Daniel B. LeVier and Sarah May "Sallie" Gardner

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Husband Daniel B. LeVier ¹

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           Born: 10 Apr 1839 - Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 27 Feb 1924 3
         Buried:  - Nickleville Cemetery, Nickleville, Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

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         Father: John D. LeVier (cal 1799-1870) 1 3
         Mother: Jane Maitland (cal 1809-1871) 1

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       Marriage: 1869 2

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• Burial: Find-a-Grave.

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Wife Sarah May "Sallie" Gardner ^{1 3}

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           Born: 1844 - Callensburg, Licking Twp, Clarion Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 30 Jun 1917 3
         Buried:  - Nickleville, Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

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         Father: Benjamin Gardner (1801-1894) 5
         Mother: Sarah Frampton (      -      ) 6

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Children

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1 M Clifford P. LeVier ¹

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           Born: Dec 1869 3
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft Feb 1924
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Frances C. [Unk] (1876-      ) 3

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2 M Charles Herbert LeVier ¹

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           Born: 1872
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 Jan 1900 - Virginia
         Buried:  - Nickleville, Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

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3 F Helen Genevieve LeVier ^{1 3}

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           Born: 1884 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 1940 3
         Buried:  - Nickleville Cemetery, Nickleville, Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA

         Spouse: Frank R. Jack (1880-1961) 3
           Marr: 1918 - ? Venango Co, PA

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4 M Warren Gardner LeVier

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: in infancy
         Buried:  - Nickleville Cemetery, Nickleville, Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 M Maitland LeVier

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: in infancy
         Buried:  - Nickleville Cemetery, Nickleville, Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Daniel B. LeVier

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He had limited educational advantages. In 1862 he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-First Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was in the service until the close of the war, participating in the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. He was successively promoted to the position of first lieutenant and captain, serving in the latter capacity when mustered out. After several years in the oil regions, he engaged in farming in 1867.

The Venango Citizen-Press, Franklin, PA
Jan 27, 1910
Well-Known Citizens of the County
D. B. LeVIER, Richland Township.
D. B. LeVier, of Richland township, is probably the only veteran of the civil war living in this section of the state who has in his possession a piece of the historical apple tree under the shade of which terms were agreed to for the closing of hostilities between the north and south.
Mr. LeVier enlisted in Company F, 121st P. V. I., August, 1862, and for bravery on the field of battle was rapidly promoted. During his three years of service the only engagement in which he did not take part was at Fredericksburg, he at that time being confined to the hospital with typhoid fever.
The story of the last dying struggle of the confederacy as witnessed by him on the 9th of April, 1865, is most interesting, of which a brief sketch is given.
The end was at hand. Richmond was deserted save by starving thousands, and Petersburg was nothing but a demoralized camp. Lee's proud and still defiant army, reduced to less than 20,000 fighting men, was held together by the personal force of their idolized commander, who in trying to cut through the net work being drawn around him in the hope of joining Johnson, in North Carolina, was now at Appomattox station. On the morning of the 9th of April the Fifth corps reached Appomattox just as a division of the confederates were making an assault to break through our cavalry, and immediately went into action. The old 121st was in advance and drove back the rebel pickets stationed on a rising stretch of ground. "Upon gaining the summit we saw," said Mr. LeVier, "lying before us a train of supplies for the confederate army. At this moment a man carrying a flag of truce came riding up with the news that Lee had surrendered. I cannot fully describe the scene following the glad tidings. There was no loud shouts of victory. Carried back from column to column went that one cry, 'Lee has surrendered,' leaving in its wake thousands of tired and grim warriors, who in their delirious joy threw their arms around each other crying, 'We are going home, thank God we are going home.' It was a sight probably never before witnessed in the world's wars.
"It fell out," said Mr. LeVier, "that I was placed on guard duty and from where I was stationed witnessed the meeting between the two great commanders, and when, a few moments after their departure, relic hunters began their attack on its trunk and branches of the apple tree, I rushed in and succeeded in getting a small piece that a comrade, who was somewhat of a wood carver, fashioned into our corps badge the Maltese cross, on which he engraved the words, 'April 9th, 1865.'"
D. B. LeVier was born April 10th, 1839, on the farm in Richland township settled by his parents, John and Jane (Maitland) LeVier, in the year of 1827.
By his marriage to Miss Sarah Gardner, of Calensburg, Clarion county, five children were added to their household. The two living are Clifford P. and Helen.

1 Mrs. Harold V. Linn, Daniel Smith - Pioneer Settler of Rockland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania (Venango County, PA: Privately published, 1961), Pg 127.

2 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1117.

3 Timothy LeVier, LeVier Family Genealogy (Personal Research, 2012).

4 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 4, Richland Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1996), Pg 31.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 918.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 692, 918.