I am going to give you a lead in answer to your question (referenced in your email below): try Henry Brown and Eve Donnelly from Shenandoah County VA. The names and families are in the ball park of time and place where you might find something. They might be the grandparents---I hae no idea. They had children: 8. GEORGE3 SHAFFER (JACOB2 SCHAEFFER, JR., JACOB1) was born 1772 in Shenandoah Co. Va.. He married ELIZABETH BROWN 29 Sep 1796 in Shenandoah Co. Va., daughter of HENRY BROWN and EVE DONNELLY. She was born 31 Mar 1778 in Shenandoah Co. Va.. ����� Children of GEORGE SHAFFER and ELIZABETH BROWN are: � i. ABSALON4 SHAFFER b. 12 Sep 1797, Shenandoah Co. Va.. ii. CATARINA SHAFFER b. 12 Dec 1799, Shenandoah Co. Va.. iii. LITTEN LYDIA SHAFFER b. 07 Oct 1801, Shenandoah Co. Va.. iv. SUSAN MARIA MARREI SHAFFER, b. 15 Oct 1803, Shenandoah Co. Va.. v. ABRAHAM SHAFFER b. 04 Jan 1806, Shenandoah Co. Va.. vi. ELISABETH SHAFFER b. 06 Oct 1807, Shenandoah Co. Va.. vii. HANNA SHAFFER b. 20 Dec 1809, Shenandoah Co. Va.. viii. GEORGE SHAFFER b. 30 Aug 1811, Shenandoah Co. Va.. ix. ODILLA SHAFFER, b. 03 Jun 1813, Shenandoah Co. Va.. x. JOHANNES SHAFFER b. 17 Oct 1816, Shenandoah Co. Va.. xi. HELLENA SHAFFER b. 20 Jan 1819, Shenandoah Co. Va.. xii. JACOB SHAFFER b. 20 Sep 1821, Shenandoah Co. Va. ################### 36. HIRAM CHESTER5 SHAFFER (JOHANNES4, FREDERICK3, JACOB2 SCHAEFFER, JR., JACOB1) He married MARGARET BROWN. ����� Child of HIRAM SHAFFER and MARGARET BROWN is: � i. SETH WARREN6 SHAFFER. If any of these are yours, contact me or Carol Cecil (from whom I got this list years ago). It may also come from "The Sheffers of Shenandoah County Virginia," by Charles Loeber, 1944, an extract from a Shaffer Family Reunion gathered to collect potential descendants' names for the Garret Fortune inheritance about then. (NOTE to all: I do not want any responses in regard to the Garret Fortune) I suspect you have some connections here on the Shaffer side and may already know it. I can go back more with this information as you see the numbers associated indicate earlier ancestors. Rev. Gregg S. Shaffer b 1952 Wood Co OH Harold O Shaffer b 1920 Wood Co OH + Phyllis Ann Speaker b 1927 Wood Co OH Herbert Lawrence b 1895 Gallia Co OH +Anna Dadyn Cheatwood 1899 Gallia Co OH Franklin Pierce Shaffer b 1856 Gallia Co OH +Margaret Jane Roach b 1856 Jackson Co OH Michael Shaffer Jr b 1803 Wythe Co VA +Emily McCoy b 1818 Wythe Co VA Michael Shaffer Sr b 1757 Shenandoah Co VA +Hannah Miller b 1761 Franklin Co VA emigrant Jacob Shaffer b 1728 Hesse-Darmstadt Germany + Maria ____ b ca 1732 Germany or PA) Jacob Shaffer Germany + Rosina Nina Keller Germany ***************email from Patricia Bettis >>>>These were marriages in Carroll Co. IN between Shafers who came from<BR>Shenandoah , to Greene Co TN. and Brown men and women..assume they are<BR>brothers and sisters. Seeking name of any of the fathers of these Brown<BR>family members.<BR><BR>They all seemed to go to IN before 1840 where they married these Brown men<BR>and women.... George N Shafer m Mary Brown c 1830 Catherine Shafer m David M Brown in Carroll CO IN 1840 Hiram Shafer m Margaret Brown 1843 Carroll CO IN My special interest is Hiram Shafer and Margaret my gg parents. Happy to share any information on the Shafers.. Patricia Bettis __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/