When Henry Bert Shavers was born on 19 December 1892, in Texas, United States, his father, John Silas Shavers, was 35 and his mother, Mary Ann Leverett, was 25. He married Elfrieda Hunger Wessels on 27 June 1916, in Milam, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Milam, Texas, United States in 1935 and Justice Precinct 8, Milam, Texas, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 18 June 1967, in Temple, Bell, Texas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in San Gabriel, Milam, Texas, United States.
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Americanized form of Dutch Schavers, a patronymic from Schaver .
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