Jonathan Schneider ¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1860, Upper Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA. ³ Jonathan (age 51) is a farmer living in the household headed by his son, Cornelius (28). Living with him is his wife, Susannah (55).

• Census, 1870, Upper Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁴ He is listed as Jonathan Snyder (age 61), the head of a household that included Susannah (65) and a domestic servant.

• Book: Genealogical & Biographical Annals of Northumberland County by J. L. Floyd, 1911. ¹ Jonathan Snyder, son of Johan Jacob, was born in the Swabian creek section of Upper Mahanoy Township, and died in 1876, aged sixty-seven years. He was a farmer by occupation, and owned the place which is now one of the Tobias Snyder farms. He was active in church matters as a Lutheran member of Himmel's Church, and held various church offices, and he is buried at that church. He married Susanna Schollenberger, daughter of Benedict Schollenberger, of Albany Township, Berks County, and they had children as follows: Simon S. is mentioned below; Jacob S. died on his farm at Leck Kill April 7, 1894, aged sixty-three years, ten months, twenty-nine days, his wife, Catharine, dying Aug. 26, 1903, aged sixty-seven years, three months, nine days; Cornelius, who was a carpenter by trade, built the famous Elijah Byerly barn in Lower Mahanoy Township, the most modern barn in that township, and later removed to Laporte, Ind., where he died; Enoch, a blacksmith, went to the defense of his country in the Civil war, and because of his extraordinary strength was selected as one of the four hundred men detailed to erect the pontoon bridge across the Rappahanock river, being shot while engaged on that work, in December, 1862; Emanuel died at home, during the epidemic of spotted fever; Gehret (or Gehred), of Bloomsburg, Pa., was formerly a shoemaker, but has lately entered the hotel business, being proprietor of the "Exchange Hotel" at Bloomsburg; Henry M. is mentioned below; Lydia married Gabriel Reiner; Elizabeth married William Kehres; Sarah married William Kauffman.

Jonathan married Susanna Schollenberger, daughter of Benedict Schollenberger and Christina. (Susanna Schollenberger was born about 1805 ³.)