OBIT: Herman SHAFFER, 1913, Friedens, Somerset County, PA

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Shaffer, Herman

WELL KNOWN CITIZEN OF THE COUNTY DIED - Herman Shaffer, one of the oldest and 
most widely known residents of Friedens, died at his home on Sunday morning at 
6:20 o'clock. Mr. Shaffer succumbed to general debility super induced by his 
advanced age. Last December he celebrated his 81st birthday anniversary. The 
funeral of Mr. Shaffer was held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Friedens 
Lutheran Church, with interment in Friedens Cemetery. Mr. Shaffer was the son of 
the late Valentine and Christian (Gardner) Shaffer and was born on the old 
farmstead one and a half miles from Friedens, where he spent all but the last 
few years of his life and where he was married, 60 years ago, to Julia Winters, 
who became the mother of five children and who survives her husband, with four 
children. Some years ago Mr. Shaffer sold one-half the farm in fee, surface and 
mineral, to his eldest son, John W. Shaffer, of Stoyestown, retaining the other 
half. He then moved to a house in Friedens, where he and Mrs. Shaffer and their 
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Shaver, resided. Robert Shaffer was 
the one child to die before either of his parents. Surviving are these children: 
John W. noted above; Barton M., of Cleveland, O.; Ida B., wife of J. J. Shaver, 
and Lillian, widow of William P. Fite, of Somerset. Mr. Shaffer was a lifelong 
member of the Lutheran Church.

Meyersdale Commercial, Aug. 14, 1913