Daniel S. Schneider ¹

   Another name for Daniel was Daniel Snyder.

  Burial Notes:

His tombstone reads: Daniel Snyder, Died Mar. 18, 1903; Aged 76 y., 2 m., 12 d.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1870, Upper Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA. He is listed as Daniel Snyder (age 42) living with his wife Sarah (39) and Harriet (20); Martin (17); Wesley (15); Melinda (12); David (7); Sarah E. (5); and Samuel (2). Also living on the farm is Minnie Geist (2 months); Eliza Snyder (15); and Abraham Snyder (82).

• Occupation: farmer, 1870. ⁴ His land was valued at $8,000.

• Book: Genealogical & Biographical Annals of Northumberland County by J.L. Floyd, 1911. ¹ Daniel S. Snyder, son of Abraham, was born Jan. 6, 1827, in, Upper Mahanoy Township, and died March 18, 1903. He was a lifelong farmer, owning and living upon the place until recently occupied by his son, A. Morris Snyder, which comprises over two hundred acres in all; there are 148 acres of cleared land, besides the woodland. Mr. Snyder prospered, and he built the present barn in 1857; he also built part of the dwelling. Mr. Snyder was quite active in his locality, was a Republican in politics, and served some years as supervisor and also as school director of his township; he held the former office at the time the Mountain road, across Line Mountain to Shamokin, was built.
Mr. Snyder married Sarah A. Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith, and she survived him, dying May 9, 1905, aged seventy-three years, seven months, nineteen days. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder and some of their children are buried at St. John's Church, in Upper Mahanoy Township. They were Lutheran members of that church. They had the following family: Harriet, who married (first) Ed Erdman and (second) David Hepler; Martin, a farmer of Washington Township, Northumberland County; Wesley, a farmer of the same township; Malinda, deceased, who married Dr. H. H. Malick; Ellen, who married William Houghton; Daniel, of Allentown, Pa.; Milton, born April 13, 1861, who died of diphtheria June 23, 1863; Samuel I., born Jan. 15, 1869, who died Aug. 2, 1873; Savira (or Sovira), born Oct. 21, 1856, who died of diphtheria May 30, 1863; Charles E., of Allentown, Pa.; A. Morris; and Daisy, who married Howard Geist, of Girardville, Pennsylvania.

Daniel married Sarah A. Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith and Unknown. (Sarah A. Smith was born on 21 Sep 1831,^{1 3} died on 9 May 1905 ^{1 3} and was buried in Leck Kill: Upper Mahanoy Township: St. John's Lutheran and Reformed Church, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA ^{1 3}.)