Jacob is one of the youngest sons of Capt. Andrew Jr. and Ann Redheifer/Redifer.

This single tombstone is shared by the two husbands of Margaretta Phy Redifer Neff. Many generations of her Phy relatives are in this and the adjacent Montgomery 162-163 family plots.

Jacob Redifer was Margaretta's first husband, who died in 1858. She then remarried 17 Oct. 1859 to Jacob Neff, by the Rev. Alfred Cookman of Union Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia. Cookman was nationally known as among founders of the Christian Holiness Partnership camp meetings association.

The 1850 Philadelphia census shows Jeweler Jacob Redifer, age 58 (born around 1792) living with Margaretta Redifer, 37, and Mary Thomas, 13. It's not yet clear who that Mary Thomas might be. There are Thomases in the Phy family, including in Montgomery 162-3, but no clear association with a Mary fitting Jacob's household.

Jacob's census, does, however, match easily to documents about Jacob's silversmith work.
Jacob's maker's mark, "Redifer," was impressed into his handiworks. He shows in city directories of the time, also spelled that way.

Margaretta may not have had children of her own with either husband.

Jacob, however, evidently was married before he married Margaretta. Church records show Jacob Redifer married Susanna Engert/Engard in 1815, and had at least two children with her before she evidently died in childbirth. Susanna and the children are buried at the church cemetery of Jacob's parents and older siblings. Their marriage ceremony was performed by the same Mennonite minister that married his brother John and wife, Margaret Cupp. Also, Susanna's married surname spelling of "Redifer" is unusual for the extended Redheifer/Redheffer/Redifer family buried at St. Thomas -- all of that spelling are close family to this Jacob, such as his nephews and niece under Jacob's brother John.

Health records in the Phy genealogy collection show that on 10 Oct. 1874, the bodies of Jacob "Redheffer" -- debatably meaning surname references were erroneous or evolving, depending on one's view of that -- and John Smith were reinterred at West Laurel Hills here from old Odd Fellows while the body of John Thomas -- probably Margaretta's brother-in-law -- was reinterred along with them from "Ausbury Vault," likely Asbury Vault and Methodist. This Jacob's brother John Sr. (Memorial # 95516246) was being similarly reinterred from old Odd Fellows to Mount Peace Cemetery (in 1870). Later, unclaimed Odd Fellows graves -- such as Jacob and John's brothers William (Memorial 95826841) and Josephus -- all went automatically to Lawnview, in the 1950s.

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* Jacob Redifer Engard (1817-1890, #49453859) in Union Cemetery, Montgomery County, is this Jacob's nephew, son of his sister Mary and Peter Tribble Engard. That younger Jacob also married a Susanna (Stoudt)

* Jacob Redifer Smith (1844-1904, Memorial # 37297241), in St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery at Ardmore PA was the son of this Jacob's wife Margaretta Phy's sister Rebecca, who had married Thomas P. Smith.

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Among other records for Margaretta's silversmith Jacob Redifer:

The 1830 census shows an Andrew and Jacob "Redolpher," with others from the Andrew Jr. and Ann Redheifer-Redifer clan living near by. Jacob's brothers and parents are in cemeteries along that same Montgomery-Philadelphia border area. Importantly, 1830 was after the death of this Jacob's uncle Jacob, thus distinguishing the two.

"Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915," Jacob Redheffer, 1874 ( https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J6B2-R3Y
name: Jacob Redheffer
event: Death
event date: 1874 [ this is just a record of the reinterment date; death and first burial was 1858 ]
event place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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cemetery: West Laurelhill
burial place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
burial date: 10 Oct 1874
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film number: 2026532
digital folder number: 004010205
image number: 00676
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"Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915," index and images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J6B2-R3Y : accessed 06 Sep 2012), Jacob Redheffer, 1874.

The Neffs with whom this Jacob is buried relate to the Blockley area that is a border of Montgomery and Philadelphia counties.

Anna E. Redifer (1856-1918, # 95726406), granddaughter of this Jacob's brother John Redifer Sr. of Mount Peace Cemetery, wrote in her family genealogy notes that her grandfather John had a brother Jacob who lived at 906 Coates St., died at 67 [ about which Anna also added (1859?) ], was a Mason and in Odd Fellows Liberty Lodge #17 and West Philadelphia Home Steam Association. Other Redifer family members than Jacob were involved in fields where that association was also pertinent. The notes also referenced their other brother William and his wife Mary (see links, below).