|
I heard about Dr. S. B. (Simon Barron) Snyder when I was growing up with Ann Quillen. I heard about him when I was growing up with Ann Quillen. He was her grandpa or pappy as they called him. Carlene Shackelford, Hazard, KY Dr. Simon Barron Snyder was my grandfather and he and his wife, Florence, lived on East Main Street where a branch of the People Bank is today. Pappy loved to practice medicine and also to raise a garden. He had a chicken coop in the plot behind the garden. I was as afraid of those chickens as if it would have been a grizzly bear. He also had sweet peas on a fence and a place to pick red raspberries, which I dearly loved. Mama and Pappy Snyder, my grandparents, had four children: Jessie Hobbs, Dana Snyder, Edith Fitzpatrick, and Fred Snyder. Jessie was the mother of Mary Jane Cooner, W. H. Hobbs, Jr., and Ann Quillen. I was the only child that Dana and Georgie had. Florence (Lally) Fitzpatrick and Mary Anne Miller were the children of Edith and Ben Fitzpatrick. Fredand Elsie Snyder had two sons-- O.G. (Omar Gillum) and Charles Dana Snyder. After the four children were grown Mama went to the orphange in Anchorage, Kentucky and adopted a baby girl to raise. Her name was Barbara. After a few months she developed leukemia and died at the age of 9 months. Mama went back to the same orphanage and adopted another baby girl. She named her, Jean. Jean grew up with them and married Geno Bianchi. They lived in Lothair for awhile and then moved to Somerset. Their only child was Charles Edwin , who later became a pharmacist and owns his own drug store. Jean and Geno owned two motels in Somerset that stayed full most of the time. Geno died a few years back and Jean moved into a smaller home but remained in Somerset. Jean is a year younger than I am, but we are close as sisters. We grew up together, played together and did all the things together that teens do. Ernestine Whitaker is Jean's siser-in-law. She is 90 yeas old now and Jean comes over about once a month to check on her and take her to the grocery, church, whatever business she needs to do, etc. Hope this will update your current history of the Snyder clan. Elizabeth Snyder Duncan, Hazard, KY
I remember Doc Snyder's garden out by his house. He lived about
five houses from me. Johnny Quillen's wife, Ann Hobbs, lived in
the house above him and Dana, his son, lived across the road (unpaved)
and we short-cutted to the high school up by Dana's house, past Dr.
Shelton's house, (and Duff Arnett and his wife) lived in the bottom
apartment, and we couldn't wait to get past it as we always thought it
was eerie and possibly haunted. IdaLee Hansel, Spartanburg SC
Recent Mystery Men Joe Foley M. C. Napier Dudley Goodlette R. L. Collins John Gross Blondie Eblen Clymon Shelton Zeke Smith Fred Combs Lus Oxley William Stanfill Carl Seale Nell Harper |
Dr.
S. B. Snyder graduated from High School in
Hazard and decided to become an engineer and entered
college in Lebanon, Ohio where he received a degree as a Civil Engineer.
However, after graduation, and before entering into the
engineering field, he acquired an interest in medicine and
entered the Hospital College of Medicine in Louisville where he
received his M. D. Degree in June 1897. Upon graduation,
Snyder began the practice of medicine in
Whitley County, Kentucky. After two years of rural
practice, he moved to Jellico, Tennessee, where he entered the
practice of industrial medicine at East Tennessee Coal
Company. He lived in Jellico from 1899 until 1915.
While there, he took an active part in the social and political
life of the community. He became the Master of the Masonic
Lodge and served as Mayor of the City of Jellico. In 1915,
Snyder came to Hazard and was associated with Dr. A. M. Gross.
Together, these two physicians served the medical needs of numerous coal
camps in and around Hazard. Snyder continued in industrial medicine
until 1930, when he joined his son, Dana, and Dr. Taylor Hurst in starting
a Hurst - Snyder Hospital. During his medical career, Snyder
brought more than fifty-five hundred babies into the world. He was
an ardent gardener well into his 80's. His garden, next door to his
home at Big Bottom, was the envy of his neighbors. Congratulations
to Carlene Shackelford, the first to identify Snyder as Mystery
Person #12.
