Who are the parents of Margaret Ellen SNODGRASS who was born on the banks of the Potomac River in 1825. Her parents died when she was young and she was raised by an uncle. We also know that she had a brother, Henry Snodgrass (born 1816) who died in Belmont Co., OH in 1895. According to an 1898 article about John Henry SCHULTY, he married Margaret Ellen Snodgrass on Jan. 1, 1846 while he was working in Hampshire Co., VA. The marriage was performed on the ice of the Potomac River by Billy Welch, a Methodist revivalist. John Henry Schulty was born in Germany in 1818 and came to America by himself when he was 15 years old. He worked on the B & O and the C & O Railroads for several years before he married. It appears that the family is listed in the 1850 Hampshire Co. census (p. 244b) as Thomas (30), Ellen (25), John (4), and Henry (2) SHULTZ. Margaret Ellen (Snodgrass) and John Henry Schulty left VA and moved to IA in 1856. She died in 1897 and he died 1913 in Washington Co., IA. Children included: John William, George, John Henry Jr., John Thomas, Mary Margaret, James, Charles, Samuel, and Amanda Schulty. John William and George died when small. The first five were born in VA and the last four were born in Washington Co., IA. Many thanks. Millie in OH