Snapp History

In the middle years of the 1800's Ephraim Snapp came from Virginia with his brothers to the area of Ohio between Springfield and Westville. That area was described to be a "wilderness" by the people of that time. Ephraim's brothers kept on going farther to the northwest, up through St. Paris, Sydney and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Ephraim farmed an area which today is cut in two by route 55 just to the southwest of Urbana. He was also a blacksmith by trade.

Ephraim had four children; one was Samuel. Samuel farmed the valley land on the west side of Mad River above Tremont City and south of where Ephraim lived. Samuel had five children: James, Raymond's father, was the first.