Contributed by Yvonne Henderson-Williams

When William Jefferson Shaffer was born on December 22, 1793, in Wytheville, Virginia, his father, John, was 38 and his mother, Eve, was 32. He married Margaret Dorothy Hickman Jones in 1813 in Monroe County, Tennessee. They had 13 children in 25 years. He died on January 7, 1864, in Monroe County, Tennessee, at the age of 70, and was buried there.