Peter Snyder and Elizabeth Kane and Elizabeth Granger, were they related?

Question

I am confused by the records here and what they may mean. 

I show Elizabeth Kane Snyder, who was born in PA, as married to Peter Snyder in 1795 and living in Johnson County, Tennessee. I have the death date for her husband. This is all from War of 1812 Pension Applications 

Soldier: Peter Snyder; Widow: Elizabeth Kane Snyder; Marriage Date: 1795; Date Enlisted: 13 Sep 1814; Date Discharged: 3 May 1815; Soldier's Death Date: 13 Oct 1860; Soldier's Death Place: Jeffreson County, Tennessee; Military Service Location: Tennessee; Widow's Death Date: 28 Oct 1878; Pension Number - #1: WO 2696; Pension Number - #2: WC 863; Bounty Land Number - #1: 52971 80 50; Bounty Land Number - #2: 1436 80 55; Roll number: 87; Archive Publication Number: M313.

However, in 1850 and 1860, I show Peter as married to a woman from North Carolina.  The marriage record I have is 11 Apr 1803. One would assume any children born after 1803 would be hers. 

One of those children, Nancy Snyder Crosswhite, shows an Elizabeth Snyder living with her in 1860.   We can trace that Elizabeth back on a census record in 1850 because of her PA birth. 

What the heck is going on? Was Peter having children with both women during this time or are there multiple Peters being mixed up here?

Answer 1

This isn't quite helpful to your question but I wanted to mention that heretofore I have not been able to place my ancestor Catharine Snyder (also born in PA) with her Snyder family of origin. However, because of this question, I went ahead and checked my GEDmatch for three members who have their GEDmatch IDs listed on Peter's profile and I show a very small match with both of them.

I hesitate to mention it because of the amount being so small, and two of those member accounts not being fleshed out to connect with more profiles, we could be related in other ways. However, considering the number of times I have found no matching segments when I check other members on here, and that there were three different people that I matched with attached to that profile, it might wind up being a good lead.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Snyder-6830

Comments

I am going to take a look and see if I can find you. In the meantime can you change your answer to a comment?  I know when I am searching the G2G to help people, I concentrate on unanswered questions, so this one would be bypassed by someone like me who might have the answer.

Thanks

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I did not see any of my matches in the first 3000 on gedmatch. Who do you match of the Peter Snyder line?

Answer 2

Fellow seekers of Snyder family:

I’m probably someone who’s not fleshed out & it’s for this very reason. There are multiple ppl with the same name born around the same time. Since I appear to have connections in may of the far flung places, it’s possible they were related but went in different directions. I suspect that the revolutionary war had survivors setting where they mustered out and the civil war had families going north, south & west & losing touch. I believe there was a PeterSnyder in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania around 1800 as well.