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Note: DOB: Firelands Pioneer v. XXI, Jan, 1920, p.2476/typed Shafer Family
DOM: estimate from children
DOD/Burial: Iowa Death Certificate 6-00036
1860 census, Camden, Lorain, OH: with mother Hannah.
1870 census, Monroe, Benton, IA: Shafer, George 31 farmer OH; Antoinette 29 keeping house OH; Elizabeth 6 OH; Cary (f) 4 IA; Clayton (m) 2 IA; Theodore [brother] 25 farmer OH; Harriet 20 keeping house OH.
1880 census, Benton Co., IA, film 1,254,327: Monroe Twp, 2/35/2/5: Shaffer, George 41 farmer OH; Neete 39 OH; Elmer E. 16 OH; Carrie R. 14 IA; Clayton 12 IA. Two doors away, Horace Bates and family, his nephew.
1885 IA census, Benton Co.: George W. Shafer 46 OH; Antoinette 44 OH; Elmer 21 OH; Carrie 19 IA; Clayton 17 IA.
1885 Landowner's Map of Benton Co., IA: Monroe Twp. (T85N R12W). George W. Shafer has the north half of section 23 and also the north half of the southeast quarter.
1895 IA census, Benton Co., IA: Shafer, George W. 56 OH; Nettie 54 OH; Linton, Isa M. 19 IA; Linton, Myron 16 IA; Shafer, Mabel 2 IA.
1900 census, Jackson, Benton, Iowa: Shafer, George W. head Sep 1838 61 M for 38y OH OH OH Occupation: n.g. (0-0-2) [unknown meaning); Nettie, wife Sep 1840 59 M 38y OH CT NY; Mabel A. grand-daughter Jan 1893 7 S IA OH IA.
1910 census, Monroe, Benton, IA ancestry.com p. 11 of 12: Shaffer, George W. 72 OH OH OH, Elizabeth M. 65 PA PA PA.
Obituary - inscribed 02-07-1911 VE Garrison:
Pioneer Resident Suddenly Called
George W. Shaffer, of Monroe Township, Found Dead in Bed Saturday Morning.
Last Saturday morning George W. Shaffer, one of the early pioneers of the county, who settled in Monroe township before the civil war, was found dead in bed. He was 74 years of age.
He retired at night apparently in his usual health, but on failing to arise Saturday morning his wife went to his bedside and found that he was dead. It was thought he had been dead for several hours. He was still living at his old home in Monroe township.
In the years of his active life he had always taken an active interest in the public affairs of the county. He was a strong republican and attended nearly every county convention of his party. He was a man of strong mentality and was a leader in his township.
He leaves a wife and two sons to mourn his sudden death.
Garrison Cem., Jackson Tnshp, Benton Co., IA, lot 174: Shafer, George W., b. Sept. 29, 1838 - Huron Co., OH - d. Feb. 3, 1911 - Benton Co., IA.
History of Benton Co., IA, Western Historical Co., Chicago, 1876, p. 595: "Shafer, G.W., farmer, Sec. 23; P.O. Garrison; born in Huron Co., Ohio, in 1839; removed to Benton Co. in 1863; has 210 acres of land, valued at $35 per acre. Married Annette Bronson in 1861; she was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1841; they have three children - Elmer E., Carrie E., Clayton A. Republican in politics. Enlisted in 2d Ohio Cavalry in 1861; skirmishing and running guerrillas; assisted in capturing several of Quantrell's men at Independence, Mo., was mustered out in 1863. Members of the Christian Church. Mr. Shafer came to Iowas in 1863 with $250; now has 210 acres of land, well improved, well fenced, has just completed a fine residence, and has accumulated a property by his industry and frugality worth $8,000 or more."
Pioneer Recollections, Harley Ransom, Historical Pub. Co., Vinton, IA 1941:p. 303: G.W. Shafer settled in 1863.
Garrison 1873-1973 Recollections of the Century (bookat the Benton Co. Hist. Soc. Archives), p. 101:
George W. Shafer
George W. Shafer - Pioneer Monroe Twp., Benton Co., Iowa farmer since 1863, was born in Huron Co., Ohio in 1838, of German Irish descent.
He was married to Annett Bronson in Ohio while in the Army during the the Civil War. She was born in Ohio and died in Monroe Twp. in 1904. During the last six months George was in service he was blind, resulting from sleeping on a pillow ofpoison oak boughs.
Their eldest son Elmer E. was born in Ohio in 1863 and, that same year, came with his parents to settle in Monroe Twp. at the east edge of Yankee Grove. In 1879 Geroge built a new home at this location.
Soon after coming to Iowa, George gathered all the young men in the community together and drilled them in preparation for the Army.
George and Annette's children were - Elmer E., Carrie and Clayton.
Elmer first married Anna Baker - 1866-1893 and had children - Lee, Clarence Ray and Mabel. The mother died soon after Mabel's birth. The farmed in Section 23, Monroe Twp. where Elmer raised pure-bred stock and seed potatoes. He was a first President of the Board of Directors of the garrison Co-op Creamery. His second marriage was to Elizabeth Gordonin 1894, who died in 1900. Children Bessie and George were born to this union. In 1905 he married Nellie Hatch. After Elmer's death in 1939 she retired to Vinton where she died in 1951. Their children are: Elsie E. who married a neighbor farmer Leslie Moore - son of a prominent Monroe Twp. farmer Fred and Ella Adler Moore. Fred was born in England and died in 1951. Ella was born in Ohio and retired to Vinton, after Fred's death, to live with her daughter Bess. She is 96 years of age in 1972. Elsie and Leslie, deceased, are the parents of Shirley J. Wax and Robert.
Lloyd Shafer married Gladys Jacoby who was killed in a train-car wreck in 1946. Their children are Raymond and Esther.
After the death of Annette, George Shafer married Mrs. Lizzie Rheder. He died in 1911 and is buried in the Garrison cemetery.
There are no descendents living in the Garrison area.
Elsie Shafer Moore (author of this vignette)
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