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1. Title:   World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1
Page:   Tree #2837
Author:   Br�derbund Software, Inc.
Publication:   Name: Release date: November 29, 1995;

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a. Note:   H00153
Note:   Census 1930 Roanoke Co.,Va. Roanoke City ED 117-24 sheet 7B, page 7 Otis E. Snyder 27 Loma G. 26 J. Jean 3 2/12 AUTOBIOGRAPHY: I was born in Columbia City, Indiana January 29, 1903. We started south in 1904, Stella pulling me in a baby carriage while riding in a wagon. We finally made Decatur, Alabama. I grew up in Decatur and didn't start school till I was 8 years old. I had childhood diseases, small pox included. I went 6 years and passed to the 7th grade. At 10-11 years old I worked afternoons in a grocery store at $2.00 per week. I would wait on men who came in on Saturdays from the lumber mills. We would open cans of Pork and beans, tomatoes and peaches and use lard trays as dishes and they would eat like they were in a restaurant (which we did not have in those days). We would pitch the watermelons in off the side walk and store them inside. We had one picked out for me to drop. Of course we would have to eat it. If one of the men broke one it would come out of his pay. I quit school in 1916 to work in a dry cleaning plant. In 1917 in November, I went to Washington, D.C. to live with Stella and Archie and Cleo. I worked in a packing house making hot dogs, bologna, liver pudding and head cheese. Twelve hours a day, six days a week, making $15.00 a week. It was called the Cudahay Packing Company. Went to work in the U.S. Naval Gun Factory - known as the Navy Yard - on September 11, 1918 to learn to be a machinist in the Erecting Shop where they erected the big 14" Gun and sent it out for testing then ships. They knew that the war would be over in November, but they let me finish my apprenticeship to be a machinist. I was laid off in June 1923. I went to Baltimore, Maryland and got a job. Blue laws were in effect then in Baltimore, so I would go back to D.C. I met Loma who was visiting her cousin who lived in the same apartment. I had a date with her and we wrote to each other. I got laid off in Baltimore and came back to D.C. Archie got me a job at the round house where 5 railroads came into D.C. I worked there as a boilermaker's helper. I got called back in 1924 to the Navy Yard. They were making parts for a catapult to throw planes off of a ship. They also made a one and one half inch cannon to shoot the propeller off of airplanes. Airplanes were hollow in those days. Then I was laid off in March of 1925. I moved to Roanoke, Virginia to be with Loma and got a job at the Viscose Plant. We were married on June 13, 1925. I worked there until October of 1958. I went to Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania and got a job at another Viscose plant. Viscose sold out to F M Corporation and I retired from F M Corporation. They make food machines, fire engines, chemicals and pumps. I moved to Monroe, Louisiana in 1971 and have been there ever since. I learned the difference between recollect and remember when I was about 16 years old. I borrowed a ruler from a machinist to measure something and didn't return it. He called me over and told me he recollected one borrowing a ruler, but he didn't remember me bringing it back. I always remember that. The following was written by James Wriska, Otis' son in law, and was read at his funeral service: OTIS Otis Snyder was a simple complex man. His generation believed in the Puritan work ethic. He worked from the time he was five years old until his retirement. Retirement was bitter sweet. His precious Loma was beginning the long decline from Alzheimer. It was a joy to watch his tenderness and love grow as the disease took its toll. He showed us how the marriage contract was to be lived. The fruits of the love of these two people are in evidence here today. Legacy is what one leaves, and not the riches of this world. He was always there ready for a hug or to be hugged. Family was important, but he never smothered. He would be ready when needed. He lived life on his terms with God's approval. He's home with his Loma now in God's House. We had Otis Snyder for nine decades. The Saviour wants him for eternity. Biographical Data from letters dated August 21, 1992 and August 28, 1992 The story of the loss of the family records was verified in a conversation with Margaret Cleo (Lewis) Hodges on May 12, 1993 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Autobiography written May, 1982 entitled "My Family History as I Remember It" By Wade: Otis was a Master Mason. He gave me a brass bible with the square and compass he made in the founder.


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