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Our Family History Pages
My entire working copy of my genealogy file, presented with The Next Generation software, fully searchable database containing over 30,000 individuals, over 10,000 notes, supplemented with over 1,000 pieces of media including cemetery and headstone photos, census records, and much more.
This site traces all lines of my sons' ancestors; as well as many, many collateral lines, including neighbors, friends, in-laws, extended branches of the direct-line ancestors, and even a few family lines "just because." So, please check the surname index. Most lines reach back to the beginnings of the New World and into mostly England and Germany/Prussia, and a few lines from Ireland, but virtually all - direct lines anyway - eventually find their way to Jefferson County, Texas. All of my direct-line ancestors throughout my paternal and maternal lines are indicated with an asterisk ( * ) following their given names. My sons' father's direct ancestors are so indicated with a caret ( ^ ).
My paternal lines consist of Moyer and Breckenridge, Snider and Skinner, families that settled in Southern Illinois, predominantly Sangamon and Christian Counties (see the Moyer/Snider Scrapbook). My maternal lines are Jones, settling in DeWitt and Anderson County, Texas; Sherman, who settled in Chambers and Jefferson County, Texas, and the Courts and Gentz who settled in Jefferson County, Texas. In addition to these families was a large band of families who settled in the Opelousas Post, Southwest Louisiana in the late 18th Century, many of whom had previously settled in Natchez, Mississippi in the mid to late 1700s. This band of settlers came to Southeast Texas in early 19th Century, being granted land grants by Mexico. They include families such as Hayes, Burrell, Clark, Johnson, Forman, Comstock, and many others.
Both lines of my sons' paternal lines predominantly settled in Pampa, Clay County, Texas. Paternal side are Stone (please see DNA link below), Ford, Smith
and Hoskin coming mostly through Kansas and Oklahoma; while the maternal side consists Ryther,and Goosay, Anthony and Saltsman coming though New Mexico, as well as other states.
This compilation of data has been ongoing for over a decade, utilizing my own research, other family members' research, researchers who have generously shared their data, and data that has been ferreted out from the Internet. As with all genealogical work, it is a work in progress that will never be completed in this lifetime. This file is my working copy, and I am constantly adding to, tweaking, adjusting. So, check periodically for added information.
Great care has been taken for accuracy, but as any genealogical work, errors can be inadvertently passed on even by the most diligent. Any added information, suggestions, comments, leads, corrections, or simply a note to say you've visited will all be gladly welcomed.
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The Moyer/Snider
Family Scrapbook
Personal Scrapbook of William and Rose Snider Moyer, containing about 280 photos and spanning over 100 years. They were both from Illinois, he from Springfield, she from Morrisonville. In their early married life, they settled in Beaumont, Texas, where they lived out their long and full lives.
Though the Moyers' and Sniders' genealogies are fully contained within Our Family History, this site is a collection their Scrapbook of photos and other items that my grandfather had saved. When he died in 1982 at the age of 91, my parents found boxes of all these items, not in any particular order. My son John, being quite good at organizing such things, was asked to take them all home with him and put together a scrapbook, which he was delighted to do. This is the digitation of that resulting scrapbook. Some of the photos were even on glass templates that had to be specially developed. The people portrayed in them were not identified, but we know enough to know they were family.
It's a wonderful collection, and I hope you will enjoy perusing through it.
William, better known as Will, was born in Cropsy, Illinois, and grew up in and around Springfield.
Rose grew up nearby in Morrisonville, Christian County, Illinois. Soon after their first son, Raymond was born, they moved to San Antonio, Texas, where my father, Robert Moyer, was born in 1921. After a short period in San Antonio, they returned to Illinois briefly, then came back to Texas, making Beaumont their home for the rest of their lives. Both Will and my dad were dummers; and Will was quite active with the Magnolia Refinery Band, as well as the Beaumont Civic Band and Orchestra, of which my dad was also active in his younger adult years. The scrapbook deals with Rose and Will's lifetime together, as well as family members in both Illinois and in Beaumont, Texas.
Regarding their genealogy, Will was the son of Harold Charles Moyer and Flora Breckenridge. The Moyer family descended from Jacob Mayer, c 1605, who lived in Switzerland. His grandson, Hans Georg Mayer, Jr., was our immigrant who came from Wurttemburg, Germany to Germanna in Orange County, Virginia. The generations of Moyers that followed married into the Vogt, Blackburn, McGowan, Stone, and Breckenridge families. Rose Snider Moyer, was the daughter of Joseph Abraham Snider and Irene Francis Skinner. Her ancestry includes Snider and Skinner, of course, as well as Nichols on her paternal side and Randles, Compton, Chaney, Wood, Howard, among others on her maternal side.
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