Olive Randa Shaffer

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Wife Olive Randa Shaffer ¹

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           Born: Abt 1869
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         Father: Solomon Shaffer (1824-      ) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Wonderling (1826-      ) 2

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General Notes: Wife - Olive Randa Shaffer

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This lady, although she has been for sixteen years a helpless paralytic, displays a serenity and cheerfulness which makes a visit to her an inspiration. As her affliction came upon her in 1881, at the early age of twelve years, she had comparatively limited schooling, but her keen and active intellect sought instruction in what Carlyle calls the "University of Books," where the best thought of mankind is enshrined. She was not especially fond of reading as a child, but she developed a fine literary taste through a study of the best writers in prose and poetry, and her conversation was enriched by many an apt and beautiful quotation. Naturally this noble resolution and patient yet persistent effort commanded the admiration of all who knew her, and her sweet disposition won her hosts of friends, who delighted in visiting her. She was passionately fond of flowers, and, possessing much artistic ability, she, without instruction, gained wonderful skill in copying their forms and colors.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1304.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1303.