{"id":4342,"date":"2013-01-18T15:23:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T20:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/?page_id=4342"},"modified":"2018-10-15T15:09:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T20:09:56","slug":"vitals-lt-henry-agnes-shaffer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/?page_id=4342","title":{"rendered":"Vitals: Lt. Henry & Mary Agnes “Nancy” Shaffer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Henry<\/strong> (1751-1834) b. Hanover, Lower Saxony (Niedersachen) Germany; r. Friedens,
\nSomerset Co., PA (probably son of Henry, Sr.*; farmer)
\n-military: Lt. in Revolutionary War, York Co. Militia, 1st<\/sup> & 5th<\/sup> Bat. under Col. Matthew Dill
\n-burial: Friedens Lutheran Cemetery, Somerset Co.<\/a> (GPS 0.05050,-78.99571)<\/p>\n

\"Lt.<\/a>

Lt. Henry Shaffer, Friedens Lutheran Cemetery<\/p><\/div>\n

Mary Elizabeth\/Agnes “Nancy”\u00a0<\/strong>Weinrich (1756-1824) \u2028almost nothing known. FindaGrave.com has her born in Germany, but another source says that she was possibly a Native American, known as a “consort” rather than wife.
\n-burial: Friedens Lutheran Cemetery<\/a> next to Henry (some report her as buried away from Henry possibly because she wasn’t Christian?) (GPS: same as above)<\/p>\n

Religious affiliation: German Lutheran<\/p>\n

Children: believed to be 8, exact dates unclear<\/p>\n

1. Rebecca <\/strong>(1777- ) (m. Henry Heiple)
\n2.\u00a0Mary<\/a> Anna (1782-1851)\u2028r. Quemahoning Twp., Somerset Co. (m. Joseph A. Miller<\/a> \u2013 our line)Burial: Boyt\u2019s Cemetery, Somerset Co.
\n3. Henry, Jr.<\/strong> (1783\/5-1862) (m. Margaret Umberger)
\n4. Simon Peter, Sr.<\/strong> (1787-1863) b. Somerset Co.; r. Jenner Twp., Somerset Co. (m Barbara Poorman)
\n5. Elizabeth <\/strong>(1789 – ) (m. Emanuel Smith)
\n6. Susannah<\/strong> (1792- ) (m. Peter Rock)
\n7. Valentine <\/strong>(1895-1855) (m. Christina Gardener)
\n8. David <\/strong>(d. bef. 1829) (m. Nancy _____)<\/p>\n

*Grandfather was possibly Johann Simon Schaffer (1697-1774) of Fellbach, Rems-Murr-Kreis, Baden, Wurttermberg, Germany who sailed to Baltimore and settled in Frederick, MD<\/p>\n

Documentation:<\/p>\n

“Henry & Mary Shaffer.” FindaGrave.com<\/em>. 15 October 2018
\nhttps:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/81227358\/mary-elizabeth-shaffer<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cLt. Henry Shaffer.\u201d 21 Dec. 2015.
\nhttp:\/\/lthenryshaffer\/lt-henry-shaffer\/<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. Census. Somerset Twp. 1800<\/p>\n

Return to OUR SHAFFER FAMILY TREE<\/a><\/p>\n

Last revised: 10\/15\/18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Henry (1751-1834) b. Hanover, Lower Saxony (Niedersachen) Germany; r. Friedens, Somerset Co., PA (probably son of Henry, Sr.*; farmer) -military: Lt. in Revolutionary War, York Co. Militia, 1st & 5th Bat. under Col. Matthew Dill -burial: Friedens Lutheran Cemetery, Somerset … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":144,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8733,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4342\/revisions\/8733"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}