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Hiram Snyder

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Hiram Snyder

Birth
Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
24 May 1917 (aged 89)
Hayes Center, Hayes County, Nebraska, USA
Burial
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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Hiram married Eliza Patton Braham on December 25th, 1851 in Butler Co., PA. Between 1852 and 1875 in Slippery Rock, Butler Co., PA they had 15 children, four of these died as infants.

The Snyder family came west from Pennsylvania in the spring of 1888. They settled on their homestead just north of what then was a sizable dry land lake which later became Swan Lake in Swan Lake Precinct.

Hiram Snyder was appointed a U.S. Postmaster and the post office was housed in his "not to large" sod house which was built immediately on arrival of the Snyder family from Pennsylvania. The name of that Post Office was Eureka, Nebraska.
Hiram married Eliza Patton Braham on December 25th, 1851 in Butler Co., PA. Between 1852 and 1875 in Slippery Rock, Butler Co., PA they had 15 children, four of these died as infants.

The Snyder family came west from Pennsylvania in the spring of 1888. They settled on their homestead just north of what then was a sizable dry land lake which later became Swan Lake in Swan Lake Precinct.

Hiram Snyder was appointed a U.S. Postmaster and the post office was housed in his "not to large" sod house which was built immediately on arrival of the Snyder family from Pennsylvania. The name of that Post Office was Eureka, Nebraska.

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Hiram Snyder July 18, 1827 May 24, 1917



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