{"id":23762,"date":"2024-07-06T11:19:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T16:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23762"},"modified":"2024-08-10T06:08:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T11:08:04","slug":"leverington-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23762","title":{"rendered":"Leverington Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23764\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_20240706_016972.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23764\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_20240706_016972-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Leverington Cemetery\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_20240706_016972-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_20240706_016972-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_20240706_016972-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_20240706_016972-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_20240706_016972.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leverington Cemetery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is Leverington Cemetery. My 7th-great-grandparents\u2014John Wigard Levering (February 2, 1648 \u2013 February 2, 1745) and his wife Magdalena Bokers Levering (who died in 1717)\u2014were among the first to be buried here. Their grandson (Septimus, my 5th-great-grandfather) and his wife Mary Thomas Levering are also buried here. John and his brother Gerhard owned about 500 acres between them in what is now called Roxborough although it was at one time called Leverington. While there are no markers for my direct ancestors, I thought it would be interesting to visit, and since we were nearby for a wedding, it seemed like a good opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Leverington Cemetery. My 7th-great-grandparents\u2014John Wigard Levering (February 2, 1648 \u2013 February 2, 1745) and his wife Magdalena Bokers Levering (who died in 1717)\u2014were among the first to be buried here. Their grandson (Septimus, my 5th-great-grandfather) and his wife Mary Thomas Levering are also buried here. John and his brother Gerhard owned about 500 &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23762\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[220,356,3557,3556,645,3558],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23765,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762\/revisions\/23765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}