George Schaffner and Jane Tracy
Husband George Schaffner 1 2
Born: 17 Dec 1841 - Slippery Rock Twp, Butler Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: George Jacob Schaffner (1806-1877) 4 5 Mother: Anna Maria Martin ( -1876) 2 3
Marriage: 5 Nov 1867 6
Wife Jane Tracy 6
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Father: James Tracy ( - ) 6 Mother: Mary [Unk] ( - ) 6
Children
1 F Mary Cresentia Schaffner 6
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: John McCune, Jr. ( - ) 6
2 M James Schaffner 6
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3 M Anthony J. Schaffner 6
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4 M Clarence A. Schaffner 6
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5 M William J. Schaffner 6
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6 F Estelle G. Schaffner 6
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7 M George Schaffner 6
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8 F Alice Schaffner 6
Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1895 Buried:
9 M Charles Schaffner 6
Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1895 Buried:
10 M Leroy Schaffner 6
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General Notes: Husband - George Schaffner
He received a common school education, and soon after the breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted in Company H, Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was mustered into service at Camp Orr, Kittanning, September 17, 1861. From there the regiment moved by railroad to Pittsburgh, where it was presented with a flag by Governor Curtin, on the West Common, in Allegheny. It was assigned to General Negley's brigade, was transported down the Ohio river to Louisville, Kentucky, and then marched to Bacon creek, and later to Greene river. The brigade was a part of General Sherman's command, who was there relieved by General Buell. The latter advanced on Nashville, and the Seventy-eighth guarded Buell's line of communication while he went to re-enforce Grant at Shiloh, and in the autumn of 1862 fell back to Nashville, joined Negley's division and assisted in holding that city until the return of Rosecrans' army from Kentucky, in December, 1862. The army was then re-organized and the Seventy-eighth was placed in the Eighth division, General Negley commanding. On December 26, 1862, the army moved on the Stone River campaign, and in the battle of Stone River, the Seventy-eighth lost 196 in killed and wounded. The regiment captured the colors of the Twenty-sixth Tennessee, also a battery of four pieces that had been captured by Jackson from the English at the battle of New Orleans, in 1815, and the flag of the Seventy-eighth was the first to float over the court house at Murfreesboro. While the regiment lay in that city, Mr. Schaffner was detailed to guard the residence of Colonel Reedy, father-in-law of Gen. John Morgan, and captured the latter's sword, which he kept in his possession. The regiment next went on the Tullahoma campaign, marched to the Tennessee river which it crossed on a pontoon bridge, thence across Lookout, Sand, and Raccoon mountains, flanking Chattanooga, the command hauling the artillery over the mountains when the horses gave out. The Seventy-eighth were the first troops to set foot on the soil of Georgia, September 8, 1863. Mr. Schaffner was one of the one hundred men who at Dug Gap, Georgia, held the rebel army in check for four hours. (See Bates' History.) They next participated at Chickamauga, September 19, and 20, 1863, then fell back on Chattanooga and assisted in holding that town until the arrival of re-enforcements, suffering the starvation of that siege, after which they started on the Atlanta campaign. Mr. Schaffner participated in all the battles of the Fourteenth Army Corps, and was shot through the right shoulder and left hand at Pickett's Mills, Georgia, May 27, 1864. He was sent to Kingston, Georgia, thence to Nashville, Tennessee, and afterwards to Pittsburgh Hospital, where he was honorably discharged, October 12, 1864, his term of service having expired. He afterwards took a course at Duff's Commercial College, and kept books for Schnelbach & Schott, of Pittsburgh, in 1866, and the same year came to Butler. He sunk the first coal shaft in Butler County, located south of Butler, in Butler township, which was later operated by his brother Samuel, and which proved a successful venture. After that time he followed general contracting.
In 1868 Mr. Schaffner was appointed United States gauger for the Twenty-third internal revenue district, and served nine years. In 1879 he became employed by the government on Davis Island dam, where he worked four years, being superintendent of the works the last two years. He was a Republican, in politics, served in the council for six years, and was a prominent member of Encampment, Number 45, U. V. L., of which he was elected colonel in 1893. In October of the same year he was appointed, at Cincinnati, Ohio, adjutant general of the U. V. L., for the United States. In June, 1894, he was appointed by Governor Pattison a member of the commission from Pennsylvania to locate the positions occupied by Pennsylvania troops at the battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, and Wauhatchie Valley.
Mr. Schaffner and his family were members of St. Paul's Catholic church.
1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 836, 791.
2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1267.
3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 791.
4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 791, 836.
5 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 744, 1267.
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—, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 792.
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