HOME SEARCH 1858 Emil Schaffner Born: 1858 at Unknown Died: 1940 at Ford, WA Buried: Pleasant View Cemetery at Ford, WA His gravesite is adjacent to that of his grandson Paul. His father was Unknown. His mother was Unknown. He was the grandfather of 1936 Paul Emil Schaffner. He was the original owner of the Schaffner family farm which is located inside the Spokane Indian Reservation near Ford, Washington State. His was the last farm sold to a non-Indian person on that reservation; after that sale, the sale of Indian land to non-indians was prohibited, but Emil was allowed to keep the farm that he had purchased.