Jacob Snarr

Residence: 1850 District 58, Shenandoah, Virginia 3

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NOTES:

Jean Snarr Martinsen, Compiler "The Snarr Family History" notes:

In the Will of Jacob Snarr - Book 16, Page 135 - Magdaline Bly Snarr is named, and therefore survived him. -CH

NOTES:

Hottel-Keller Cemetery is several yards away from the old Snarr Homestead. It was torn down in 1960 and was a two-story plank House. This information was found in my Grandmother's (Marie Elizabeth Gruber wife of George Thomas Snarr) papers. It is a letter written to her by Jean Snarr Martinsen of Tennessee Colony, Texas on 28 Oct 1968. requesting her assistance in making personal contact with three woman in Los Angeles County, California.

Father: Jurg Heinrich SCHNERR b: 10 MAR 1761 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Mother: Mary Barbary DIDAWICK b: 1765

Marriage 1 Magdelena BLY b: 20 MAY 1787 in Cedar Creek Valley, Shenandoah, Virginia

Married: 28 SEP 1807 in Shenandoah County, Virginia 4 5

Note:

From Daniel Bly's "Bly Family":

"Jacob & Magdalena lived on the Snarr homestead on the headwaters of Toms Brook, near Mount. Olive and were among the founders and original members of the Friedens Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed Church in 1824."

In regards to the children of Jacob and Magdalena Snarr; at least William, Lydia, Sarah, and Margaret are known to have been born in the Snarr Homestead near Tom's Brook.

Sources:

Title: The Snarr Family History

Author: Snarr-Martinsen, Jean, Compiler

Publication: Unpublished

Note: Family Pedigree. Jean Snarr Martinsen; Brookshire, TX

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Media: Other

Text: William Snarr - Elizabeth Swartz Good Pedigree Chart, Compiled October 1961

Title: The Snarr Family History

Author: Snarr-Martinsen, Jean, Compiler

Publication: Unpublished

Note: Family Pedigree. Jean Snarr Martinsen; Brookshire, TX

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Media: Other

Text: William Snarr Family Page

Compiled October 1961

Title: 1850 United States Federal Census

Author: United States of America

Publication: Ancestry.com [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.

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Note: National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.

Media: Microfilm

Title: The Snarr Family History

Author: Snarr-Martinsen, Jean, Compiler

Publication: Unpublished

Note: Family Pedigree. Jean Snarr Martinsen; Brookshire, TX

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Media: Other

Text: Jacob (Son of Henry) Snarr Family Page

Compiled October 1961

Title: Shenandoah Co, VA Marriage Bonds 1772-1850

Author: Bernice M. Ashby

Publication: Virginia Book Company; Berryville, Virginia, 1967

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Media: Book

Text: p. 127