Wigard Levering (1648/49 - 1744 )
FATHER: Rosier Levering
MOTHER: Elizabeth (Van de Walle) Levering
SPOUSE: Magdalena (Bokers) Levering (b. 1650, Germany; d. 1717, Roxborough); m. 1674
BURIAL SITE: Supposedly somewhere in Leverington Cemetery /Roxborough Baptist Church
MOTHER: Elizabeth (Van de Walle) Levering
SPOUSE: Magdalena (Bokers) Levering (b. 1650, Germany; d. 1717, Roxborough); m. 1674
BURIAL SITE: Supposedly somewhere in Leverington Cemetery /Roxborough Baptist Church
(2) JOHN WIGARD born in 1648 or 49 in the town of Gemen, in Germany. In April 1674 he married the chaste virgin Magdalena Bokers of Essen. She was a native of Leyden in Holland. They lived in Gemen until some time after the birth and decease of their first child and then removed to Mulheim, where they remained until they emigrated to America after the 20th of March 1685, bringing their surviving four children.
He settled first in Germantown, Philadelphia and removed from there a short distance west into Roxborough Township in 1691, where he bought a tract of five hundred acres of land lying between and bordering upon both the River Schuylkill and Wissahickon Creek. Upon this estate he lived his remaining years with his family and died there.
His wife Magdalena died in the summer of 1717, aged about 67 years. He died February 2 1745, at the probable age of 97 years, and was buried upon his farm in a spot overlooking the romantic Wissahickon, which has become a part of the famous Fairmount Park of Philadelphia. This spot subsequently became the churchyard and burial ground of the Baptist Church, organized in 1789 which was greatly enlarged and is now known as Leverington Cemetery, under a special charter from the State of Pennsylvania. This ground doubtless contains the remains of Magdalena. A gravestone marking the interment in June 1744 of their grandchild Clement Levering still stands and points the place where repose the old pioneers, though no sculptured tablet was ever erected there to their memory.
He settled first in Germantown, Philadelphia and removed from there a short distance west into Roxborough Township in 1691, where he bought a tract of five hundred acres of land lying between and bordering upon both the River Schuylkill and Wissahickon Creek. Upon this estate he lived his remaining years with his family and died there.
His wife Magdalena died in the summer of 1717, aged about 67 years. He died February 2 1745, at the probable age of 97 years, and was buried upon his farm in a spot overlooking the romantic Wissahickon, which has become a part of the famous Fairmount Park of Philadelphia. This spot subsequently became the churchyard and burial ground of the Baptist Church, organized in 1789 which was greatly enlarged and is now known as Leverington Cemetery, under a special charter from the State of Pennsylvania. This ground doubtless contains the remains of Magdalena. A gravestone marking the interment in June 1744 of their grandchild Clement Levering still stands and points the place where repose the old pioneers, though no sculptured tablet was ever erected there to their memory.
CHILDREN of WIGARD and MAGDALENA (Bokers) Levering:
(9) I. Anna Sophia: b. Jan, 1675 – died in infancy, Germany
(10) II Anna Catherine: b. March, 1676, Germany – married Henry Fry/Frey
(11) III. Maria Elizabeth: b. July, 1677, Germany, died 18 weeks
(12) IV. William: b. May 4, 1679, Germany – d. 1746
- (his son, William, founded the William Levering School in 1748, and was the owner of The Leverington Hotel)
(13) V. Amelia Anna Sophia: b. 1682, Germany – d. 1771
(14) VI. Anna Sibella: b. 1684, Germany – d. 1764
(15) VII. Herman: b. at Germantown, PA 1686 – d. 1691
(16) VIII. Elizabeth: b. Germantown, PA 1689 – d. 1703 (probably first to be buried at Leverington Cem)
(17) IX. Sidonia: b. 1691, d. 1740?
(18) X. Jacob: b. 1693, Roxborough, PA, m. Alice Tunes, d. 1753
(19) XI. Magdalena, b. 1695, d. young
(9) I. Anna Sophia: b. Jan, 1675 – died in infancy, Germany
(10) II Anna Catherine: b. March, 1676, Germany – married Henry Fry/Frey
(11) III. Maria Elizabeth: b. July, 1677, Germany, died 18 weeks
(12) IV. William: b. May 4, 1679, Germany – d. 1746
- (his son, William, founded the William Levering School in 1748, and was the owner of The Leverington Hotel)
(13) V. Amelia Anna Sophia: b. 1682, Germany – d. 1771
(14) VI. Anna Sibella: b. 1684, Germany – d. 1764
(15) VII. Herman: b. at Germantown, PA 1686 – d. 1691
(16) VIII. Elizabeth: b. Germantown, PA 1689 – d. 1703 (probably first to be buried at Leverington Cem)
(17) IX. Sidonia: b. 1691, d. 1740?
(18) X. Jacob: b. 1693, Roxborough, PA, m. Alice Tunes, d. 1753
(19) XI. Magdalena, b. 1695, d. young