This site might help some Schneider/Snider/Snyder researchers on their ancestory.

http://www.palmettoroots.org/Family_Schneider.html
and
http://www.palmettoroots.org/Auswanderer.html

Many of the Snider/Snyders in Tuscaloosa are descendants of Johann Michael Schneider and Anna Rosina Schlägel-Schneider. They had two sons, William and Jacob. Jacob Snider married Susanna Oswalt [Weaver?]. Jacob died about 1813 and in about 1816 or so, Susanna and their children moved to Alabama.

Do you have any leads on OTHER Snider lines that came to Tuscaloosa about the same time? I can't see that my James Snider is a descendant of Jacob, though Jacob had a son James, born same year as my James T. My James T, b. 1843, married an Eliza C. I am not positive that T was his middle initial. That was my best guess from the census taker's handwriting.

Further on down the line of GGGGrandparents, Jacob & Susannah Snider, their grandson William Griffin had two sons named James.

He first married Rachel Latham they had 6 children ~ Sanford Marion, Mary, Mahala, R.W., Laura, and James.

Then he married Amanda Lindsey Gibbs and had three more children~ James Sylvester, M.S. & Herman.

My Great Grandfather is Sanford Marion. He married Cassie Gordan and had several children. One of which is my Grandfather Jessie James!

Maybe there is a connection. If there is, I hope that you share! I just recently started my search for my family lineage. I don't have alot of information, but I do have some!

My GGGGrandparents are Jacob & Susannah Oswalt Snider. Their children were William G, Jacob, Catherine, John M., George, Barbara, Sophia, Margaret, & Mathias.

William G married Mary Ann Sanford. Their children were Jesse, Joel, John Martin, Rebecca, Samuel, Jacob (note story below), Gilly, William Jr, Nancy, Lavina, Sanford, Susan, & William Griffin.

The way that I got the story was that Jacob married Amy Latham and had several children. He died while still in Tuscaloosa Co, Alabama. His wife Amy stayed behind with her young children when the majority of the Snider's immigrated to Texas. Some of her children later moved to East Texas. There is a Jak Snider listed in the 1850 Panola Co, TX census, but how this Jak fits into the family is a mystery.

I have just recently started the search for my family lineage, so I don't have any dates. But I have read several places where is says that a Jacob that married Elizabeth and lived in Tuscaloosa Co, AL. So there has to be a connection somewhere.

Please share what you find out with me. I would appreciate it.

Jacob & Susannah Oswalt Snider are my GGGGrandparents. I have just began to search my family lineage. If you don't mind sharing any info that you have, I would appreciate it. I am pretty sure that we are related!! William G that married Mary Ann Sanford is my GGGrandparents! This is so exciting!!!! Now if I can just get someone to email me with some info!!! pameyjane@yahoo.com

Hi, I would be happy to share what info I have on the Sniders/Snyders of Tuscaloosa, I will need your email as I have alot. I have been to Tuscaloosa and spent hours at the courthouse & Library and went to the Snider reunion. I also have photos from the Center Cemetery where Jacob & Elizabeth are buried. As it turns out after further investigation, my Mariah Snider/Snyder was not the daughter of Jacob & Elizabeth Snider but is the daughter of his brother Lewis/Luia & Mahala (possibly Sellers) Snider. Lewis was Jacob's brother, they were both sons of John & Polly Snider and John was one of the son's of Jacob & Susanah (Oswalt or Weaver) Snider/Snyder from SC. The James I was researching whom I thought was a brother was actually Mariah Snider's son by her frist husband (her cousin) George W. Snider who was in the Ala 26th and died at home Nov 1862, they had two sons, John L(ewis) who married Sabre "Sade" Garner and William. Mariah Snider then married Pinkney Melvin Garner and had the following children, Alice C. who married Marion Ledlow, Salena Caledonia "Dona" who married Johnny Banks (my Great Grandparents) and Pinkney "Pink" Melvin Garner who married Dixie., Mariah, and her three sons are buried at Ruhama Church in Tuscaloosa, her daughters are at Dunn Creek Cemetery. I don't know where the others are as yet. I have a copy of the Matthias Snider letter, which was written in the 1880's and gives a history of the migration of Susanah & her sons to Alabama..which was given to me by our cousins in Alabama...Carol

Wow, you have done alot of homework. Thank you so much for responding to my plea!! I would love for you to email whatever you don't mind sharing. This is so very exciting. We are all just little kids at Christmas waiting to see what we are going to uncover! My email address is pameyjane@yahoo.com. Thanks again. I will look forward to chatting with you again very soon. Have a very blessed day!

I am very interested in having a copy of the Mathias Snider letter, if you would be so kind as to share. Thanks, Barbara

Now that you have brought this thread back to life, I would like to correct a date that I made three years ago Namely - Jacob Snider died about 1813 and in about 1816 or so, his widow Susannah and their grown children moved to Alabama.

I do believe that Jacob Snider died in 1813 but the wagon train with the Snider folks and the rest of the folks including the Oswalt, Shultz, Kyzer, Stagner, Carnley and others, left from Lexington South Carolina to Tuscaloosa Alabama probably late 1819 or 1820.

The reason for this is the flury of Snider land deals in 1814 and again in 1817.

Series Number: S213192 Volume: 0043 Page: 00439 Item: 02 Date: 1813/11/08
Description: Hallman, Jacob, Plat For 672 Acres On Long Branch, Lexington District, Surveyed By John Harsey.
Names Indexed: Hallman, Jacob/Harsey, John/Weaver, George/Snider, Susanna/
Locations: Long Branch/Twelve Mile Creek/Congaree River/Lexington District

The plat description above for Jacob Hallman (Susannah was a neighbor) does not show Jacob Snider. He is now probably deceased and Susannah is now listed as the owner of the property next to Jacob Hallman and George Weaver.

John Snider & Abraham Sandford & Nicholas See, George Snider, William Sanford, Susannah & Sophia Snider to Mathias Snider - Deed- for $2000 - 140 Rocky Creek Waters of Saluda River - 27th Jun 1814 - recorded 16th Aug 1814 page 7

There were also land transfers in 1817

Susannah Snider to William Dent -$500 - 700 acres on branchs of Rocky Creek 26 Feby 1817 24th Dec 1817

Mathias Snider to John Snider - Deed - for $200 - 140 acres on waters B Saluda = dated 12 Nov 1817 - recorded 21st Nov 1817 page 7

In addition, there are Peggy Snider-Seay's divorce papers filed in Tuscaloosa in 1824 which indicated that she and Nicholas Seay were living in Lexington SC in 1818.