Phyllis Anne Hiltner
1941 - 2010 (69 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Phyllis Anne Hiltner was born on 18 Mar 1941 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio (daughter of William Albert Hiltner and Ruth Kreider); died on 06 Sep 2010 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Notes:
Dr. Phyllis Anne “Anne” (Hiltner) Baer, PhD (1941-2010)
Education: Reed College, B.S.; Oregon State University, PhD - Physical Chemistry.
Occupation: Professor, Researcher, Author
Married Dr./Professsor Eric Baer, PhD in 1999.
BIO: Anne Hiltner, Case Western Reserve’s first female professor of engineering and an internationally recognized scientist and engineer, died Monday after a courageous battle with illness. She was 69.
“Our campus has lost a remarkable academic leader,” President Barbara R. Snyder said. “As a woman in the sciences and engineering, Professor Hiltner’s entire career served as an inspiration to others. As a researcher of extraordinary ingenuity and accomplishment, she transformed her field. Her impact on the University, and on students and colleagues worldwide, cannot be overstated. We will miss her.”
Professor Hiltner came to the University in 1967, after earning a doctorate in physical chemistry from Oregon State University. She served as a research associate for one year with chemistry professor Irvin M. Krieger, and then joined the laboratory of professor Eric Baer, who was chairman of the Department of Macromolecular Science at the time. The connection with professor Baer proved fortuitous, as the pair forged a powerful scientific collaboration that persisted to the present. They also discovered personal compatibility, marrying in 1999.
“The dream of every faculty member is to try harder, harder,” Baer said. “She always climbed mountains.”
From the very beginning, Baer recalled, his colleague was committed to excellence. Whether working in the laboratory, writing papers or advising graduate students, Hiltner remained laser-focused. “She was a projects person,” Baer said.
In 1974, Hiltner became the University’s first female member of the engineering faculty when she became an assistant professor of macromolecular engineering. Seven years later she founded the Center for Applied Polymer Research (CAPRI), an organization that encouraged collaboration across disciplines and ultimately laid the groundwork for the program that she considered her greatest achievement: receipt of a 10-year, $40 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Center (STC), the Center for Layered Polymeric Systems (CLiPS).
The NSF received more than 160 applications for STC funding, and gave awards to six. CLiPS is the university’s first and only STC, and involves several other university partnerships nationwide as well as collaboration with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.
“The STC made her feel she had reached to the top of Everest,” Baer said. “She really reached the pinnacle of her career.”
Over her career, Professor Hiltner published nearly 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and received multiple honors from professional scientific organizations. She was a Fellow of the American Chemical Society’s Division of Polymeric Materials, the American Institute for Medical Biological Engineering, and the High Polymer Physics Division of the American Physical Society.
In 2001, Professor Hiltner was the recipient of the American Chemical Society’s Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and Engineering. In 2004, Case Western Reserve named her the Herbert Henry Dow Professor of Science and Engineering. That same year, the Society of Plastics Engineers’ Thermoplastic Materials and Foam Division presented Professor Hiltner its annual outstanding achievement award. In 2008, she received the American Chemical Society’s Award in Applied Polymer Science. In announcing the honor, the society cited Professor Hiltner’s pioneering contributions in understanding the connections between hierarchical structure and properties of polymers, their blends and composites.
Even with all of the recognition, Baer said, “her greatest joy was her involvement with the graduate students. She loved the creative, productive side of her work.”
Hiltner did not want formal remembrances or donations made in her name, Baer said. The greatest tribute others can make to Hiltner, he explained, is to continue her creative mission through their academic work.
• http://blog.case.edu/case-news/2010/09/10/pioneering_engineer_professor_anne_hiltner_dies
• Obituary - Phyllis Anne Hiltner: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/phyllis-hiltner-obituary?pid=145142059&view=guestbook
• Arrangements under the direction of Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz, Cleveland Heights, OH.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188182670/phyllis-anne-hiltner
Non-Cemetery Burial
2. 
William Albert Hiltner was born on 27 Aug 1914 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio (son of John Nicholas Hiltner and Ida Levina Schafer); died on 30 Sep 1991 in University of MI Hospital, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan. Other Events:
- Occupation: Professor of Astro Physics
- Census: 1950, Williams Bay, Walworth County, Wisconsin
Notes:
William Albert Hiltner, PhD, DSc (hon) - (1915-1991)
Distinguished Astronomer, Professsor, Researcher, Engineer, Author (Astronomical Techniques, Photometric Atlas of Stellar Spectra, et al)
BIO: William Albert “Al” Hiltner was born on August 27, 1914 on his parents' farm in North Creek, Ohio, some 45 miles southwest of Toledo. He received his early education in the one room school house that served this farm community. Al acquired his interest in astronomy while still very young, apparently from an amateur astronomer who lived near the family farm. He purchased a small telescope and was disappointed when he found that Vega still looked like a "star" despite the magnification afforded by the telescope. Al graduated from a small high school in a graduating class of 17 in 1932.
The following year he entered the University of Toledo where he majored in physics and math. It was in his senior year that he decided to make astronomy his life work. Commenting on that choice many years later Al said, "One makes a decision to do astronomy when one is helpless to prevent it!" He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toledo in 1937 and started graduate studies in astronomy at the University of Michigan. This was not the end of his interest in Toledo, where he frequently spent his weekends until he married Ruth Kreider, a former classmate. He returned again to Toledo 30 years later to accept an honorary DSc. degree from this, his first alma mater.
At the University of Michigan Al obtained an MS degree in 1938 and a PhD in astrophysics in 1942. His thesis research was on the spectra of Be stars, with emphasis on determining color temperatures through accurate spectrophotometry. For this research he and Robley Williams constructed the University of Michigan microphotometer. Later they published the Photometric Atlas of Stellar Spectra. As a National Research Council Fellow he continued his association with the University of Michigan and observed and carried out a productive research program at McDonald Observatory. In 1943 he was appointed an Instructor at Yerkes Observatory and he and his family, which now included two daughters, moved to Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay Wisconsin, a village only slightly larger then North Creek, Ohio. During the early days at Yerkes he continued his spectroscopic studies of Be stars and some of the other pathological cases that had been Otto Struve's favorites.
During World War II Al was engaged in the production of front surface mirrors, and in military optics design and modeling, an experience which influenced his later interest in astronomical instrumentation. It was following the end of the war that I came to Yerkes Observatory as a graduate student and had the opportunity to work with AI on two projects. Otto Struve had suggested that AI develop a program in photoelectric photometry at Yerkes and I was appointed his assistant. We started with a simple system employing a sensitive galvanometer to record the output of a photomultiplier. It was my task to sit near the 40 inch pier, in the basement, in front of the galvanometer scale. From the observing floor above AI would call out the instructions to read the position of the dancing spot of light on the scale. From this humble beginning AI brought photometry and later polarimetry and electronic imaging at Yerkes into the modern era.
In 1945 Hiltner and Chandrasekhar went to Canada to photograph a total eclipse of the sun. This represented a unique collaboration with the theorist Chandrasekhar, for I believe that the paper showing those photographs remains the only observational research paper ever published by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Another interaction between Chandra and AI, however, had a much greater impact on astronomy. Chandrasekhar had predicted that when electron scattering was the dominant contributor to the stellar opacity the limb intensity would show linear polarization reaching 11 % for pure electron scattering. AI set out to measure this polarization in eclipsing binary systems. He found polarization, but it did not change with binary phase. Indeed many early type stars showed polarization in the several percent range. As the data collected, it became clear that the polarization was produced in the interstellar medium. In 1949, in back-to-back papers in Science, Al Hiltner and John Hall announced the discovery of interstellar polarization. Interstellar polarization gave the first evidence for galactic magnetic fields and a powerful diagnostic on the nature of interstellar grains.
Over the years AI published over 200 papers in scientific journals. While he continued measurements of polarization, photometry and spectral classification of early type stars he was most interested in binary stars. He made valuable contributions to our understanding of Wolf-Rayet binaries, and after the discovery of x-ray binaries he turned his attention to the study of the optical radiation from these x-ray sources. He enjoyed sharing this research with students and young astronomers and imparting to them the enthusiasm that he himself had for scientific inquiry.
As AI progressed through the ranks from Instructor to Professor at the University of Chicago, he took on increased responsibilities as both an instrument innovator and policy maker.
Starting in 1959 and continuing until his departure from Yerkes Observatory in 1971, he was the University of Chicago's representative on the Board of Directors of AURA The facilities which now cover the summit of Kitt Peak owe much to the efforts of the early Board members. He played an important role in the development of the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile. In 1966 CTIO was without a director and AI served as one of the interim directors until the appointment of Victor Blanco in 1967. He also served as President of AURA from 1968 through 1971. His departure from the Board following his term of office was a result of his departure from Yerkes Observatory after 27 years of productive and diverse activity.
Al returned to the place where he had received his training in 1970 to become chairman of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Michigan. His ability to imagine and to make things happen led to a fruitful collaborative agreement between Michigan, Dartmouth and MIT. The MDM consortium started with the move of the Michigan 1.3 meter telescope and later the construction of a 2.4 meter telescope, which was designed by AI and now bears his name.
When AI retired from the University of Michigan in 1985 it was not just be a professor emeritus but rather to take on a new challenge. The Carnegie Institution had embarked on a collaborative effort to produce a very large southern hemisphere telescope. In 1986 AI joined the staff of the Carnegie Observatories to become the Project Manager for the Magellan Telescope Project a program to build an 8-meter telescope to be place in Chile.
One of the characteristics which his younger colleagues have remarked on was his ability to keep up-to-date, to keep learning. and as such it was not at all remarkable that he had been chosen to head the Magellan Project. This characteristic, however, applied to his personal as well as his professional life. During his years at Yerkes Observatory he enjoyed sailing on Lake Geneva and canoeing with the family in northern Wisconsin in spite of the fact that he had not learned to swim in his youth. He did learn to swim, however, at the age of 64 and took great pride in that accomplishment, which he enjoyed the rest of his life.
For the last 10 years of his life AI had been under the care of a cardiologist for a deteriorating heart condition. He had resisted surgery until finally in September of 1991 he decided to risk surgery as a last resort. They were unable to get his heart to beat on its own after removing the support system. He is survived by his wife Ruth, and four children, two sons and two daughters.
Al was a great success as a scientist, a teacher, a builder, and a scientific leader, and went out of his way to instill these attributes in the younger astronomers who had the opportunity to work with him.
External links:
• This BAAS obituary in the ADS, written by: Arthur D. Code (University of Wisconsin).
• William A. Hiltner papers, 1942-1991 - http://www.worldcat.org/title/william-a-hiltner-papers-1942-1991/oclc/80618779
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188177940/william-albert-hiltner
Non-Cemetery BurialWilliam married Ruth Kreider on 12 Aug 1939 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. Ruth was born on 23 Apr 1916 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; died on 05 Feb 2011 in Cleveland, Ohio; was buried in Saint Peters Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery, Rebersburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Ruth Kreider was born on 23 Apr 1916 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; died on 05 Feb 2011 in Cleveland, Ohio; was buried in Saint Peters Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery, Rebersburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania. Notes:
Name:
More information about Ruth Moyer Kreider's family at our Moyer and Kreider site: https://hiltner.com/genealogy/index.php
and her individual page: https://hiltner.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I1815&tree=Kreider
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66556131/ruth-moyer-hiltnerChildren:
- 1. Phyllis Anne Hiltner was born on 18 Mar 1941 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; died on 06 Sep 2010 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
Generation: 3
4. 
John Nicholas Hiltner was born on 02 Oct 1878 in Near Napoleon, Defiance County, Ohio (son of John Hiltner and Margaret Frisch); died on 05 Sep 1954 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio. Other Events:
- Occupation: In the 1910, 1940 and 1950 census John's occupation is listed as carpenter. In the 1920 and 1930 census John's occupation is listed as farmer
- Residence: John Nicholas Hiltner farm
- Census: 1900, Monroe Township, Putnam County, Ohio; John is listed as a boarder, farm labor on the farm of David H. Groff.
- Census: 1910, Greensburg Township, Putnam County, Ohio
- Census: 1920, Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio
- Census: 1930, Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio
- Census: 1940, Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio
Notes:
Obituary
John N. Hiltner
North Creek - Funeral services from John N. Hiltner, 75, who died Sunday morning of a heart ailment at his home near here, will be at 1:45 p.m. Wednesday in the residence and at 2 p.m. in the North Creek Methodist Church. The Rev. Ralph G. Younge will officiate. Burial will be in Monroe Cemetery.
Mr. Hiltner was born in Richland Township, Defiance County, Oct. 2, 1878. He married Ida Levina Schafer Dec. 24, 1903. She survives.
Other survivors include four children, Mrs. Ruth Simon, of Continental, Ray C. and Roy P., both of North Creek, and William A. of Williams Bay, Wis.; 15 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Two sisters, Mrs. Clara While, Norristown, Pa., and Mrs. Barbara Effenberger, Jacksonville, Fla., and two brothers, Chris Hiltner, Marathon, Fla., and William J. Hiltner, Toledo, also survive.
Mr. Hiltner was a member of St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, North Ridge. The body will remain at the residence until services. The Walls-Walker Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
The Lima News, Lima, Ohio. Tuesday, 7 September 1954, page 2
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127186711/john-n-hiltnerJohn married Ida Levina Schafer on 24 Dec 1903 in Putnam County, Ohio. Ida (daughter of William Schafer and Mary Morris) was born on 19 Aug 1880 in Putnam County, Ohio; died on 26 Oct 1955 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. 
Ida Levina Schafer was born on 19 Aug 1880 in Putnam County, Ohio (daughter of William Schafer and Mary Morris); died on 26 Oct 1955 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio. Notes:
Mrs. Levina Hiltner
North Creek - Mrs. Ida Levina Hiltner, 75, rt. 1 Continental, near North Creek, died unexpectedly at 9:15 p.m. Wednesday at Defiance City Hospital of a heart attack. She had been admitted Oct. 17 for minor surgery.
The body, removed to the Walls-Walker funeral home, Continental, will be returned today to the residence, where services will be conducted at 1:45 p.m. Saturday, followed by rites at the North Creek Methodist church at 1 o'clock, Rev. C. W. Bollinger, Continental, Ev. United Brethren pastor, will officiate, and burial will be in Monroe cemetery.
Mrs. Hiltner, the last of a family of 12 children of the late William and Mary (Morris0 Schafer, was born Aug. 19, 1880 in North Creek. She had spent her entire life in the North Creek area.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. George (Ruth) Simon, Continental; three sons, Ray and Roy Hiltner, North Creek, and William Albert Hiltner, Williams Bay, Wis.; 16 grandchildren, and five great grand children.
Her husband, John Hiltner, to whom she was married Dec. 24, 1903, died Sept. 5, 1954.
Mrs. Hiltner was a member of the Country Women's Club, WCTU, North Creek Methodist church and WSCS.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127186795/ida-levina-hiltnerChildren:
- Ray Clifford Hiltner was born on 28 Sep 1905 in Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 13 Jan 1986 in Lima Memorial Hospital, Lima, Allen County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
- Sarah Ruth Hiltner was born on 29 Jul 1907 in Putnam County, Ohio; died on 17 Nov 2000 in Continental, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
- Roy Philip Hiltner was born on 23 Oct 1911 in Putnam County, Ohio; died on 17 Nov 1987 in Continental, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
- 2. William Albert Hiltner was born on 27 Aug 1914 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 30 Sep 1991 in University of MI Hospital, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan.
Generation: 4
8. 
John Hiltner was born on 20 Feb 1847 in Bavaria St., Germany (son of John Hiltner and Harold); died on 10 Jun 1928 in Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio. Other Events:
- Emigration: 1873
- Occupation: farmer
- Residence: John Hiltner farm 1885 plat map
- Naturalization: 11 Oct 1879, Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio
- Census: 1880, Richland Township, Defiance County, Ohio
- Census: 1900, Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio
- Census: 1910, Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio
Notes:
Martha Knaggs sent us a photocopy of John Hiltner's naturalization papers dated 11 Oct 1879. Naturalization Record, Vol. 2 page 23, Defiance County Probate Court.
And Marriage Record - Book vol 2A page 240, Defiance County Probate Court. Defiance County Records Center, 510 Court St. Defiance, OH 43512
(And more info print dated January 20, 2000 in yellow pocket folder.)
Residence:
J W Hiltner in 1919 plat map
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/481848/Palmer+Township++Miller+City/Putnam+County+1919/Ohio/
Census:
We didn't find John Hiltner as a property owner in the 1876 plat map of Richland Township.
https://www.ohiohistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jones-_Historical_Atlas_of_Defiance_County_1876.pdf
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81119402/john-hiltnerJohn married Margaret Frisch on 22 May 1873 in Defiance County, Ohio. Margaret (daughter of Fred Frisch) was born on 10 Sep 1844 in Bavaria St., Germany; died on 03 Jun 1914 in Monroe Township, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. 
Margaret Frisch was born on 10 Sep 1844 in Bavaria St., Germany (daughter of Fred Frisch); died on 03 Jun 1914 in Monroe Township, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio. Other Events:
- Emigration: 1873
Notes:
not naturalized.
Buried W Monroe Cemetery 284 in Monroe Twp., Putnam Co., OH
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81119403/margaret-hiltnerChildren:
- Andrew Henry Hiltner was born on 05 Oct 1873 in Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio; died on 15 Jul 1947 in Kalamazoo Hospital, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan; was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Charlotte, Eaton County, Michigan.
- Emma Hiltner was born on 05 Oct 1874 in Ohio.
- Anna M. Hiltner was born on 05 Oct 1874 in Ohio; died in 1940; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
- 4. John Nicholas Hiltner was born on 02 Oct 1878 in Near Napoleon, Defiance County, Ohio; died on 05 Sep 1954 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
- Christopher J. Hiltner was born in Nov 1880 in Defiance County, Ohio; died on 29 Jul 1955 in Marathon, Monroe County, Florida; was buried in Sugar Ridge Cemetery, Leipsic, Putnam County, Ohio.
- William John Hiltner was born on 02 Feb 1883 in Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio; died on 05 Jul 1955 in 437 Bowen Rd, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
- Clara Margaret Hiltner was born on 11 Aug 1886 in Napoleon, Henry County, Ohio; died on 7 Jan 1962 in East Norriton Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; was buried on 11 Jan 1962 in Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
- Barbara Lena Hiltner was born on 03 Jul 1889 in Ohio; died on 23 May 1970 in Duval County, Florida; was buried in Oaklawn Cemetery, Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida.
10. 
William Schafer was born on 04 Feb 1839 in Darmstadt, Germany (son of Philip Schafer and Mary E. Almanritter); died on 01 Jan 1903 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio. Other Events:
- Occupation: farmer
- Residence: Schafer farm, Palmer Township, Putnam County, northwest corner of section 7
- Emigration: 1854
- Census: 1870, Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio
- Census: 1880, Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio
- Census: 1900, Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio
Notes:
William came from Germany at the age of 14. note on back of xeroxed family photo
Their land was heavily timbered, so "they cleared and drained the land and made a very productive farm of it. William Schafer held an elected township or county office almost from the date of his residence in that part of the county. The village of North Creek which was platted in 1879, was partly located on his farm."
this note is from:http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:678927&id=I0631
Occupation:
He has been justice of the peace of this township for fourteen years; he is one of the present county commissioners, which office he has filled since 1875, and is the postmaster of North Creek.
Residence:
1880 - 133 acres
1895 - 113 acres
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81040818/william-schaferWilliam married Mary Morris on 06 Aug 1863 in Allen County, Ohio. Mary (daughter of Henry Morris and Margaret Weaver) was born on 05 Aug 1845 in Near Columbus Grove, Allen County, Ohio; died on 10 Oct 1902 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
11. 
Mary Morris was born on 05 Aug 1845 in Near Columbus Grove, Allen County, Ohio (daughter of Henry Morris and Margaret Weaver); died on 10 Oct 1902 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio. Notes:
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81040819/mary-schaferChildren:
- Phyllis Schafer
- Henry Philip Schafer was born on 11 Sep 1864 in Ohio; died on 22 Jun 1941 in McComb, Hancock County, Ohio; was buried in North Mount Zion Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
- John Sylvester Schafer was born in 1866 in Ohio; died on 13 Apr 1926 in Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
- Margaret Schafer was born on 19 Sep 1867 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 25 Jan 1950 in Escanaba, Delta County, Michigan; was buried in Gardens of Rest Cemetery, Wells, Delta County, Michigan.
- William Washington Schafer was born on 17 Dec 1869 in Putnam County, Ohio; died on 10 Mar 1948; was buried in Clymer Cemetery, Mount Cory, Hancock County, Ohio.
- George Lewis Schafer was born on 12 Dec 1871 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 26 Feb 1954 in Kenton, Hardin County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
- Charles Clifford Schafer was born on 26 Sep 1874 in Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 7 Jun 1943 in Henry County, Ohio; was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Napoleon, Henry County, Ohio.
- Sarah Schafer was born on 22 Aug 1876 in Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 27 Oct 1940 in Silver Lake, Kosciusko County, Indiana; was buried on 29 Oct 1940 in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, North Manchester, Wabash County, Indiana.
- Mary Emaline Schafer was born on 15 Aug 1878 in Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 31 Mar 1951 in Lima, Allen County, Ohio; was buried in Sugar Ridge Cemetery, Leipsic, Putnam County, Ohio.
- 5. Ida Levina Schafer was born on 19 Aug 1880 in Putnam County, Ohio; died on 26 Oct 1955 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
- Benjamin Franklin Schafer was born on 11 Aug 1882 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 07 Mar 1942 in Leipsic, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
- Laura Schafer was born on 13 Jul 1884 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 01 Sep 1903 in North Creek, Putnam County, Ohio; was buried in Monroe Cemetery, Continental, Putnam County, Ohio.
- Joseph Jefferson Schafer was born on 19 May 1887 in Palmer Township, Putnam County, Ohio; died on 10 Sep 1949 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; was buried in Willow Cemetery, Oregon, Lucas County, Ohio.