An American Family History

Rebecca L. LeFevre Swope was born October 10, 1805 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Jacob LeFever and Rebecca Bachtell.

She married Thomas Swope on December 31. 1827 in Fairfield County, Ohio. Thomas was born in Huntington, Pennsylvania, on February 19, 1800. He was the son of David Swope and Mary Cole.

David Swope (1828),
Margaret A. Swope (1830), 
Jacob Swope (1831),                    
Rebecca Swope (1834),
Thomas Jefferson Swope (1835),
Mary Elizabeth Swope Sturgeon (1837, married Robert Sturgeon),
Tilitha Jane Swope Ingman (1838, married James Ingman),
Louisa Swope Ashbrook (1839, married B. F. Ashbrook),
Abner R. Swope (1840),
Samuel Swope (1844),
Felix Swope (1845, married Alice Kraft), and
Emma J. Swope Peters (1849, married Robert Peters).

They cleared the land in Amanda Township that David inherited from his father and built a two story brick house and a large frame barn. Thomas also hauled produce from the surrounding country to Baltimore, Maryland and would return with supplies for merchants of the towns near home.

In 1837 David fell from a loaded wagon and was found underneath the wagon by father. 

Fairfield County, Ohio

Children of Jacob LeFevre and Rebecca Bachtell David LeFevre Samuel LeFevre Isaac LeFevre (died young) Jacob LeFevre Margaret LeFevre Kelsey Mary LeFevre Rebecca L. LeFevre Swope John LeFevre Elizabeth LeFevre William LeFevre Sarah Ann LeFevre

From an Ohio newspaper in 1840.

In 1880 Thomas and Rebecca Swope were still living in Amanda Township, Fairfield County, Ohio. The household consisted of Thomas age 80, Rebecca age 74, Margaret age 50, Rebecca age 11, Alice age 8, Eliza Long (Rebecca's sister), servant Miranda Walters age 20 and farmhand H. J. Higens age 23.

Thomas died on August 13, 1883. Rebecca died on August 15, 1887.