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Male William Shaffer Click to view William Shaffer in the family tree

William was born about 1800.  William's father was Adam Shaffer and his mother was Catherine Elizabeth Wotring.  His paternal grandparents are Theobold Shaffer and Catherine Kissinger; his maternal grandparents were Abraham Wotring and Maria Margaretha Troxell. He has seven brothers and three sisters, named Daniel, Samuel, Theobold, John, J. Adam, Jacob, Abraham, Elizabeth, Margaret and Susan.  He is the second youngest of the eleven children.


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