1865 Byram Levering and Leah Rule were married on April 6 in Morrow County, Ohio. [1]
1909 Son Orpheus D Levering married Catherine Heitzig on May 20 in Franklin County, Ohio. [2]
1910 Byram Levering (age 67) and Leah (age 69) lived in Perry Twp, Morrow County, Ohio with son Alfred H Levering (age 34). [3]
1912 Leah Levering died on January 23 in Perry Twp Twp, Morrow County, Ohio. Leah Levering had lived at . [4] [Photocopy] 1912 Death record for Leah Ruhl Levering.
1912 Byron Levering and Leah Ruhl were named as parents of Alford H Levering on his marriage record to Bertha Lantz. [5]
1930 Byron Levering, widowed, spouse of Leah Ruhl, died on November 21, at age 88, in Perry Twp Twp, Morrow County, Ohio. Byron Levering was buried in Shauck. He was born on June 9, 1842, in Morrow County, Ohio, son of Morgan Levering and Mary Bell. He had lived at Perry Twp. He was a retired farmer. [6]
1935 Nora Webb, widowed, spouse of John Henry Webb, died on September 6, at age 69, in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. Nora Webb was buried in Shauck. She was born on January 27, 1866, in Perry Twp, Morrow County, Ohio, daughter of Byram Levering and Leah Rule. She had lived at Mt Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio. [7]
1940 Orpheus D Levering, widowed, spouse of Catherine Levering, died on October 5, at age 72, in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. He was born on December 27, 1867, in Morrow County, Ohio, son of Byram Levering and Leah Rule. He was a mechanical engineer. The informant was Bertha Levering. [8]
1949 Alfred Henry Levering died on April 11 in Mt. Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio. Alfred Levering, son of Byram Levering and Leah Rule, was born on September 19, 1875 in Morrow County, Ohio. He was the widow of Catherine Levering. He was a mechanical engineer. [9]
A biosketch on Byram Levering [10] reports:
Byram Levering, farmer; P. O., Woodview; son of Morgan and Mary (Bell) Levering; was born June 9, 1842, in North Woodbury, He spent his youth attending the village school, and working on the farm, near by, during the vacations. At 21 he had a good education, and began the struggle of life, for himself. He purchased the quarter section of land here, and began farming, arid stock raising quite extensively. At 23 he wooed and won the hand of Leah Ruhl daughter of Henry H., and Catherine (Patterson) Ruhl. Site was born Dec. 15, 1840, in this township. Their marriage was celebrated April 6, 1865. Five children have been born to them; four are living, arid one died in infancy. Nora, Orpheus, Alfred H., and Hylas Allen. After marriage he settled on his present home, where he erected an elegant brick Mansion of fifteen rooms, at a cost of $5000, in 1872. By his energy and management he has added another farm of 160 acres to his estate, and now owns some 320 acres of fine farming lands, with, with handsome and substantial buildings on the same. Mr. Levering has given close attention to the improvement of cattle, and has at present a herd of 27 fine grades of the short -horn stock. He was formerly interested largely in sheep. Mr. Levering, wife and daughter, are all members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. His father, Morgan Levering, was the second son of William and Ruth (Bryson) Levering, (See sketch of Milton Levering). He passed his boyhood on the old homestead in Franklin Tp. At 21 he became a clerk in the store of John Markey, at Belleville, Richland Co. 0., where he remained about four years. He then came to North Woodbury when there was only four houses in the village. A partnership was formed for general merchandise and produce business about 1836, consisting of four part ners-Morgan Levering, John Rule, John Markey, and Elkanah Van Buskirk. The two latter soon retired, and Rule and Levering continued in partnership until 1851. They hauled away produce and goods with a six-horse team to the lakes, and across the mountains to Baltimore, and other eastern cities. They raised three sons-Allen, Byram and Robert; two died young. The father died Jan. 25, 1860. [11]
Byram Levering, whose years have lengthened the thread to the golden time of life, is one of the prosperous and prominent citizens of Morrow county, Ohio. He is now living virtually retired on his fine estate of one hundred and sixty acres in Perry township. Morrow county, where he is the owner of a beautiful residence. He has the satisfaction of knowing that the farm, the improvements and the good buildings have all been wrought by his own plans and oversight and that the success in life attained by him is largely the outcome of his own well directed endeavors. At one time he was the owner of some five hundred acres of" most arable Buckeye lands but he has generously divided most of this land among his children. He and his wife are recognized for their genial, hospitable ways and they command a high place in the confidence and esteem of their neighbors and friends.
At Woodbury, Perry township, Morrow county, Ohio, on the 9th of June, 1842, occurred the birth of him to whom this sketch is dedicated and he is a son of Morgan Levering, who was born and reared in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, whence he accompanied his parents to Morrow county, Ohio, in the year 1816. William Levering, grandfather of Byram Levering, was likewise born in the old Keystone state of the Union and after his immigration to Ohio he entered a tract of one hundred and sixty acres of government land in 1812. He then returned to Pennsylvania, where he resided for the ensuing four years, at the expiration of which ht removed, with his family and all portable goods to Ohio, settling on the land previously entered by him. He was identified with farming operations during the remainder of his life and he lived to attain to the venerable age of eighty-five years. Morgan Levering was a child of but eight years of age at the time of his arrival in Morrow county, Ohio, and he was reared to maturity under the invigorating influences of the home farm, his preliminary education having consisted of such advantages as were afforded in the public schools of the locality and period. After reaching man's estate he became a clerk in a store at Belleville, Ohio, remaining at that place for some four years. He then married and came to Woodbury, in Perry township, this county, where he began operations in general merchandising and where he continued to reside during the residue of his life. He was summoned to eternal rest on the 25th of January, 1860, and at the time of his demise was worth as much as twenty-five thousand dollars, all of which he had acquired through his own thrift and industry. At the time of his settlement in Perry township, in 1836, he was the owner of seventy- five dollars but as the result of his fine executive ability and admirable business instincts he made of success not an accident but a logical outcome. He was the father of five children, two of whom are living in 1911. namely: Byram and Robert B., the latter of whom now maintains his home at Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
Byram Levering was reared to adult age in his native place of Woodbury. where he attended the public schools and assisted his father in the work and management of the store. He was a youth of but eighteen years of age at the time of his father's death and lie then purchased the farm on which he now resides. With the passage of time he accumulated a landed estate amounting to five hundred acres of most arable land in Morrow county and when his children grew up he divided the land amongst them, retaining for himself only the original homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, lie constructed his present beautiful and substantial brick house in 1872 and everything about his place is indicative of that thrift and prosperity which characterizes the practical, well-to-do farmer of the modern day. While he is now living retired from the active responsibilities connected with running the farm, he still gives to the same a general supervision. Associated with him in the management of the homestead is one of his sons, who devotes considerable attention to general agriculture and the raising of high grade stock.
On the 6th of April, 1865, Mr. Levering was united in marriage to Miss Leah Ruhl, who was born and reared in Perry township and who is a daughter of Henry Ruhl. long a prominent farmer and representative citizen in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Levering became the parents of five children, concerning whom the following brief data are here incorporated: Nora, is the wife of J. H. Webb and they maintain their home in Perry township; Orpheus D., is a machinist in Columbus, Ohio; Alfred II.. remains at the parental home; Morgan is deceased; and Hylas A., is now a resident of Congress township, Morrow county.
Mr. and Mrs. Levering are devout members of the Lutheran church, in the various departments of which they have ever been active and helpful workers and in which he has given most efficient service as deacon and elder. He is a liberal contributor to all charitable and benevolent institutions and is widely renowned as a man whose charity knows only the bounds of his opportunities. He is a man who takes a great interest in the advancement and welfare cf the county and for nine years he served in the capacity of township trustee. In his public record, as in his private life, one sees the same stanch care for the interests of the people as he displayed for his own private business. In his political convictions he endorses the cause of the Democratic party and in a fraternal way he is affiliated with various representative organizations of a local nature. His wisdom and ability are commended by those who know him and as citizens he and his wife command the highest esteem of their fellow citizens. They are known throughout the county for their affability, and their spacious, comfortable home is recognized as a center of most generous hospitality.
[1] Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958, [FamilySearchRecord].
[2] Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[3] United States Federal Census, 1910, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[4] Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007, [FamilySearchRecord].
[5] Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[6] Ohio Department of Health, Ohio, Death Certificates, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[7] Ohio Department of Health, Ohio, Death Certificates, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[8] Ohio Department of Health, Ohio, Death Certificates, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[9] Ohio Department of Health, Ohio, Death Certificates, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[10] Abraham J. Baughman, Robert Franklin Bartlett, History of Morrow County Ohio, a Narrative Account, Vol. 2 (1880), 780, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[11] William Henry Perrin, J. H. Battle, History of Morrow County and Ohio (Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1880), 820, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].