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Lacy Elmer Shaffer

Lacy Elmer Shaffer

Male 1889 - 1986  (96 years)

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  • Name Lacy Elmer Shaffer 
    Born 25 Dec 1889  Redding, Shasta County, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    • Note: Shasta County does not have a birth certificate for him (queried Shasta County Record in 2003).
    Gender Male 
    Died 7 Dec 1986  Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Lacy Shaffer death certificate
    Lacy Shaffer death certificate
    Buried 9 Dec 1986  Oakwood Memorial Park, Chatsworth, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    9 dec 1986
    9 dec 1986
    Person ID I9  Mouchet-Roberts genealogy
    Last Modified 16 May 2017 

    Father Byron Alson Shaffer,   b. 24 Jul 1854, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Oct 1937, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Rebecca Margaret Hunter,   b. 4 Dec 1855, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Feb 1894, Compton, Los Angeles, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years) 
    Married 2 Sep 1879  Juniata, Adams, Nebraska Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Marrige Certificate of Byron and Rebecca Shaffer
    Marrige Certificate of Byron and Rebecca Shaffer
    Family ID F1834  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Isabel McIntyre McGregor,   b. 17 Aug 1893, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Dec 1984, Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 91 years) 
    Married 30 Sep 1912  Ventura, Ventura, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6
    Isabel and Lacey Shaffer wedding photo
    Isabel and Lacey Shaffer wedding photo
    Shaffer family bible, marriage page
    Shaffer family bible, marriage page
    Children 
     1. Private
     2. Private
    Last Modified 26 Feb 2021 
    Family ID F1579  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Byron Shaffer and children
    Byron Shaffer and children
    According to Louise Shaffer and Bertha Young, this photo was taken after Byron's wife died and he mailed it to Margaret Jane Adams who he later married:

    Shaffers from left: William, Mabel, Pansy, Byron, Ralph, Lacy, Magaret R.
    Byron Shaffer and family on the farm
    Byron Shaffer and family on the farm
    From left: Lacy, Pansy, Mabel, Maggie, William, Aunt Alice?, Byron, Ralph
    Byron Shaffer and Children
    Byron Shaffer and Children
    This picture was identified by Louise Shaffer Mouchet as having been taken about 1924 or 1925 at Will Shaffer's home in Van Nuys, CA.
    From left: Lacy. Maggie, Pansy, Ralph, Byron, Mabel, Maggie (Adams) Shaffer, William Shaffer.
    At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
    Lacy Shaffer went deer hunding
    Lacy Shaffer went deer hunding
    From the Van Nuys News
    At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
    At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
    Lacy and Isabel Shaffer 50th anniversary invitation
    Lacy and Isabel Shaffer 50th anniversary invitation
    At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
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    cropped_headshots/lacey-elmer-shaffer.jpg
    Isabel and Lacy Shafer
    Isabel and Lacy Shafer
    Taken in 1970 at Ray and Isabel Peck home after the wedding of Terry Peck to John Abbott
    Isabel and Lacy Shaffer
    Isabel and Lacy Shaffer
    70th wedding anniversary and wedding picture
    Shaffers: Ralph, Mabel, Lacy and Pansy
    Shaffers: Ralph, Mabel, Lacy and Pansy
    Pansy turns 100. Her little brother Lacy on right
    Pansy turns 100. Her little brother Lacy on right

  • Notes 
    • Lacy was one of eight children born to Byron and Rebecca Shaffer. She died in childbirth and the three youngest children, Lacy, Maybell and Ralph, were placed in the McKinley Home for Orphans in Los Angeles for a few years. Lacy said that his father got the kids out of the orphanage as soon as they were old enough to work. Byron sent for a mail order bride and after they were married he brought Lacy, Mabell and Ralph home. Byron then went off to Alaska to seek his fortune in the gold rush there.

      Lacy married Isabel and they lived in Fillmore, California. Louise was born in Fillmore in 1916.

      In 1919, shortly after the Owens Valley aqueduct brought water to the San Fernando Valley, the couple moved from Fillmore by horse and wagon to their newly purchased ranch on Mason Avenue in Owensmouth (now known as Canoga Park).

      Although he only had a 6th grade education, he had a lot of knowledge. When he wanted to do taxidermy he got a book from the library and figured out how to do it. He designed a horse-powered threshing machine to thresh beans. When some perch came into the bathtub from the aqueduct water he built a fish pond for them and they grew the fish to full size.

      The ranch was farmed until 1955, at which time it was sold for housing development, including the area of Sunnybrae Elementary School. Lacy still kept a grape vineyard on the remaining land. They sold the grapes to the Isabella grape juice company. In the 1960s their vineyard was too isolated from other agriculture and he was unable to sell the grapes. After that he and Isabel sold the grapes on a U-Pick basis.

  • Sources 
    1. [S12215] WWI Draft Registration on Family Search, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZKC-GWY; 20 March 2016; Lacy Elmer Shaffer; 5 June 1917.

    2. [S12143] Los Angeles County Vital Records, Death Certificate; 9 December 1986, date of death 7 Dec 1986; Lacy Elmer Shaffer.

    3. [S12304] Find-A-Grave, https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=27876934; viewed; 10 May 2017; Headstone of Lacy and Isabel Shaffer.

    4. [S12140] Nebraska, Adams County marriage record, Marriage affidavit, license and certificate; 3 September 1879; Byron A Shaffer and Rebecca M Hunter.

    5. [S12291] McGregor Family Bible, Marriages Page.

    6. [S12307] Ventura County Genealogical Society, 1873-1928 Marriages: Brides and Grooms; https://venturacogensoc.org/cpage.php?pt=263; viewed; 12 July 2018; Marriage of Isabel McIntyre McGregor and Lacy Elmer Schaffer; Ventura County Recorder.