Oldest child and daughter of Angeline Smeigh and Daniel Shaffer.
Sister of Charles E. Shaffer and Alice M. Shaffer.
2nd wife of Samuel Sides.
Samuel had 3 wives (who are easily confused in the the many local news articles about "Mrs. Samuel Sides"):
1st wife was Cordilla Parthemore, married 1865, died 1895, leaving 6 of 7 children living in 1895.
2nd wife was Maud Shaffer, married 1896, died 1904. No children from this union.
3rd wife was Elizabeth, married 1908; her 2nd marriage, she was 62. No children from this union.
Maud was a schoolteacher in Port Royal, Juniata County, PA, where she lived from 1861-1896. She had a major health scare during the 1880's that she was not expected to recover from. Family called her brother Charles, a printer, back from the mid-West where he had ventured after graduation. When he arrived by train, a few days later, she had recovered.
After a move to Harrisburg with her sister Alice, after their mother had died, she married widower Samuel Sides in 1896. Maud inherited the care of the youngest children of Samuel and his first wife, Cordilla.
Maud, like her mother, her maternal aunt, and her sister, died of consumption. She passed away in 1904 at the home of her step-daughter, Flora Sides Houseman.
Sister of Charles E. Shaffer and Alice M. Shaffer.
2nd wife of Samuel Sides.
Samuel had 3 wives (who are easily confused in the the many local news articles about "Mrs. Samuel Sides"):
1st wife was Cordilla Parthemore, married 1865, died 1895, leaving 6 of 7 children living in 1895.
2nd wife was Maud Shaffer, married 1896, died 1904. No children from this union.
3rd wife was Elizabeth, married 1908; her 2nd marriage, she was 62. No children from this union.
Maud was a schoolteacher in Port Royal, Juniata County, PA, where she lived from 1861-1896. She had a major health scare during the 1880's that she was not expected to recover from. Family called her brother Charles, a printer, back from the mid-West where he had ventured after graduation. When he arrived by train, a few days later, she had recovered.
After a move to Harrisburg with her sister Alice, after their mother had died, she married widower Samuel Sides in 1896. Maud inherited the care of the youngest children of Samuel and his first wife, Cordilla.
Maud, like her mother, her maternal aunt, and her sister, died of consumption. She passed away in 1904 at the home of her step-daughter, Flora Sides Houseman.
Oldest child and daughter of Angeline Smeigh and Daniel Shaffer.
Sister of Charles E. Shaffer and Alice M. Shaffer.
2nd wife of Samuel Sides.
Samuel had 3 wives (who are easily confused in the the many local news articles about "Mrs. Samuel Sides"):
1st wife was Cordilla Parthemore, married 1865, died 1895, leaving 6 of 7 children living in 1895.
2nd wife was Maud Shaffer, married 1896, died 1904. No children from this union.
3rd wife was Elizabeth, married 1908; her 2nd marriage, she was 62. No children from this union.
Maud was a schoolteacher in Port Royal, Juniata County, PA, where she lived from 1861-1896. She had a major health scare during the 1880's that she was not expected to recover from. Family called her brother Charles, a printer, back from the mid-West where he had ventured after graduation. When he arrived by train, a few days later, she had recovered.
After a move to Harrisburg with her sister Alice, after their mother had died, she married widower Samuel Sides in 1896. Maud inherited the care of the youngest children of Samuel and his first wife, Cordilla.
Maud, like her mother, her maternal aunt, and her sister, died of consumption. She passed away in 1904 at the home of her step-daughter, Flora Sides Houseman.
Sister of Charles E. Shaffer and Alice M. Shaffer.
2nd wife of Samuel Sides.
Samuel had 3 wives (who are easily confused in the the many local news articles about "Mrs. Samuel Sides"):
1st wife was Cordilla Parthemore, married 1865, died 1895, leaving 6 of 7 children living in 1895.
2nd wife was Maud Shaffer, married 1896, died 1904. No children from this union.
3rd wife was Elizabeth, married 1908; her 2nd marriage, she was 62. No children from this union.
Maud was a schoolteacher in Port Royal, Juniata County, PA, where she lived from 1861-1896. She had a major health scare during the 1880's that she was not expected to recover from. Family called her brother Charles, a printer, back from the mid-West where he had ventured after graduation. When he arrived by train, a few days later, she had recovered.
After a move to Harrisburg with her sister Alice, after their mother had died, she married widower Samuel Sides in 1896. Maud inherited the care of the youngest children of Samuel and his first wife, Cordilla.
Maud, like her mother, her maternal aunt, and her sister, died of consumption. She passed away in 1904 at the home of her step-daughter, Flora Sides Houseman.
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