The Sheaffer surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,100 people carried this name — #8,087 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 71,900 people counted. That is up 4% from 3,934 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Sheaffer surname

Likely related to German Schäfer (“shepherd”).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Sheaffer» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In print

Sheaffer in American newspapers,
1916–1927.

Newspaper page from The Montgomery Advertiser carrying the name Sheaffer
The Montgomery Advertiser 1927-04-30
Newspaper page from The Daily Missourian carrying the name Sheaffer
The Daily Missourian 1916-09-22
Newspaper page from The Daily Missourian carrying the name Sheaffer
The Daily Missourian 1916-09-25

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Sheaffer in Australian newspapers,
1920s–1980s.

78 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sheaffer. The most, 30, date from the 1950s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in New South Wales, at 2.5 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 61
Victoria 9
ACT (Canberra) 4
Queensland 1
South Australia 1
Western Australia 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sheaffer.

Who carried it

People named Sheaffer,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Walter A. Sheaffer 1867–1946 · inventor
  • D. M. Sheaffer 1885–1960
  • Charles Sheaffer 1904–1989 · field hockey player
  • Louis Sheaffer 1912–1993 · theatre critic

Wikidata (CC0) · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Sheaffer,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States223 records

223 records of the Sheaffer name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 168
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 36
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 10
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 3
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 3
  • Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Russell R. Sheaffer

    Born 1919 in Ohio. Enlisted 1942 at Toledo; driver from Huron County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1997, buried at Ashland County Memorial Park, Ohio.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record David Lawrence Sheaffer

    Born 1950; from Parchment, Michigan. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1971 in Quang Nam, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Florence R. Sheaffer

    U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War. Born 1938, died 1980; buried at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 223 records for Sheaffer in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

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