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Surnames: Shaffer, Shafer, Shaefer
Classification: Query
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This is not my family but I did a quick look-up in census records. There were a lot of
families in Fairfield County, Ohio at this time, I counted over 200 found on a search on
Ancestry.com census records for the 1850 census. In 1850 census in Greenfield twp. page
362B in Fairfield County, Ohio in family of Samuel & Susanna Shaffer is a Mathew A.
age 9. In 1870 Union twp., page 294 in White county, Indiana is this same family of
Samuel & Susanna Shaffer is Alexander age 31 with also a Jane age 35. Could this be
your Alexander? Could this Jane also be his wife? If you think this is the wrong family I
can do some more checking.