SHAFFER: The Shaffer Public Free School was in the Sunshine Community.  J. G. Martin was employed on 2 October, 1879, to teach in the Shaffer School No. 22 for four months by the trustees T. P. Smith, C. C. Jones, and F. M. Kolb.  Mrs. Orpha Jane Blackman Ridenhower taught in the Shaffer Public Free School in 1878-79 with an annual salary of $35 for a school term from November through January. This school was about eleven miles northwest of Hamilton and five miles southeast of Carlton.