General Notes

Nickname "Doll"  LDS Ancestral File # 1hp6-6BFG~Microfilm AF95112176
I'm unsure of the Germany referance. The name is German definetely, so they came from Germany some time or another.

Earl L. Core "Chronicles of Core" 3rd ed. p. 16
On another occasion, a 9-year old boy, son of Rudolph Snider, was carried away by the Indians, who were followied by the settleers down Dent's Run and along the Monongahela River as far as the mouth of Robinsons's Run, where they lost the trail. Nine years later the boy returned, but his mother who had long since given him up as dean, refused to recognize him until she had identified him by a scar on his foot sustained as a lad before his capture by the Indians."

Doll's Run named from his nickname "Doll" Snider ---- Originally called Husk's Run the Snider's Run and now Doll's Run. At one time also called Rudolph's Run

From Certificate granted by commisioners for adjusting claims on unpatented lands in Monongalia County.
Rudolph Snider, assignee of Anthony Hornback, 400 acres on Dunkar Creek including his settlement made in 1773.

p. 20
More settlers came crowding in as soon as conditions became safer and soon the land was all occupied. An interesting heading in an old surveyor's book dated 1784-5 reads: "Surveyed for Rudolph Snither (Snider) 369 acres of land on both sides of Husk run a Drean of Dunkers Creek" This Husk run; so named from Frederick Husk who had patented 200 acres near its mouth soon came to be called Snither's (Snider's) Run, or from his nickname, Doll Snider's Run and finally Dolls Run. Hannah, a daughter of Rudolph born March 5, 1780 was married to Christopher Core in 1797, uniting two of the oldest pioneer families. The Rev. John Willey performed the ceremony
Other Children of Rudolph Snider, (who is said to have married a Morgan), include: Moses, born June 25, 1775; Elizabeth, born June 20, 1777; married Levi Morris; Mary born December f25, 1782, married Joseph Sutton; Rebecca, born July 19, 1797, married Samuel Lemley; Asa, born Dec. 26, 1789; John, born July 3, 1791; Margaret, born Aug. 13, 1792, married Isaac Lemley; Jeremiah; and others. Jeremiah was twice married, once to Anna Rich, and reared a family of 13 children, one of whom, A. Snider, born Oct. 8, 1813, was an early Blacksmith.
(Trans Alleg. Hist. Mag. 1:289)

Samuel Lemley and Joseph Sutton inheriting through Marriage a portion of the Rudolph Snider estate, transferred their shares ammounting to 40 acres, to Christopher Core, on September 12, 1808.

George Lemley settled north of the Mason & Dixon Line along Dunkard Creek in 1797. Born in 1742, he died June 11, 1813. His wire Catherine Yoho, survived until Nov. 5, 1825. They had a large family of children includes: Mary, John, Jacob, Samuel, Susanna, Rachel, Peter, David and Isaac. Samuel married Rebecca (born July 19, 1787) a daughter of Rudolph Snider.

WVU Library Monongalia County Court Records Env 144-C
County Court Monongalia County December 1806
Moses Snider vs Other heirs of Rudolph Snider
To the worshipful the County Court of Monongalia in Chancery setting the Prayer & Petition of your Orator, Moses Snider humbly complaining herewith unto your worships that on the third day of January in the year of 1787 a Patent was granted by teh Commonwealth of Virginia to Rudolph Snider for three hundred and sixty nine acres of land laying in the Monongalia County on both sides of Hurst's Run, a branch of Dunkard Creek as by the patent filed as part of this Bill may more fully affirm --- That the said Rudolph Snider so having title and having seized and possessed of the same departed this life on the __________day of ________in the year __________ intestate leaving your orator Moses Snider, Elizabeth Snider, Hannah Snider, Mary Snider, Rebekah Snider, Margaret Snider, Asa B. Snider, his children heirs and legal Representations to whom said tract of land has decended yourOrator States that the sd. Elizabeth has intermarried with Levi Morris; t