ShafeKC wrote: > > Have good data on this John Sheaffer (Johan Schaefer) and his family who lived > in the South Middleton Twp., Cumberland County area, PA. Need further info. > on his parents and where from in Germany. [email protected] I hope this helps! A large group of settlers, in family units arrived at Swan Lake, Nicollet County, Minnesota in 1857 from Kenosha County, Wisconsin, where they had settled when they arrived from Germany in the 1850's. Among the first of these settlers were Johann Schafer b:1791, d: 3/31/1874 and his wife Marie Katherine (Lux) b:1/31/1801, d:3/11/1883. She was from Duppach, Germany. They were married in 1825. They arrived with there children John Peter, b:8/5/1826, Susanne, (mrs. Nicholas Sons) f: 1838, Mathias b: 8/28/1841 and D:11/27/1892, Barbara, (Mrs. Frederick Miller B:6/8/1845. Also accompanying them was another daughter Anne and her husband Pter Jutz and their son John, age two. If you need any other information let me know I'll see if I can help and please let me know any information you find! Mona Schaefer