Joseph
P.
Shafer
Born in Nassau, Germany
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Margaret (Unknown) Shafer
— married
[date unknown] in Texas [uncertain]
Descendants [uncertain] 
Father of
Anna N (Shafer) Lawhon, Elizabeth (Shafer) Adams, Joseph Peter Shafer and William Antonio (Shafer) Schafer
Died
at age 35
in Dos Cabezas, Cochise, Arizona Territory, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 12 Jul 2013
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Biography
- Joseph came to St Louis from Nassau, Germany to work for the Anhueser Busch Brewery. He was a stone mason. They went to St Jo, Missouri to join a wagon train to California (for gold). They stopped in Dos Cabezas to earn money to go on to California. He got a job as stone mason at Ft Bowie. They homesteaded a ranch on the west side of Apache Pass and that is where he died.
- Fact: Burial (1885) Dos Cabezas, Cochise, Arizona, United States
- Fact: Census (1880) Dos Cabezos, Pima, Arizona, United States
Sources
- 1880 Census: "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH2H-Z2X : 12 August 2017), Joseph Shafer, Dos Cabezos, Pima, Arizona, United States; citing enumeration district ED 8, sheet 298A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0036; FHL microfilm 1,254,036.
- Burial: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVJ-4QR9 : 13 December 2015), Joseph P. Schafer, 1885; Burial, Dos Cabezas, Cochise, Arizona, United States of America, Dos Cabezas Pioneer Cemetery; citing record ID 18656956, Find A Grave: Memorial #18656956.
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Genia DeZonia
Joseph came to St Louis from Nassau, Germany to work for Anhuaser Busch Brewery. He was a stone mason. They went to St Jo, Missouri to join a wagon train to California (for gold). They stopped in Dos Cabezas to earn money to go on to California. He got a job as stone mason at Ft Bowie. They homesteaded a ranch on the west side of Apache Pass and that is where he died.
posted 12 Jul 2013 by Genia DeZonia
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