Shaffer, Jeremiah

SHAFFER, BARTOW

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Date: 12/3/2008 at 12:14:17

SHAFFER, Jeremiah
Farmer; Sec. 24; P. O. Lynnville; owns 168 acres of land, valued at $5,800; born in Harrison Co., Ohio, in 1819; moved to Van Buren Co., Iowa, in 1845; moved to where he now lives in 1864. Married Elizabeth BARTOW in 1840; she is a native of Ohio; their children are Mary, Nancy, William M., Catharine, John W. and Abraham L. ~ "Lynn Grove Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)