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From: marci <>
Subject: Re: [INSWITZE] 1870 Census - SHAFER/SHAVER, WORDEN & REAGAN
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:01:41 -0700 (PDT)
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Valerie, I looked on Ancestry.com & found this:

1870 census for Pleasant twnship, Switzerland co.,IN
page 2
Shafer - David 62 farm laborer KY
Elizabeth 58 IN
Mary C. 20 IN
Aldie C. 18 IN
Edward 16 IN
Bessie 12 IN
William 2 IN
page 1
Ragan - William 35 farm laborer IN
Rebecca 30 IN
I tried many ways to find Francis Warden but couldn't find anybody even close living in the same town. There were a couple of close matches in Missouri though. Without having any more info on him, I can't help ya. Hope this helps though! Marci

wrote:
Does anyone have access to the 1870 Census for Switzerland Co. I am looking
a family...DAVID and ELIZABETH SHAFER/SHAVER or SHAFFER should be the
parents with teenage children probably and hopefully with a 1 or 2 year old named
Bill or William in the household that is their grandchild. If anyone finds
them I would love to have all the names in that household with ages and
birthplaces.

I am also looking for right around them, their daughter Rebecca Shaffer who
by 1870 was married to BILL REAGAN...they should be in a household by
themselves.

Then also, not too far there should be someone named FRANCIS MARION WARDEN
or WORDEN born about 1850 so he'd be about 20. He may still live with his
parents at this point because at some point after 1870, he marries one of David
and Elizabeth Shafer's daughters, Mary Caroline Shafer, who I hope you find in
the David Shafer household.

The little Bill age 2 in the Shafer household was brought to Missouri at age
14 by his aunt Rebecca and Uncle Bill Reagan. Bill Shafer's mother, Mary
Shafer, who later married Francis Warden and came to Missouri and had more
children, so all these families are intertwined.

If anyone could help me with this I would be very grateful. I checked the
usgenweb site and 1870 census is not listed on the Switzerland County webpage
as having been transcribed yet. Thanks MUCH!

Valerie in Kansas

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