Person talk:John Shaffer (19)

Ancestry Tree [18 April 2015]

This person in Wayne Woody's tree: John Shaffer--Judy (jlanoux) 15:03, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

An 2004 query [5 March 2016]

A query posted by Lee Shaffer in 2004 to www.dutchforkchapter.org/queries This documents the families beliefs about their history.[code]

June 2, 2004
I found your website today. I have an interest in the Shaffer/Schafer/Scheaffer name that arrived in the US in the later 1700 early 1800. William Shaffer ended up in South Carolina in the early 1800s but I have not been able to find out where he came from prior to SC. I would imagine that they came from Pennsylvania and then Europe but this is simply a guess. In one of the census records is indicates that William came from Prussia. William was supposed to have married a 'Jane,' but we have no further information on her.

One of the first Shaffers (John) was supposed to have married Hepsibiah Elizabeth Strother (dated unknown) and then move south toward Mississippi and eventually Louisiana. John's son William arrived in Louisiana in the 1830s and we have a significant amount of information from this point forward in time. William's (II) tombstone in Louisiana states he was born in Fairfield, SC. Our oral history states that William returned to South Carolina later in his life and visited his relatives graves sites at the Strother Cemetery (very clsoe to the Dutch Fork).

Now to my questions: I see you have a great deal of information on a Fredrick Shaffer, would you have any information on a John or William Shaffer? Would you have any information on the cemeteries in Dutch Fork and specifically the cemeteries in Strother SC? Any other thoughts with regard to your resources and my research direction.

[/code]--Judy (jlanoux) 20:25, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Shaffer Family Lore [28 August 2017]

Milhado Lee Shaffer, Sr, Genealogy Papers; John Jackson Shaffer Sheet, Abt 1960

John Shaffer was born in Winsboro, South Carolina. He left about 1805-1810 and settled in Louisiana near Prospect Island (Thompson Creek) and Woodville, Mississippi, not far from Fort Adams. He settled there with his son in 1803 and sold his property in South Carolina to Thomas Neal. John had a Keel Boat on the Mississippi River about 1811-1815. His route was from Prospect Island to New Orleans. When he died, he left his children with a family named Alexander who were not very kind. They were later with the Mills family and James Lilly who were very kind to them. John Shaffer's home site in South Carolina was a few miles from Winsboro. Record of site in court house at Winsboro, South Carolina. Col Strother and Hepsibah Elizabeth (Strother) Shaffer are buried in the family gravesite near Winsboro. John's son, William, was 12 years old when they left South Carolina.

The above was among the genealogy stories of the Shaffer family. It is without documentation and contradicts now known facts. We will file it here with interesting family lore for preservation. --Judy (jlanoux) 00:46, 29 August 2017 (UTC)