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Joseph Russell Shaffer
Evidence from genealogical records proves that the Shaffer family traveled to Utah in 1852. A child was born 30 August 1851 in Missouri, and the first documentation to place them in Utah was the birth of another child in October 1852.
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Joseph Russell Shaffer (1820 - 1901) Profile