Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: John SHEAFFER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 15 Oct 1756 b
  • Death: 28 Oct 1820 d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Martin SHEAFFER Birth: Abt 1728 Death: 1790 in Earl Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
    • Mother:
  • Margaret GROFF Birth: Abt 1730

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Polly Mary SHEAFFER
  2. Elizabeth SHEAFFER
  3. Rebecca SHEAFFER
  4. Cyrus SHEAFFER
  5. Leah SHEAFFER
  6. Nancy SHEAFFER
  7. John SHEAFFER
  8. Rachel SHEAFFER
  9. Magdalena SHEAFFER Birth: 20 Oct 1793 Death: 29 Oct 1858

Bibliography
  1. Groff, Christian Franz, Hans Groff Chart, 1864. Paradise, PA: Samuel S Wenger, 1979. Available at Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: GroffCF GROFF Chart].
  2. Groff, Clyde L, Walter B Groff, Jane Evans Best, The Groff Book, Ronks, PA: Groff History Associates, 1985. NYPL APV (Groff) 86-1589 v1. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: GroffCL GROFF p[0-9]*].
  3. Wenger, Samuel S, The Wenger Book, Lancaster, PA: Pennsylvania German Heritage, 1978. NYPL APV (Wenger) 86-601. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: WengerSS WENGER p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: GroffCL GROFF p45],
parents:
[Ref: GroffCF GROFF Chart, GroffCL GROFF p45]
Martin SHEAFFER & Christina GROFF [Ref: WengerSS WENGER p1063]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: GroffCL GROFF p45]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth MYERS
child:
[Ref: GroffCL GROFF p45]
Research Notes:



Pedigree of John SHEAFFER
 /-----Martin SHEAFFER
John SHEAFFER
|                                             /-----Hans GRAF
|                                    /-----Jakob GRAF
|                                   |         \-----Elsbeth PETER
|                           /-----Marx GRAF
|                          |        |         /-----Jacob SPORRI
|                          |         \-----Anna SPORRI
|                  /-----Hans GROFF
|         /-----Samuel GROFF
|        |        |                           /-----Peter KUNDIG
|        |        |                  /-----Jorg KUNDIG
|        |        |         /-----Hans Jagli KUNDIG
|        |        |        |         \-----Barbel HUFFELBERG
|        |         \-----Susanna KENDIG
|        |                 |         /-----Martin MEILI
|        |                  \-----Elsbeth MEILI
|        |                           \-----Barbara BAR
 \-----Margaret GROFF
          \-----Christina HUBER



Descendants of John SHEAFFER
1. John SHEAFFER m. Elizabeth MYERS
m. Elizabeth MYERS father: Christian MYERS mother: Mary ERISMAN