Faculty: 1874-1875

Birth: 7 Jul 1850, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana, USA
Death: 5 Sep 1935, Marion, Marion County, Ohio, USA

Parents:
David Melanchthon Henkel (1819-1904)
Helea Anna Maria Henkel (c. 1822-1874)

Siblings:
Susan A Hoyle Henkel Bennick (1815-1849)
Polycarp Cyprian Henkel (1820-1889)
Socrates Henkel (1823-1901)
Cicero Henkel (1825-1879)
Flora Henkel Fox (1827-1901)
Eleonora Henkel Null (1829-1913)

Spouse: Calvin Wright Sifferd (1850-1925)
Marriage: 2 May 1875, Cabarrus County, North Carolina

Children: 
Paul Alexander Sifferd (1876-1963)
William David Sifferd (1879-1958)
Mary Magdalen Sifferd Dorsey (1881-1961)
Calvin Solon Sifferd (1883-1934)
Lillian Henkel Sifferd Koonce (1889-1986)
Charles L. Sifferd (fatally burned at age three)

Burial: Ebenezer Lutheran Church Cemetery, China Grove, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA

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From Memorial Record of Licking County, Ohio: Containing Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of the County (Chicago, 1894) p. 353.

May 1, 1875, Rev. Mr. Sifferd secured an efficient helpmate, one who has since been of great assistance to him in his work as he was then united in marriage with Mary R. Henkel, daughter of Rev. D. M. Henkel, D. D. This estimable lady was born in Goshen, Ind., received an excellent education at Bethlehem, Pa., and at the time of her marriage was teacher in a seminary at Mt. Pleasant, N. C. The family of which she is a member has long been represented in America, its first representatives in the country having settled at New Market, Va. Her grandfather, Rev. Charles Henkel, and his brother, Andrew, were the first members of the family who came to Ohio. Both were ministers, and their names are inseparably associated with the early history of the Lutheran Church in Licking County.

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The Charlotte News (Charlotte, NC), 6 Sep 1936, p. 22.

Mrs. Sifferd Is Claimed by Death

Mooresville, Sept. 6. – A message received by relatives here announced the death in Marion, Ohio, yesterday morning of Mrs. Calvin Sifferd.

Mrs. Sifferd was formerly of Rowan county, of the Ebenezer church community near China Grove. Before her marriage she was Miss Mary Henkel, of Virginia. Both her family and that of her husband have been prominent in the annals of the Lutheran church. Since the death of her husband, ten years ago, Mrs. Sifferd had made her home in Ohio with her daughter, Mrs. Walter Dorsey.

The body will be brought to China Grove Saturday, and funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at Ebenezer church.

P. M., J. V., and C. E. Barger of this city, are nephews of Mrs. Sifferd and there are numerous relatives of the family living in Salisbury, China Grove and Concord.