LeFevre is also spelled Ferber, LaFevre, LaFever, Lefebre, LeFever,and LeFevere. It is from the original Northern French surname Lefebvre or Lefèvre. It means smith.
Mennonites are Christians who reject infant Baptism. In the early 18th century about 2,500 Mennonites fled to Pennsylvania from persecution in the Palatinate. They opposed the Revolution, resisted public education, and did not approve of religious revivalism. They supported separation of church and state, and opposed slavery.
She married Joseph Leaman (or Layman, Lehman, Leman) on December 13, 1781.
Joseph was born in May, 1757 in West Lampeter, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His parents were John Leaman and Elizabeth Brenneman.
They were Mennonites.
Elizabeth and Joseph's children included:
John Leaman (1782, married Elizabeth Kreider,),
Charlotte Leaman Bruneman (1789),
Joseph Leaman (1791, married Lydia Hartman)
Samuel Leaman (1796)
George Leaman (1797, married Hester LeFevre)
Abraham Leaman (1800, married Elizabeth Buckwalder), and
Elizabeth Leaman
(1802),
Pennsylvania is one of the 13 original states and was originally founded in 1681 as a result of a royal land grant to William Penn, the son of the state's namesake.
