Snyder Community
Hale County, Texas

Research

Bibliography
Selected Periodicals

    The following citations are arranged alphabetically by periodical title rather than by author's last name. I chose this unorthodox arrangement to save my fellow researchers time in the library or archive stacks.

Gospel Herald

Cor(respondent). "Plainview, Texas, Feb. 23, 1909." Gospel Herald  Vol. I (March 6, 1909).

Landis, Henry E. "Plainview, Texas, Dec. 29, 1908." Gospel Herald  Vol. I (January 16, 1909).

Snyder, P. B. "Plainview, Texas, May 12, 1908." Gospel Herald  Vol. I (May 23, 1908).

Gospel Witness

Snyder, P. B. "Plainview, Texas, May 31, 1907." Gospel Witness Vol. 3 (June 12, 1907). [pp. 169-170]

----------. "Plainview, Texas." Gospel Witness Vol. 3 (August 7, 1907). [p. 297]

Hale County History

    In 1977, the Hale County [Texas] Historical Commission published two themed issues of their quarterly Hale County History, about the Snyder Mennonite Community. Copies are available at the Unger Memorial Library in Plainview, Texas. In March 2006, I used the copies at the Montgomery County Library, Conroe, Texas.

Table of Contents for Hale County History Vol. 7 (February 1977)
    Foreword by Dorothy Watters Jamar, editor    p. 3
    Preface by Gladys Rastetter Mason, compiler    p. 6
    The Founding of the Snyder Mennonite Colony, by Gladys Rastetter Mason    p. 9
    Early Settlers of the Snyder Community, by Gladys Rastetter Mason    p. 13
    My Family: Ferdinand and Amanda Rastetter, by Gladys Rastetter Mason    p. 22
    The Van Howeling Story, by Dorothy Watters Jamar    p. 35
    Appendix A - Fourteen Mennonite families listed in the records of Guengerich Stoltfus    p. 54
    Appendix B - Addresses of persons appearing in the current issue    p. 56

Table of Contents for Hale County History Vol. 7 (May 1977)
    Introduction by Dorothy Watters Jamar, Editor    p. 2
    The Traveling School House, by Gladys Rastetter Mason    p. 4
    Growth of the Snyder Colony, by Gladys Rastetter Mason   p. 15
    The Story of My Family: The O. C. McClains, by Yreva Mai McClain Ellis    p. 31
    From Alabama To Texas, by Winnie Karrh    p. 35
    An Overview: In Tribute, by Dorothy Watters Jamar    p. 39

Herald of Truth  Read about the Herald of Truth.

Hartzler, Joseph K.. "Plain View, Texas. Feb. 20, 1907." Herald of Truth Vol. XLIV (February 28, 1907). [p. 84; writer's address Orrville, Ohio]

Landis, H. E. "Plainview, Hale Co., Texas, Jan. 23, 1907." Herald of Truth Vol. XLIV (February 7, 1907). [ p. 54]

Shoemaker, J. S. et al. "The Colonization Project of Northwestern Texas." Herald of Truth Vol. XLIII (August 9, 1906). [ p. 297]

Snyder, P. B. "A Colonization Proposition in Northwestern Texas." Herald of Truth Vol. XLIII (July 12, 1906). [ p. 256,  letter dated July 2, 1906, Jackson, Jackson Co., Minn.]

----------. "The Colonization Proposition in Northwestern Texas." Herald of Truth Vol. XLIII (September 13, 1906). [p. 347; letter dated August 29, 1906]

----------. "Jackson, Minn., Sept. 10, 1906." Herald of Truth Vol. XLII (September 20, 1906).

----------. "Plainview, Texas, March 5, 1907." Herald of Truth Vol. XLIV (March 14, 1907).

Mennonite Family History

Snyder, James A. "The Mennonites at Plainview, Texas." Mennonite Family History Vol. XIX (October 2000).
Back issues of Mennonite Family History can be ordered from the publisher, Masthof, 219 Mill Road, Morgantown, Pennsylvania  19543. See details at their web site www.masthof.com.

Mennonite Historical Bulletin - published quarterly by the Mennonite Church USA Historical Committee.

Snyder, James A.  "The Snyder Community at Plainview, Texas," Mennonite Historical Bulletin Vol. LXIII (July 2002). 
James A. Snyder is a grandson of Peter B. Snyder; see article transcription.

Swartzendruber, George and Grace. "A Letter to the Editor (Concerning Plainview, Texas)," Mennonite Historical Bulletin Vol. XXIV (January 1969). 
Grace Snyder Swartzendruber, the youngest child of Peter B. and Ida Grabill Snyder, was born  August 4, 1907, in a tent, the temporary housing of the Snyder family in the new Mennonite colony in Texas. This letter to the editor was written in response to a previously published article about "the settlement of the Littlefield lands in Lamb County, Texas." The Swartzendrubers shared a few "reminiscences" about the early days of the Snyder Community. Following their letter are five letters that had been published in 1907-09. It is unclear whether these early letters were submitted by the Swartzendrubers or selected by the MHB editor.

Snyder, P. B.  "Plainview, Texas, May 31, 1907." Gospel Witness (June 12, 1907). [ p. 169]
Snyder, P. B.  "Plainview, Texas." Gospel Witness (August 7, 1907). [ p. 297; undated as cited, but mentions plans for Sept. 17, 1907] 
Snyder, P. B.  "Plainview, Texas." March [May?] 12, 1908." Gospel Herald (May 23, 1908). [ p. 122]
Landis, Henry E. "Plainview, Texas, Dec. 29, 1908" Gospel Herald (January 16, 1909). [ p. 665]
Cor[respondent]. "Plainview, Texas, Feb. 23, 1909." Gospel Herald (March 6, 1909). [ p. 777]

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