Magdaline Shaver 
Magdaline was born about 1715 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Magdaline's father was Michael Schaeffer and her mother was Anna Marie. Her paternal grandfather was Balthasar Schaeffer. She had two brothers and a sister, named Georg Bartholomew, Paulus and Barbara. She died after 1747.General Notes
Alias:<ALIA> Magdalene or Magdalan /Shaffer/
Some sources list her birth in about 1730 in Switzerland.
According to Jesse Byran in his "Whetstone Genealogy" paper: " Jacob
Stuckey married Magdalene Shaffer, daughter of Michael and Annie Marie
Schaffer.
The Lea Kersting papers state that Magdalene Shaffer was a granddaughter
of Balthasar Shaffer of Baden Wuetemburg who was a religious dissident
who immigrated in 1708 and settled at Tulpehocken Township, Berks County,
Pennsylvania.
‌Magdaline and Johan Jacob were married in a religious ceremony in 1740 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They had three sons and three daughters, named Jacob, Abraham, Michael, Elizabeth, Margaret and Sarah Susanna.
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Children
Abraham Stookey
Abraham was born in 1742 in Hampshire County, Virginia or Hagerstown, Maryland. He died at the age of 60 in 1802 in Hardy County, West Virginia (now Grant County).
Michael Stooky
Michael was born about 1744 in Virginia. He died in 1783 in South Branch of the Potomac River, Virginia (now West Virginia).
Margaret Stooky
Margaret was born in 1747. She died at the age of 69 on June 1st, 1816 in Ross County, Ohio.
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