Michael Cryder, Sr. was born 25 Jul 1742 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; son of John Jacob Krieder Jr. and Elizabeth Margaret Mumma.

Michael was married first to Suzannah Carpenter on 18 Aug 1763; the daughter of Daniel and Magdalena (Forney) Carpenter.

Michael and Suzannah were the parents of six children:

1. Israel born 1764 married Hannah Seivert

2. John born 1776 married Elizabeth Fannie Hoover

3. Mary "Polly" born 1768 married Amos G. Herr

4. Sarah born 1769 married John Michael Immell

5. Daniel *Kreider born 1771 married Salome Carpenter

6. Susan "Elizabeth" born 1773 married Henry Musselman

Suzannah passed away in 1776 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania at the age of 34 years. The location of her grave is unknown at this time.

Left a widow with small children to raise, Michael married her sister, Sarah Salome Carpenter in 1776 in Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.

Michael and Sarah added five more children to the family:

7. Emanuel born 1777 married Mary Eve Hess

8. Henry Elisha born 1780 married Mary Ann Hess

9. Michael Jr. born 1782 married Elizabeth Hess

10. Jacob born 1784 married Rebecca Downs

11. David born 1786 married Margaret C. Warren

Michael passed away in 1816 in Hopetown, Springfield Township, Ross County, Ohio at the age of 73 years. He was laid to rest in Hopetown Cemetery in Springfield Township, Hopetown, Ross County, Ohio.

Sarah passed away in 1817 in Hopetown at the age of 64 years. She was laid to rest in Hopetown Cemetery, although the stone has been lost to time.

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A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio V1: An Authentic Narrative of the Past (1917)

by Lyle S. Evans

page 457-458

Springfield Township and Hopetown

Michael Cryder, Sr., with his wife, and seven sons, migrated from Huntington County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1796. He came down the Ohio River on a flatbed to the mouth of the Scioto and thence on a keelboat pushed up the Scioto to Chillicothe. There he remained a few months, during which he put up a cabin on the east bank of the river, west of Hopetown, into which he moved. He entered all of Section 6 and the land west of it to the river, compromising some 1,400 acres. He lived in the cabin on the river, a few years, then erected a two-story, hewed log house, where he died in 1816. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and served as commissary in the Revolution War. His wife Sarah died in 1817. They raised a family of eight sons and one daughter.