Born in Hamilton, Wentworth, Upper Canada
Ancestors 
Daughter of George Shaffer
and Jane (Spragge) Shafer
Sister of
Joshua Shafer, David E Shafer, William K Shafer, Daniel K Shafer and Dorothy Ann (Shafer) Dawdy
Wife of
Abraham Tiffany Shafer
— married
about 1850 in Canada West
Wife of
Jacob Teeple
— married
Apr 1881 in Glanford, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada
Wife of
William Dawdy
— married
23 May 1883 in Ancaster, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada
Descendants 
Mother of
Harriet Ann Shafer, Alyce Shafer, Elizabeth Shafer, George Alfred Shafer, Ethelinda Jane (Shafer) Atkinson, Joseph Lorenzo Shafer, Emeranda Catherine (Shafer) Teeple, Lucretia Levina (Shafer) Finch, Margaret Matilda (Shafer) Benedict, Emily A Shafer and Ina Josephine (Shafer) Toffelmire
Died
at about age 53
in Brant, Ontario, Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 8 Apr 2013
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Biography
Sarah married her first cousin Abraham Shafer in about 1850. By 1881 she was a widow and married the octogenarian Jacob Teeple. Jacob died the following year and in 1883, Sarah married William Dawdy.
Sarah died from Bright's disease in 1887 and her husband William subsequently married her spinster sister Dorothy.
Sources
- 1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Glandford, Wentworth County, Canada West (Ontario); Schedule: A; Roll: C_11758; Page: 11; Line: 27.
- 1881 Census of Canada, Glanford, Wentworth South, Ontario; Roll: C_13256; Page: 29; Family No: 128.
- Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928, Archives of Ontario; Series: MS932; Reel: 38, Wentworth, 1881, pg. 2 of 228.
- Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928, Archives of Ontario; Series: MS932; Reel: 45, Wentworth, 1883, pg. 42 of 227.
- Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947, Archives of Ontario; Series: MS935; Reel: 46, Brant, 1887.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Temi Neilson for creating WikiTree profile Shafer-390 through the import of me_2013-04-04.ged on Apr 5, 2013.
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