Shafer, Catherine Maria

Posted By: Mickey Raymer
Date: 20 November 2001

SOURCE: Unknown

Catherine Maria Shafer

Pleasant Hill - Catherine Maria Shafer was born in Germantown, Ohio on the sixth of December, 1827. At the age of twenty-one years, in 1848; she was married to Joseph Lawrence. Fifty-six years they together traveled life's pathway. In 1904 she was bereaved by the death of her husband. To them had been born eight children. Three died in childhood. Four daughters and one son remain. All reside in this community, being Mrs. A.J. Coate, of Pleasant Hill; Mrs. Keifer Cecil, of Troy; Mrs. John H. Branson, of Covington; Mrs. T. E. Coate of Muncie, Indiana; and J. C. Lawrence of Laura. Fifteen grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren complete the family circle.

"Mother" Lawrence was possessed of many of the sterling qualities of the pioneer. Beginning life in the unsubdued wilderness, she unwaveringly did her part in bringing about the improvements that now add so materially to our pleasures in life. Early she accepted the Christian life and bound herself to the United Brethren Church. Consistently she maintained her faith through life and especially in the last three years while she was confined to a bed of suffering. In this time she was faithfully attended by children, grandchildren, and friends, until her death on the ninth of October at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Branson - aged eighty five years, ten months and three days.

The funeral services were conducted at the Christian church in Pleasant Hill, by the pastor, Rev. Alva M. Kerr. Burial in the cemetery at that place.

NOTE: My maternal Grandfather's Grandmother. Her son, Joseph C. Lawrence, married Sallie Beane of the Beane family of Painter Creek.

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