David Van Buren Wampler (1837 - 1917)

I garnered David Van Buren Wampler's birth date, of 1 Mar 1837, from his death certificate (on Ancestry's Indiana Death Certificate collection) and his death notices (which appeared in 2 local Spencer, Owen county, Indiana newspapers after his death (16 Aug 1917) and burial). Per his death notices and his sister, Elizabeth Wampler Cline, who was the informant for his death certificate, David Van Buren Wampler was born in Owen county, Indiana versus Monroe county, Indiana as he is often listed with as a birth place. He was buried in Chambersville Cemetery in Spencer, Owen county, Indiana area.

Only names shared, besides David's own name, in either notice was only in one of the two, and in that one his surviving siblings were listed by name. He is mentioned, in both obits, to being survived by a wife, one son and one daughter. However on David's death certificate his sister, Elizabeth, has him listed as "widowed". One of the two death notices also shared David V. Wampler had been married three times prior to his death, "with his last wife surviving" him in 1917.

Per my research, David Van Buren Wampler first married Emily Ann Edwards in May 1862 in Indiana. I am still working on her side of the information, as some have her marriage to David being her second marriage and some others have her still living in 1870s which would mean that she and David V Wampler had divorced. David Van Buren Wampler, for the 1870 US census, is listed in his parents' household without a spouse but with a young child, named Samantha, which could be assumed, with the child's estimated age on that particular census, to being David's daughter from his marriage to Emily Ann Edwards.

In July 1871 I have David Van Buren Wampler marrying, for his second time, to Mary E. Allen in Owen county, Indiana. Per online trees, including the one world one at FamilySearch, David's second wife died in 1877.

I have a daughter, Dollie Arabell Wampler, born in Aug 1877 for David Van Buren's second marriage. Dollie likely may been a nickname, but she used Dollie on her marriage records and what was used for her later 1953 death certificate as well. Thanks to Dollie's marriage and death certificate records, I also have Mary E. Allen's middle name being Elizabeth.

For the "one son", that is stated to surviving David V. Wampler, I have only come across one male child being attributed to David - and that male child was supposedly named Robert and stated in some online trees/sources to being born in 1872. That is all I have for Robert Wampler, and this scant information would have his mother being Mary Elizabeth Allen thereby having two children resulting from David Van Buren's second marriage before Mary Elizabeth Allen's death in 1877.

In 1879, in Morgan county, Indiana, a David Wampler married a Nancy Wiatt. This is possibly the record for David Van Buren Wampler's third, and final, marriage as he is listed in 1900 and 1910 census reports with a spouse named Nancy and their marital information, in one of those two census reports, backs up the 1878/9 marriage year thought. No children are stated to resulted from this marriage.

Referring to the death notices's information in with my research, to sort out the unnamed individuals within both versions of those notices, this has me with the elusive Robert Wampler (b. 1872) being the "one son" stated to surviving his father in 1917 ... and with Dollie Arabell (b. 1877) as the "one daughter" since Dollie passes away in 1953. I already have David with a wife named Nancy in his 1900 and 1910 census reports, so this points to Nancy being the surviving wife in 1917 and a Nancy Wampler who passed away in 1934 in Owen county, Indiana is listed, on her death certificate, as being a widow of a David Wampler - this may be the death record for David Van Buren Wampler's 3rd wife. Nancy Wampler, who died in 1934, was buried in Chambersville Cemetery as well.

Which this above collection of dates and names would also, sadly, point toward that the inferred daughter, named Samantha from the 1870 US Census and attributed to David Van Buren Wampler's first marriage, had died before 16 Aug 1917.

In reference to Dollie Arabella Wampler, as I shared above on how her own paper trail was used on my side to help sort out and narrow down "who was 'likely' who" for the unnamed individuals within her father's death notices, she was born Aug 1877 in Owen county, Indiana and died 1953 in Bedford, Lawrence county, Indiana. She had married three times during her life. Her first marriage was to Elisha Chambers and that child resulted in one child, a daughter named Floy L. Chambers born in 1901, before the marriage ended in divorce. Appears that Floy L. Chambers resided with her father per census reports and a couple newspaper mentions for Floy Chambers. Dollie then married a Otho Thomas Stimson and no children are listed resulting from this marriage prior to his death. In 1951 Dollie Arabella married a Thomas Jeremiah "Jerry" Waggoner and he was the informant for her 1953 death certificate.

Floy L. Chambers was a seamstress for L. S. Ayres and lived in Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana. Floy died in 1983 and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis. She is stated to never married.

Sprankle Snyder, Elizabeth Allen, Martha Christina Sabin, Elizabeth Kyler, Lydia Wyne, and children

Sprankle Snyder was born 1831 in Ohio to Samuel Benton Snyder and Elizabeth Sprankle. He married four times during the course of his life. This gets confusing as some people know about two or maybe three of his marriages and, oddly, vice versa.

What may not help, with the confusion, is The Ziegler Family Record, in 1906, listed him as "a Mr. Snyder of California" and then in family trees, for his fourth marriage, mispelt(?) as Spangle, Sprangle, or Spangler - as exampled in the 1990 edition of The Ziegler Family Record by Floyd R. Mason. In contrast when it comes to Ohio, Missouri, and Nebraska biographical sketches, shared about his parents or other family members, plus in a news clippings about one of his marriages, on census reports, and voter registration his first name was spelt Sprankle. I will be using the spelling of Sprankle since that, from his own hand or side, is what appears most often in the paper trail, while saying that if you happen to be researching this gentleman 0 then know in advance to try the variety of spellings shared for his first name.

Elizabeth Allen (Aug 1821), daughter of Rial Easter Allen (1791-1865) and Margaret Moore Evins (1784-1843), became Sprankle Snyder's first wife. She was ten years older than him at the time of their 1853 marriage in Missouri. This confuses people at first, thinking the bride's birth year is wrong, but it has been verified that the birth years are correct. Elizabeth passed away in Aug 1872. There were no children.

In April of 1875 Sprankle Snyder married Martha Christina Sabin (1844 - Ohio) in Andrew County, Missouri. Christina passed away June 3, 1883 in Longmount, Bloulder County, Colorado. No children from this marriage.

July 4, 1883 Sprankle Snyder married Elizabeth (Lizzie) Keyler (Kyler) in Andrew County, Missouri. From this marriage there were three sons: Lee Roy (1884 Missouri), Samuel C. (1886 Missouri), and Myrl Bird (1887 Missouri). Some sources have Lizzie Kyler passing away in 1910 but may have been 1888-1889 when Sprankle became a widower for a third time.

Sprankle Snyder shows up Piatt County, Illinois marriage records when he marries Lydia Wyne in Dec 1889. Lydia was the daughter of John C. Wyne and Elizabeth Ziegler who had moved from Rockingham County, Virginia to Cerro Gordo, Piatt County, Illinois with some of their other children. This was Lydia Wyne's first marriage.

Sprankle and Lydia, and Sprankle's sons, show up in 1900 US Census living in Los Angeles County, California. Sprankle was a fruit farmer. He passed away before the 1910 US Census as Lydia is listed as Head of Household. Sprankle's sons do not appear within the household but Ruth Frances (1898 California), Edna (1902 Missouri), and Elsie (1898 USA) are listed as Adopted Daughters and all three have the last name of Snyder. These three girls do not appear in the 1920 Los Angeles County, California US Censusl Lydia is listed Head of Household with another adopted daughter, Catherine Snyder (1911 California). In 1930 US Census Lydia Wyne Snyder is still in Los Angeles County, California and has two lodgers listed living in her household. Lydia Snyder passed away October 20, 1935.

Sprankle Snyder and Lydia Wyne are listed as the parents of Ruth Frances Snyder when she marries George D. Martin (1888) in September 1913.

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Lee Roy Snyder immigrated to British Columbia, Canada in 1906. He passed away April 30 1957 from an accidental poisoning. Lee Roy married Flora McKeeknie according to his death certificate. Uncertain on if they had any children.

Samuel C. Snyder appears in 1910 US Census as to residing in Redlands, San Bernadino County, California. In 1920 he appears back in Los Angeles County, California with his wife, Laura E., and her brother, Forrest Edwards. Samuel and Laura Snyder are still in Los Angeles County, California when the 1930 US Census was taken. It does not appear that Samuel C. Snyder had children.

Myrl Bird Snyder tried to get himself exempted from the Ventura, California draft for World War I claiming poor eyesight and "slightly nervousness". In 1917 he is a private in Company H 103rd Infantry in Venture, California and was discharged March 10 1918. In 1926 Myrl is in Sawtelle, California where he is in a hospital for soldiers. He passed Aug 13 1948 and is buried in Los Angeles National Cemetery. It appears that Myrl Bird Snyder never married.