Elizabeth Lesher
(1804-1877)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Moses Kiefer

Elizabeth Lesher 1 2 3

  • Born: 8 Oct 1804, , , Pennsylvania, USA 2 3 4
  • Marriage (1): Moses Kiefer on 31 Dec 1837 in Ephrata, Lancaster, PA 1
  • Died: 22 Feb 1877, , Lancaster, PA at age 72 2 3
  • Buried: East Cocalico Twp.: Muddy Creek Church Cemetery, Lancaster, PA 2 3

   FamilySearch ID: L81N-75J.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1850 in Brecknock Twp., Lancaster, PA. 4 The 1850 census recorded Elizabeth Kiefer, 49, living with her two children: Lydia, 10; and Eliza, 6. She had no occupation and had real estate valued at $800. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. Her immediate neighbors are Benjamin Stover, cooper, 57, and his wife Anna, 29; and Samuel Laush, farmer, 52, and his wife Nancy, 42.

2. Census in 1870 in Brecknock Twp., Lancaster, PA. 5 Jeremiah Bicher appears in the 1870 Census in Brecknock Township as a 22-year old farm laborer living on the farm owned by Samuel Keiffer, age 59 and his wife Susan, 58, and their daughter, Elizabeth, 17. Samuel's real estate was valued at $3500 and his personal estate $1486. The post office was Bowmansville.
Next door is the widow Elizabeth Keifer, 60, with her daughter Eliza, 25. Also in the home is Isaac Keifer, shoemaker, 66. Elizabeth's real estate was valued at $750 and personal estate $577.
[note: Jeremiah Bicher married Elizabeth Keiffer and her PA death certificiate states her father was Moses Kieffer and mother Elizabeth Lesher. Moses was the brother of Isaac Samuel and died in 1847. His wife is the widow Elizabeth and her daughter Eliza married Jeremiah soon after the 1870 census was recorded. ].


Elizabeth married Moses Kiefer, son of Gottfried Kiefer and Margreth Stover, on 31 Dec 1837 in Ephrata, Lancaster, PA.1 (Moses Kiefer was born on 1 Dec 1801 in , , Pennsylvania, USA,2 6 died on 1 Feb 1847 in , Lancaster, PA 2 6 and was buried in East Cocalico Twp.: Muddy Creek Church Cemetery, Lancaster, PA 2 6.)


Sources


1 Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 581. Lancaster > Ephrata > Bethany United Church of Christ. Marriage of Moses Kieffer to Elizabeth Lesher.

2 Muddy Creek Church Cemetery (Denver, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mickey/muddycreek/muddy.html .).

3 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103755526.

4 1850 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M4H5-ZGK Eliza Kiefer in entry for Elizabeth Kiefer, 1850.

5 1870 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, Brecknock Township, Page 26.

6 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103755749.



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