This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Jh.2ADI/177.328 Message Board Post: My great grandfather was Alexander (Alex) Shafer (Schaffer) born in Fairfield Co.Ohio in 1841 I have not found his parents as he married in 1867 and he served in the civil War and of course he was of age that no one had to sign for him. I have hit a dead end or as they say a brick wall. Thanks Sidney