Adam Herr LeFevre

• LEFEVRE, ADAM, DAR Ancestor #: A068932
• Service: PENNSYLVANIA Rank: PRIVATE
• Birth: 2-27-1745 STRASBURG TWP LANCASTER CO PENNSYLVANIA
• Death: 2-15-1814 LAMPETER TWP LANCASTER CO PENNSYLVANIA
• Service Source: PA ARCH, 5TH SER, VOL 7, PP 42, 96, 648
• Service Description: 1) CAPTS JOHN SLETER & SAMUEL HEANS 2) 1ST BATT, LANCASTER CO. MIL

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Purchased 1 1/2 acres in 1793 from Joseph Lefever of Strasburg Twp. to "carrying on the Tanning Business"... that his daughter and son in law, Daniel Esbenshade had started. They later purchased this land from Adam.

Buried in the Philip Lefever Cemetery, on the corner of Beaver Valley Pike and Gypsy HIll Road- across from the "big spring", and stone house. Cemetery sits behind the brick house on the corner, where once a chiropractor held office. Tombstone inscription is interpreted from German. Notes from Aunt Edna say that the "Epitaph days are incorrect on tombstone. should be 68 yrs, 11 mos. and 17 days--not 12 days.

Revolutionary War soldier.

Adam purchased this land drom his older brother Isaac Lefever, eldest son of Philip Lefever, for whom this cemetery is named. Adam Lefever then became owner of this cemetery.

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Sep 10 2023, 17:42:15 UTC

The *Philip Lefever Burying Ground*

The Reverend Mr. William F. Worner went about Lancaster County copying all the old grave markers he could find, which he recorded as librarian of the Lancaster County Historical Society. He wrote, "The Lefever graveyard, approximately 50 by 100 feet, was originally on the farm of Christian Lefever [10-098] now owned by Furry H. Frey in West Lampeter Township. The graveyard, if an almost impenetrable blackberry thicket may be referred to as a graveyard, is about two hundred feet from Gypsy Hill Road that leads from Lancaster to Route No. 222. The graveyard is about three hundred yards north-east of the "Big Spring," which has long been a landmark in Lancaster County. On July 13, 1935 we paid our first visit to the blackberry patch and copied as many of the inscriptions as we could under the most scratching conditions. Doubtless we missed some of the tombstones; if we did, it could not be avoided for it was almost impossible thoroughly to penetrate the jungle. We counted 20 headstones, 10 foot stones, and a number of field stones." We wonder how many graves could be there.

Circa 1985 a Lefever descendant wrote to Franklin D. Lefever, publisher of THE PENNSYLVANIA LEFEVRES, about this old cemetery. Franklin investigated, had a difficult time finding it, and when he finally located it in the thicket, most of the markers had been tramped down into the soft earth by cattle who used that cool shady area as a standing place. Painstakingly he cleared it, set up the markers he could find, and wired together many of the broken remaining markers. It took him more than a week! Then the farmer fenced the cemetery to keep the cattle away. In 1995 Franklin succeeded in finding a Lefever descendant who was willing to keep the cemetery grass mowed.

(pennsylvanialefevres.org)* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Sep 10 2023, 18:03:48 UTC