"Charlie" and Johanna SNYDER
Do you know these pople???
Where did they come from???
*from the book NORTH PARK by HAZEL GRESHAM copyrighted, 1975.
MR. and MRS. CHARLIE SNYDER:Charlie and Johanna, - Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Snyder came to North Park [Colorado] in May 1880 and went to Park City, a mining town, two and a half miles from Teller.There were about a hundred people at Park City at that time.The postmaster there was Jack Rand, who later moved to Indian Creek and started a post office called, "Rand".
On October the twentieth, 1880 at Park City a baby boy was born to the Snyders, they named him Frank.He lived only two weeks.This was undoubtedly the first white child born in North Park.
In 1882 the Snyders moved to Teller City.Mrs. Snyder said, " one of my happiest memories of Teller is that of the old-time dances.The Hendrickson boys, Dave, Will and Sol were the musicians.Dave played the fiddle, Will had a tiny oregon and Sol called."
Mrs. Snyder said, at this time the only doctor available for all of Teller was Doctor Bassett, who lived down in the North end of the Park.
In 1884 the Snyders took up a homestead on the Illinois, still known as the Snyder Ranch.Later they ran a hotel in Hayden for two years, than returned to North Park and for four years ran a hotel in Walden, called "The Snyder House".
In 1900 they moved to Pearl [Colorado] when it was a booming town, and ran a hotel there until 1906.They had two daughters, Ollie [middle name Johanna, b. 28 Nov 1884, in Hayden, Routt Co., Colorado, d. Aug 1952 in Tennessee, buried in Clinton, Anderson Co., Tn] and Louise.
Ollie married Ross Willford and had two daughters, Stella [Estella Ione] and Louise [Rose Louise].
Louise Snyder married E. H. Lenke and they had one daughter, Dorothy Margaret.
After the mines closed down at Pearl, the Snyders moved to Encampment [Wyoming] and from there back to Colorado where Mr. Snyder passed away.
Mrs. Snyder spent her later years with daughters, Mrs. Lenke, of Denver and Mrs. Ross Willford at Saratoga [Wyoming].
The Snyders were truly a fine pioneer couple and surely did their share in making North Park a better place to live.Life was colorful in these early mining days but it was not without hardships and heartaches.
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Estella Ione Willford married Gerald Nelson Cobb in 1924, they are my grandparents.