Rev. Ephraim Kieffer and Eleanor Spangler

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Husband Rev. Ephraim Kieffer ^{1 2}

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           Born: 17 Jan 1812 2
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           Died: 11 May 1871 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Joseph Kieffer (1784-1849) 3
         Mother: Hannah Falk (      -      ) 4

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   Other Spouse: Margaret Linn (1825-      ) 1 2 - 10 Aug 1848 1 2

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Wife Eleanor Spangler ²

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Children

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1 F Hannah Kieffer ²

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         Spouse: John R. Cornelius (      -      ) 2

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2 M John B. Kieffer ²

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           Born: 20 Oct 1839 5
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         Spouse: Lalla M. B. Troup (1840-      ) 5

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3 M Rev. J. Spangler Kieffer ^{2 6}

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           Born: 3 Feb 1842 5
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         Spouse: Mary Martin Clark (1848-      ) 5 6

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4 F Lydia J. Kieffer ²

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         Spouse: Luther C. Furst (      -      ) 2

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5 M Harry M. Kieffer ²

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         Spouse: Mary Riley (      -      ) 7

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6 M Benjamin Ephraim Kieffer ²

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Ephraim Kieffer

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He was reared in Berkeley and Jefferson counties, West Virginia. At the age of eigliteen he came to Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and while clerking in a store he received catachetical instructions from Rev. Frederick Rahauser, which led him to adopt the ministry in the Reformed Church as his life work. He obtained his literary and theological training at the German Reformed High School and Theological Seminary at York, 1831-35, and was ordained pastor of a new charge, comprising Bellefonte and Schneider's and Best's churches, in Centre County, in 1836. He was afterward pastor of Mifflinburg charge, in Union County, 1840-57; of the Lykens Valley charge, 1857-64; and of the Sulphur Spring Charge, near Carlisle, 1866-70.

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General Notes: Wife - Eleanor Spangler

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from York, York Co, PA

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 375.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 473.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 466.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 467.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 481.

6 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 268.

7 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 482.