John Garrett Seifert

Birth: Mar. 22, 1892 Lancaster County Pennsylvania, USA Death: May 6, 1971 Lancaster Lancaster County Pennsylvania, USA

John G. Seifert, 79 of 405 N. Hanover St. Elizabethtown, died Thursday (May 6, 1971) at St. Joseph's Hospital following an illness of 10 days. Born in the Mountville area, he was the son of the late Emmanuel and Emma Garrett Seifert. He was the husband of Anna F. Seifert. He was a member of the Elizabethtown Mennonite Church and was a retired farmer. Seifert had been employed at Dave's Grocery for about nine years. He was the caretaker of the Elizabethtown Mennonite Cemetery for 28 years. In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, Alvin S. and John S. both of Elkhart, Ind.; six daughters, Elizabeth, wife of Rufus Kulp, Hershey; Emma, wife of Joseph Finley, Lancaster; Miriam S. Seifert of Elizabethtown ; Anna Mary, wife of Claude Rupp, Columbia; Kathryn, wife of Ernest Berglund, Lancaster; Arlene, wife of Harold Kulp, Lewistown; 14 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren and a sister, Mary, wife of Solomon Strohm, Lititz.

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Parents:

 Emanuel H Seifert (1853 - 1936)

Siblings:

 Minnie G Seifert Harsh (1882 - 1963)*

 Annie G Seifert Wertz (1884 - 1967)*

 Emma Garrett Seifert Milhouse (1885 - 1949)*

 Amanda G Seifert (1887 - 1947)*

 Frank Garrett Seifert (1889 - 1937)*

 John Garrett Seifert (1892 - 1971)

 Mary Garrett Seifert Strohm (1896 - 1978)*

 Irvin Garrett Seifert (1900 - 1936)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Elizabethtown Mennonite Cemetery Elizabethtown Lancaster County Pennsylvania, USA

Created by: Jack Seifert Record added: Nov 03, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 79823121

GEDCOM Note

John Garrett Seifert

John Garrett Seifert was born March 22, 1892 in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He married Alice May Shank on October 12, 1911 at the home of his parents in Mountville, Pennsylvania. The Reverend A. S. Hostetter performed the marriage ceremony.
John was a farmer in Lancaster County until the 1940's when he worked for Joseph Risser on South Market Street, Elizabethtown as a meat cutter and then in his latter years when he worked at Dave's Grocery in Elizabethtown. John "share cropped" on several farms around Lancaster County. John would raise whatever the owner wanted, but most commonly he raised corn, wheat, and tobacco. The winter months were kept busy stripping tobacco. John and Alice were members of the Elizabethtown Mennonite Church and took the family to church every Sunday. John, the hard working man that he was, was also the caretaker of the Elizabethtown Mennonite Cemetery for 28 years. John and Alice were the parents of two sons and six daughters. Their children were named, Alvin, Elizabeth, Emma, John, Miriam, Anna Mary, Kathryn, and Arlene. The two sons, Alvin and John married and moved to Elkhart, Indiana, while all of the girls ended up residing in Lancaster County with only Miriam never marrying.
Anna Mary remembers "Pop" having a radio in the house as well as an organ. For evening entertainment Anna Mary remembers playing the board game Parcheesi or checkers. Whenever John and Alice wanted to talk without the kids listening in, they would speak in German.
After school was out for the summer, several of the girls were "hired out" around the county to do domestic work for room and board. The girls were as young as 10 years old when they began their summers away from home. When the girls were about 16 years old, "Pop" made them stay home and help in the fields. Only two of the girls finished High School.
Also remembering grandpa and grandma Seifert is their grandson Gene Finley. In the early 1940's, when Gene was seven or eight years old, he remembers spending the summers living with grandpa and grandma while his mother and father worked. John and Alice's youngest daughter Arlene was still living at home. Gene remembers helping get the cows in and out of the barn and getting down hay for feed. For fun, Gene remembers playing in the yard on the farm in the country and when grandpa lived in Mount Joy, there was a playground across the street. Another luxury of living in the city in the 1940's was an indoor bathroom. When asked what he remembered most about grandpa, Gene replied, "He liked to talk a lot!"
John was a man of average height and medium to slim build. He wore wire rimmed glasses, and could often be seen wearing black pants; white shirt; and suspenders. In the 1930's John was the owner of his first car. The car was a "Reo" which looked a lot like a Model "A" Ford.
John and his family lived in numerous locations around Lancaster County.

· 1911 Mountville, (marriage to Alice Shank.)
· 1914 Newville (Elizabeth born here)
· 1918 Rural Manheim, (large farm ½ mile east of Colebrook Rd.on Landisville Rd.)
· 1920 East Petersburg
1930 Census - Pa; Lancaster Co; Rapho twp; ED 108; page 3B.
· 1930 White Oak (north of Manheim)
· 1936 Manheim Borough, Main Street. (worked at asbestos plant.)
· 1940 Mount Joy Borough, 365 Barbara Street. (worked for Joseph Risser in Elizabethtown)
· 1947 Milton Grove, (one mile north of the Rheems exit on 283, along Cloverleaf Road.)
· 1949 Elizabethtown Borough, Hummelstown Street.
· 1953 Rheems (½ south of Post Office on road to Mount Joy.)
· 1966 Elizabethtown, 405 North Hanover Street, Elizabethtown, the home of his second wife, Anna F. Smith. (Anna died in 1987 at the age of 80.)

John became ill, and after a 10 days of medical care at Lancaster General Hospital, died of heart failure at 10:29 a.m. May 6, 1971 at the age of 79. John along with his first wife Alice, and his second wife Anna, are buried in the Elizabethtown Mennonite Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.

Obituary:
John Seifert, Farmer, Dies
John G. Seifert, 79 of 405 N. Hanover St. Elizabethtown, died Thursday (May 6, 1971) at St. Joseph’s Hospital following an illness of 10 days.
Born in the Mountville area, he was the son of the late Emmanuel and Emma Garrett Seifert. He was the husband of Anna F. Seifert.
He was a member of the Elizabethtown Mennonite Church and was a retired farmer. Seifert had been employed at Dave’s Grocery for about nine years. He was the caretaker of the Elizabethtown Mennonite Cemetery for 28 years.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, Alvin S. and John S. both of Elkhart, Ind.; six daughters, Elizabeth, wife of Rufus Kulp, Hershey; Emma, wife of Joseph Finley, Lancaster; Miriam S. Seifert of Elizabethtown ; Anna Mary, wife of Claude Rupp, Columbia; Kathryn, wife of Ernest Berglund, Lancaster; Arlene, wife of Harold Kulp, Lewistown; 14 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren and a sister, Mary, wife of Solomon Strohm, Lititz.

In Memory of

JOHN G. SEIFERT

March 22, 1892
May 6, 1971

Services
Elizabethtown Mennonite Church
Elizabethtown, Pa.

Sunday, May 9, 1971
2:00 P.M.

Officiating
Bishop Clarence E. Lutz
The Rev. Paul G. Ruhl

Final Resting Place
Elizabethtown Mennonite Cemetery
Mahlon L. Lehman - Caretaker
Beagle Road
Elizabethtown, PA 17022
717-367-2361

Lived in Manheim, PA and other cities, moved to Rheems, PA in 1953