Davis Uriah I | Born 1707
SNAPP, John Cravens
1794 - 1879 (85 years)-
Name SNAPP, John Cravens Born 30 Jul 1794 Fauquire County, Virginia 
Gender Male Died 31 Aug 1879 Salem, Hampshire County, West Virginia Person ID I3133 Uriah Davis I - Genealogy Last Modified 21 Jun 2018
Father SNAPP, Joseph, b. 17 Jun 1771, Strausburg, Virginia. , d. 12 Dec 1847, Slanesville, Hampshire County, West Virginia (Age 76 years) Mother CRAVENS, Margaret, b. 26 Aug 1775, Augusta, West Virginia , d. 19 Mar 1850, Slanesville, Hampshire County, West Virginia (Age 74 years) Married 4 Oct 1793 Rockingham County, West Virginia Family ID F1089 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family MILLISON, Hannah, b. Jul 1799, d. 14 Mar 1876, Salem, Hampshire County, West Virginia (Age ~ 76 years) Married Bef 1821 Probably Hampshire County, (Virginia) West Virginia Children 1. SNAPP, Phebe J., b. Abt 1821, Hampshire County, (Virginia) West Virginia , d. Yes, date unknown2. SNAPP, Mariah E., b. Abt 1824, Hampshire County, (Virginia) West Virginia , d. Yes, date unknown3. SNAPP, Caroline E., b. Abt 1828, Hampshire County, (Virginia) West Virginia , d. Yes, date unknown4. SNAPP, Margaret A., b. Hampshire County, (Virginia) West Virginia 5. SNAPP, Robert, b. Hampshire County, (Virginia) West Virginia 6. SNAPP, Sarah Catherine, b. 31 May 1832, Hampshire County, (Virginia) West Virginia , d. Yes, date unknown7. SNAPP, Silas R. Rev., b. 7 Jan 1834, Probably Slanesville, Hampshire County, West Virginia , d. 10 Mar 1895, Grottoes, Virginia (Age 61 years)Last Modified 24 Jun 2018 Family ID F904 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - John "known as Johnie" and his family lived on the nucleus of the old Snapp estate, about one-halh mile south of Salem church, and they are buried on the home farm. The Snapps were slaveholders, democrats and Methodists.
(Capon Valley Pioneers and Descendants, Vol. II, Chapter XII, Page 334 )
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John appears on the 1820 Hampshire Co., VA (now W.VA) census, with 1 male and 2 females.
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John appears on the 1840 Hampshire Co., VA (now W.VA) census, with 2 males and 7 females.
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The 1850 census shows John (age 56) a farmer living in Hampshire Co., W. VA with his wife Hannah (age 51) a daughter Sarah (age 18) and a son Silas (age 16). According to an 1850 slave owner's list John owned 4 slaves.
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The 1860 Census, Hampshire Co., Virginia
John Snapp, 66, Male, Blacksmith, $6000 R.E. / $4450 Personal, b. VA
Hannah Snapp, 61, Female, b VA
(They were next door to their son Silas, also a blacksmith at the time).
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The 1870 Gore Twp., Hampshire Co., W.VA census shows;
John, age 75, a farmer, $6,000/$450.
Hannah, age 70, Keeping house.
Next door is James C. Snapp, and his family.
- John "known as Johnie" and his family lived on the nucleus of the old Snapp estate, about one-halh mile south of Salem church, and they are buried on the home farm. The Snapps were slaveholders, democrats and Methodists.