Snider, John Gottlieb /Schneider I

1759 - Abt 1848  (88 years)

• Name	Snider, John Gottlieb /Schneider
  Suffix	I
  Born	18 Feb 1759	Ebenezer, Effingham County, Georgia Colony
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt 1848	Springfield, Effingham County, Georgia, USA
  Buried	Bethel Church Cemetery - Fort Stewart, Liberty County, Georgia, USA
  Person ID	I7851	Coursey-Sansing Tree
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Schneider, John George I,   b. Abt 1726, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany ,   d. 30 Nov 1767, Liberty County, Georgia, USA  (Age ~ 41 years)
  Mother	Anna Mary Barabara,   b. Abt 1732, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany ,   d. 9 Oct 1818, WIlkes County, Georgia, USA  (Age ~ 86 years)
  Married	21 Mar 1758	Jerusalem Lutheran Church - Ebenezer, St. Matthews Parish (Effingham County), Georgia, USA
  Family ID	F2843	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. Snider, Jacob,   b. Abt 1782, Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA ,   d. Abt 1852, Sandersville, Washington County, Georgia, USA  (Age ~ 70 years)
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020
  Family ID	F3247	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Biography   John Gottlieb was the oldest child of John George Schneider and Anna Mary Barbara Schneider of Effingham County, Georgia. His parents had a home in the village of Ebenezer where John Gottlieb lived with his siblings. As a child, he saw his parents' barn burned with equipment and supplies laid by for the winter. The men and boys of the village walked back and forth to their fields at "the plantations" several miles away (now part of Fort Stewart Military Reservation). They often stayed over night in "huts" on their places. John Gottlieb may have gone a few times. He was eight years old when his father died on November 30, 1767. A year later, his mother and John Heinle, Jr. were married in the Jerusalem Lutheran Church. In the period of unrest leading up to the Revolutionary War, Pastor Boltzius, of their church supported the Patriot cause but a new pastor took over with strong support for the British. Members split on the issue and feelings ran high. In 1779, British soldiers marched into Ebenezer, ordered the men to report to Jerusalem Church and ordered them to sign an oath of loyalty to the British. Twenty year old John Gottlieb, brother, Christian, uncle, John Gottlieb Henrich, cousins and his stepfather were among those who refused to sign. Anger in the village exploded, homes of patriots were burned, including John Gottlieb's, and their families fled. British soldiers stabled horses in Jerusalem Church. John Gottlieb and Christian escaped to North Carolina, joined the Patriot forces and served under Gen. Wayne during the war. John Gottlieb was among the 8000 soldiers under Gen. George Washington, at Yorktown when the British surrendered. His name was spelled "Snider" on military records and he kept that spelling after the war. He was among the first descendants of his grandfather the patriarch, Hans Michael Schneider, to spell his name SNIDER. After the war, the village of Ebenezer was in ruins and never fully recovered. Relatives were scattered and in the 1790 NORTH CAROLINA CENSUS, Lincoln County, John Gottlieb was enumerated, married with two children (Jacob born 1782, and a female). Households of brother, Christian, and stepfather, John Heinle, were on either side. Though the Georgia Veteran Roll of Confiscation, created to replace property lost during the war, John Gottlieb was granted and sold land in Wilkes County, Georgia, Christian was a witness. He returned to Effingham County to sell other property and was there in the 1820 GEORGIA CENSUS, living in the Bethel community about four miles above Springfield. He was still there in the 1830 and 1840 GEORGIA CENSUS. Rev. P. A. Stroble, official in the Georgia Lutheran Church conversed with John Gottlieb Snider in 1845 and 1846 and wrote that "he was nearly ninety years old . . served under Gen. Wayne in the Revolutionary War . . had great compassion for widows and orphans . . and was a venerable Father in Isreal." John Gottlieb Snider was eighty-nine years old when he died and was laid to rest among family and friends in Bethel Lutheran Church Cemetery. - Blanche Keating Collie, GGGG granddaughter Children: Jacob Snider 1782- female Snider 1784-