Martha
Price
Born in England
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
George Washington Schaeffer
— married
9 Mar 1872 in Girardville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
Mary Schaeffer, Annie Schaeffer, William Schaeffer, Thomas Jefferson Schaeffer, James Garfield Schaeffer, Frank Schaeffer, John Schaeffer, Martha (Schaeffer) Umlauf, George Washington Schaeffer, Jesse Major Schaeffer and Mabel Schaeffer
Died
at age 70
in Locustdale, Conyngham Township, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Sep 2022
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Biography
Census
1910 Conyngham township, Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA.[1]
- Most likely Locustdale
- Martha Shaeffer, 59 widow 11/7 children alive Eng Eng E immigrated in 1867
- Thomas Shaeffer 32 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Eng
- James Shaeffer 30 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Eng
- John Shaeffer 26
- George Shaeffer 19
- Jess Shaeffer 17
- John Umlauf, son-in-law 27 m/3yr Pennsylvania
- Martha Umlauf, daughter 22 2/1 child alive in 1910 Pennsylvania Eng Pennsylvania
- Frank Umlauf, gr son 1 5/12
- Helen Shaeffer, gr. daughter 6
- Burdell Shaeffer, gr daughter 15
- Note: 2 doors away living with the William Fennessy family is Martha's son-in-law William Herbert, boarder, 36, widowed, Lamar Herbert, boarder, 3
I think William Fennessy's wife Lizzie is a sister to William Herbert.
1920 Conyngham Township, Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA.[2]
- Locustdale- Lower Road
- Martha Schaffer, 71 widow Eng Eng Eng
- John Schaffer, 33 son Pennsylvania Eng Eng
- Burdella Schaffer, 25 daughter (really granddaughter)
- Helen Schaffer, 16 daughter (really granddaughter)
- Lamont Herbert, 13 grandson
- NOTE: Next door Lamont's father, William Herbert, lives w/ Fennessy family
Buried Citizens Cemetery, Lavelle, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA.[3]
Marriage Primitive Methodist Church, Girardville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MG87-M8B : accessed 12 April 2023), Martha Shaeffer, Conyngham, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 19, sheet 16A, family 202, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1334; FHL microfilm 1,375,347.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNM8-7JR : 3 February 2021), Martha Schaffer, 1920.
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44441402/martha-schaffer: accessed 12 April 2023), memorial page for Martha Price Schaffer (6 Jun 1850–7 May 1921), Find A Grave: Memorial #44441402, citing Citizens Cemetery, Lavelle, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Joanne Gross Vaughn (contributor 46482187).
- See also:
- EARLY PENNSYLVANIAN HISTORY published by Joanne Gross Vaughan, Girardsville, Pennsylvania U.S.A.
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