On Mon, 25 May 1998 10:57:44 -0400 (EDT) Mark Shaffer <[email protected]> writes: >Jacob m. Sarah JINKS, b. 1807, 1829 and had 8 children. >Jacob d. there in 1877, Sarah in 1891. You wouldn't know who those 8 children are, would you? My great great grandfather, George Philip Schaffer, was son of a fellow named Jacob, but I don't know who Jacob's wife was, or where they were from, though my great aunts, granddaughters of George, say that our Schaffer line is Pennsylvania Dutch. My great uncle -- brother of the great aunts -- and that our original Schaeffer ancestor -- possibly also named Jacob -- came over from Prussia in the mid-1700s. My great uncle, says that George's wife (Mary Louise Miller; she died in 1888 in what's now South Dakota and was buried on "an Indian reservation") was the daughter of either Cherokee or Creek woman (Rachel Hildebrand, daughter of Robert), and the great aunts get really *tense* about this little tidbit. And it does makes me wonder, especially when the great aunts' knowledge of the family ends with George. All they will say of the family before George is that "They're *all* Pennsylvania Dutch!" Oh, and George Philip Schaffer died Sept 22, 1913, in Tacoma, Washington, at the age of 63. Lisa [email protected] http://www.escargot.com/lisap _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]