My wife's great-grandfather, James Kaldoo Shaffer, was a Methodist Episcopal minister in Stafford between 1882 and 1885. His obituary states that he had been seriously injured in a "runaway" ten years before he died (which points to the summer or fall of 1884 as the time of this incident). Although the obituary did not state the place of the accident, I am assuming it occurred somewhere near Stafford. (Although he had been a "circuit" minister early in his preaching career, I think that by 1884 preaching circuits had largely disappeared. The relevance of this comment is in figuring out the likelihood that the runaway actually occurred in or near Stafford.) The obituary I have for him was printed in the 1895 annual minutes of the East Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (which I believe would now be the North-East Conference of the United Methodist Church). The obituary states in part "Ten years ago he was seriously injured in a runaway. For a time it was thought that his injuries would prove fatal, but he slowly recovered strength, beginning a protracted meeting before he was able to walk without crutches or to stand during preaching. This meeting was wonderfully blessed of God. He told his wife, as health slowly returned to him, that he asked the Lord, if it should be his will, to spare him for ten years more of service. That was the time granted. Saturday evening, October 27, 1894, on his charge at Richmond Center, O., he retired in his usual health, planning to preach the next day. The morning of Sunday, October 28, they found him at rest, with a sweet smile on his face, the bed undisturbed by any sign of struggle, as though in some pleasant dream he had been called home." Right now that comment in his obituary is the only information I have about the accident, but I am very curious as to further details of what happened. If someone on the list can lead me to any resources (such as newspapers) which recorded this event, or to details of his three year stint as a minister in Stafford, I would gladly trade for research at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Rollie Littlewood