This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Schaefer, Kessler Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SFB.2ACI/2452.329.646.2.1 Message Board Post: George Schaefer was my g-g-grandfather. he died 1919 on Schenley rd. my great-uncle lives there still in the same house. George was a coach-builder for the Pa Railroad but died at home. i don't know about the crushing incident. My grandfather told me that George was blind as an old man. he was 8 when George (his grandfather died). George's father was Christian Schaefer-a baker from Germany and his mother was Dora Kessler from Switzerland. They had lived at 247 Pa ave in Baltimore city. I'm trying to find out where in Germany and Switzerland that they came from. I think Christian was from Hesse-cassel and my uncle says that he remembers his father saying something about that.