The son of Henry & Rachel (Hess) Lefever/Lefevre, in 1860 he was a farmer living with his family in Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 8" tall and had brown hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in West Chester, Chester County, June 4, 1861, mustered into federal service at Baltimore, Maryland, July 26 as a private with Co. E, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves (30th Pennsylvania Infantry), and honorably discharged at term's end June 13, 1864.
He married Margaret Ellen Oakes in 1868 and fathered (probably a partial list) Frank H. (b. 07/06/76), Mary (b. @1878), Janet E. (b. 11/26/85), Sarah "Sadie" (b. @1883), Jennie (b. @1886), and George E. (b. @1889). By 1876, he was living with his family in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
*Bio by Contributor Dennis Brandt (#47232334)
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The son of Henry & Rachel (Hess) Lefever/Lefevre, in 1860 he was a farmer living with his family in Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 8" tall and had brown hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in West Chester, Chester County, June 4, 1861, mustered into federal service at Baltimore, Maryland, July 26 as a private with Co. E, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves (30th Pennsylvania Infantry), and honorably discharged at term's end June 13, 1864.
He married Margaret Ellen Oakes in 1868 and fathered (probably a partial list) Frank H. (b. 07/06/76), Mary (b. @1878), Janet E. (b. 11/26/85), Sarah "Sadie" (b. @1883), Jennie (b. @1886), and George E. (b. @1889). By 1876, he was living with his family in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
*Bio by Contributor Dennis Brandt (#47232334)
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