52 Ancestors: Lillian (Snyder) Greulich (1879-1947)
Lillian Witmer Snyder
Lillian Witmer Snyder, daughter of Henry D. and Saraphine K. (Witmer) Snyder, was born 26 October 1879 in Marlborough Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. In 1880, her family was living adjacent Saraphine’s parents Edward and Lydia (Kline) Witmer.1 Both Henry and Saraphine were working as tailors, as was Saraphine’s mother, Lydia.
Lillian’s grandfather, Joseph Snyder, died on 4 November 1895. Her father and uncle Amandus were the executors of Joseph’s will. They sold Joseph’s farm to their brother Mahlon for $2700. He and his wife Clara, then, sold the farm to Henry, minus 40 square perches for himself.2 The family was likely living there in 1900 with Henry’s mother, Judith.3 Henry was listed as a farmer. Lillian was aged 20, working as a dressmaker.
Elmer and Lillian (Snyder) Greulich (c 1901)
Lillian married Elmer Calvin Greulich on 21 September 1901 in East Greenville.4 At the time, they were both 21 years of age. Lillian was working as a teacher and Elmer was a cigarmaker. The school building where she taught was located across from the New Goshenhoppen Reformed Church and adjacent to her father’s farm.
Lillian and Elmer’s only child—Russell Roy Greulich—was born Saturday, 23 July 1910 when the couple was living in Upper Hanover Township, just outside East Greenville.5 In 1922 when he was 12, the family moved to Lansdale, Pennsylvania, where they stayed.
Elmer Greulich (1880-1947) and Lillie W. (Snyder) Greulich (1879-1949)
Elmer died Friday, 10 January 1947 in Lansdale of a coronary occlusion.6 He’d been blind and bedridden due to diabetes for several years before he died. He was buried on Thursday, 16 January 1947 at New Goshenhoppen Reformed Church cemetery. He was survived by his widow, a son, three grandchildren, three sisters, and a brother.
Lillian died Sunday, 13 February 1947 in Sellersville Hospital of acute left ventricular heart failure.7 She was buried with her husband on Thursday, 17 February.
This post is part of an ongoing, blogging challenge entitled 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, created by Amy Crow of No Story Too Small. Participants must write about one ancestor every week. This is my twenty-first 52 Ancestors post and part of week thirty-five.
Footnotes
- Henry Snyder household, 1880 United States Federal Census, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Marlborough Township, enumeration district 16, sheet 5A (written)/ 317A (stamped), dwelling 44, family 48, lines 15-17; index and image, Ancestry, “1880 United States Federal Census” (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 Apr 2013); citing NARA micropublication T9, roll 1158 ↩
- Mahlon Snyder et ux to Henry Snyder deed, 1 Jul 1899; privately held by Kris Hocker, Bedford, Massachusetts, 2014; From estate of Russell R. Greulich, grandson of Henry Snyder. ↩
- Henry Snyder household, 1900 United States Federal Census, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Upper Hanover Township, enumeration district 258, sheet 5B, dwelling 100, family 112; index and image, FamilySearch, “United States Census, 1910” (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M3QG-2GZ : accessed 16 Feb 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T623, roll 1444, FHL microfilm 1241444. ↩
- Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, Vol 27:440 (no. 11499), Elmer C. Greulich and Lillan Whitmer Snyder, 21 Sep 1901; index and image, FamilySearch, “Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950” (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VF49-73W : accessed 03 Sep 2014), FHL microfilm 926562; citing Clerk of the Orphans County, Norristown. ↩
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Death Certificate (no. 104493), Russell R. Greulich, 7 Oct 1999; photocopy, Department of Health, Vital Records, New Castle. ↩
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Death Certificate (no. 5414), Elmer Greulich, 10 Jan 1947; photocopy, Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, New Castle. ↩
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Death Certificate (no. 11369), Lillian W. Greulich, 13 Feb 1947; photocopy, Department of Heath, Bureau of Vital Statistics, New Castle. ↩
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