BIOGRAPHY: Levi GIFT, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume II, page 732.

  LEVI GIFT, deceased, was born in Snyder county, son of Jacob Gift.  Jacob Gift 
was a son of Andrew Gift;  he was brought up on his father's farm near 
Middleburg, Snyder county, and devoted his life to farming.  Jacob Gift married 
Elizabeth Rawyer, of Centre county.  Besides Levi, their children are:  John, 
who married Miss Poobst, and lives in Illinois;  Isaac, married and went to 
California, where he died, leaving one daughter and four sons;  Michael, married 
Anna Kleckner, of Illinois, where they reside;  Henry, who died aged thirty-five 
years;  Elizabeth (Mrs. Jacob Pyle), of Juniata county, was first married to 
John Houtz, who died, leaving two sons, Jackson and Levi;  Mary (Mrs. Charles 
Kleckner), of Illinois;  Lavinia (Mrs. Zeno Fess), of Lewistown, Pa., died in 
October, 1895;  and Amelia, deceased.  Jacob Gift died suddenly in the prime of 
his life, being about forty years of age.  His widow survived him until 1864, 
when she died aged seventy-seven.
  Levi Gift came to Mifflin county in 1847 and purchased 300 acres of land in 
Decatur township;  on it he built a new barn and made many improvements.  He was 
a Republican.  Levi Gift was married in 1842, to Matilda, daughter of Jacob and 
Elizabeth (Close) Fess.  Their children are:  Ammon, a Lutheran minister, who 
married Julia Wentzel, of Indiana, has one son, George, and resides at 
Rochester, Fulton county, Ind.;  Robert, who remains on the old homestead and is 
farming.  Mr. And Mrs. Gift were faithful members of the Lutheran church.  Mr. 
Gift died May 27, 1888, aged sixty-five years.  His wife's death occurred 
February 16, 1895, in her seventy-second year.