TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTION: "Jacob Levering b. June 11, 1853"

From a reprint of: "The Levering Family: Or A Genealogical Account of Wigard Levering and Gerhard Levering, Two Of The Pioneer Settlers of Roxborough Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania" by Horatio Gates Jones, 1858; Appendix (Note C), reprint page numbers 190-193: "A list of persons named Levering buried in the Roxborough graveyard [Leverington Cemetery], extracted from the Book of Records kept by the Trustees of the graveyard, and also gathered from the tombstones. The list is, of course, very imperfect, as in early times few tombstones were put up, and the Records do not begin until September 1786. The letter 'd' stands for died, and 'b' for buried." [pg. 190] AND "Adjoining this burial ground [Leverington Cemetery] is the graveyard of the Roxborough Baptist Church. The following Leverings are some of the large number buried there, as taken from the tombstones" [pg. 193; fifteen names posted 08 MAR 2010 at Find-A-Grave in the Roxborough Baptist Church Cemetery listings]

∼Jacob Levering, occupation: importer, b. 24 APR 1794 Philadelphia Co., PA; d. 08 JUN 1853 Philadelphia Co., PA; m. 11 AUG 1814 (place unknown); Elizabeth Mathias b. 1798 (place unknown); d. 24 JUL 1858 PA. Both buried: Leverington Cemetery, Roxborough, Philadelphia Co., PA.

NOTE: Roxborough Township was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia in 1854 following the passage of the "Act of Consolidation". The township had also been variously known as Manatawna and Leverington in it's earlier history.

CHILDREN (All born Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA):

1) Lemuel S. Levering b. 16 OCT 1816
2) Charles Levering b. 18 NOV 1818
3) Sarah Anna Levering b. 15 FEB 1821
4) Andrew Levering b. 24 JAN 1824
5) Edward Levering b. 26 OCT 1825
6) Cornelia Levering b. 25 APR 1828
7) Howard Levering b. 10 FEB 1831
8) Emma Levering b. 21 SEP 1833
9) Constance Levering b. 02 JUL 1835

PARENTS: Rebecca Roberts b. 15 AUG 1768 Plymouth, Montgomery Co., PA; d. 25 MAR 1854 Roxborough, Philadelphia Co., PA; m. 23 MAR 1792 Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA; Samuel Levering b. 19 DEC 1765 Roxborough, Philadelphia Co., PA; d. 05 Nov 1823 Roxborough, Philadelphia Co., PA. Both buried: Leverington Cemetery, Roxborough, Philadelphia Co., PA.

SIBLINGS (All born Philadelphia Co., PA):

1) Elizabeth Levering b. 04 FEB 1793
2) Jacob Levering b. 24 APR 1794
3) Levi Levering b. 08 APR 1796
4) Margaret Levering b. 07 NOV 1797
5) Deborah Levering b. 06 SEP 1799
6) David Levering b. 28 DEC 1800
7) Anna Levering b. 17 JAN 1803
8) Mary Ann Levering b. 05 FEB 1805
9) Rebecca Levering b. 15 OCT 1807
10) Samuel Levering b. 24 DEC 1809

PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS: Anna Thomas m. Abraham Levering.

PATERNAL GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Alice Tunes [also spelled "Alce", "Aeltie"] m. Jacob Levering. TUNES SURNAME SPELLING VARIATIONS: Teun, Teunis, Teunisen, Teunissen, Theunissen, Tunes, Tunis, Tunnes, Tennis, etc.

PATERNAL GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: Magdalena Boeker m. John Wigard Levering. BOEKER SURNAME SPELLING VARIATIONS (with/without an "s" at the end; Böker spelled in English: "Boeker"): Bäcker, Baecker, Baker, Bakker, Becke, Becker, Bocker, Boecker, Boeker, Boekr, Böker, Boker, etc.

PATERNAL GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS: 1) Elizabeth Van De Walle m. Rosier Levering. 2) Sidonia Wilhelmina Braviers m. Willem "William" Böker.