Ida Savilla Snyder

With her parents and other members of the family, she moved to Battle Hill, Kansas in 1879. Her formal education privileges were those of the district school.

On December 8, 1896, she married to Martin Snyder, a farmer, whose home was a few miles from the present site of Lucien, OK. By a former marriage he had two children, Ernest and Berniece, who had lost their mother by death, so Ida became a mother to them. That part of Oklahoma Territory in which they lived was known as the Cherokee Strip, which had been opeden for white settlement a few years previously. Accordingly, her lot was to experience frontier life and be denied many opportunities and conveniences, but through all these conditions she was a wonderful mother to her children and set them a fine Christian example.

Ida past away January 10, 1931. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Hinely, pastor of the Lucien Methodist Church, of which she was a member, and her body was laid to rest in the Lawnview cemetery near Lucien. Her husband had proceded her in death April 30, 1919.