When Mary "Elizabeth" Shaffer was born on 4 December 1828, in Redbank Township, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Simon Petrus Shaffer, was 22 and her mother, Anna Margaret "Maggie" Himes, was 20. She married Benewell Stahlman on 13 March 1851, in Shannondale, Redbank Township, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Richland Township, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Warsaw, Warsaw Township, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. She died on 12 February 1917, in Warsaw Township, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Temple Cemetery, Hazen, Warsaw Township, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Historical Boundaries 1839: Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Americanized form of German Schäffer (see Schaffer 2), Schaffer 1, or Schäfer (see Schaefer ).
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