Photograph- Marker at Lefever Cemetery on North Star Road off of Route 896 near Strasburg. Marker reads: The Huguenots were the protestants of France. Dr. James LeFevre, of 1450, made the first translation of the Bible into French, published in 1530. Isaac LeFevre, our American ancestor, escaped from persecution and death in France in 1685, came to America in 1708 and settled here in Pequea Valley in 1712.
Photograph- Marker at Lefever Cemetery on North Star Road off of Route 896 near Strasburg. Marker reads: The Huguenots were the protestants of France. Dr. James LeFevre, of 1450, made the first translation of the Bible into French, published in 1530. Isaac LeFevre, our American ancestor, escaped from persecution and death in France in 1685, came to America in 1708 and settled here in Pequea Valley in 1712.
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Marker at Lefever Cemetery on North Star Road off of Route 896 near Strasburg. Marker reads: The Huguenots were the protestants of France. Dr. James LeFevre, of 1450, made the first translation of the Bible into French, published in 1530. Isaac LeFevre, our American ancestor, escaped from persecution and death in France in 1685, came to America in 1708 and settled here in Pequea Valley in 1712.
Herr, Benjamin B. Guardian of Susan Salome Lefevre.
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