York County PA Archives Biographies.....Sehcrist, Jacob H.  
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Author: Prowell's History of York County Pennsylvania, Biographical, Volume II
Chicago J. H. Beers & Co. 1907 pages 863

JACOB H. SECHRIST, one of the prominent and popular citizens of York
township, where he is engaged in general farming and in the breeding and
handling of horses and mules, is a representative of the third
generation of the SECHRIST family in York county.
     Henry SECHRIST, his paternal grandfather, was born and bred in
Germany, whence he came to America in young manhood. Soon after his
arrival he located in Chanceford township, York Co., Pa., where he
became a prosperous farmer and distiller and where he passed the
remainder of his life, which reached the venerable age of eighty-five
years. His mortal remains were interred in the cemetery in Chanceford
township, as were also those of his two wives. His first wife was a
FLINCHBAUGH, and after her death he married a SECHRIST, a representative
of another branch of the family. Of the children of the first union,
John died in Chanceford township; Henry is mentioned below; Jonathan,
Charles and Elizabeth died in Chanceford township; and Mary who became
the wife of Jacob KOHLER, died in York township. Of the second marriage
three daughters were born, namely: Leah, who is the wife of Charles
GROVE, of York county; Nancy, who became the wife of Emanuel GROVE, and
died in Chanceford township; and Susan, wife of Charles DIEHL, also
deceased.
     Henry SECHRIST, father of Jacob H. was born and reared in
Chanceford township, where he received a common-school education, and
where he became identified with the same lines of enterprise that his
father so successfully followed - farming and distilling. Finally he
removed to York township, where he became the owner of a fine farm, and
where he continued to reside until the close of his life in 1885. He
was a man of marked individuality and sterling character, and was held
in high esteem. He was a Democrat in politics, and both he and his
wife were members of the Reformed Church. His wife, Mary, likewise born
in York county, a member of a old and honored family, was summoned into
eternal rest in 1870. Of the children of Henry and Mary SECHRIST is the
following record: Caroline became the wife of Joseph SLENKER and died in
Spring Garden township; Henry, Jr., who married Rebecca SLENKER, died in
this county; Adam, a prosperous farmer in Windsor township, has been
trice married, his present wife having been Elizabeth STRICKLER;
Charles, who married Nancy SEITZ, is a resident of York township; Jacob
H. was next in the order of birth; John, who married Mary STRICKLER,
lives in Windsor township; William, who married Mary STILLINGER, resides
in Windsor township; Peter, also of that township, married Mary SNELL;
Frank remained unmarried, and died in Windsor township at the age of
fifty-three years; Mary died at the age of sixteen' Emanuel, who married
Louise ROSER, lives in Windsor township; and Catherine, deceased, was
the first wife of Moses SNYDER, of Yoe, a local preacher of the United
Brethren Church.