA Census says Joseph was born in Nova Scotia, Canada. Calais, Maine is on the USA-Canada border and is about 100 miles across the sea from Nova Scotia.

Conclusion: it seems probable that he was born at Calais or closeby over the border in New Brunswick, Canada.


Name:
Joe also had two stepchildren, Mr W H Allen, Woonsocket, South Dakota and Mrs Katie Allen of Daytona.
Source: Daytona Herald article 1909.

Joseph married MILLER, Margaret on 17 Apr 1865 in Troy, Ohio, USA. Margaret (daughter of MILLER, Daniel) was born in 1839; died in 1897. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Miscellaneous as specified: 19 Jun 1894, Leroy Street, Dayton, Ohio, USA; Her niece Tillie Fry of Shiloh (up towards Lake Erie) visits her - Dayton Herald

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Married:
Reported in the Troy Times newspaper on this date (marriage probs before that).

"April the ninth 1865. I dashed frantically into the sea of bliss, or to use a nautical phrase, I got spliced to Mrs Maggie B Allen of Troy Ohio."
Source: Dayton Herald article 1909.

Johan married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Died in a pandemic