Eliza Arabella Stambaugh and Charles Hafer

CHARLES HAFER was born January 23, 1862 in Pennsylvania,³⁹⁸⁵ and died November 3, 1940 in Abbottstown, Adams, Pennsylvania.^{3091, 3985} He is buried in Saint John's Lutheran Cemetery, Abbottstown, Adams, Pennsylvania.³⁹⁸⁵

He married ELIZA ARABELLA STAMBAUGH on August 22, 1915 in Abbottstown, Adams, Pennsylvania,²⁹⁸⁵ daughter of SARAH ANN ALTLAND and JOHN CONRAD STAMBAUGH. She was born March 21, 1876 in Pennsylvania,²⁹⁸⁴ and died September 20, 1971 in Hillview House, Hanover, York, Pennsylvania.³⁰⁹³ She is buried in Saint John's Lutheran Cemetery, Abbottstown, Adams, Pennsylvania.³⁰⁹³

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Children of ELIZA ARABELLA STAMBAUGH and CHARLES HAFER:

1. HOMER HAFER, b. January 18, 1917, Pennsylvania;⁵⁶ m. GERALDINE V. RICKRODE on July 13, 1940 in Fredericksburg, Virginia³⁰⁹⁰; d. November, 1981.⁵⁶

Obituaries

Gettysburg Compiler, November 9, 1940³⁰⁹¹

Charles Hafer

Charles Hafer died at his residence in Abbottstown at 3:10 a. m. November 3rd at the age of 78 years, from a complication of diseases, following an extended illness.

Mr. Hafer was a son of the late Henry and Amanda (Newell) Hafer and is survived by his widow, who was Belle Stambaugh before her marriage, and the following nine children: Mrs. Levi Eisenhour, near York; Mrs. Mina Laughman, York; Mrs. Joseph Mullen, Baltimore; Harrison and Sterling Hafer, York; Donald Hafer, Seattle, Washington; Carrol Hafer, Sunbury; Mrs. Donald Lenman and Homer Hafer, both at home. He also leaves 33 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services was conducted Tuesday at 10 a. m. from the late home. The Rev. Paul Gladfelter, Jacobus, pastor emeritus of the Abbottstown Lutheran church, officiated. Interment was made in the Abbottstown Lutheran cemetery.

The pallbearers were Harry Spangler, Robert Berkheimer, Earl Haversack, Wilbur Haines, William Baker and Stephen Wolf.

Gettysburg Times, September 21, 1971³⁰⁹³

Mrs. Charles Hafer

Mrs. Belle E. Stambaugh Hafer, 95, Abbottstown, died at Hillview House, Hanover, at 9 p.m. Monday. She had been in failing health for a year and was hospitalized two weeks.

Born in York County, she was a daughter of the late Conrad and Sarah A. Altland Stambaugh. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, Abbottstown, and the Abbottstown Fire Co. auxiliary.

Her husband, Charles J. H. Hafer, died in 1940.

Surviving are two children: Mrs. Donald A. Lehman, Abbottstown R. 1, and Homer Hafer Sr., Abbottstown; five grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; four stepchildren, Harrison Hafer, York; Mrs. Fannie Mullen, Phoenix, Ariz.; Donald Hafer, Seattle, Wash., and Carroll Hafer, Sunbury; 32 stepgrandchildren and a sister, Mrs. John Kiick, Ephrata.

Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Feiser Funeral Home, New Oxford, with Rev. Garnet Zimmerman, her pastor, officiating. Interment will be in St. John's Cemetery, Abbottstown.

Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday evening from 7 to 9 o'clock.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
June 4, 18802975	Paradise, York, Pennsylvania	John Conrad Stambaugh Sarah Ann Altland Clayton Harvey Stambaugh Eliza Arabella Stambaugh Herman A. Stambaugh
June 14, 19002974	Paradise, York, Pennsylvania	John Conrad Stambaugh Herman A. Stambaugh Clair Philip Stambaugh Eliza Arabella Stambaugh Grace Stambaugh
April 16, 19102976	Berwick, Adams, Pennsylvania	John Conrad Stambaugh Eliza Arabella Stambaugh Mary Salome Stambaugh Mabel Emma Stambaugh Clair Philip Stambaugh
January 5, 19203087	Abbottstown, Adams, Pennsylvania	Charles Hafer Eliza Arabella Stambaugh Homer Hafer
April 7, 19303088	Abbottstown, Adams, Pennsylvania	Charles Hafer Eliza Arabella Stambaugh Homer Hafer
April 3, 19403089	Abbottstown, Adams, Pennsylvania	Charles Hafer Eliza Arabella Stambaugh Homer Hafer