Item Name	Will of Jacob (Yoch) Schneider	Image1 Image2 Image3 Image4 Image5
Owner(s)	Schneider, Christian Schneider, Jacob (Yoch) Snyder, Jacob
Category	Documents
Year	Early: 1841 - Late: 1853
Description	Copy of the Will of Jacob Schneider dated June 24, 1841 and presented for probate in Waterloo County March 14, 1853. It includes an Inventory of Goods and Effects dated March 5, 1853. The Will transfers Lot 69, Waterloo Township to Levi Bechtel and his wife, Magdalena (Schneider) Bechtel. The Will also makes provision for Jacob’s daughter, Elisabeth Snider (Elizabeth Schneider). Sons Christian J. Snider and Jacob J. Snider were the Executors. The Will was witnessed by Jacob S. Shoemaker and Henry Snider. The attached Inventory of Goods was witnessed by J.B. Bauman and Henry Snider.
Collection	Joseph Schneider Haus Museum Contact : 466 Queen St. S. Kitchener 519-742-7752 www.region.waterloo.on.ca
References	The text of the "Will of Jacob Schneider" is printed in Canadian-German Folklore 5 (1975), pp. 34-35.

Fraktur design based on Family Register by Jacob Shoemacher in Joseph Schneider Bible, 1821.