John Nicodemus Snider, son of Daniel and Elizabeth Stoner Snider, was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, on March 8, 1834. The 1860 federal census lists him as a farmer, living in the Rockbridge County home of his parents. Snider enlisted in Company H, 14th Virginia Cavalry at Brownsburg, Virginia on May 14, 1861. He reenlisted on May 15, 1862 but appears absent on detached service on the regiment's muster roll for September/October, 1862. By early 1863, Snider had been promoted to fifth corporal. Muster rolls for December, 1863, to April, 1864, show him on detached service in Rockbridge County. He was wounded in action at Forestville, Virginia, on August 23, 1864, and remained absent through December, and possibly for the remainder of the war. In 1865, Snider married Martha Caroline Snider (1847-1889); the couple had 10 children and lived and farmed at his childhood home in Rockbridge Baths. In 1893, he married Bettie Jane Lacy (1863-1951), with whom he fathered two more children. John N. Snider died at Rockbridge Baths, on April 15, 1897, and was buried in Bethesda Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Rockbridge Baths.