Jimeson Snyder was born in Preston County, West Virginia, October 31, 1843, departed this life July 14, 1917 at his home in Lamont, Oklahoma.
The days of his labors were 74 years, 8 months, and 13 days.
At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted as a Private in Company C of the 6th West Virginia Infantry and began active service in August of 1861 and served until the close of the war in the defense of the flag and for the liberation of the slaves.
Receiving an honorable discharge from the service he took up the peaceful persuits of life and on the 21st day of May 1868 he was united in holy matrimony with Miss Maggie E. Albright of Preston County, West Virginia, where they continued to reside until the fall of 1888 when they left their West Virginia home and started west.
They arrived in Sumner County, Kansas on New Year's day of 1889, here they lived 13 years and in March of 1892 they moved to Lamont, Oklahoma where they have since lived.
Three children were born to this union, Francis M. Snyder of Oklahoma City, born September 27, 1870; Wesley Dallas Snyder of Lamont, Oklahoma, born November 26, 1876; Willie Chancey Snyder of Lamont, Oklahoma, born May 15, 1883, all of whom with the wife survive the departed.
Besides the immediate family there are three brothers and three sisters who survive him in West Virginia.
He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since before the Civil War and ever remained faithful. He was a member of the Lamont M. E. Church at the time of his departure of the church militant to the Church Triumphant.
He was an accepted member of the Masonic Lodge the greater part of his life, joining at Kingwood, West Virginia while a young man and always tried to live up to its teachings in testimony of brethren of the lodge.
He was also an active member of the G. A. R. Lamont Post.
Brother Snyder was a faithful member of the Men's bible class of this church and was on the committee to buy the flag and banner that are draped today in his memory.
The church, the lodge and the community extends sympathy in this dark hour of sorrow and commend the loved ones to Him who is able to keep them.
(Published in The Lamont Valley News, July 20, 1917.)
[Reference: Page 162, TRIBUTES OF BLUE, by Pearcy and Talkington, 1996.]
The days of his labors were 74 years, 8 months, and 13 days.
At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted as a Private in Company C of the 6th West Virginia Infantry and began active service in August of 1861 and served until the close of the war in the defense of the flag and for the liberation of the slaves.
Receiving an honorable discharge from the service he took up the peaceful persuits of life and on the 21st day of May 1868 he was united in holy matrimony with Miss Maggie E. Albright of Preston County, West Virginia, where they continued to reside until the fall of 1888 when they left their West Virginia home and started west.
They arrived in Sumner County, Kansas on New Year's day of 1889, here they lived 13 years and in March of 1892 they moved to Lamont, Oklahoma where they have since lived.
Three children were born to this union, Francis M. Snyder of Oklahoma City, born September 27, 1870; Wesley Dallas Snyder of Lamont, Oklahoma, born November 26, 1876; Willie Chancey Snyder of Lamont, Oklahoma, born May 15, 1883, all of whom with the wife survive the departed.
Besides the immediate family there are three brothers and three sisters who survive him in West Virginia.
He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since before the Civil War and ever remained faithful. He was a member of the Lamont M. E. Church at the time of his departure of the church militant to the Church Triumphant.
He was an accepted member of the Masonic Lodge the greater part of his life, joining at Kingwood, West Virginia while a young man and always tried to live up to its teachings in testimony of brethren of the lodge.
He was also an active member of the G. A. R. Lamont Post.
Brother Snyder was a faithful member of the Men's bible class of this church and was on the committee to buy the flag and banner that are draped today in his memory.
The church, the lodge and the community extends sympathy in this dark hour of sorrow and commend the loved ones to Him who is able to keep them.
(Published in The Lamont Valley News, July 20, 1917.)
[Reference: Page 162, TRIBUTES OF BLUE, by Pearcy and Talkington, 1996.]
Jimeson Snyder was born in Preston County, West Virginia, October 31, 1843, departed this life July 14, 1917 at his home in Lamont, Oklahoma.
The days of his labors were 74 years, 8 months, and 13 days.
At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted as a Private in Company C of the 6th West Virginia Infantry and began active service in August of 1861 and served until the close of the war in the defense of the flag and for the liberation of the slaves.
Receiving an honorable discharge from the service he took up the peaceful persuits of life and on the 21st day of May 1868 he was united in holy matrimony with Miss Maggie E. Albright of Preston County, West Virginia, where they continued to reside until the fall of 1888 when they left their West Virginia home and started west.
They arrived in Sumner County, Kansas on New Year's day of 1889, here they lived 13 years and in March of 1892 they moved to Lamont, Oklahoma where they have since lived.
Three children were born to this union, Francis M. Snyder of Oklahoma City, born September 27, 1870; Wesley Dallas Snyder of Lamont, Oklahoma, born November 26, 1876; Willie Chancey Snyder of Lamont, Oklahoma, born May 15, 1883, all of whom with the wife survive the departed.
Besides the immediate family there are three brothers and three sisters who survive him in West Virginia.
He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since before the Civil War and ever remained faithful. He was a member of the Lamont M. E. Church at the time of his departure of the church militant to the Church Triumphant.
He was an accepted member of the Masonic Lodge the greater part of his life, joining at Kingwood, West Virginia while a young man and always tried to live up to its teachings in testimony of brethren of the lodge.
He was also an active member of the G. A. R. Lamont Post.
Brother Snyder was a faithful member of the Men's bible class of this church and was on the committee to buy the flag and banner that are draped today in his memory.
The church, the lodge and the community extends sympathy in this dark hour of sorrow and commend the loved ones to Him who is able to keep them.
(Published in The Lamont Valley News, July 20, 1917.)
[Reference: Page 162, TRIBUTES OF BLUE, by Pearcy and Talkington, 1996.]
The days of his labors were 74 years, 8 months, and 13 days.
At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted as a Private in Company C of the 6th West Virginia Infantry and began active service in August of 1861 and served until the close of the war in the defense of the flag and for the liberation of the slaves.
Receiving an honorable discharge from the service he took up the peaceful persuits of life and on the 21st day of May 1868 he was united in holy matrimony with Miss Maggie E. Albright of Preston County, West Virginia, where they continued to reside until the fall of 1888 when they left their West Virginia home and started west.
They arrived in Sumner County, Kansas on New Year's day of 1889, here they lived 13 years and in March of 1892 they moved to Lamont, Oklahoma where they have since lived.
Three children were born to this union, Francis M. Snyder of Oklahoma City, born September 27, 1870; Wesley Dallas Snyder of Lamont, Oklahoma, born November 26, 1876; Willie Chancey Snyder of Lamont, Oklahoma, born May 15, 1883, all of whom with the wife survive the departed.
Besides the immediate family there are three brothers and three sisters who survive him in West Virginia.
He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since before the Civil War and ever remained faithful. He was a member of the Lamont M. E. Church at the time of his departure of the church militant to the Church Triumphant.
He was an accepted member of the Masonic Lodge the greater part of his life, joining at Kingwood, West Virginia while a young man and always tried to live up to its teachings in testimony of brethren of the lodge.
He was also an active member of the G. A. R. Lamont Post.
Brother Snyder was a faithful member of the Men's bible class of this church and was on the committee to buy the flag and banner that are draped today in his memory.
The church, the lodge and the community extends sympathy in this dark hour of sorrow and commend the loved ones to Him who is able to keep them.
(Published in The Lamont Valley News, July 20, 1917.)
[Reference: Page 162, TRIBUTES OF BLUE, by Pearcy and Talkington, 1996.]
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