Chauncey Edward Senft (1880 - 1959)

Born 4 Sep 1880 in Pleasant Valley, Carroll, Maryland, United States

Husband of Carrie May (Sprenkle) Senft — married 12 Nov 1914 in Hanover, York, Pennsylvania, United States

Died 2 Nov 1959 at age 79 in York, Pennsylvania, United States

Biography

Chauncey Senft has German Roots.

Chauncey Senft was a Pennsylvanian.

Chauncey, eldest son of George Senft and Rachel Ann Rebecca "Annie" Zepp, was born 4 September 1880 in Pleasant Valley, Carroll County, Maryland.^[1][2][3]

Chauncey (age 20) was already fully grown before he was included for the first time on the census in 1900, when he was a farmhand in Middleburg, Carroll County, Maryland, household of William H. Reifsnider (68, farmer).^[1]

He returned to his mother's new home in Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania, by 1910. Annie (age 48, mother of three, all living) had remarried to Jacob S. Spangler (47, day laborer), who had taken in his stepsons Chauncey E. (29, drugstore salesman), William H. (27, shoe factory worker) and Charles C. Senft (25, printer in a printing office).^[4]

On 12 November 1914 in Hanover, York County, he married Carrie May Sprenkle,^[5] daughter of Charles Elsworth Sprenkle and Emma Elizabeth Slagle. (Chauncey's brother William Henry Senft married Carrie's sister May F. Sprenkle.) Chauncey and Carrie had two children:

• Anna "Elizabeth" (Senft) Hoke (b. 15 October 1915;^[6][7] m. John Franklin Hoke;^[7] d. 12 February 1991).^[6][7]

• Charles George Senft (b. 6 February 1922;^[8] married (living);^[8] d. 12 October 2011).^[8] Veteran of World War II.^[9]

When he registered for the draft in 1918, Chauncey was a married, 38-year-old shoe maker working for Sheppard & Myers in Hanover, and living there on South Franklin Street.^[2] At that time he was described as of medium height and build with blue eyes and partially bald.^[2]

In 1920, Chauncey E. (age 39, shoe factory pullover) and Carrie M. Senft (31) owned a house on South Franklin Street in Penn Township, York County, where they lived with their daughter Anna Elizabeth (4).^[10] They were likely in the same house on South Franklin Street Extended in 1930, when the household encompassed Chauncey E. (age 49, shoe factory pullover) and Carrie M. (42), their children Anna Elizabeth (14) and Charles George Senft (8), Carrie's widowed maternal grandfather Henry Christian Slagle (92) and a widowed sister-in-law Lizzie Michael (47).^[11]

Chauncey E. (59, bottom inker at shoe factory) and Carrie M. (52) were still domiciled at 528 South Franklin Street in Pennville, Penn Township, in 1940, with their son Charles G. (18, doing odd jobs at auto repair shop) and Carrie's widowed sister May F. (Sprenkle) Senft (49).^[12] The record shows that Chauncey had completed six years of formal education; Carrie and her sister, seven; and Charles had finished his junior year of high school.^[12]

Chauncey died 2 November 1959 in York County, and was buried there at Rest Haven Cemetery.^[13]

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} United States Census, 1900, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 22 October 2019), Chancey Senft in household of William H Reifsnider, Election District 10, Middleburg, Carroll, Maryland, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 136, sheet 7A, family 130, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,620.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, database with images, FamilySearch (26 August 2019), Chauncey Edward Senft, 1917-1918.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, database with images, FamilySearch (9 March 2018), Chauncey Edward Senft, 1942; citing NARA microfilm publication M1936, M1937, M1939, M1951, M1962, M1964, M1986, M2090, and M2097 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} United States Census, 1910, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 22 October 2019), Chauncy E Senft in household of Jacob S Spangler, Hanover Ward 1, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 58, sheet 9B, family 214, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1433; FHL microfilm 1,375,446.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950, database with images, FamilySearch (24 September 2017), Chauncey E. Senft and Carrie M. Sprenkle, 12 Nov 1914; citing Marriage, , York, Pennsylvania, United States, multiple County Clerks, Pennsylvania.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} United States Social Security Death Index, database, FamilySearch (21 August 2020), A Elizabet Hoke, Feb 1991; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 07 September 2020), memorial page for Anna Elizabeth “Elizabeth” Senft Hoke (15 Oct 1915–12 Feb 1991), Find A Grave: Memorial #58838915, citing Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by Margaret Sopp (contributor 46619622). Anna's headstone is engraved with her full birth and death dates. Her memorial includes information provided by family members.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 07 September 2020), memorial page for Charles George Senft (6 Feb 1922–12 Oct 2011), Find A Grave: Memorial #154465837; Maintained by Harry Senft (contributor 46798826). Cremated, Ashes scattered in Lake Tahoe, NV.
9. ↑ United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, database, FamilySearch (5 December 2014), Charles G Senft, enlisted 21 Mar 1946, Shelbyville, Indiana, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 1263923, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} United States Census, 1920, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 22 October 2019), Chauncy E Senft, Penn, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing ED 88, sheet 7B, line 51, family 174, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1668; FHL microfilm 1,821,668.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} United States Census, 1930, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 22 October 2019), Chauncey E Senft, Penn, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 63, sheet 22A, line 12, family 22, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2166; FHL microfilm 2,341,900.
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1 12.2} United States Census, 1940, database with images, FamilySearch (20 August 2019), Chauncey E Senft, Penn Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 67-74, sheet 12B, line 69, family 268, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3643.
13. ↑ ^{13.0 13.1} Find A Grave: Memorial #105501555 for Chauncey E. Senft, 1959, buried at Rest Haven Cemetery in Hanover, York, Pennsylvania, United States of America (retrieved 13 December 2015).

• "Family Tree," database, "FamilySearch" (modified 22 October 2019, 22:06), entry for Chauncey Edward Senft; contributed by various users.

Acknowledgements

This profile was created, researched and initially written by Kathy Rabenstein (fifth cousin, twice removed).