"My father, LEVI BENDER SNYDER, was born July 8, 1898 on a farm at Mount Joy, Route 2. He lived on that farm until 1955 when my parents moved to their retirement home on School Lane, Mount Joy. My father continued to go to the farm almost daily for another 20 years after they moved to School Lane. My grandparents [Levi E. & Sue (Bender) Snyder] moved off that farm around 1921 or 1922 because Uncle Irvin [my father's brother] got married and wanted to farm. Irvin and his wife Mabel only stayed there for one year, then they bought a farm along the Fruitville Pike, close to Mabel's family. So that one year my father lived in Mount Joy with his parents. By the time Irvin moved, Dad and Mother were getting married, so they moved to the home farm on Route 2. My parents often told how there was a snowstorm the week they moved, April 1, so that they could not get all their furniture right away. They sat around on apple crates for chairs. My parents were married Thanksgiving Day 1923. I think my father still drove horse and buggy in the early 1920s but probably had a car by the time they got married. My father said that, a few times when the roads were closed from a snowstorm, he walked across the fields to John Brubaker's for a date with Mother. One of my father's interests was going to farm sales. I don't remember that he ever bought much. He just liked to stand around and talk to people. My father did go out at hunting season for small game - rabbits or ring-neck pheasant. Both were good eating. This time of year we would see some of our relatives. Mother's brother Engle and his sons loved to hunt. When Mother knew they were coming she got to baking pies. Snitz pie was the most popular. My parents tried to keep the farm buildings in good shape. The Keller Brothers, who were in and out of our farm a lot to buy and sell cattle, said Levi had one of the cleanest cow barns around. He kept the manure off the forebay so that when they walked around they didn't get dirty shoes. My parents did a lot of visiting neighbors, and we had the greatest neighbors - the Mussers, the Herrs, the Nissleys, and Jonas & Fannie Brubaker. We visited on Sunday evening if there was no church service. We'd sit on the porch swing or on rockers and catch up on the latest news." (Written by Thelma (Snyder) Kraybill, October 1998.)
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