The Leviner family descends from Jean Lovina, a Native American of the Nansemund tribe and a Norfolk County slave, whose master, Major John Nichols, freed her and her children, John and Sarah, and left them 350 acres of land in Norfolk County, Virginia in 1697.  Sarah married William Bass; and they were the ancestors of the Bass family of Norfolk County.  John's descendants sold their land to the Bass family in 1728 and bought land in Bertie County, North Carolina in 1745.  The Leviners  were landowners in Richmond County, North Carolina by 1790.

WHISPERS IN THE WIND

ANCIENT PATHS TROD LONG AGO BY THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE,
 BECKON US TO FOLLOW THEM IN SEARCH OF THOSE OF YORE.
 SHADOWS DIM FADE IN AND OUT, FAINT VESTIGES OF TIME.
 MUFFLED CRIED, SAD TALES OF WOE, AGELESS LOVE SUBLIME.

SEARCHING STILL FOR SIGNS THEY LEFT, DIM AS THEY MAY BE,
 HOPE REMAINS, YET WHAT TO DO, OUR EYES STILL CANNOT SEE.
 HERE AND THERE A TATTERED SHRED, A HINT OF TRAILS TO FIND.
 OH HOW WE LONG TO SEE THE FACE OF THOSE WE LEFT BEHIND.

LIFE GOES ON AS YEARS GO BY, WE STRIVE TO FIND THE WAY.
 THEN THE DAWN BEGINS TO BREAK AS NIGHT TURNS INTO DAY.
 NOW THE LIGHT MORE BRIGHTLY GLOWS AS WE NEAR THE END.
 STILL, FAR AWAY, WE YEARN TO HEAR WHISPERS IN THE WIND.

POEM BY TROY EVERETT
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 JOHN 1 LEVINER'S WILL IN 1802 LISTS HIS SONS IN THIS ORDER: ABRAHAM, ISAAC, ZADOC, AND WILLIAM.
 THANKS TO BEN HUDSON FOR THIS INFORMATION.

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THE CEMETERY LISTINGS ON OLD WIRE ROAD ARE ABOUT 6 OR 7 CEMETERIES IN DIFFERENT  SPOTS.  I DO NOT KNOW THE NAMES .  THERE WOULD BE ONE SPOT WHERE 5  OR 6 LEVINERS ARE BURIED.  ONE CEMETERY HAS TRAILERS ALL AROUND IT.  OLD WIRE  ROAD IS NEAR LAUREL HILL NC.

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