Family Remembrance:2443 "Philip Earhart Shaver was born May 06, 1829 in Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and died October 10, 1904 in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Johnson County, Amish/Joetown, Iowa. He married (1) Hester E. (Hettie) Grimes, December 13, 1855 in Washington County, Iowa, daughter of Robert Grimes and Mary Butler. She was born May 13, 1834 in Knox County, Ohio, and died May 13, 1880 in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Johnson County, Amish/Joetown, Iowa. He married (2) Clarissa Patterson September 06, 1881 in Johnson County, Iowa, daughter of Ephraim Patterson and Eve Fry. She was born May 23, 1827 in Burlington Township, Licking County, Ohio, and died July 21, 1923 in Frytown Cemetery, Johnson County, Iowa."

Biographical Sketch (1883):1287, p. 917. "Capt. P.E. Shaver, a farmer and stock raiser, residing in Washington Township; was born May 6 1829 in Summerset County, Pennsylvania; came to Iowa in April 1844 and settled in Washington township, section 34. He owns a farm of 500 acres of land under good cultivation. He built a fine frame house on section 26 in 1877, and it is considered one of the finest farm houses in Johnson county. He was married December 13 1855 to Miss Hettie Grimes. They had five children, two are now living: Jennie, wife of George Wagner and Lincoln G. His wife died May 13 1880 and Sept 6 1881 he was married to Mrs. C. Lambert, daughter of Ephraim Patterson, and mother of John and George Wagner. Mr. Shaver was a soldier in Capt. James M. Morgan's company of Iowa mounted volunteer dragoons, and served from December 1847 to September 1848 during the Mexican War and was on duty among the Indians. He was also a faithful soldier in the late Civil War, in company F, First Iowa Calvary, enlisted as a private July 18 1861, and shortly . . ."