Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameCaptain Sampson Elza 
Birth1837
Death1863
Death Memoshot by Union Soldiers after taking an oath of neutrality [shot by mistake]
FatherCaptain Thompson Elza (~1806-~1893)
MotherSarah “Sallie” White (~1814-~1894)
Notes for Captain Sampson Elza
890Sampson Elza was a soldier in the Confederate Army and was promoted to the rank of Captain. But later resigned and took the oath of neutrality and was later shot through a mistake by some Union Soldiers and when they saw their mistake they did everything within their power to save him as he lived several days afterwards and then a squad of them came to give him a military burial, but the family objected as they all held to the Confederate side. -- This story was related to me by his daughter. She is the widow of the late Jesse Pennington.
SAMPSON ELZA, b. 1837, d. 1863+2 (non-combatant Civil War casualty), never married, but is believed to be the father of Mary Jane Howell (b. 1860), daughter of Ellen Howell who resided with the Thompson and Sarah Elza family at the time of her birth and at least ten years thereafter. Mary Jane Howell married a Pennington
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from: The Rebellion record By Frank Moore, Edward Everett
A Model Proclamation.—The Wheeling Intelligencer has the following :
We are indebted to Senator Cather for an original copy of the subjoined rare contribution to the world's literature; the production of a captain of a gang of robbers and horse-thieves in the Alleghany mountains. It was found in the possession of one James R. Parsons, (familiarly known as " Tanner Jim,") who was wounded and captured somewhere near the Pendleton County line, by a company under Lieutenant F. A. Cather, of the Second Virginia, who have been scouting in that region with a view of breaking up the gang:
" this 10th day of Oct 1861
" I hear By Notify all men that don’t Be long to the dry fork Company such as Robes horse thieves and falce [sic] dispatch Barrowes that has usurped the power of the officers this dry fork Company and I all sow Notify such men Never to set foot of the soil of said Dry fork Such as Read [sic] White Blue and many other that I could name if necessary at other ways sholder their weapon and defend this Country in which they are leading Enemy in on us at the time Wee Need them they fley to south to Reffuge and leav us to stand Be- for the miserable miscreants and herelings of the North to purputrate thear [sic] dark deed on A portion of our country wee will oppose them with all the means thai the god of Batle can place in our power But not to défende those Rob es to purpitrate thear dark deed- and us stand the Blunt Now man come in this Cora pany and Control them on less sent By proper Athen ty from them in A Command if they do the wadgeou* of sin is deth And the wadeious of such is death.
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" Wadgeous" for wages is stupendous, so is the variation, " wadeious." The " god of Batle can place in our power" is very fine. Much depends on ha ability to furnish " means," it appears. If he should chance to be hard up, it wouldn't be near so well with the " dry forkers" as if he should have plenty. Sampson is very jealous of his authority, and makes death the penalty of impertinent interference with it.
" Sampson Elza
SAMPSON ELZA, b. 1837, d. 1863+2 (non-combatant Civil War casualty), never married, but is believed to be the father of Mary Jane Howell (b. 1860), daughter of Ellen Howell who resided with the Thompson and Sarah Elza family at the time of her birth and at least ten years thereafter. Mary Jane Howell married a Pennington
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from: The Rebellion record By Frank Moore, Edward Everett
A Model Proclamation.—The Wheeling Intelligencer has the following :
We are indebted to Senator Cather for an original copy of the subjoined rare contribution to the world's literature; the production of a captain of a gang of robbers and horse-thieves in the Alleghany mountains. It was found in the possession of one James R. Parsons, (familiarly known as " Tanner Jim,") who was wounded and captured somewhere near the Pendleton County line, by a company under Lieutenant F. A. Cather, of the Second Virginia, who have been scouting in that region with a view of breaking up the gang:
" this 10th day of Oct 1861
" I hear By Notify all men that don’t Be long to the dry fork Company such as Robes horse thieves and falce [sic] dispatch Barrowes that has usurped the power of the officers this dry fork Company and I all sow Notify such men Never to set foot of the soil of said Dry fork Such as Read [sic] White Blue and many other that I could name if necessary at other ways sholder their weapon and defend this Country in which they are leading Enemy in on us at the time Wee Need them they fley to south to Reffuge and leav us to stand Be- for the miserable miscreants and herelings of the North to purputrate thear [sic] dark deed on A portion of our country wee will oppose them with all the means thai the god of Batle can place in our power But not to défende those Rob es to purpitrate thear dark deed- and us stand the Blunt Now man come in this Cora pany and Control them on less sent By proper Athen ty from them in A Command if they do the wadgeou* of sin is deth And the wadeious of such is death.
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" Wadgeous" for wages is stupendous, so is the variation, " wadeious." The " god of Batle can place in our power" is very fine. Much depends on ha ability to furnish " means," it appears. If he should chance to be hard up, it wouldn't be near so well with the " dry forkers" as if he should have plenty. Sampson is very jealous of his authority, and makes death the penalty of impertinent interference with it.
" Sampson Elza