. A genealogical record of the descendants of Henry Stauffer and other Stauffer pioneers : together with historical and biographical sketches . isburg. Through the De Benneviles the Keimsreceive French Huguenot blood and through theMayers the lineage is traced back to Melchior Mayer,a Stadthauptman of the free city of Ulm in 1452. Byher mother she was descended from the Tuckahoebranch of the Randolph family of Virginia, and was agranddaughter of Col Thomas Beverly Randolph, oneof the first graduates of West Point, and was the 10thgeneration from the Algonquin Princess Pocahontas. Mrs Stauffer
. A genealogical record of the descendants of Henry Stauffer and other Stauffer pioneers : together with historical and biographical sketches . isburg. Through the De Benneviles the Keimsreceive French Huguenot blood and through theMayers the lineage is traced back to Melchior Mayer,a Stadthauptman of the free city of Ulm in 1452. Byher mother she was descended from the Tuckahoebranch of the Randolph family of Virginia, and was agranddaughter of Col Thomas Beverly Randolph, oneof the first graduates of West Point, and was the 10thgeneration from the Algonquin Princess Pocahontas. Mrs Stauffer was a woman of remarkable cul-ture and a brilliant conversationalist. Besides beingthoroughly informed in art, literature and history shewas an indefatigable reader of the newspapers andwas always well posted on the news of the day, bothlocal and general, talking with equal ease and accuracyof information on any topic. A large library of scrapbooks, covering the last 20 years, are a substan-tial evidence of her painstaking industry, and thecollection is exceedingly valuable. In these scrapbooks are preserved everything printed hereabouts. Ai/tia Rheua Austin. (See page 122.) DESCENDANTS OF JACOB STAUFFER 227 concerning her friends and acquaintances and much ofmore general interest. It was not until 11 days agothat she yielded to her sickness and ceased to keep upher scrap book. For the last five years articles signed Mary Keim Stauffer have been features of theLadies Home Journal, Philadelphia ; the LadiesWorld, New York ; the American Farmers HomeJournal, New York ; the Young Folks Journal,New York ; the Home Queen, Philadelphia, andthe Housewife, New York. Mrs Stauffers interestin fancy work, and her skill in all its branches foundnatural expression on paper, and her skill in describingher patterns clearly and giving intelligible directionsmade her articles much sought after and the time of her death she was in charge of theKnitting Circle,a department of the H
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