Anne, as we call her, married our second son, James. She was born in Westmoreland County, adjoining Allegheny County, and is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Ansel, a part time farmer, with business interests in Turtle Creek, Allegheny County.

Following her graduation from the Union High School, in Turtle Creek, she became identified, as a clerk, in the Turtle Creek offices of the Mellon National Bank and Trust Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. Located across the corner was a pharmacy where James was the pharmacist. Anne and James met, and it is now Mr. and Mrs. James Shaver with four children blessing their home.

David Ansel, her remotest ancestor, arrived in America in 1751 and settled along the Delaware River. His son, Martin Ansel, served in the Revolutionary war as a private, 2nd.class, 67th. Battalion, Lancaster County Militia. Johann Ansel, her grandfather, was an extensive farmer in Central Pennsylvania.

On September 18, 1950 she was married to James who furnished their home in Monongahela, Pa., where he is a partner in a pharmacy [in 1958]. Their family consists of two boys and two girls.

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