Hugh Snider
It is with pleasure that the biographer now calls attention to a brief sketch of the career of Hugh Snider, one of the oldest citizens of the county, who has lived in this locality for so many years that the history of his life is interwoven with a history of the county, with its progress from early pioneer days to the advanced improvements of the present age. Throughout his life, Mr. Snider has devoted his energies along agricultural lines, that honored vocation of man from the earliest ages and the one in which he is the most independent. As a usual thing, men of energy and thrift, of honorable and humane impulses, have been patrons of husbandry and the unhampered life of the farmer has a tendency to foster and develop that independence of mind and self-reliance which characterize true manhood.
Hugh Snider, who for a number of years has been living in retirement after a strenuous life passed in farming circles, was born on April 16, 1832, and on November 28, 1852, was united in marriage with Rebecca Marchant, who was born August 27, 1833, in Fayette county. Mr. Snider's place of birth was also Fayette county. To their union was born one child, their daughter Clara, who makes her home with her parents and is most capably managing the farm and its affairs. This place contains one hundred and three acres and is located on the Greenfield pike, just a short distance from the city of Washington C. H. The farm, which is known far and wide as The Maples, has a number of these beautiful trees scattered over its broad acres and the commodious eight-room brick house of an early dav is almost hidden under these same lovely trees. Mr. and Mrs. Snider enjoy the distinction of being one of the oldest married couples within the bounds of the county, having celebrated their golden wedding in 1902.
Miss Clara, who so ably manages the home place and with such unselfish devotion watches over the declining years of her parents, received her education in the schools of the county and early took an intelligent interest in the work of the home place, which well fitted her for the duties and responsibilities which later years have brought her. The excellent condition of the farm today, all its buildings, etc., bear witness to her thoroughness and more than ordinary business ability. While not a member of any church, she takes a commendable interest in the progress of the affairs of all and is ever ready to lend assistance to any worthy cause. Miss Snider is a lady of many charming qualities and in the circles in which she moves she is held in high regard because of her high personal character and kindly disposition. She has proven herself a devoted daughter to the parents whose onlv child she is. Both Mr. and Mrs. Snider have spent so many years of their useful lives here they long since won the honor and esteem of all and now that they are quietly spending the eventide of life in the same locality, they have come into perhaps a finer degree of esteem than could be accorded those of lesser years of usefulness.
From History of Fayette County Ohio - Her People, Industries and Institutions by Frank M. Allen (1914, R. F. Bowen & Company, Inc.)