This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: snider Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/QU.2ADI/3884 Message Board Post: Would there be anyone on this forum who might do a look up for me at the Pike County Library at Troy? For several years I have been trying to obtain a copy of Josiah Snider's "A Snider History" written in 1895 as copied by Mrs. McPherson Brown. It does not have a copyright. I understand that the library does have this booklet. I am very interested to obtain the ancestory of Josiah Sniderand in knowing who Josiah Snider's grandfather and grandmother were. I believe them to be Jacob and Susanna Snider but do not know for sure. I hope that Josiah lists them. If anyone can obtain a copy, please send it to [email protected] Just for general interest, here is some additional information about Joshia Snider. He sounded like an excellent person. _________________ Josiah Snider Birth: 7 Feb 1828 in Little Oak, Pike, Alabama Death: 21 Aug 1909 in Little Oak, Pike, Alabama Father: Mathias Snider Sr. b. 2 Jul 1796 in Orangeburg Co, South Carolina Mother: Christiana Price b. 25 Dec 1792 in Orangeburg, SC Josiah Snider was a son of the late Reverend Matthias Snider who was a soldier in the War of 1812 and who moved from Lexington District, South Carolina to Monroe County, Alabama in the year 1818 and in January 1831 he moved his family to Pike County. On the 17th of February, 1850 Mr. Josiah Snider was married to Miss Rebecca Hutchinson, daughter of the late William Hutchinson of Coffee County, Alabama. The fruits of this marriage were five sons and four daughters, all of whom are living except one son, Louis Jefferson, who died in 1877. He joined the Methodist Church under the ministry of James M. Mills in the year 1849. He joined the Masonic fraternity in 1858. Mr. Snider served as Justice of Peace for Darby's Beat for one term, 1857-59. He has been postmaster of Little Oak for more than twenty years. Mr. Snider had seven brothers and four sisters, all of whom have gone to the Spirit Land except one sister. Three of his brothers wore the grey, two of whom gave their lives for the Lost Cause. In all the relations of his life Mr. Snider has conducted himself in such a manner as to have the confidence and esteem of all his neighbors. Mr. Snider has witnessed many changes in this section since he came here sixty years ago. Then the wolf's long howl came up from Conecuh Swamp. Now the scream of the locomotives greets his ears. Of his neighbors in the early days, the Carnleys, the Stagners, the Carters, the Kyzers, not one is left. All have crossed over to the Other Shore. Mr. Snider can say one thing that very few people can, that he was never intoxicated and never swore an oath in his life. His father built the first church that was ever established in this section. Although on the shady side of sixty, Mr. Snider still works at the blacksmith's trade. Two of the younger men whose graves were decorated on Memorial Day at Little Oak were those of Home Guards Josiah Snider and Seaborn J. Skinner. They were recruiting officers and guardians of the women and children who were left alone. They attended to the many repairs required to run a farm, such as blacksmith and carpentry work. Josiah Snider made coffins, and many of the old cement vaults and markers in the Little Oak Cemetery were made by him. If necessary, he conducted the funeral services. It is known that in later years he conducted that of Ione Snider. His duties were numerous but he always responded when called upon. Josiah was Postmaster for Little Oak community for 24 years (1879-1903)