Elizabeth Harriet Glatfelter

Brief Life History of Elizabeth Harriet

When Elizabeth Harriet Glatfelter was born on 19 May 1917, in York, York, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Frederick Franklin “Frank” Glatfelter, was 34 and her mother, Mary C Gephart, was 32. She married Milton Andrew Decker on 14 November 1946, in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in West York, York, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and York, Pennsylvania, United States in 2007. She died on 14 September 2007, in Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Shiloh, West Manchester Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Milton Andrew Decker
1900–1993
Elizabeth Harriet Glatfelter
1917–2007
Marriage: 14 November 1946
Milton Gene Decker
1947–2010

Sources (13)

  • Harriet E Elatfelter in household of Fred H Elatfelter, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Elizabeth H Glatfelter, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
  • Elizabeth H Decker, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

Americanized form of Swiss German Glattfelder (see Gladfelter ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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