Adam Shaffer and Mary Schmeltzer

---

---

Husband Adam Shaffer ¹

---

           Born: 12 Sep 1815 - near Madisonburg, Centre Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: Feb 1889 1
         Buried:  - Madisonburg, Centre Co, PA

---

         Father: John Adam Shaffer (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Sarah Kern (      -      ) 1

---

       Marriage: 12 Sep 1840 1

---

---

Wife Mary Schmeltzer ²

---

           Born: May 1819 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

         Father: George Schmeltzer (1794-1878) 3
         Mother: Margaret Beckle (1792-1845) 4

---

---

Children

---

1 M U. S. Shaffer ¹

---

            AKA: Hugh S. Shaffer 5
           Born: 21 May 1848 - Miles Twp, Centre Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Mary Yearick (1850-      ) 1
           Marr: 25 Dec 1873 - Marion Twp, Centre Co, PA 1

---

2 F Maggie Shaffer ¹

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1898 - Marion Twp, Centre Co, PA
         Buried: 

         Spouse: C. F. Yearick (      -      ) 1

---

3 F Emma Shaffer ¹

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1898
         Buried: 

         Spouse: J. W. Hazel (      -      ) 1

---

4 M Ellis S. Shaffer ¹

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1898
         Buried: 

---

---

General Notes: Husband - Adam Shaffer

---

Al-though he was reared as a farmer's boy, with but limited educational ad-vantages, his native abilities enabled him to gather a goodly fund of practical information on various subjects, and his shrewd judgment and well-known public spirit caused him to be selected by his fellow-citizens to different local offices, including those of overseer of the poor, assessor, tax collector, school director and super-visor, notwithstanding the fact that he cared little for public honors. He was a regular voter, considering it every citizen's duty to register his choice of men and measures. He was a large, well-built man, robust and a hard worker, ac-complishing much more by his systematic man-agement than others could in the same time. Aside from a short trip in the West his life was spent in his native locality, and largely on the homestead which he rented for some years pre-vious to his father's death, and then purchased from the other heirs. In 1874 he bought an-other home in the same locality, where he passed his declining years.

Both he and his wife united with the Luth-eran Church in youth, and became devout and consistent followers of its teachings, and liberal contributors to its work. He held various offices in the Church, and for twenty years was superintendent of the Sunday-school. It was never his habit to say to his children "Go to Sunday-school" the persuasive "come", being typical of his attitude in leading them into paths of right-doing, to which his own feet were famil-iar.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 318.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 320.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 319, 473.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 319.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 517.