Abraham Schneider ¹

   Another name for Abraham was Abraham Snyder.

  Christening Notes:

Sponsors were Abraham Brosius & Cath.

  Burial Notes:

The tombstone inscription is: Abraham Schneider, Geb. 4 Sept. 1788; Starb 8 Feb. 1873; Alter 84 Jahre, 5 Monat, 4 Tag.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1850, Upper Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁴ The household consists of Abraham Snyder (age 63), his wife, Susan (62); son David (26); daughter Sarah (20); and son William (16). The value of his real estate is $2,000. The census record was recorded on 1 Nov 1850.
Living next door is his son Abraham (visit 16) and also nearby are the Brosius and Geist families who intermarry with Schneiders.

• Name Changed: He was baptized as Schneider but changed his name to Snyder sometime before the United States Census, 1850.

• Occupation: farmer, 1850. ⁴

• Census, 1860, Upper Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA. He is listed as Abraham Snyder (73, retired from age) living with his wife Susanna (71); and Eliza (5).

• Census, 1870, Upper Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA. He is listed as Abraham Snyder (age 82) living on the farm of his son, Daniel (42).

• Book: Genealogical & Biographical Annals of Northumberland County by J. L. Floyd, 1911. ¹ Abraham Schneider, son of Johann Nicholas, born Sept. 4, 1788, died Feb. 8, 1873. He lived south of his brother Jacob, in the same township, and his farm continued in the family, being owned until recently by his grandson, A. Morris Snyder. His wife, Susanna (Schweitzer), born May 14, 1790, died Jan. 23, 1870, and both are buried at St. John's Church, in Upper Mahanoy Township. They had children as follows: Abraham (died April 18, 1894, aged 76 years, one month, five days; his wife, Susanna, died Nov. 13, 1898, aged eighty years, four months, eighteen days), George (who moved away from this region), John S., Daniel S., Simon, William (lived in Allentown, Pa.) and Catharine (married George Kahler).

Abraham married Susanna Schweitzer, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, about 1813 in Lykens Township: Klinger's Church, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA.¹ (Susanna Schweitzer was born on 14 May 1790 in , , Pennsylvania, USA,¹ died on 23 Jan 1870 ¹ and was buried in Leck Kill: Upper Mahanoy Township: St. John's Lutheran and Reformed Church, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA ^{1 3}.)