Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/196 Surname: SNYDERS, HARTLEY, LOGAN, JENKINS, SMITH, BURROUGHS, TIBBLE, CARDER, HILL ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Upper Sandy Valley". Snyder Family Another family who lived in this section before the war, though not pioneers, were the Snyders, Levi, Ben and Henry, who came from Preston County. Levi Snyder came to Jackson County and lived on Mill Creek. Later he married Abby Hartley, and the family moved to the neighborhood of Ripley. His son, Burris Snyder, was in Company "F" - 4th W. Va. Cavalry, and two nephews, Nimrod and Elias Snyder, sons of Henry Snyder, were in the 11th W.Va. Infantry". Ben Snyder, another brother of Levi, built a cabin on the high point on the left of Little Creek, just below the Widow Logan's place. There was a Snyder (some say Ben, others, Tom) lived in the Jenkins cabin at the forks of Buck Run during or after the war. Tom Snyder lived on Wolfe Pen or Patterson Run at one time, where he made a two-man hand mill which was of great benefit to the neighborhood. It is possible that he lived on the Warren place. The Snyders lived in various places in the neighborhood of Liverpool for several years. There is another family of the same name in the vicinity of Mill Creek and Sandy, who I think are not related. Sometime about 1850, Joseph Smith, afterward a prominent lawyer of Jackson County and Judge of the Circuit Court, bought 2,000 acres of land, including the Burroughs farm, all the lower part of Buck Run, the Warren and Patterson farms, also most of the land on the pike above Liverpool. He moved on the land which he contemplated turning into a tobacco plantation. He hired a great boundary cleared, and planted it in tobacco, building several large log tobacco barns - but either the project was not a success or he lacked what the Germans call "ausdauer" to push it to successful results. Perhaps the coming of the clouds of war caused him to leave the place. In any case, the undertaking fell through with. In 1862, Mr. James Tibble, who had come to Jackson County from Athens County, Ohio, in 1864, after a short stay at Ravenswood and Ripley, bought a part of the land and moved on it. He lived in the house at the mouth of Buck Run until his death in March, 1901, in his eighty first year. The land at the mouth of Little Trace was bought by Anderson Carder from George W. Smith. Later he sold it to Thomas Hartley, as before mentioned. There was an extensive sugar camp in the bottom at the forks of the creek, and thousands of pounds of sugar have been made there. Later a smaller camp was opened in the bottom in front of the Dave Hill house below the Arnold line. There was an old house on the land, said to be haunted. Mr. John Hartley told me that once he was passing the house, which was then vacant, at night, and as he came in sight a light was shining through the cracks between the logs, as though there were a fire or other light inside - but when he came close, all was dark and silent.