This was a rugged life living in an ill heated log cabin and with many privations and hardships. Somewhere along the way Jost changed his last name to Snyder.

Jost also found time, with Salome's help to have the following additional children: Isaiah, Jacob, Daniel, Joel, Jonas, Abraham, Nathaniel, Ezra (also spelled Isarah). Of these, the only one we know much about was Abraham who served in the Civil War and founded Snyder's Mill at Millheim. This became an Ohio historical landmark. This mill is now gone but the site can be seen at the first dam remnants on the headwaters of the Tuscarawas River. One Abraham's daughters married a Tritt and they founded Tritts Mill (still standing) down the river. One son Paul moved to Starke County, Indiana. As far as we know, all of rest of the children lived and died in this part of Ohio.

The following supplemental biography is transcribed from the Centennial History of Summit County, edited by William B. Doyle (1908), p. :

Jost A. Snyder was born August 25, 1791, in Low Hill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and came to Green Township, Summit County, which was then part of Stark County, after his marriage. He served under General Jackson in the War of 1812, and participated in the Battle of New Orleans. When he settled in Summit County, he had a wagon and two horses, by means of which he had transported his family and possessions over the 500 miles between the old home and the new, and a money capital of $105, all but five dollars of which he paid for twenty acres of land. To this first purchase he made seven additions of adjoining land, and at his death owned sixty-three acres.