Margaret Wolfanger

Notes:

Mrs. Margaret Shaver lived to be 90 years old. She was born in Naples, a daughter of William and Harriet Wolfanger who later moved to the Wayland Cohocton area. She married Peter Shaver of East Wayland, and they lived in Springwater, Mrs. Shaver moving to Wayland after her husband’s untimely death in 1906. She died June 18, 1960 in Rochester where she had been hospitalized. Mrs. Shaver was buried beside her husband in East Wayland Cemetery. The obituary mentioned survivors as a daughter, Mrs. Elmer Pragle of Rochester; two sisters, Mrs. Hattie Fox of Wayland, and Mrs. Alice Shepard of Geneva; three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. A son, Arthur Shaver, had predeceased her.
(Naples Record, June 22, 1960)

Family/Spouse: Peter Shaver. Peter was born in 1861; died on 23 May 1906; was buried in East Wayland Cemetery, Steuben County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: Abt 1917; World War I (US)

Notes:

Mr. Arthur Shaver was a lifelong resident of Wayland, a member of the First Evangelical Church and the I.O.O.F. He died in the Veterans’ Hospital in Bath in May 1940. His wife, the former Grace Totten survived him. Mr. Shaver had served in France during World War I, and was active in Wayland’s Theodore R. Van Tassell American Legion Post, whose members formed an escort of honor for his funeral procession. The W.H. Gunlocke Chair Co., his employer, closed its plant for the afternoon of his funeral so that fellow workers could attend. Burial was in the Village Cemetery.
(Wayland Register May 9, 1940)