Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: James H. Shaffer    
                Born: ca 1827              in Virginia  1
              Census: 1870                 in Union District, Preston Co, WV  
          Occupation: 1870                 retail merchant  1
              Father:
              Mother:
                Wife: Amelia Wotring   2  
                Born: ca 1836              in Virginia  1
              Census: 1870                 in Union District, Preston Co, WV  
              Father:
              Mother:
           F Child 1: Olive Virginia Shaffer      
       Also known as: Olive V. Shafer 3
                Born: Oct-  -1852          in Preston Co, (W)VA  3,4 (see note 1)
                Died: Dec- 3-1919          in Baltimore, MD  5
              Buried:                      in Maplewood (aka Kingwood) Cemetery, Kingwood, Preston Co, WV  6
             Resided:                      in Aurora, Preston Co, WV  7
              Census: 1880, 1900, 1910     in Union District, Preston Co, WV  
             Resided: 1872                 in Preston Co, WV  
              Census: 1870                 in Union District, Preston Co, WV  
             Husband: John A. Lantz  b. Sep-  -1848  d. 1921  
             Married: Apr- 4-1872          in West Union, Doddridge Co, WV  3

Sources:
(1) 1870 Census, Preston County, WV. 
(2) Death record of daughter. 
(3) Preston County Marriage Records, Kingwood, WV, http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11463329&Type=Marriage. 
(4) Headstone (year only) 
(5) West Virginia Deaths Index, 1853-1973 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(6) Findagrave.com. 
(7) Oren Frederic Morton & J. R. Cole, A History of Preston County, West Virginia, 1913/1914 (digitized by Google Books), 
p. 735. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Birth date given in 1900 Census as Oct 1850, while age 26 in the 1880 Census
would put it in about 1854.  Age 19 in her March 1872 marriage record conforms
to the 1852 date on her headstone.







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