Snyder Community
Hale County, Texas

Snyder Community Families after 1923

William & Lydia Clemintine (Springer) Johnson

(These are the basic facts I have for this family, listed here to help guide the research process. As photos, family stories, and other data are submitted, I hope to develop a narrative.)

    According the Hale County History, the Johnsons moved to Plainview in the fall of 1917 "for better farming land and to be near relatives."¹ Those nearby relatives might have been Lydia's brother Marion Springer and his wife Sarah Burns. The article also says that William and Lydia's daughter Zora boarded with her aunt and uncle while she taught at Kress school (north of Plainview, in Swisher County) about 1922 or 1923. Juanita, a granddaughter of Lydia's twin sister Lyvia, wrote to me that "the two sisters were very close, and they were always telling each other how they had been mistaken for the other in Plainview at the grocery store." ²

1900 Federal census - Johnson Township, Sharp County, Arkansas
    William G. - aged 24, married 3 years, born Oct. 1875 in Arkansas, both parents born in Arkansas, farmer
    Lydia C. - aged 24, mother of 1 child, 1 child living, born Oct. 1875 in Arkansas, both parents born in Arkansas
    [illegible] - 1-year-old daughter, born Sept 1898 in Arkansas

1910 Federal census - Justice Precinct #5, Childress County, Texas
    William I. - aged 34, first marriage, married 13 years, born in Arkansas, both parents born in Mississippi
    Lidia C. - aged 31, mother of 2 children, 2 children living, born in Arkansas, father born in Missouri, mother's birthplace unknown
    Lona A. - 11-year-old daughter, born in Arkansas
    Zora M. - 9-year-old daughter, born in Arkansas

1920 Federal census - Precinct 1 (Part of), Hale County, Texas [on same page as Peter B. Snyder and Jonas Yoder]
    William I. - aged 45, born in Arkansas, both parents born in Arkansas, farmer
    Lydia C. - aged 42, born in Arkansas, father born in Alabama [?], mother born in Arkansas
    [illegible, but assumed to be Lona Amanda Johnson] - 21-year-old single daughter, born in Arkansas
    [illegible, but assumed to be Zora Melvina Johnson] - 18-year-old single daughter, born in Arkansas

1930 Federal census - Precinct 1, Hale County, Texas
    Will I - aged 54, married at age 21, born in Arkansas, both parents born in Tennessee, farmer
    Lydia C. - aged 51, married at age 18, born in Arkansas, both parents born in Missouri

Footnotes

1. Gladys Rastetter Mason, "Growth of the Snyder Colony," Hale County History Vol. VII No. 2 (May 1977): p. 21.

2. Juanita, "William and Lydia (Springer) Johnson," e-mail message from Juanita to Bonnie Snyder Smith, 17 Dec 2005.

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