According to some family trees on Ancestry.com, Ellenora was born on 21.Feb.1835 in Frederick County, MD. There are no known public records confirming this date, but it's consistent with census reports for 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. Ellenora's parents were Daniel Hiteshew and Susan Grinder.
On 6.Mar.1856, Ellenora married Jacob Witsel Schafer (aka Shaefer). The marriage took place in Frederick County, MD.
According to some family trees on Ancestry.com, Ellenora died at age 58 on 9.Feb.1894 in Chicago, Cook, IL. There are no known public records confirming this, but it's consistent with a 1910 census record showing Ellenora's husband Jacob Shafer as a widower living with his daughter Gussie (Mary Agustus) and her husband Harry (Henry M.) Wilcox.
Ellenora Hiteshew + Jacob W. Shafer