This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shaffer Shafer Yates Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3hGBAEB/1471 Message Board Post: I am searching for information on the background of Lucy Ann Shaffer. She was born near Edwardsville in Madison County, IL about 1843, and married Michael Delves Yates 31 MAR 1855 or 1859 in Madison County, IL. She had three children: George (died young) Annie Laura b 1860, and Mary A b 1861. She died sometime after Mary was born in 1861 and before December 1863. Her parents were from Pennsylvania. Because there are several Shaffer/Shafer families in the area, I have not been able to determine who her parents are, or where she was buried. Her husband remarried and he and his family are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, however I don't know if Lucy was buried there as well or with her parents. Does anyone have information on this person? My grandfather has done extensive research on our family's genealogy however this is the one area lacking. He is in his mid eighties. I would very much like to help him further this branch of our tree. Thank you to anyone who can help.