Horace Arthur Shafer

M, (31 October 1886 - 25 January 1974)
     Horace Arthur Shafer was born on 31 October 1886 at Eldred Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.1 He was the son of Ephraim Shafer and Melinda Koch. Horace Arthur Shafer married, at age 24, Margaret Dorothea Schaeffer, age 20, daughter of Jacob Thomas Schaeffer and Sarah Elizabeth Ulmer, on Tuesday, 27 December 1910.1 Horace Arthur Shafer died on 25 January 1974 at Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, at age 87 years, 2 months and 25 days.2 He was buried in the Blooming Grove Cemetery, located in Hepburn Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
     He Lived near Balls Mills, PA.

Written by Belinda Shafer Mosteller - Daughter. He was Farmer.

Children of Horace Arthur Shafer and Margaret Dorothea Schaeffer

Last Edited=26 May 2004

Citations

  1. [S22] Thomas J. S. Heim, The Fourth Generation of the Frederick Shafer Family in America (West Chester, Pennsylvania: n.pub., unknown publish date), p. 6.
  2. [S22] Thomas J. S. Heim, The Fourth Generation of the Frederick Shafer Family in America, p. 7.