My Genealogy Hound

ELIAS F. STAUFFER, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 7; P. O. Arcanum. The subject of this memoir was born in Montgomery Co. April 13, 1835; his father was born in Pennsylvania and his mother in Virginia, and removed to Montgomery Co. in a very early day, and are still living at advanced ages. Our subject assisted his father in the labors of the farm, till his majority, at which time he began life for himself, and followed the occupation of his father; he worked on a rented farm in Montgomery Co. for a period of seven years, when he removed to Darke Co., in 1866, where he purchased 80 acres of land, where he now lives; he has since bought 45 acres more adjoining his first purchase, and all is in a good state of cultivation and well improved. His property is the fruit of his and his wife’s hard labor. He was married to Anna, daughter of Daniel and Rebecca Hollinger, Dec. 28, 1858; they were natives of Pennsylvania, and removed to Ohio in a very early day; her father is dead, her mother is still living, and resides with the subject of our sketch. Mr. and Mrs. Stauffer are the parents of seven children, viz.: Lucinda, born March 13, 1860; John, born May 17, 1862; Benjamin born Feb. 18, 1865; Harvey born Jan. 15, 1870; Hettie, born Nov. 24, 1872; Lydia, born March 13, 1874; Samuel, born Feb. 18, 1867, and died in infancy. Mr. Stauffer has filled the office of School Director several terms, having had only the advantages of a common-school education, but is considerably interested in educating his children. He and his amiable wife, are members of the German Baptist Church, and are among the zealous workers in the church.