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From: "James & Angela Brunk" <>
Subject: Re: SHAFFER/SNYDER, VA to Preble Co OH
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:58:35 -0500


Jim Lewis:
Sorry I cant help you with your Shaffer members, but I am hoping you can
help me. My maternal g-g-grandparents (Jacob and Elizabeth
Shaffer/Shaeffer/Schaeffer/Shafer) [and I have seen all those spellings with
the names.] migrated to Preble County, Ohio during the civil war. Family
stories indicate it was because of their refusal to fight - and the
union/confederacy was battling on our land. Family moved -following family-
to Preble County. They were living in Rockingham county, VA. One of their
sons (John Shaeffer) married George V. Siler's daughter (George was one of
the spokesmen for the Old Order split in 1880.) I have traced the line of
John(since he was my g-grandfather.) Also know some of Moses Shaffer
(John's elder brother.)

Do you have any of these people in your research?

Thanks
James Brunk
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Lewis <>
To: <>
Date: Sunday, April 18, 1999 3:22 PM
Subject: SHAFFER/SNYDER, VA to Preble Co OH

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>>I recently learned that my SNYDER/SNIDER/SHAFFER/PENCE ancestors migrated
>to
>>Preble Co OH from Rockingham, Giles and Wythe Co VA, probably between
>>1820-30. I don't know if they were Brethren, but in reading Merle's
>"Roads"
>>series it sounds like one of the patterns he describes. If they were
>>Brethren would they have been part of the Four Mile congregation, or were
>>there a number of congregations in and around Preble?
>>
>>Simon and Mary PENCE SNIDER, Michael and Catherine HUDLOW SHAFFER,
Andrew
>>and Sarah/Sally SHAFFER
>>
>>I have Simon's will probated 1850, but have not discovered his or Mary's
>>burial place. A wife was not mentioned in the will.
>>
>>I also recall reading about a large movement of Brethren from Western OH
to
>>Iowa, but don't know the timing. The above Andrew and Sally are missing
>>from the Preble Co census 1860 on, and I haven't been able to locate death
>>or burial info. A recently discovered cuz said he thought they might have
>>gone to Iowa but no one has found them yet.
>>
>>Anyone know these folks?
>>
>>Jim Lewis, Seguin TX
>>
>>
>>
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