This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3hGBAEB/1343.1.3 Message Board Post: Hello, Emma! As far as I know, my Shaffers/Shafers/Schaffers lived only in Jackson County, Indiana, mainly in the townships of Brownstown, Grassy Fork, Driftwood, and Salt Creek. Mary and Christian Shaffer came to America in about 1837 from Hanover. Mary was born in 1790 and died in Driftwood Twp. in early 1878. Christian died in 1840. They had four children, one of whom was Harman (Harmon) Shaffer who was married to Eliza Hamanhouse in 1845 in Jackson County. (Another son may have been John Christian Shaffer.) Their daughter Elizabeth C. Shaffer, born about 1847 in Jackson Co., married Walker Tunston Pruett in 1863. She also had a brother Harman Henry who went by Henry and who was born about 1850.. WAlker and Elizabeth had a daughter Sarah Elizabeth Pruett, born in 1865, possibly in Bedford, Lawrence Co., Indiana, who was my Great-grandmother. Does any of this ring a bellk?