Mays Family Tree - Person Sheet
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Birth Dateabt 1825
Birth PlaceUnion County, PA, USA
Residence Date1845
Residence PlacePike Township, Clearfield Co., PA, USA
Residence DateJan 1852
Residence PlaceCurwensville, Clearfield Co., PA, USA
Death Date27 Jan 1852
Burial Date29 Jan 1852
Cause of DeathBled To Death When A Falling Tree Struck The Log He Was Standing On
Misc. Notes
Died on Tuesday, January 27, 1852, David Shaffer, in the 27th year of his age.
Mr. Shaffer was a native of Union County, Pa., and became a resident of Pike township, Clearfield Co., in 1845.
At the time of his death he was engaged in getting out timber on the premises of his Father-in-law, George Ross, in company with three other men. He was standing on the top end of a timber stick, cutting it off, while two other men were engaged near by in felling a tree, when the tree began to fall one of the hands ran near to where Mr. Sheaffer stood, and stuck his double bitted axe into the timber stick upon which Mr. Sheaffer stood, and when the tree fell it struck across the top of the tree upon which Mr. Shaffer stood, and as the tree lay across a log, it broke where the tree struck it and that threw Mr. Sheaffer into the air, and as he fell his arm struck across the edge of his axe stuck in the stick, which cut his arm severely, separating the artery of the arm, (the Humerial Artery,) causing his death from the loss of blood, in about three hours from the time he received the wound.
Mr. Sheaffer was a prominent member of the Baptist church of Curwensville. Modest and retiring in his disposition, but faithful in the discharge of his duty, both as a husband, father and member of the church of Jesus Christ, and universally beloved by all his acquaintances - and he died as he lived full of faith and the Holy Ghost. He expressed no desire to live, but was wholly, resigned to the will of his Divine Lord, and died rejoicing in the hope of eternal life. In his death the wife has been bereaved of a kind and affectionate companion; the children of a kind father, and the church of one of its brightest ornaments. The funeral took place on Thursday the 29th inst., and was attended by a very large concourse of people; the services were conducted by Rev. S. Miles and J. R. Morris. Mr. Miles preached an excellent sermon on the occasion from Matthew 26th chapter and 44th verse. "Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as you think not the son of man cometh."
Family ID12686
Residence PlaceNew Millport, Clearfield, Co., PA, USA
Family ID12694