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/1348.1.1 Message Board Post: I do not know who John William Shaffer's father was . I just recently learned he was Benjamin's father . I think they all are from the Cumberland , MD. area , or Pennsylvania. Grandmother was Rhea Gertrude Shaffer Dgtr. of Benjamin & Mary ( ?) .Rhea had several siblings . John , Bessie (Elizabeth ) , Hazel ( Married name Wells). I think other siblings as well , whose names escape me at the moment.