Martin Clever

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Husband Martin Clever ¹

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           Born:  - eastern Pennsylvania
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           Died: Bef 1826 - eastern Pennsylvania
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Wife

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Children

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1 M Martin Clever ¹

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           Born: 10 Apr 1795 2
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           Died: 20 Jan 1880 2
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         Spouse: Mary Magdelina Menich (1802-      ) 2
           Marr: Abt 1817

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2 F Mary Clever ¹

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           Died:  - near Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA
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         Spouse: Jacob Lehman (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Martin Clever

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The Clever family is supposed to have come originally from Holland, where there are still [1915] dwelling at The Hague a number of aristocratic families of the name, but for a number of generations it was so closely associated with the state of Pennsylvania, especially the western part, that it may well claim to be one of the old and influential families of the state. The name was formerly spelled Klever and Kleber, according to the records in a Bible now in the possession of the heirs of Rebecca (Clever) Taylor.
The name of the first to come to America from the native Holland has unfortunately been lost, but the period of his immigration was somewhere about the year 1750, and he appears to have come directly to Pennsylvania, where he settled in the region about Carlisle. Not much is known concerning their residence there except the tragic fact that the whole family with a single exception was wiped out in an Indian massacre which swept that region. The single exception was a son, Martin Clever, through whose escape the family was perpetuated.

He passed his whole life in the eastern part of the state, but after his death his widow and son, also Martin Clever, removed to Allegheny County where they settled.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 497.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 498.