Husband: James A. PEIFFER (3,4,6,7,8,9)
Birthdate: February 1869
Birthplace: Llewellyn, Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA
Death date: unknown
Place of death: unknown
Father: Isaac PEIFFER (1832-1906) (1,3,4,6)
Mother: Maria "Lucy" HAINES (1845-1881) (1,3)

Marriage date: About 1888/1889
Marriage place: Schuylkill County, PA

Wife: Clara G. MAUL (6,7)
Birthdate: 1870/71
Birthplace: Llewellyn, Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA
Death date: January 20, 1891
Place of death: Schuylkill County, PA
Father: John C. MAUL (1836-????) (2,4,5,8)
Mother: Sarah ZERBE (1846-????) (4,8)

CHILDREN [none]
 
 
Documentation:
1. Llewellyn Cemetery, On-site visit 1991 by Dorothy, Harold, and Lester PINKERTON: One low rectangular gray marble stone with the heading "PEIFFER" and beneath - Isaac Died 1906, Lucy Died 1881".
2. Civil War Card File, ARIAS, Pennsylvania's Digital State Archives: "John MAUL, Co I 27 Infantry, Enrolled 6-16- 63, at Schuylkill Co.,PA; Mustered In - 6-19-63 As Pvt, at Harrisburg, PA; Mustered Out 7-31-63; age at enrollment 24; Remarks - App. Sgt. 6/17/63."
3. 1870 Federal Census Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA: "Isaac PEIFER, 37, Farm Laborer, $300, born in PA, Maria, wife, 25; Lavinia 4; William 2; James 1."
4. 1880 Federal Census Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA: "Isaac PIFER, 48 Farm Laborer, born in PA, mother and father born in PA; Catherine, 16, daughter, Keeping House; William 12, son Farm Laborer; James 11, son, at home, Emma 5, daughter"; "John MAUL, 44 Carpenter, born in PA; Sarah 36, wife, keeping house; Lewis 12, son; Clara, 9, daughter; Howard, 9, son; Catharine 3, daughter; Carrie, 1 daughter."
5. 1890 Federal Census Special Schedule - Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Widows, Llewellyn, Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA: 62/66 John C. MAUL, Sergeant, I 27, PA V.M., June 19 1863, Llewellyn, "Rupture"; John C. MAUL, Sergeant, Private, K48, PA Vol Feb 18, 1864."
6. Directory of the Eleventh Census of the Population of Schuylkill County, PA. Lebanon, PA: E.E. Schartel, 1889: p.108 "Branch Township - Isaac PEIFER, 59, laborer, Rebecca; Clara G. Peifer; James A. PEIFER, 21, miner"; p107 "John C. MAUL, 53, Carpenter, Mary J., Lewis O., 22, laborer, Howard P., 16, Catharine M., Carrie J., James G. 9, Franklin P. 7, Robert M. 5."
7. Schuylkill County Marriage Docket List, Schuylkill County Courthouse, Pottsville, PA: Book 4, Number 5192 "Clara G. MAUL and James A. PEIFFER 1885-1910"; Book 11 - Number H13 "Carrie Maul and Jacob Rettinger, 1885-1910".
8. 1900 Federal Census Branch Township, Schuylkill County, PA: "John MAUL, 63, Dec 1836, born Germany, Carpenter; Sarah, wife, 54, April 1846, married 34 years, 12 children/7 living, born in PA; Howard, son 26, April 1874, single, born in PA, Farm Laborer; Carrie, daughter, 20, June 1879, single, born in PA; James G., son, 18, August 1881, Laborer - coal mine, single; Frank P., son, 16, June 1883, at school; Robert M., son, 14, Dec 1885, at school, born in PA, at school; James PEIFFER, boarder, 31, Feb 1869, widowed, born in PA, Coal Miner; Frank ZERBE, boarder, 35, March 1865, single."
9. Family Oral History given by his niece, Nellie Mae PEIFFER PINKERTON (1889-1990), daughter of William F. (1867- 1929) and Emma R. (1869-1939) PEIFFER: "His wife died young and after her death, he went to Kentucky to find work. No one in the family ever heard from him again."

Notes:
* Harold L. PINKERTON, Sr. genealogy source notebook "Isaac PEIFFER Family" contains a section on James PEIFFER. Harold LeRoy PINKERTON, Sr. is a grandson of William Francis PEIFFER (1867-1929), the brother of James PEIFFER.
* A search of the Federal Census records on-line at Heritage Quest.com reveals no James Peiffer (Peifer or Pifer), born about 1869 in Pennsylvania, or in any other state including Kentucky after 1900.
* In 1900, James A. Peiffer, age 31 was living with his in-laws and working as a coal miner. He had been a widower for nine years. In addition to his wife, his mother was also dead and his father, Isaac had remarried a woman named Rebecca. He revealed in the 1900 Census that for the past year he had only been employed six months. He left Schuylkill County, searching for work. He told his brother, William, that he was heading to Kentucky and that was the last words any family member ever heard from him.