Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameJohn Dolly 
Birth6 Sep 1749, Hesse, Germany
DeathAug 1847, Pendleton Co., (W) Virginia
Alias/AKAJohann Dahle
Spouses
Birth18 Mar 1867, North Fork Hills, Pendleton Co, (W) Virginia
Death14 Oct 1938, Pendleton Co., (W) Virginia
FatherConrad Shoulders (1750-1797)
MotherRachel [Shoulders]
Marriage1779, North Fork Hills, Pendleton Co, (W) Virginia
ChildrenGeorge Washington (1804-1860)
Notes for John Dolly
48Alias: John Dolly
John Dolly arrived in America as a German Military mercinary working with the British Army during the American Revolution. Serving under General Cornwalis, he was captured at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, and was imprisoned in Winchester, Virginia.
It is said that he was advised by General George Washington himself to remain in Virginia, and thus after the war, he made his way to what is now Pendleton, County, West Virginia. There he purchased land and married Mary Shoulders. John was a farmer and a miller, with the nicknames of "Cornyackle" and "Barleycorn". Eventually his and his sons' land holdings in Pendleton County grew to several hundred acres. which later became known as the scenic "Dolly Sods".
He and Mary are buried at Dolly Hills, near Mouth of Seneca, in Pendleton, County, West Virginia (Landis-Dolly Cemetery #50, Pendleton County. Grave Register II)
John and Mary were the parents of nine known children, all named in his will, dated 17 Nov. 1838. John bequeathed land to each of his three sons, and $1-- plus bedding and household furniture to each of his five daughters.
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2134Children
1. Catherine Kate DOLLY b: 25 Nov 1790 in Pendleton, VA
2. Andrew DOLLY b: 1793 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
3. Phoebe DOLLY b: 30 Oct 1794 in Pendleton, VA
4. Mary DOLLY b: 1796 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
5. John R. II DOLLY b: 26 Aug 1798 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
6. Annis DOLLY b: 24 May 1800 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
7. Christiana DOLLY b: 1802 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
8. George Washington DOLLY b: 1804 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
9. Eve DOLLY b: 26 Apr 1806 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
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West Virginia's Dolly Sods offers fantastic vistas
By Bob Downing, McCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Sunday, January 4, 2009
LANEVILLE, W. Va. -- It was time to make a pilgrimage to Dolly Sods, a wild spot in northeastern West Virginia that has been described as one foot short of the tree line and two steps short of Arctic tundra.
It is a rocky, high-altitude plateau with sweeping vistas and plants and animals normally found farther north in Canada. It can be nasty with wet weather, freezing conditions, fog and storms at any time of year, but high country Dolly Sods remains a personal favorite in my travels.
It is a unique and beautiful place with plains, grassy meadows or sods, sphagnum bogs, beaver ponds, forest patches of red spruce, hemlock, beech and red maple and lots of scrubby heath barrens with blueberries, huckleberries and cranberries.
The heath barrens feature azaleas, mountain laurel, rhododendrons and blueberries that struggle to get chest high because of the severe conditions. They are at their colorful best in May and June.
Some of the scrawny red spruce and yellow birch up high have no branches on their west-facing sides because of the fierce winds.
The windswept, rugged Dolly Sods stands 2,600 to 4,000 feet in elevation along the eastern continental divide in Grant, Tucker and Randolph counties. The plateau sits 2,000 feet and more above the surrounding valleys.
It is an island of wild country surrounded by Appalachian hardwood forests. At lower elevations, there are thick forests of hemlock and thickets of rhododendrons and mountain laurel. It is home to white-tailed deer, black bears, bobcats, wild turkey, snowshoe hares and fishers.
Red Creek is the main drainage. It has carved a rocky canyon through the plateau and is well known for its flash floods.
There are actually several Dolly Sods with different rules, and that can get confusing.
First is the Dolly Sods Wilderness, a 10,215-acre tract managed by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the Monongahela National Forest. It is a federally designated wilderness with minimal trail markings.
The 7,215-acre Dolly Sods North is not designated wilderness, but is managed as wilderness.
The area also includes 12,860 acres in three Flatrock-Roaring Plains tracts and the 2,000-acre Dolly Sods Scenic Area. The trails in those areas are marked better and get more visitors.
Finally, there is Bear Rocks, a 477-acre preserve with distinctive rock outcroppings that provide long-distance views across the rumpled Allegheny Mountains to the east.
It is one of the most-photographed and most-visited spots at Dolly Sods and is managed by the Nature Conservancy. It was donated by Dominion Resources.
Farther north along the ridge are Stack Rocks and Haystack Rocks. Bear Rocks provide views that can stretch eastward to the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.
That's a lot of wild country.
My spring trip provided a chance to hike Blackbird Knob and Red Creek trails, beginning at the Red Creek Campground off Forest Road 75, and to climb Bear Rocks. The 12-spot campground offers the only safe drinking water on Dolly Sods.
The east-west Blackbird Knob Trail begins outside the wilderness but is a main feeder trail into the wilderness. You hike through a partially stunted forest. There are open meadows and rock outcroppings that form a giant bowl with vistas all around.
You can hop onto rocks across Alder Run and Red Creek. It is 2.1 miles to the creek.
Blackbird Knob rises to 3,960 feet. A boulder field nearby provides more long-distance vistas.
It's a pretty hike into the northern part of the Dolly Sods Wilderness. The intersecting Red Creek Trail can be wet and muddy, and you'll have to ford the stream twice. That can be risky at high water.
The most popular wilderness trail is the 6.7-mile Red Creek Trail that runs north-south along the stream. It is also known as Trail No. 514.
You know backpackers have made themselves at home in Dolly Sods when you find fire pits along Red Creek at well-established camp spots, complete with homemade Adirondack-style chairs made of slabs of red sandstone. Just a little backcountry comfort.
The North Fork of Red Creek begins as a swampy stream on the plateau. It becomes a tumbling stream with waterfalls and it enters a steep-sided canyon. It joins the South Fork of Red Creek outside the wilderness and flows into Dry Fork Creek.
Red Creek provides some cool pools, waterfalls and even a water slide within the wilderness area.
As one approaches Dolly Sods from west via Laneville, it is sobering to see the number and size of the boulders pushed down the stream bed over the years by fast-flowing Red Creek.
It's about 3 miles from Blackbird Knob Trail along the Red Creek Trail to the scenic Forks area. You can then jump over to Fisher Spring Run Trail. It climbs about 1,000 feet through ferns and switchbacks over its 2.3 miles and takes you back to Forest Road No. 75.
In all, the wilderness offers 14 trails that stretch 25 miles, mostly on old jeep roads and railroad grades. There are lots of loop options, although you may be completing your trek on a dusty forest service road.
Dolly Sods and the surrounding area were heavily logged starting in the 1880s, when the railroad reached nearby Davis, and the heavy humus was destroyed by raging fires. The last timber was felled in 1924.
It was described as the best spruce-hemlock-black cherry forest in the world, with giant trees up to 12 feet in diameter.
Dolly Sods got its name from Hessian Johann Dahle, who grazed his sheep in the meadows. In the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps planted red spruce there.
During World War II, Dolly Sods was used by the Army for artillery training, especially on Cabin Mountain and Blackbird Knob.
Live shells from that time occasionally turn up and are a major risk. The mortar and artillery shells typically are 13 to 23 inches long. After 60 years, the explosives are very unstable. Hikers and backpackers are advised not to touch them, to mark the location and to notify authorities as soon as possible. The number is 888-283-0303.
The explosive threat is why it's important to stay on trails and burn fires only in established fire pits, the forest service warns.
There are limited parking and scenic overlooks off Forest Road 75. It runs along the eastern rim of the Allegheny Front, where the folded hills end and the high plateau begins.
That makes the road and its overlooks popular with bird-watchers, who come from August to October to watch migrating raptors.
The Nature Conservancy played a big role in preserving Dolly Sods. It purchased the coal rights under the 10,000-acre federal wilderness in the 1960s for $15 million. In the 1990s, the group paid $6 million to acquire 6,100 acres in Dolly Sods North from Texas-based Quintana Corp. The land was then donated to the forest service.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/lifestyles/travel/s_605261.html
John Dolly arrived in America as a German Military mercinary working with the British Army during the American Revolution. Serving under General Cornwalis, he was captured at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, and was imprisoned in Winchester, Virginia.
It is said that he was advised by General George Washington himself to remain in Virginia, and thus after the war, he made his way to what is now Pendleton, County, West Virginia. There he purchased land and married Mary Shoulders. John was a farmer and a miller, with the nicknames of "Cornyackle" and "Barleycorn". Eventually his and his sons' land holdings in Pendleton County grew to several hundred acres. which later became known as the scenic "Dolly Sods".
He and Mary are buried at Dolly Hills, near Mouth of Seneca, in Pendleton, County, West Virginia (Landis-Dolly Cemetery #50, Pendleton County. Grave Register II)
John and Mary were the parents of nine known children, all named in his will, dated 17 Nov. 1838. John bequeathed land to each of his three sons, and $1-- plus bedding and household furniture to each of his five daughters.
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2134Children
1. Catherine Kate DOLLY b: 25 Nov 1790 in Pendleton, VA
2. Andrew DOLLY b: 1793 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
3. Phoebe DOLLY b: 30 Oct 1794 in Pendleton, VA
4. Mary DOLLY b: 1796 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
5. John R. II DOLLY b: 26 Aug 1798 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
6. Annis DOLLY b: 24 May 1800 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
7. Christiana DOLLY b: 1802 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
8. George Washington DOLLY b: 1804 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
9. Eve DOLLY b: 26 Apr 1806 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op...39&id=I606397058
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West Virginia's Dolly Sods offers fantastic vistas
By Bob Downing, McCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Sunday, January 4, 2009
LANEVILLE, W. Va. -- It was time to make a pilgrimage to Dolly Sods, a wild spot in northeastern West Virginia that has been described as one foot short of the tree line and two steps short of Arctic tundra.
It is a rocky, high-altitude plateau with sweeping vistas and plants and animals normally found farther north in Canada. It can be nasty with wet weather, freezing conditions, fog and storms at any time of year, but high country Dolly Sods remains a personal favorite in my travels.
It is a unique and beautiful place with plains, grassy meadows or sods, sphagnum bogs, beaver ponds, forest patches of red spruce, hemlock, beech and red maple and lots of scrubby heath barrens with blueberries, huckleberries and cranberries.
The heath barrens feature azaleas, mountain laurel, rhododendrons and blueberries that struggle to get chest high because of the severe conditions. They are at their colorful best in May and June.
Some of the scrawny red spruce and yellow birch up high have no branches on their west-facing sides because of the fierce winds.
The windswept, rugged Dolly Sods stands 2,600 to 4,000 feet in elevation along the eastern continental divide in Grant, Tucker and Randolph counties. The plateau sits 2,000 feet and more above the surrounding valleys.
It is an island of wild country surrounded by Appalachian hardwood forests. At lower elevations, there are thick forests of hemlock and thickets of rhododendrons and mountain laurel. It is home to white-tailed deer, black bears, bobcats, wild turkey, snowshoe hares and fishers.
Red Creek is the main drainage. It has carved a rocky canyon through the plateau and is well known for its flash floods.
There are actually several Dolly Sods with different rules, and that can get confusing.
First is the Dolly Sods Wilderness, a 10,215-acre tract managed by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the Monongahela National Forest. It is a federally designated wilderness with minimal trail markings.
The 7,215-acre Dolly Sods North is not designated wilderness, but is managed as wilderness.
The area also includes 12,860 acres in three Flatrock-Roaring Plains tracts and the 2,000-acre Dolly Sods Scenic Area. The trails in those areas are marked better and get more visitors.
Finally, there is Bear Rocks, a 477-acre preserve with distinctive rock outcroppings that provide long-distance views across the rumpled Allegheny Mountains to the east.
It is one of the most-photographed and most-visited spots at Dolly Sods and is managed by the Nature Conservancy. It was donated by Dominion Resources.
Farther north along the ridge are Stack Rocks and Haystack Rocks. Bear Rocks provide views that can stretch eastward to the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.
That's a lot of wild country.
My spring trip provided a chance to hike Blackbird Knob and Red Creek trails, beginning at the Red Creek Campground off Forest Road 75, and to climb Bear Rocks. The 12-spot campground offers the only safe drinking water on Dolly Sods.
The east-west Blackbird Knob Trail begins outside the wilderness but is a main feeder trail into the wilderness. You hike through a partially stunted forest. There are open meadows and rock outcroppings that form a giant bowl with vistas all around.
You can hop onto rocks across Alder Run and Red Creek. It is 2.1 miles to the creek.
Blackbird Knob rises to 3,960 feet. A boulder field nearby provides more long-distance vistas.
It's a pretty hike into the northern part of the Dolly Sods Wilderness. The intersecting Red Creek Trail can be wet and muddy, and you'll have to ford the stream twice. That can be risky at high water.
The most popular wilderness trail is the 6.7-mile Red Creek Trail that runs north-south along the stream. It is also known as Trail No. 514.
You know backpackers have made themselves at home in Dolly Sods when you find fire pits along Red Creek at well-established camp spots, complete with homemade Adirondack-style chairs made of slabs of red sandstone. Just a little backcountry comfort.
The North Fork of Red Creek begins as a swampy stream on the plateau. It becomes a tumbling stream with waterfalls and it enters a steep-sided canyon. It joins the South Fork of Red Creek outside the wilderness and flows into Dry Fork Creek.
Red Creek provides some cool pools, waterfalls and even a water slide within the wilderness area.
As one approaches Dolly Sods from west via Laneville, it is sobering to see the number and size of the boulders pushed down the stream bed over the years by fast-flowing Red Creek.
It's about 3 miles from Blackbird Knob Trail along the Red Creek Trail to the scenic Forks area. You can then jump over to Fisher Spring Run Trail. It climbs about 1,000 feet through ferns and switchbacks over its 2.3 miles and takes you back to Forest Road No. 75.
In all, the wilderness offers 14 trails that stretch 25 miles, mostly on old jeep roads and railroad grades. There are lots of loop options, although you may be completing your trek on a dusty forest service road.
Dolly Sods and the surrounding area were heavily logged starting in the 1880s, when the railroad reached nearby Davis, and the heavy humus was destroyed by raging fires. The last timber was felled in 1924.
It was described as the best spruce-hemlock-black cherry forest in the world, with giant trees up to 12 feet in diameter.
Dolly Sods got its name from Hessian Johann Dahle, who grazed his sheep in the meadows. In the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps planted red spruce there.
During World War II, Dolly Sods was used by the Army for artillery training, especially on Cabin Mountain and Blackbird Knob.
Live shells from that time occasionally turn up and are a major risk. The mortar and artillery shells typically are 13 to 23 inches long. After 60 years, the explosives are very unstable. Hikers and backpackers are advised not to touch them, to mark the location and to notify authorities as soon as possible. The number is 888-283-0303.
The explosive threat is why it's important to stay on trails and burn fires only in established fire pits, the forest service warns.
There are limited parking and scenic overlooks off Forest Road 75. It runs along the eastern rim of the Allegheny Front, where the folded hills end and the high plateau begins.
That makes the road and its overlooks popular with bird-watchers, who come from August to October to watch migrating raptors.
The Nature Conservancy played a big role in preserving Dolly Sods. It purchased the coal rights under the 10,000-acre federal wilderness in the 1960s for $15 million. In the 1990s, the group paid $6 million to acquire 6,100 acres in Dolly Sods North from Texas-based Quintana Corp. The land was then donated to the forest service.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/lifestyles/travel/s_605261.html
Notes for Mary (Spouse 1)
2134Children
1. Catherine Kate DOLLY b: 25 Nov 1790 in Pendleton, VA
2. Andrew DOLLY b: 1793 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
3. Phoebe DOLLY b: 30 Oct 1794 in Pendleton, VA
4. Mary DOLLY b: 1796 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
5. John R. II DOLLY b: 26 Aug 1798 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
6. Annis DOLLY b: 24 May 1800 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
7. Christiana DOLLY b: 1802 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
8. George Washington DOLLY b: 1804 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
9. Eve DOLLY b: 26 Apr 1806 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op...39&id=I606397058
1. Catherine Kate DOLLY b: 25 Nov 1790 in Pendleton, VA
2. Andrew DOLLY b: 1793 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
3. Phoebe DOLLY b: 30 Oct 1794 in Pendleton, VA
4. Mary DOLLY b: 1796 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
5. John R. II DOLLY b: 26 Aug 1798 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
6. Annis DOLLY b: 24 May 1800 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
7. Christiana DOLLY b: 1802 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
8. George Washington DOLLY b: 1804 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
9. Eve DOLLY b: 26 Apr 1806 in Pendleton Co, Virginia (WV)
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