Lacy Elmer Shaffer b. 25 Dec 1889 Redding, Shasta County, California d. 7 Dec 1986 Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, United States

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1889 - 1986 (96 years)

Name	Lacy Elmer Shaffer
Birth	25 Dec 1889	Redding, Shasta County, California [1, 2]
	Note: Shasta County does not have a birth certificate for him (queried Shasta County Record in 2003).
Gender	Male
Death	7 Dec 1986	Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, United States [2]
		Lacy Shaffer death certificate
Burial	9 Dec 1986	Oakwood Memorial Park, Chatsworth, California [3]
		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 d. 27 Oct 1937, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California (Age 83 years)
Mother	Rebecca Margaret Hunter, b. 4 Dec 1855, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. 10 Feb 1894, Compton, Los Angeles, California, United States (Age 38 years)
Marriage	2 Sep 1879	Juniata, Adams, Nebraska [4]
Marriage		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 d. 17 Dec 1984, Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, United States (Age 91 years)

Marriage 30 Sep 1912 Ventura, Ventura, California, United States [5, 6]

Isabel and Lacey Shaffer wedding photo

Shaffer family bible, marriage page

Children

	1. Private
	2. Private

Family ID F1579 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 26 Feb 2021

Photos » Slide Show		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 From left: Lacy, Pansy, Mabel, Maggie, William, Aunt Alice?, Byron, Ralph
		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.
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		Lacy Shaffer went deer hunding From the Van Nuys News
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		Lacy and Isabel Shaffer 50th anniversary invitation
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		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 70th wedding anniversary and wedding picture
		Shaffers: Ralph, Mabel, Lacy and Pansy
		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

[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.
[S12143] Los Angeles County Vital Records, Death Certificate; 9 December 1986, date of death 7 Dec 1986; Lacy Elmer Shaffer.
[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.
[S12140] Nebraska, Adams County marriage record, Marriage affidavit, license and certificate; 3 September 1879; Byron A Shaffer and Rebecca M Hunter.
[S12291] McGregor Family Bible, Marriages Page.
[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.