This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shafer, Rosseter, Kistner, Thompson, Skillings, Orr Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFC.2ACI/1518 Message Board Post: Michael W. Shafer Michael Walburn Shafer, son of Michael Walburn and Matilda Pownell Shafer, was born at Downsville, in the town of Dunn, Dunn county on March 25, 1864. He grew to manhood on the farm where they first settled and at the age of 25 was married to Mellie C. Rosseter March 25, 1889 who survives. To this union was born six children, three sons, three daughters, Rosella, Mrs. Chas Kistner Downsville; Abbie, Mrs. Herbert Kistner, Irvington; Nellie, Mrs. Shirley Thompson, Downsville; Parker, St. Paul; Ernest, Downsville; and Delbert, Portland, Ore. Also surviving are 26 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Mary Skillings, Long Prairie, Minn., and one half sister, Mrs. Chase Orr, Eau Clair, and a host of relatives and friends. He served on the town and school board for a number of years and for 23 years operated the pickle factory for Reid Murdock and Co., at Downsville until poor health forced him to retire one year ago, at the age of 81. He lived all his life on the farm on which he was born. he celebrated his 82nd birthday and their 58th wedding anniversary, Monday, March 25, and passed away Tuesday evening, April 2 at his home in Downsville. Funeral services were held Friday, April 5 at the Farmers Union Funeral Home, Menomonie and the Lutheran Church on Rose Hill at Downsville, Rev. John M. Woerth officiating. Six grandchildren were pallbearers: Floyd, Stanley, Lester and Charles Shafer, Chester and Darell Kistner. Interment was in Rose Hill cemetery. The Dunn County News Menomonie, Wisconsin April 10, 1946