George Washington Stauffer was born February 27, 1849 in Stark County Ohio. His father John moved the family to Elkhart County Indiana by wagon when George was a boy. His older brother Peter died on the road. He spent most of his boyhood in Indiana, and is listed on the 1860 census of Baugo township with 9 of his brothers and sisters. About 1865, he moved with his parents to Ogle County, Illinois around Pine Creek. He was 15 years old.
On March 20, 1873 he married Rebecca Diehl in Ogle County Illinois. Rebecca Diehl was born January 20, 1856 in Carol County, Maryland. George bought 80 acres of farm land off the Lowell park road in Pine Creek Township. George and Rebecca had 6 children: Charles Lee Stauffer, David Stauffer, Harry W. Stauffer, Ada May Stauffer who died around 2 years of age, Clinton Stauffer and Mary Susan Stauffer.
The Federal Census of 1910 shows a record of George 61, Rebecca 55, and Mary Susan Stauffer Branter 19, living in Polo, Illinois, Ogle County.
Rebecca Diehl died January 21, 1917 in Polo, Illinois. George died June 3, 1924 in Polo, Illinois. Both are buried in the Pine Creek Bretheren Cemetery on Anterier Road with their daughter Ada May.
Below is a picture of the farm as it looked around 1895.
This picture is a generational picture of Harry Stauffer with his mother Rebecca Diehl Stauffer, his grandmother Elizabeth Adeline Diehl and his son Donald Stauffer born in 1903.
Below is a photo taken at the farm of David Stauffer with his brothers and sisters.
Stauffer Family Genealogy 