Apparently there were Stauffers in the Scottdale area who were not descendants of Rev. Abraham Stauffer. They are mentioned in Along the Banks of Jacobs Creek in the chapter on the Fretz/Fretts family; info given is sketchy--there is a Daniel Stauffer in this line but seems not to be your Daniel. For what it's worth, here is the info: Anna Fretz (1799-1850) married Samuel Stauffer, "son of John and Barbara Stauffer who came fron Northampton Co., PA to Fayette Co." Samuel died June 1819 by drowning in the Yough River when his only child was 6 weeks old. When Samuel Stauffer died, Anna and her child went back to live with the Fretz family--that child was John F. Stauffer (11 May 1819-1897), who married Catherine Monosmith (1829-1888). John F. Stauffer had 9 children: Annie, Samuel, Elizabeth married M. G. Potter, John M., Daniel M. married Barbara E. Saylor (niece of my g-g-grandmother Mary Saylor Loucks), Catharine married Jordon N. Stoner, Eli married Flora Sherrick, Ada married Thomas W. Porter, and Martin. The Mennonites of Westmoreland Co. mentions a John Stauffer "not related to the minister Abraham Stauffer...probably a son-in-law of the John Shank who six years later bought land in the adjoining township of Bullskin. Shank came here from Hagerstown, MD and John Stauffer was evidently from the same place," and says in the 1790 US census John Stauffer is given as head of a family of 8 persons in Tyrone Tnshp., Fayette Co. Since the two sources disagree about where John Stauffer came from, it is unclear if they are talking about the same John Stauffer.