EDWARD SCHAFROTH

SCHAFROTH

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/21/2020 at 12:18:34

EDWARD SCHAFROTH, a farmer on section 27, Nodaway township, (post-office Nodaway),, was born in Monroe county, Ohio, march 26, 1856, a son of John and Elizabeth Schafroth, natives of Switzerland. They had several children, two of whom were soldiers in our last war and are now prominent citizens of Jasper and Mercer townships. Another one of the children is Mrs. Fred Walter, of Nodaway township.

Edward, our subject, was left an orphan at the age of seven or eight years, and for several years made his home with Henry Walter, his brother-in-law, an esteemed citizen of Mercer township. He was brought up to the work of the farm. The first land he owned was in that township, a tract of forty acres. After a time he sold that and purchased eighty acres of land, where he now lives - good land. He occupies a frame cottage, on a pleasant building site, surrounded by shade-trees, etc., and the farm is well supplied with all the modern conveniences. In politics Mr. Shafroth is a Democrat, and in respect to religion he and his wife belong to the German Evangelical Church.

He was married December 7, 1880, to Miss Lizzie, a daughter of John Hedinger. Her father was born in the canton of Berne, Switzerland, November 24, 1835, a son of Rudolph and Mary Hedinger, and emigrated to this country, locating in Monroe county, Ohio, at the age of nineteen years, and in 1869 he came to Nodaway township, Adams county.

He was married, at Wheeling, West Virginia, May 28, 1863, to Elizabeth Graf, a native of Switzerland, a daughter of John and Lena Graf. Mr. and Mrs. Schafroth have had three children: Henry Lewis, Clarence A. and Hulda May.