ANY info, Eleanor SCHNEIDER ,Swiss >Pa.> Ohio-
I am looking for any information on the SCHNEIDER side of my family. At present, I have very little to go on. I show the name of Eleanor Schneider. She had a daughter by the name of Edith Schneider, who never married and was living in the Washingtion DC area in the early 1960's.
Eleanor was living in the Canton, Ohio area at one point in her life. Her family had orig. been from the Kanton of Glarus, Switzerland. She was the daughter of one of the sisters of my g.grandfather, but I don't know who her parents were.? I do have a old letter written by her, to one of my dad's cousins, where she says that her daughter made a trip to Europe and saw the area in Switzerland where her (Eleanor's) father, (a SCHNEIDER) had orig. been from.
My g.grandfather was Edward Nicholas Martin (The orig.. family name was MARTI, but later changed to MARTIN, after the family came to America, which I believe was around 1881-1882). Edward was born in Allegheny, Pa. in 1883.
Edward's parents, so the grandparents to Eleanor, where Mathias Eduard Marti, married to Barbara Schlittler. Both from the Kanton Glarus, Switzerland. This was Mathias 2nd wife, see "**" below.
Other family members to Edward (one of the girls being the mother of Eleanor) were, his 1/2 brother, and the first born, Johannes Marti, born in Glarus (his mother was ** the first wife to Mathias Eduard Marti, Katharina LEUZINGER, she died when Johannes was 3 mos. old), Anna Maria born in Glarus, Samuel, also born in Glarus, Emma no dates and no record of her as being in Switzerland, so I believe she was born in Pa., Joseph born in Allegheny, Pa., Edward, born in Allegheny, Pa., William, born in Allegheny, Pa., and Ann, also born in Allegheny, Pa. I do know that Ann was not her mother, as I have her as being married to a man by the last name of Huber, and in an old family letter, from Eleanor, she mentions Ann, as "Aunt Ann".
Other surnames connected to the family are SCHLITTLER (from Kanton of Glarus, Switzerland), SHEDWICK (ORIG. SCHWEDZIK, from Stolberg, Germany),ZIESCHE (from Germany), HUBER, and in later generations, Heilman, Walker, Morrison, Emmerick, and Painter.
If you know any of these names, or think you may somehow be connected to this SCHNEIDER family, please feel free to contact me directly, or post your reply here.
Thank you!
Melinda Martin
"Mindi"
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