SHAFER, WILLIS, SEARFOSS, HESS, WOODRING, FRANKENFIELD, BLAHUT, BLACK James SHAFER b.abt 1811 married Mary Unk (poss Garrison) b.abt 1814-16 their son, Henry W. SHAFER b.1850 d.29 Mar 1936 buried Rippletown Cem, Alberts, PA married 1873 Mary Ellen WILLIS b.1855 d.Oct 1944 buried same. They owned the family homestead in Mountain Top, PA. Henry lost one of his hands in an accident involving steam from a locomotive. Their children: 1.Jonathan W. b.1875 d.unk 2.Nora V. b.1876 d.unk 3.George B. b.1879 d.unk 4.Walter E. b.1880 d.1923, married Elizabeth "Lizzy" SEARFOSS child, Lewis Willis SHAFER b.22 Apr 1903 Wilkes Barre, PA d.4 Jul 1990 Newfane, NY married 22 Oct 1925 Hazleton, PA Lillian Mae HESS b. 5 Jan 1898 Freeland, PA d.10 Dec 1986 Newfane NY child Edith Mae SHAFER b.19 Jan 1928 Hazleton, PA d.16 Jan 2000 Newfane, NY married Willard WOODRING b.2 May 1926 Hazleton, PA d.29 Oct 1973 Newfane, NY. 5.Charles Franklin "Frank" b.21 Aug 1882 Ashley, PA d.May 1970 Zarephath, NJ married Mary Ethel FRANKENFIELD b.9 Mar 1888 Nuangola, PA d.Jan 1977, they were missionaries for the Church of the Pillar of Fire and relocated 1918 from Mountain Top, PA to Zarephath, NJ. Five children born in PA: Charles Elson b.1907 died at 2 mos Carlisle b.1 May 1908 Mountain Top, PA d.8 Aug 1967 buried Bound Brook Cem, NJ married 1932 Kathryn Mary BLAHUT b.15 Oct 1909 Sonman, PA d.6 Mar 1982 Bridgewater, NJ buried same, 1 child Kenneth Melvin SHAFER b.22 Oct 1938 Somerville, NJ d.8 Oct 2000. Dau Z. b. 1911, living Dau I. b. 1913, living Olin Franklin b.28 Jan 1918 d.abt 1974 VA married Muriel BLACK, four children living. 6.Lottie b.abt 1885 d.abt 1966 7.Ernest b.1888 d.unk successful chiropractor. Looking for connections. hanks, Kat in VA Also seeking: Bittenbender, Coombs, Davis, Evans, Green, Holmes, Pearce/Peirce, Piksa, Vandermark, Weis NJ/NY/PA.