Chester SNYDER
Notes: LDS Church membership records Parley's Park Ward, GS 027,292. LDS Church membership records West Jordan Ward, GS 6575, pt.1. LDS Church membership records Burlington Ward, GS 034,521 Parley's Park Cem. records, Summit, Utah. Family records kept by Ella Rebecca Snyder. Family records kept by Viola Jane Snyder Johnson, in possesion of Conrad Johnson, Riverton, WY. Temple Index Bureau Rec; Endowment House records; death ctf. of child #8. 1840 Census Rec. Hancock Co, IL; 1880 Census Rec Summit Co, Utah. Documented and submitted by Mary Kay Riley Merrill, 12 May 1993. Records of Vonda Rice Kennelly state that this family came to Utah in the Willard Richards wagon train company.
Marriage Note:"According to the story told by Mary Snyder Murdock, a wagon train was passing through headed for Canada. This was while the family was at Winter Quarters. Catherine was invited to go along with the wagon train to visit her parents. At this point she was so terribly homesick and discouraged that Chester told her to go and he would take care of the two little girls. Time passed and no word came from Catherine. Chester had no assurance that she would ever return due to the fact that there would be plenty for her at home with her folks. In time Catherine did return to her family, but finding Chester with another wife was more than she could take. She was unable to live in polygamy at that time and so divorced Chester. However, there is a record of a daughter, Hannah Marie born in 1849 at Ferryville, IA and dying in 1843 in Salt Lake City." "Catherine did not stick with her aversion to polygamy. She became the 5th wife of Solomon Wixon, married 19 June 1853. Her sister, Hannah, was Solomon's 4th wife. She eventually divorced Solomon and later became the wife of Tobias Dallin, they were married in 1854/1857. They were the parents
He married Catherine Montgomery, #1 12 Jun 1838 . Catherine Montgomery, #1 was born at Earnestown, Kingston, Ontario, Canada 1 Jun 1819 .
They were the parents of 5
children:
Eliza Snyder
born 28 Feb 1839.
Isaac Sidney Snyder
born 1841.
Mary Nellie Snyder
born 26 Dec 1843.
Olive Snyder
born 11 Oct 1845.
Hannah Maria Snyder
born 1849.
Chester Snyder died 22 Mar 1888 at Snyderville, Summit, Utah .
Catherine Montgomery, #1 died 18 Dec 1883 at Springville, Utah, Utah .