John Snyder went west [Idaho] in 1901 -- Mar 1, 1901 and homesteaded on Fords Creek [according to Marie Pritchard Snyder Sterling]
John Wesley Snyder was number seven in the Snyder Family. He went West as a young man (after 1900 census) to the Fraser area of Idaho. He was a resident of the Ford's Creek and Fraser area for forty-two years. He was a farmer, served on the sch ool board, and was good in more fields than one. He helped with the sick. He helped the animals. He was in fact an all-around man, a man of may gifts, which was a help in any community.
After Mary's death he married Jessie Lee [Jordan] Pritchard at Orofino, Idaho [7 years later].

[After Mary's death, John returned to West Virginia and tried to marry Mary's sister, Myrtle. Not quite sure or the dynamics of this relationship . . . perhaps it is as simple as Myrtle not wanting to leave West Virginia for Idaho . . . but, Joh n returned to Idaho alone. I know she was very close to her sister, Hattie and brother, Wilbur. - Craig Cooper Snyder, from various sources including Milton Lee Pritchard Snyder]

John W. Snyder's (J.W. Snyder) farm was in Four Mile Corner [originally called Schmidt's Mill Road], near Fraser, Idaho . . . add to this that the farm was in the Johnstown Elemetarty school area of Fraser, Idaho (Johnstown School no longer exhist s) [from Milton Lee Snyder, ccs's dad]

Mary Jane Snyder, born about 1843 near Harman, West Virginia, was a sister of Sampson Snyder, who organized the Swamp Dragons. In 1865, she married Martin Van Buren Bennett, another member of the Swamp Dragons. On March 12, 1901, thirty-three Dr y Forkers, including Jane and her husband, came down out of that area to Hendricks where they changed trains and embarked on a mass migration to Orofino, Idaho. Jane died in Greer, Idaho, about 1928. Others in the mass migration were:
Abel N. Long, age 82; Charles E. Long, son of Abel, and his family; W. P. Teter and his family; Asa Harman; and three sons of Sampson Snyder, Sampson Jr., Albert, and John, and their families. Sampson Snyder was born August 19, 1840 and died Marc h 6, 1910. He did not go to Idaho. He married Elizabeth Bonner and lived near Harman. They had twelve children, seven of which migrated to Idaho.

John W. Snyder, Dies; Funeral Sat. [Lewiston Tribune]
[540 Park St Lewiston, ID]
Funeral services were held Saturday in Lewiston for John Wesley Snyder, 86, who passed away at his home at 540 Park St., Lewiston April 27. Death was due to a heart ailment.
Mr. Snyder was born February 23, 1874 at Harmon, West Virginia and came to the Fraser area as a young man. He moved to Lewiston from Weippe in 1943 after he had retired from farming.
Mr. Snyder was a resident of the Fords Creek in the Fraser area for 42 years before moving to Lewiston. The farm he lived on near Weippe is now owned by Walace Smolinski. He served for many years on the school board, was always called in time o f sickness and acted as veterinarian in the area.
In 1898 he married Mary Cooper at Cumberland, Maryland who passed away in 1926. He is survived by his second wife, the former Jessie Lee Pritchard whom he married at Orofino, Dec. 31 1933.
Other survivors include two daughters: Myrtle Snyder, Lewiston and Mrs. Virginia Stocking, Seattle; a son, Willard, Spokane; three stepsons and five stepdaughter; two brothers, Henry of Lewiston, Blaine of Harmon [WV] and a sister, Mrs. Nettie Har mon.
Fourteen grandchildren, 23 great grandchildren and one great, great grandchild also survive.
He was a brother of the late Samson Snyder, and the father of Mrs. Roy Cochrell, who died in 1952 and a son, Milton Snyder, who died in 1943.
Rev Earl Lake of the Lewiston Orchards Methodist Church conducted the last rites with internment in the Fraser Cemetery.
Pallbearers for the Fraser committal were Lee Bennett, Gary Bennett, Lester Whaley, Howard Rukgaber, Earl Thornton, and Andy Schlader.

Mary E. Cooper Snyder's grandson Roy M. Cochrell had this to say about his grandparents who had moved to Fraser, Idaho:
"Much could be said about their lives in the frontier Idaho. The Cochrell children have many fond memories of their grandparents and the part they played in their lives. Granddad Snyder was a man who always had time for young and old alike. H e was always sent for when neighbors or family had sickness, whether it was human or animal. Instinctively he always knew what to do and many lives may be credited to his prowess. His wife Mary was kind, gentlewoman and a helpmate to her husban d in every area. She was a good mother and never did I hear my mother, Nola, talk of her without shedding tears. She was the oldest child, she remembered much about their early frontier life and often fascinated us with her stores about it. Th e work and struggles of their life in the wilderness area cannot be underestimated. One can only hold them in high esteem for lives spent in building a home and raising the family in the circumstances they did it in."

Retired to 509 Park St., Lewiston, Idaho

• Married: 16 AUG 1897 in Cumberland, Allegeny Co., Maryland
• Note: another source says: marr. 1898 in Cumberland, MD

1. Nola Susan Snyder b: 20 AUG 1898 in Harman, Randolph Co., West Virginia
2. Oda B. Snyder b: 15 MAR 1900 in Randolph Co., West Virginia
3. Myrtle E. Snyder b: 12 MAR 1902 in Upper Fords Creek, Clearwater Co., Idaho
4. Milton Cooper Snyder b: 6 MAR 1904 in Weippe, Clearwater Co., Idaho
5. John G. "Johnny" Snyder b: 15 NOV 1905 in Idaho
6. Marie Snyder b: 17 OCT 1907 in Idaho
7. Mildred V. Snyder b: 9 NOV 1911 in Clearwater Co., Idaho
8. Daniel E. "Danny" Snyder b: 29 AUG 1913 in Clearwater Co., Idaho
9. Willard Wesley "Bill" Snyder b: 9 OCT 1915 in near Weippe, Clearwater Co., Idaho
10. Virginia Elizabeth Snyder b: 25 NOV 1917 in Fraser, Clearwater Co., Idaho

• Married: 31 DEC 1933 in Orofino, Clearwater Co., Idaho

1. Type: Personal Notes
   Author: Marie Pritchard Snyder Sterling
   Date: bet 1970 - 1990
   Text: ... in reading from her personal notes
2. Type: Book
   Author: Carrie Harman Roy
   Periodical: Captain Snyder and His Twelve of West Virginia
   Publication: Carlton Press, Inc.
   Page: 41
   Page: 124
   Page: 32
   Page: back cover
   Page: 53
   Date: 1977
3. Type: Book
   Author: Homer Floyd Fansler
   Periodical: History of Tucker County West Virginia
   Publication: McClain Printing Company, Parsons, West Virginia, 1962