Jacob C. Snider^[1]

1822 - 1857  (35 years)

• Name	Jacob C. Snider
  Born	12 Jan 1822	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1851	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Farmer
  Misfortune	1857	near, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario
  	killed in train accident
  Eby ID Number	00106-5891
  Died	12 Mar 1857	Desjardin Canal, Near Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario   [2, 3, 5, 6]
  	Cause: accident
  Buried	Martin Meeting House Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  Person ID	I8978	Generations
  Last Modified	12 May 2025

  
  

  Father	Jacob C. Snider,   b. 19 Feb 1791, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 19 Jun 1865, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Cressman,   b. 10 Jun 1791, , Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 12 Jan 1879, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 87 years)
  Married	21 Jul 1812  [7]
  Family ID	F325	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna "Nancy" Bricker,   b. 29 Jul 1820, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 8 Mar 1909  (Age 88 years)
  Children	1. Jacob B. Snider,   b. 21 Jan 1839, St. Jacobs, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 24 Dec 1916  (Age 77 years)   2. John Bricker Snider,   b. 25 Aug 1840, St. Jacobs, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 4 Oct 1917  (Age 77 years)   3. Norman B. Snider,   b. 1 Jan 1843, St. Jacobs, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 24 Jan 1884, Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 41 years)   4. Sydney B. Snyder,   b. 2 Feb 1845, St. Jacobs, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 18 Jan 1938  (Age 92 years)   5. Elizabeth Snider,   b. 2 May 1850, St. Jacobs, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 27 Sep 1913, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 63 years)
  Last Modified	13 May 2025
  Family ID	F1746	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Jacob C. Snider, "was born January 12th, 1822. He was married to Nancy Bricker who was born July 29th, 1820. They resided in St. Jacobs where he was proprietor of the mills now in possession of E. W. B. Snider. He died March 12th, 1857, (* He was a passenger on board the illfated train that broke through the bridge crossing the Desjardine Canal near Hamilton. He was one of the number who was instantly killed. Date of the accident March 12th, 1857.) leaving a family of five children Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.]. ___________________________________ We have lost no one from Berlin, but St. Jacobs mourns for one manly heart which has ceased its pulsations. Poor Jacob C. Snyder, jr., we parted with him in Toronto on Wednesday morning, in the enjoyment of health and in the hope of a long and useful life. Thursday evening he was a corpse! Mr. Snyder had gone to Toronto to place himself under the care of Dr. Cadwell, the Oculist. He had left Toronto to see a party in Hamilton, intending to return on the morrow. Unfortunate man -- he hurried himself into eternity. He was a generous-hearted and upright man, and we feel certain left not an enemy in the world. His remains were brought to St. Jacobs on Saturday and were laid in their last restingplace on Monday, attended by a large concourse of sorrowing friends. The evidence on the Coroner's Jury, taken thus far, we are unable to print this week, Until the verdict is rendered we withhold our opinion of the cause of the accident -- an opinion formed after the closet examination of surrounding appearances. Berlin Chronicle 18 Mar 1857 _______________________________ A-1-132 Jacob C. Snyder Letters of Administration of the estate of Jacob C. Snyder the younger, late of the Township of Woolwich, Gentleman, deceased, to Nancy Snyder, Woolwich, aforesaid widow of the said deceased upon her giving proof that the said deceased died intestate on or about the twelfth day of March 1857 and on her giving a bond with security for the due administration of such estate herself and two sureties in the persons of Elias Snyder, of the Township of Waterloo, Yeoman, [note added over text] "in the sum of twelve thousand pounds", and Jacob Bricker of the Village of Waterloo, Mechanish[sic] each in the sum of two thousand pounds, the inventory delivered being to the amount of six thousand two hundred and ninety five pounds 2/6. Letters granted 7th April 1857 Died 12th March 1857 Inventory £6295/2/6 Surrogate Court Records Copybook Register A 1853-1871 partial transcript to 1863. Frances Hoffman transcriber.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 477. [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 277. [S64] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - Martin's Mennonite CC#4521 Internet Link. [S141] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1851, Div. 3, Pg. 5. [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 309. [S14] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berlin Chronicle (1856-1860), News account train wreck 18 Mar 1857. [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 267.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 12 Jan 1822 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Farmer - 1851 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Misfortune - killed in train accident - 1857 - near, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario Died - Cause: accident - 12 Mar 1857 - Desjardin Canal, Near Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario Buried - - Martin Meeting House Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth