When Henry Kifer was born on 19 October 1789, in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Heinrich Kauffer, was 28 and his mother, Anna Maria Meyer, was 25. He married Sarah Susanna Painter in 1814, in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. He died on 23 January 1879, in Penn Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Brush Creek Cemetery, Irwin, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States.
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German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kiefer .
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