William Shaffer (1777-1858), of Alsatian lineage, was born in Pennsylvania and in 1799 married Sophia Blocher, an immigrant from Württemberg, Germany. They mov
John Roscoe Shaffer, son of William Shafer and Susannah J. Shultz, was born 12 January 1861 in Lancaster Township, Huntington County, Indiana. He married Cather