Amanda Reiff Sweigart^[1]

1879 - 1940  (61 years)

• Name	Amanda Reiff Sweigart
  Birth	15 Feb 1879
  Gender	Female
  Death	13 Nov 1940
  Burial	Bowman Cemetery, Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I2551	Tulpehocken Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	Chambers Usner Sweigart,   b. 29 Aug 1841, Pennsylvania, USA d. 24 Aug 1923, Ephrata Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Anna Hershey Reiff,   b. 24 Oct 1842, Pennsylvania, USA d. 23 Feb 1917, Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 74 years)
  Family ID	F1971	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Phares B Gehman,   b. 6 Sept 1875   d. 12 Mar 1898 (Age 22 years)
  Children	1. Amos F Gehman,   b. 27 Feb 1897   d. 26 Jul 1897 (Age 0 years)   2. Anna Mary Gehman,   b. 17 May 1898   d. 22 Jan 1991 (Age 92 years)
  Family ID	F1972	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family 2	John Lemon Gockley,   b. 26 Feb 1855   d. 6 Oct 1936 (Age 81 years)
  Children	1. Elizabeth Mae Gockley,   b. 28 Jul 1909, Ephrata Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 11 Apr 1994, Medical Center Hospital, 809 E Marion Avenue, Punta Gorda, Florida, USA (Age 84 years)   2. John Lemon Gockley, Jr,   b. 8 Dec 1910   d. 17 Sep 2001 (Age 90 years)   3. Harry Chambers Gockley,   b. 28 Feb 1913   d. 19 May 1996 (Age 83 years)   4. Charles W Gockley,   b. 25 Oct 1915   d. 10 Apr 1999 (Age 83 years)   5. Amanda Gockley,   b. 17 Apr 1917   d. 23 Nov 1969 (Age 52 years)   6. Jacob Gockley,   b. 7 Mar 1919   d. 16 Dec 2005 (Age 86 years)   7. Eli Gockley,   b. 7 Aug 1922   d. 9 Dec 1928 (Age 6 years)   8. Frank Gockley,   b. 26 Jan 1924, Pennsylvania, USA d. 12 Apr 1926, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 2 years)
  Family ID	F540	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Mrs. Amanda Gockley, sixth-one, widow of J. Lemon Gockley, of 210 West Franklin Street, Ephrata, died at 6:45 a.m., Wednesday at the Lancaster General Hospital of a complication of diseases after an illness of four weeks. She is survived by these children: Anna Mary, wife of Jacob Musser, Denver; Lizzie, wife of Nathaniel Martin, Ephrata R2; John, Womelsdorf; Harry, Jacob and Miss Amanda, all of Ephrata; Charles, of Reamstown; and a stepson, Edwin Gockley, of Ephrata; also 24 grandchildren; and these brothers and sisters: Mrs. Reuben Horst, Ephrata R2; Mrs. John Rutt, Ephrata; Jacob Sweigart, Newton, Kansas; Mrs. Frank Kilhefner, New Holland; and Eli Sweigart, Ephrata R1. She was a member of the Ephrata Mennonite Church. Private funeral services will be held at the home on Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, with public services in the Ephrata Mennonite Church at 2 o'clock. Interment will be made in Bowman's Cementery, Ephrata. Friends may call from 7 to 9 o'clock this (Friday) evening. New Holland Clarion

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] Website: Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree (Reliability: 0). http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=53028956&pid=2551 [S64] Website: Find a Grave [text], https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84226890/amanda-reiff-gockley (Reliability: 2).