I wrote about Jacob Snider initially for a Veterans Wall display at Woodland Elementary School following 9/11 in 2001. As the Fourth of July approaches, this seemed like a timely remembrance.
AN HONORED AMERICAN
REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN
Jacob
Snider was my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather on my Grandpa Gates’
side through his mother, Elizabeth Studebaker Gates. (For more about Elizabeth Studebaker Gates, see the blog post for October 27, 2013 entitled Education of Elizabeth Studebaker Gates and The Marriage of John Fredrick and Elizabeth Studebaker Gates, the blog post on November 3, 2013.) He was born in 1732 in Germany and later immigrated to the colonies. In
1780, he provided provisions for the Army of Virginia. He was appointed a
lieutenant in the militia on September 18, 1781, at the age of 49. He died at
the age of 58 in 1790, the same year the final state ratified the Constitution
of the United States. |
| The Original Tombstone of Jacob Ludwig Snider in West Virginia - as seen on findagrave.com. |
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| The military marker erected in 2007 to honor Jacob Snider's military service in the American Revolution - as seen on findagrave.com |
An
interesting side note concerns Jacob Snider’s son-in-law, my
great-great-great-great grandfather, Jacob Studebaker. It is believed he was
actually fined for refusing to fight in the American Revolution. He was accused
of being a loyalist. He was thirty years old at the time. Jacob Studebaker was in no way loyal to King George III. The reason he chose
not to fight was due to his strong religious convictions as a passifist and member of the
Church of the Brethren. He died in 1813, at the age of 81 years just one year
before Francis Scott Key wrote The
Star-Spangled Banner.
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| Tombstone of Jacob Studebaker marking his burial place at Snake River, Pennsylvania - as seen on findagrave.com |
One cannot help but
wonder how family gatherings were with both men on opposing sides! I guess
families have always shared differing opinions.
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