Margaret Ann Waddell (born Shaffer)

Obituary of Margaret Ann Shaffer, copy from the Mason Count

y Democrat,

Friday, March 3, 1917. Margare

t Ann Schafer Phillips was born November 5, 1843, in Pennsy

lvania, and died February 19, 1917 at her home in Snicart

e at the age of seventy-four years, three months and fourte

en days. She removed to Mason County, Illinois, in her yout

h and spent the remainder of her life here. At an early ag

e she was married to Berry Prentice and to this union wer

e born two children, one of whom preceded the mother in dea

th. Mr. Prentice was killed during the Civil War. In 1

866 she was united in marriage to William Waddell. To the

m were five children, two of whom surive. Two daughters an

d one son passed away before their mother. Again the decede

nt was widowed, when Mr. Waddell passed away in 1883. Two y

ears later she was married to Albert Phillips who still sur

vives. She is also survied by three sons, Isacc Prentice o

f Snicarte, Thomas Waddell of Beardstown, and James Waddel

l of Snicarte. She also leaves to mourn her death three ste

p children, William and Mary of Snicarte and Walter of Peki

n. She was converted in a series of revival meetings held i

n Snicarte by Brother Leek in 1882 and united with the Hope

well Baptist Church on March 12 of that year. She has bee

n a faithful member of the church for thirty-five years an

d clerk for twenty-two years during that time.