Shaver, Wm.

SHAVER, WERTZE, HALLER, THOMPSON

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/12/2013 at 08:33:22

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

SHAVER, WM.—Jefferson Twp—pg 971. Farmer, section 10, P.O. Belle Plaine. Was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1821, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in farming till 1854, when he came to Iowa and located in Muscatine county, where he farmed till 1858, and then came to this county and settled where he now lives and owns 165 acres of well improved land; also, owns eight acres of timber land in Tama county. Mr. S. was married, in December, 1844, in Pennsylvania, to Miss Mary Wertze, a native and resident of the same State. They have had five children: Susan J. (now the wife of M. Haller), Sarah E. (now the wife of Calvin Thompson, of Iowa), Peter W. (married), John T. and Chancy Eldora. Death has taken five from their flock: Mary Ann, Elizabeth, William, James and Catharine A.